“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is easy to look at yourselves or at the world, comma, to see yourself and become so hypnotized by your present state that all change or growth seems impossible, or to see the world in the same manner.

[...] I talked about how I should have had Jane hypnotize me, for instance, in Florida as soon as we realized how bad the feet were—giving me suggestions for an extra quick recovery, etc. [...]

[...] Our existence seems strange to you only because you do not realize the true potentials of personality, and you are hypnotized by your own limited concepts.

[...] Consciousness wants to return to the body, but it has been hypnotized into the idea that the body must not awaken. [...]

[...] But the hypnotic state is simply a level of awareness in which the personality is freewheeling, so to speak, dissociated from physical reality in its usual terms.

[...] My question concerned a hypothetical experiment in which, say, a hundred such writers would be hypnotized without being told what the purpose of the experiment was; once under, they would be queried about past-life memories. [...]

We parked here today
and the green world swirled
jungle-quick, downtown
across the river, and like
a city bushman I was in tune,
swinging through thought’s treetops
while the traffic stopped and started,
precise as a ceremony of animals,
almost formal, engines thundering
then purring, wheels pausing,
headlights hypnotized in sun.
You walked into the bank,
making an exchange as ancient
as any tribal dance.

[...] You do not need drugs, hypnotism, or even meditation. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) No most hypnotic fanatic leads any group of people astray. [...]

[...] He does not have arthritis, although he has been mimicking the symptoms, and could in time hypnotize himself into believing he did have the disease, though this is highly improbable given his own constitution. [...]

[...] In many cases, whenever your culture and so-called primitive ones have met, inoculations worked, whether or not the natives believed in a particular inoculation, because they do believe in the “white man’s superior power,” and were as hypnotized by the white doctor’s mystique as they were by their medicine men.

[...] It does not seem necessary to refuse to discuss ESP under any conditions with anyone—little ESP was discussed the other evening though Barb asked me to hypnotize her several times and I refused. [...]

[...] Ruburt has allowed himself to become hypnotized by certain images and ideas, that he considered true.

(It might be interesting to note here that Peggy was hypnotized by Dr. Milton Erickson in late March of 1959, during a meeting of the Finger Lakes Clinical Hypnosis Association at the Mark Twain Hotel in Elmira. [...]

[...] We do not know whether one member hypnotized the other two, for example, and so influenced them. [...]

(“One question: How about my hypnotizing him?”)

You are hypnotizing yourself. [...]

[...] Under its banner of suggestion, however, the great parade of men and other living creatures are observed so that the hypothesis brings about its own hypnotic focus—so that creatures, man, and indeed the universe itself, seem to behave in certain highly ritualized fashions. [...]

[...] A better procedure would be to hypnotize a subject, and you would need a good one, and suggest that under hypnosis he repeat the dreams of the night before. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking they are hypnotic containers, emphasizing what you want emphasized, and cutting off data that do not apply, or that is contradictory. [...]