The choice to live our passion is not dangerous, it is much
worse, it is unknown. But what is known can never be new or
creative. If we die in our passion, at least we have lived, if we
live in the known we have already died.
Steven Harrison
Editorial
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I hope all is well with you. The object of most metaphysical
studies is to awaken us from our normal everyday consciousness.
Hence, you could consider this issue's article to be a "wake up"
call!
I hope you like it.
Please feel free to discuss the article at the
discussion forums:
When I was at university, an astonishing thing happened one
evening. There was a hypnosis show on campus. It was several
hours later that night, long after the show had ended. One girl,
who had been hypnotized, was found in considerable distress in
her room. Nobody knew what the matter was, but the hypnotist was
called on the telephone. It seems that the girl was still in a
hypnotic trance! Anyway, he said a few words to her over the
phone, and all was well.
The amazing thing is that the girl had seemed perfectly normal to
both herself and her friends for hours after the show had ended.
Nobody imagined that she was still under the influence, not even
the hypnotist himself. Yet, she was.
So, how do you know if YOU are in a hypnotic trance right now?
"Easy", you retort, "I have never been hypnotized". Oh, but
you HAVE!...
What does hypnosis really do? By accessing your subconscious
mind, it changes, either temporarily or permanently, some part of
your world view. This can be as simple as making you forget your
own name. However, it can also be as profound as causing a
long-standing severe allergy to vanish while you are in trance,
or cause you to paint and draw with a talent you are incapable of
during normal waking consciousness.
Now, this type of thing, amazing as it may seem, is fairly common
and the change so dramatic that it is easy to detect. However,
you yourself may be experiencing a much more subtle trances.
These were created in a similar way, but over a longer period of
time, and in a less deliberate fashion. Who was the hypnotist in
this instance? None other than your environment, your parents,
your peers, and even your TV set. Through a process of
repetition, you slowly became "conditioned", i.e. hypnotized"
into accepting a certain view of reality. It sinks deep into
reality, and becomes part of "what is", and therefore is no
longer questioned.
Think about this for a moment. Where did your view about money
come from? Or of the opposite sex? Or religion? Indeed, where
did MOST of your deepest beliefs, i.e. what you consider to be
irrefutable FACTS, actually come from?
If you are honest, you will agree that most of them did not come
to you through a process of rational thinking. Most people get
their ideas about Money, for example, directly from their
parents, through a process of osmosis. From the time they were
young, they were indicted into a hypnotic trance, where
suggestions were repeated over and over about money, until they
became the very beliefs of the person in question.
The same is true of many other deeply held beliefs. We are
walking around in multiple trances - the victims of countless
hypnotists, and we don't even know it. We think we are fully
awake, just like the girl in the earlier story, but we are
actually in trance.
When you are asleep and dreaming, you don't usually know it.
However, when you awaken, you can say "Oh, it was just a dream".
Yet, when you were asleep, you could not really tell. It all made
perfect sense at the time, no matter how bizarre it seems on
awakening.
BUT, when you are awake, how do you know that you are not really
also in some other kind of dream? Actually you do not. And
actually, you ARE!
That is precisely what Buddhism and many of the other esoteric
traditions teach when they describe the world as illusory, and
a condition to be woken up from in order to achieve
enlightenment. They are really talking about trance breaking.
Indeed, the name the Buddha gave himself, "Tathagata", means "The
Awakened One".
In more ways than we can count, we are in the grip of hypnotic
trance. At present, political powers seek to condition the minds
of the masses and enclose them within the hypnotic trance of
FEAR. It seems to be working, mainly because people are not awake
and aware, and do not guard the doors of their minds. Rather,
they let anything come in without due examination. As each person
participates in the trance, they reinforce its reality for
everyone else.
Do you find yourself unable to break out of certain frustrating
tendencies or habit? Do you find the same situations cropping up
for you wherever you go, even though the people and places
change? Do you "know" that you are incapable of certain things
that other people find easy - drawing, making money, meeting
people, public speaking or whatever? If so, the chances are very
strong that you are hypnotized, but don't know it.
The whole point of personal growth teachings is to help you
examine yourself and see what is really there, i.e. to see the
trances that have been imposed upon you by unknown hypnotists and
break free of them so that you can live truly and authentically.
Otherwise, you are living someone else's idea of the way you
should be.
The worse thing about a hypnotic trance is that you can't tell
you are in one, and neither can anyone else. Moreover, each
person has their own set of trances to deal with, so how can they
be of much help to you? As Jesus said, if one blind man leads
another, the only thing that is certain is that they will both
fall into a ditch!
The way to break out of your trances is through rigorous
self-examination and study of materials that can help you awaken,
bit by bit. Question yourself. What ARE your attitudes to Money?
Jews/Moslems? Relationships? Women/Men? War? Sex? And so on.
Where DID you get these ideas? Are they really your own,
developed through a process of careful study and examination. Or
did you imbibe them from the hypnotists of Society, parents,
friends, culture? Are they helping you, or causing you to be much
less than you could be?
If you seek, you shall find. Indeed, you shall discover that many
of the beliefs you hold sacred were placed in your brain before
you could even speak. Yes, the hypnosis began that early!
Going back to the original story, they eventually managed to
awaken that girl from her trance. Arguably, when the
hypnotist brought her back to her senses, she simply returned to
her more conventional everyday hypnotic trance - the one she was
familiar and happy with. In a sense, she merely awoke from one
hypnotic trance into another.
So, what is it going to take to wake YOU up?.....
Copyright Asoka Selvarajah 2004. All Rights Reserved.
Asoka Selvarajah is a writer on personal growth and spirituality,
and the author of "The 7 Golden Secrets To Knowing Your Higher
Self". His work helps people achieve their full potential, deepen
their understanding of mystical truth, and discover their soul's
purpose. Learn more about his work at:
Asoka Selvarajah is a writer on personal growth and
spirituality,
and the author of "The 7 Golden Secrets To Knowing Your
Higher
Self". His work helps people achieve their full
potential, deepen their
understanding of mystical truth,
and discover their soul's purpose. Learn more about his work
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