Half of the world’s population exposes itself to spiritual hypnotherapy practices. These tools control their values and beliefs, but most don’t know it’s happening. So, it’s a good idea to learn how to spot and avoid these ruthless tactics.
Everyone believes they are too smart to fall prey to a con artist. But intelligence is no match for the power of group hypnosis scripts. You could be a victim of faith-based self-hypnosis scripts and not realize it. How does it happen?
Con artists use hypnosis to gain the trust of those they wish to deceive and defraud. The term con artist or con man stands for “confidence manipulator.” They gain your trust through deceptive practices by appealing to greed or fear. Once they have you hooked, they can get you to believe things and do things you wouldn’t normally consider.
Spiritual Hypnotherapy Practices
Spirituality is a philosophy that predates organized religion. It deals with the spirit, soul, and the observer of experience. It is synonymous with consciousness and awareness. Religion applies the term to its myths and superstitions. By usurping this term, they legitimize their doctrines.
Hypnosis is a self-induced state of focused awareness. It enables the mind to be susceptible to suggestion. This kind of thinking overrides rational thinking processes. The state of hypnosis enables a third party to inject suggestions that trigger behaviors. When you are acting under the influence of the hypnotic script, you may not know what you are doing. It’s as if you are sleepwalking.
“In order to awaken, first of all, one must realize that one is in a state of sleep. And in order to realize that one is indeed in a state of sleep, one must recognize and fully understand the nature of the forces which operate to keep one in the state of sleep, or hypnosis. It is absurd to think that this can be done by seeking information from the very source which induces the hypnosis.” — George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
Hypnotherapy is the therapeutic use of hypnosis to make a desired change in behavior. You allow a third party to insert post-hypnotic suggestions into your psyche. These scripts can sometimes have unintended consequences if they run forever. So, ethical hypnotherapists include a fail-safe. This ends the script at a predetermined time or trigger. Most religious and political pundits do not add a fail-safe to their propaganda. They want their suggestions to control your thinking and beliefs.
Spiritual hypnotherapy practices are ingrained into the system of religious indoctrination. The intent is to make them lifelong customers. They want to control your thinking forever.
“During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind, and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can control him.” — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho
Faith-Based Self-Hypnosis Scripts
The term faith-based means something that is based on religious mythology and superstition. The term faith-based sounds better than saying what you believe is based on myth and fairy tales.
All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. To be hypnotized is to accept the scripts and propositions of someone else. This can happen without your knowledge. It occurs when exposed to propaganda or groupthink manipulation tactics at social gatherings.
Propaganda is biased and misleading information promoting an idea. Self-hypnosis is a form of propaganda, and so are spiritual hypnotherapy practices. They make any idea acceptable, no matter how implausible. Self-hypnosis via propaganda reduces rational analysis. This is one of the main reasons religions and unscrupulous leaders use it.
Self-hypnosis scripts are suggestions that are planted in the subconscious mind. These suggestions can trigger emotions, thoughts, and actions when activated. The script can trigger any behavior the hypnotherapist desires.
Watch a good stage hypnotist get someone to bark like a dog. Then, watch a preacher get someone to fall on the ground with the wave of their hand. It’s the same process at work, self-hypnosis.
The Fusion of Spiritual Beliefs with Hypnotherapy
It is common knowledge that children are the most susceptible to indoctrination. It’s the main reason why religious institutions open schools. Get them early, and they are customers for life. But adults are also susceptible. The more exposure to brainwashing tactics, the more likely they are to accept what is being sold.
Con artists use these brainwashing tactics to gain your acceptance. They want you to believe and have confidence in what they are telling you, even if it doesn’t make sense. And the best con artists are those who believe the lies they are selling.
“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.” — Mark Twain
The most financially successful religious system belongs to the Abrahamic family traditions. They control approximately one-half of the population. Even though membership is declining, they hold positions of power in the culture.
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are unmatched in their social integration and control. These systems aren’t new or original. They embody the doctrines and tools of the ancient mystery religions. These were dying-god cults from Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, and Persia. The brainwashing tactics they developed work just as today as when they were first created.
The Abrahamic cults assimilated and rebranded these dying-god cults over 2000 years ago. So, the Abrahamic religions cannot take credit for inventing these spiritual hypnotherapy practices. The fusion of spiritual beliefs with hypnotherapy tactics was assimilated from previous cults.
Integrating Faith and Self-Hypnosis
“The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he’s getting it.” — Ken Kesey
“We are asleep. Our life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Osho and others tell us that social conditioning is part of this hypnosis. It puts us to sleep, and we “make-believe” in things for which there is no evidence. We must be asleep to ignore the facts that contradict irrational beliefs. Faith-based self-hypnosis scripts are is simply repeating propositions in a highly emotional environment.
The fusion of spiritual beliefs with hypnotherapy is complete when myths become facts. The third party now has access to adjust, add, and delete beliefs and values at will.
We stay asleep until we awaken enough to admit we have been asleep under the influence of religious myth. But to awaken, we must disengage from the source of the hypnotist. We must get away from the con man fleecing us and perpetrating lies.
Only after we remove the source can we remove the harmful programming. Then, we can replace it with healthy thinking and behaviors. Spiritual hypnotherapy practices promote irrational beliefs that open the mind to extremist thinking. Deprogramming is the process of replacing myths with facts. (1)
Integrating faith and self-hypnosis is one way to describe religious indoctrination. Religious rituals are ripe for this type of mind control. Prayer, worship services, and pilgrimages are examples of socially acceptable forms of brainwashing.
The Power of Self-Hypnosis Practices Fueled by Faith
Religious hypnosis will overcome any level of intelligence. Prolonged exposure to faith-based hypnosis will erode the resistance of intellect. Faith-based self-hypnosis scripts are so powerful that they can overcome reason and logic. The more exposure, the more susceptible you become to “hypnotic suggestion.” The good con man will find your weak spot. They train using three basic elements in their cons.
1) Deception or sleight-of-hand trickery (substitution, optical illusions, etc.).
2) Prey on basic instincts like fear, greed, and anger.
3) There’s always a time element that prompts you to make a quick emotional decision.
Once they find your weak spot, they exploit it. It is a slippery slope that makes you “want to believe” in what they are selling. You may not recognize the tactics because they are cloaked in religious tradition. Spiritual hypnotherapy practices change the way the mind processes information. (2) Unfortunately, it isn’t a change for the better. It promotes subjective opinions above facts.
And this is why intelligence is no match. Many believers are those who have attended universities and earned degrees. They are seen as intelligent, holding positions as lawyers, doctors, and even scientists. But they get taken in by the con artists who use spiritual hypnotherapy practices to control their thinking. They support ideologies propped up by mythologies and superstitions. It is proof that self-hypnosis practices fueled by faith overcome intelligence.
This type of programming requires constant indoctrination. The repetition of false assumptions is the essence of the technique. You establish mythology as fact. You keep repeating the premises until you accept it as fact. It seems like an oversimplification that anyone could see through, but this “script” works well. Intelligence is no match for this suite of mind-control tactics. Even the most intelligent person will succumb to them.
Self-hypnosis practices fueled by faith produce the same effect as stage hypnotists. People are induced and given suggestions that overcome their rational thought processes. How can someone surrender their will to the extent that it can be programmed?
Why People Confuse Faith with Confidence
The problem often begins with confusing faith with confidence. Confidence is having a high degree of certainty in something based on historical performance. On the other hand, faith is believing in something for which there is no proof.
Religion confuses confidence with faith and belief. Religious indoctrination uses the words confidence and faith interchangeably. They substitute faith for confidence. In the battle of hypnosis vs. logical thinking, self-hypnosis practices fueled by faith always win.
We have confidence in the sun rising each day because the evidence supports this probability. You don’t need faith if you have proof. You don’t need faith when you have confidence in the evidence. Whereas the belief in religious myths and superstitions requires faith because they have no proof.
The best liars are those who sincerely believe the lie is the truth. So, they develop “apologetics” to justify factual and logical inconsistencies. They use circular logic to justify illogical arguments. But it works because they repeat it until they accept it. The power of self-hypnosis practices fueled by faith is the source of wars and genocide. Yet, it is accepted as a part of culture.
Groupthink manipulation is a perfect fusion of spiritual beliefs with hypnotherapy. When you place myth above facts, this leads to irrational thinking. Irrational thinking makes programming other unhealthy ideas easier. Faith-based self-hypnosis scripts are used to promote unhealthy bias and prejudice. It uses fear and greed as motivators. It preys on our existential fear of death, selling the afterlife. They confuse faith and confidence to mask their con artist tactics.
When you confuse faith with confidence, you can then confuse myth for fact. And this confusion makes the belief in an imaginary friend easy. The hypnotic power of faith can overcome intelligence, facts, and logic.
Faith leads to irrational thinking, which lacks common sense and sound reasoning. This results in poor judgment. Irrational beliefs have no proof or basis in logic and reason. They need faith to substantiate their beliefs because they are foolish and baseless. Faith and belief are the tools of self-hypnosis.
In Conclusion
Our culture accepts spiritual hypnotherapy practices as part of the norm. We give Western religion a place in society above any other philosophy or science. The social mass gives them access and the ability to pervert democracy, integrating faith and self-hypnosis at all levels.
Self-hypnosis practices fueled by faith are the bedrock of Western organized religion. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam did not invent these tools, but they have learned to leverage them.
These religions are the source of Gurdjieff’s hypnotic state of sleep. The Abrahamic religions could not exist without the fusion of spiritual beliefs and hypnotherapy. These are the tools that enable them to overcome common sense reasoning.
References
(1) The dangers of irrational belief. The National Library of Medicine.
(2) Hypnosis changes the way the mind processes information. Science Daily.