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Hypnosis: Technique inducing an altered state of consciousness or trance by verbal or non-verbal stimuli. Participants experience reduced ability for critical thinking and are generally open to external suggestion.
Well, right off, the definition tells us that it is not a biblicaly sound therapy. Christians are not to allow an altered sate of consciousness & be open to suggestion, because this is when we are open psychic experiences, spiritual oppression & demonic possession.
Hypnotism has it’s roots in the occult – going back thousands of years, used by witchdoctors, spirit mediums, shamans, Hindus, Buddhists… to connect with the spiritual world, contact spirits or familiar spirits, divine, channel ‘universal energy,’ tap into spiritual (false) power, etc…
Deut. 18:9-14 forbids sorcery, divination, or enchantment, God warns us not to follow mediums, wizards, enchanters, charmers. Hypnosis biblically falls under "enchantment." It was by the pagans & the occultist.
Hypnotism is mind control. 1 Peter 1:13 says to be in full control of our minds, and our thoughts, at all times. Hypnotism is handing over full control of the conscious mind – giving another person & the spiritual world control of our thoughts and actions.
As for being used “medically,” there is no scientific data on it. It is admitted that no one knows how or why it works. Psychiatry professor Thomas Szasz describes hypnosis as the therapy of a fake science. "We cannot call hypnosis a science, but we can say that it has been an integral part of the occult for thousands of years.” E. Fuller Torrey, a research psychiatrist, aligns hypnotic techniques with witchcraft. Even the medical text says: "The reader should not be confused by the supposed differences between hypnosis, Zen, Yoga, and other Eastern healing methodologies. Although the rituals for each differs, they are fundamentally the same."
And as a therapy, hypnosis is not reliable. Research has shown that what is "remembered" under hypnosis has often been created, reconstructed, or enhanced; & that after hypnosis, a person is can’t distinguish between a true recollection v.s what he imagined or created while under.
Then there is the problem that a hypnotist cannot control how deep a state of trace the person goes into. They try to keep them in a light or medium trance, but they cannot stop what is called the “danger zone” : can experience a sense of being separated from their body, hallucinate, or go into a mystical state similar to those of mystics and meditators, & it has been recognized that in this “danger zone” permanent damage can occur. Of course, the medical community does not recognize the spiritual aspect this 'danger zone', but do document it's negative, uncontrollable affect non the less.
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