Self-hypnotism And Its Use In Ceremonial Styled Magick/trance Work Options

The Golden Dawn make a fuss about the use of Hypnotism due to their having to fend off charlatans in the form of illusionists and 'telepaths' perhaps in much the same way Harry Potter and stage magic derides western spiritual practice (ie: ''Magick'') today but its obvious that this has been a mistake and that its usefulness has been neglected. Poke Runyon hints at a slightly more underhanded purpose for dissuading people from its practice and suggests that a practitioner develop themselves in order to make use of it in both Golden Dawn styled magick as well as the older Ceremonic styled Goetic art.

Suppose in truth the Golden Dawn speaks out against the use of hypnotism but does not make mention of self-hypnotism specifically, the idea of having someone delve into your mind to plant suggestions is abhorrent to someone who intends to use that mind to forge and create their own realities and redefine themselves IMO. But its use on oneself has too much value to be put aside without a valid reason for doing so, sigil work for example is a form of self-hypnosis planting suggestions within the mind for them to react and effect reality and in the same way when understood it can be seen that ones own subjective reality is based on the same principle as in Feng Sui we are surrounded by a mesmerism both seen and unseen.

Anyway, does anyone here use self-hypnotism to engage in Ceremonial work or Trance work in general? How has it worked for you?

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Do you have any suggestions on brainwave entrainment software to try out?

I use Neuro-Programmer 3 from Transparent. It's very flexible software and can do everything I need. They have a free trial that you can check out. Also, the help documentation is very useful, they explain a lot about how you can use affirmations and visualization along with entrainment.

When I have the available funds ($1800) I want to go take their week long course of inner-exploration.

Wow. $1800 sounds like a lot of money for 'inner exploration'. Just sayin.

Green, I assume you did these 100 injections over 100 days correct? Not 100 injections in one sitting? Go deeper into why you stopped, what did you begin to notice that freaked you out? Can you go into more detail into your ritual?

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) No I did it in one sitting, and I did multiple sittings; I really wanted a powerful improvement. Like I said, I got pretty bad headaches, that's the main reason I stopped. But I should say, I've developed a kind of unconscious resistance to using this idea. Not sure exactly why. It may have to do with the fact that I used NZT as the 'causal force'. If you've seen Limitless, you'll remember that NZT is actually a dangerous substance that can damage health, so maybe I'm worried about the safety of this technique. I suppose there is a way around this problem; I could just use a different substance that is deemed to be 'safe'. But even so, I don't feel any kind of need to do it again. There's also the feeling that I'm "smart enough", and I need to worry about my problems now. Perhaps it's just my karma to have the level of intelligence I have now ... who knows.

This post has been edited by Green Lantern: Dec 18 2013, 03:38 AM