“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(11:57 PM.) I have one small but important personal note for Ruburt. Writing in his journal daily with his notations of present programs always represents a conscious intent that serves a beneficial natural hypnotic suggestion of accomplishment. When he does not do so therefore, this is a sign of acquiescence to present conditions, or being hypnotized by the unpleasant current aspects.

[...] You are hypnotizing yourself quite effectively and so reinforcing the situation. [...] I am hypnotizing myself into my overweight condition (or my loneliness, or my poor health).” Yet in other facets of your life you may be hypnotizing yourself into wealth, accomplishment, satisfaction — and here you do not complain. [...]

Your beliefs, then, are like hypnotic focuses. [...]

[...] With the greatest understanding and compassion, let me mention that Western medicine is in its way one of the most uncivilized hypnotic devices. [...]

Hypnotism is a safer method to begin with than drugs, but hypnotism itself is not necessary if there is an inner willingness to explore the inner universe. [...]

I realize that hypnotism will be utilized first. Nevertheless progress could be quickened if persons who did not need hypnotism to divest themselves of outer focus were used in scientific experiments.

Hypnotism will become more and more a tool of scientific investigation. [...]

[...] (See the 620th session in Chapter Four.) Only when particular procedures are assigned to it, and when it is set aside from normal life, does hypnotic suggestion seem so esoteric. [...]

[...] If you truly understand your power of action and decision in the present, then you will not be hypnotized by past events.

[...] (See the 644th session in Chapter Eleven.) From the present you have hypnotized yourself, viewing the past not as it was to your experience, but as it appears now in the light of your current beliefs.

It becomes a counter suggestion, yet it is all a part of the same hypnotic process, based upon his belief in his original illness. [...] Yet each time this is done, the individual acquiesces more and more to the hypnotic suggestion.

This is an excellent example of the way in which natural hypnotism can act to affect your system adversely. [...]

[...] It never occurs to him to dispense with the belief — to realize that it alone sets up the conditioning process through the operation of self-hypnotism.

[...] Edgar hypnotizes Maria and she, by scanning lights which she sees in the patient’s chest, can read the symptoms. [...]

[...] You must learn to understand your motives and even with the hypnotic ability that your husband has, you still have not learned to understand your own motives using that tool. [...]

[...] While Seth was speaking Edgar hypnotized Maria so she could scan Seth and wondered if Maria should tell Seth or Jane her findings.)

(Tonight I hypnotized Jane for the first time.

(I had wanted to hypnotize Jane for some time, but had been hesitating even though my pendulum told me I had nothing against the idea. [...]

(I believe Jane was a little nervous at the idea of being hypnotized, since I mentioned it at supper time. [...]

We learned the methods
so long ago
that they’re unconscious,
and we’ve hypnotized ourselves
into believing
that we’re the audience,
so I wonder where we served
our apprenticeship.
Under what master magicians did we learn
to form reality
so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves
the secret?

[...] You hypnotize your very nerves, and the cells within your body, for they will react as you expect them to react, and the beliefs of your conscious mind are followed in degree by all portions of the self down to the smallest atom and molecule. [...]

[...] You give yourselves post-hypnotic suggestions all the time, particularly when you project present conditions into the future. [...]

Now I strongly suggest, Joseph, one or two hypnotic sessions for a few weeks. [...] You will de-hypnotize him, you see, to the effect that he is good, his basic instincts can be trusted, and he can therefore be free to move and act in a spontaneous manner.

(“When I hypnotize Jane, am I apt to encounter you?”)

Use relaxation techniques, as in hypnotic techniques, if you want. [...] To some extent —underlined and qualified —you hypnotized yourselves into your view of reality. [...]

(11:01.) The newspapers act as hypnotic suggestion of a potent kind. [...]

[...] James had a rather good remark, that the hypnotist must first hypnotize himself—and that is also a double-barreled remark, for my suggestion will benefit both of you also in other areas.

Later we will have some comments regarding hypnotism. Here let me mention that in those terms you hypnotize yourself constantly with your own conscious thoughts and suggestions. [...]

Ruburt has, for many reasons, as I have said before, hypnotized himself into the physical condition that is presently his. [...]

[...] I found myself wondering about hypnotizing Jane myself, as part of the “dehypnosis” process I’d mentioned earlier. [...]

[...] And that you are not as hypnotized by his symptoms as he is.

[...] The fact is that both of you are nearly hypnotized by the physical effects. [...]

[...] Dineen believed that other people acted oddly toward her because they had all been hypnotized into doing so. If someone frowned at her, this was the result of hypnotic suggestion. [...]

[...] Dineen was convinced that she was being cursed, hypnotized, and had fallen under the domination of another.

She felt that certain rituals or foods warded off this evil hypnotic suggestion. [...]

You have hypnotized yourselves so that it seems to you that there are great divisions between your waking and your sleeping experience. [...]

[...] The study of hypnotism will greatly enlarge man’s understanding of human personality in general. [...] Hypnotism is merely a method that allows you to study the personality directly.

[...] It should be remembered however that hypnotism is also an action, and as such hypnotism will change the personality to some extent, as all action changes and affects other actions.

[...] You both consistently in this particular regard operate from the outside, and become deluged, hypnotized by the exterior situation. [...]

[...] I didn’t try outright to hypnotize her, although certainly hypnotic factors must have been involved. [...]

[...] He has hypnotized himself into believing that he cannot. [...]

[...] Again, to some degree, you are each hypnotized by effects. [...]