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Pneumatology--the study of the spirit (human and divine), and the history of hypnosis

THE PERSONAL STORY OF WHY I DECIDED TO STUDY THE ART OF HYPNOSIS

Even as a high school student, long before I became a serious student of philosophy and psychology at university, beginning in 1947 (I was 17), I was fascinated by adds which I saw in comic books and even IN serious magazines about the amazing power of HYPNOTISM.

 

In comic books and magazines which I read--I remember one add was about MENTALPHYSICS-- advertisers offered to send anyone, willing to pay the price, a course which they promised would reveal to students the secret mental powers we are all supposed all have within us. 

 

Back then, very few people took hypnotism seriously. Many considered it simply as a gimmick for use in plays and the movies. It was often used by stage magicians to attract people to the show. See:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_hypnosis#History  

 

This reminds me that often the imagination of our artists precedes that of the knowledge uncovered by science and technology. Many serious inventions--for example, the airplane--started as toys. No wonder Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

 

By the way, my postgraduate studies, at Boston University, on THE HISTORY OF IDEAS (1954-1955) stimulated my imagination. In addition to theology, this led me to study the history of philosophy, psychology, of Mesmer, Braid, Coue, James, Freud, Jung, their contemporaries, hypnosis and the like.

 

This also led me to study the application of hypnosis to physical, mental and spiritual issues, including life-style issues, social issues, diet and all the addictions. I sought to understand the causes of pain and suffering, including my own, and--with the help of all involved in the healing arts--the best loving treatment to apply.

DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY ARE PUBLISHED. 

Written by me, they are in the anthology, "Extraordinary Experiences in Canada" (1989)--edited by John Robert Colombo.

Later, when my seven year old daughter developed a serious and life-threatening lung condition, it was with the help of a kindly and wise mentor, I learned how to apply what I now call pneumatherapy--hypnosis without the hocus pocus. He inspired me to use my imagination and to apply hypnotherapy to her condition. There was almost immediate success. 

All this was with the approval of our family doctor and specialists he consulted. He admitted "medicine has no answer" to your daughter's condition. He also admitted that he knew nothing about hypnosis ... Well!!! What can I say?  This prompted me to take action. It worked. She is now a healthy 54 year old and a brilliant artist who lives with her artist husband on their floating home and gardens. Do a search on Freedom Cove, floating homes, Tofino, BC, Canada. Catherine King and Wayne Adams.

[PLEASE: Feel free to remove any of the above which is contrary to the rules of this forum. I am retired and I charge no fees for any help that I give.]

 

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Here's something interesting I think you'll like.  In the creation account in Genesis it says that GOD put Adam in "a deep sleep."  That word for "deep sleep" is VERY interesting.  The English translation of that Hebrew word is "Tardemah".  Now, the original Hebrew language was a pictographic language (i.e. ancient Egyption).  Anyway, each "letter" was actually a picture.  Therefore, the definition of the words were within it's "letters".  

 

SOOOOO, without going into detail of each letter, the meaning of this words is actually, "What comes from (the) revealing sleep."  The root word for "tardemah" is "radam" which means sleep, but not normal sleep.  It is a deep sleep.  This word actually means, "The person's door to activity (or chaos)"  

 

Therefore, it can actually mean, "What comes from revealing the person's door to activity (or chaos)"  Wow, God was the first hypnotist.....COOL!!!  He had Adam in an hypnotic state (I'm assuming the coma state) with full body anesthesia in order to perform the first surgery.

Hello RevLindsay G. King

 I am intrigued with your accomplishments and your direction.

 I would also like to know more about pneumatherapy—hypnosis.

 You wrote:

"I learned how to apply what I now call pneumatherapy--hypnosis without the hocus pocus. He inspired me to use my imagination and to apply hypnotherapy to her condition. There was almost immediate success." 

 

Is this a different style of using hypnosis in hypnotherapy? And if I may ask, how did you use your imagination in the application of hypnotherapy in her case?

Thanks,

Steve

         If you accept the premise that Hypnosis is a natural state that most humans go into and out of serveral times a day,.. and you accept the premise that is the underpinning of ALL religious thought.. That God created man ... Then it quite naturally follows that God imbued his creation with that particular attribute (or ABILITY if you prefer)  for a specifc reason.   

 

           Hugh Cole

               The Pretty Goodest Hypnotist on the Planet,



Anthony Verderame, Jr. said:

Here's something interesting I think you'll like.  In the creation account in Genesis it says that GOD put Adam in "a deep sleep."  That word for "deep sleep" is VERY interesting.  The English translation of that Hebrew word is "Tardemah".  Now, the original Hebrew language was a pictographic language (i.e. ancient Egyption).  Anyway, each "letter" was actually a picture.  Therefore, the definition of the words were within it's "letters".  

 

SOOOOO, without going into detail of each letter, the meaning of this words is actually, "What comes from (the) revealing sleep."  The root word for "tardemah" is "radam" which means sleep, but not normal sleep.  It is a deep sleep.  This word actually means, "The person's door to activity (or chaos)"  

 

Therefore, it can actually mean, "What comes from revealing the person's door to activity (or chaos)"  Wow, God was the first hypnotist.....COOL!!!  He had Adam in an hypnotic state (I'm assuming the coma state) with full body anesthesia in order to perform the first surgery.

Above I spoke about : THE POWER OF THE IMAGINATION. When there is conflict between our reason and the imagination, imagination will usually win.

For example, any kind of clean animal protein will nourish the human body. But try and tell that to convinced vegetarians who find the eating of flesh repulsive. Even most avid meat eaters find it repulsive to think of eating the flesh of human beings, or pet animals.

 

 

 

...or certain parts of food-animals...
Anthony, in modern Israel, I think surgeons speaking Hebrew use the same word when they need patients put in a deep sleep for surgery.

Anthony Verderame, Jr. said:

Here's something interesting I think you'll like.  In the creation account in Genesis it says that GOD put Adam in "a deep sleep."  That word for "deep sleep" is VERY interesting.  The English translation of that Hebrew word is "Tardemah".  Now, the original Hebrew language was a pictographic language (i.e. ancient Egyption).  Anyway, each "letter" was actually a picture.  Therefore, the definition of the words were within it's "letters".  

 

SOOOOO, without going into detail of each letter, the meaning of this words is actually, "What comes from (the) revealing sleep."  The root word for "tardemah" is "radam" which means sleep, but not normal sleep.  It is a deep sleep.  This word actually means, "The person's door to activity (or chaos)"  

 

Therefore, it can actually mean, "What comes from revealing the person's door to activity (or chaos)"  Wow, God was the first hypnotist.....COOL!!!  He had Adam in an hypnotic state (I'm assuming the coma state) with full body anesthesia in order to perform the first surgery.

Anthony appears to be correct with his reasoning. First, it is true that the hebrew letters are symbols just like hieroglyphics. To further his assertion, we know that in the Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon "radam" in particular situations means: cast into a dead sleep. It also can translate: to fall into a heavy sleep

Steve, about

HYPNOSIS AND THE FACTORS OF LIFE--SOMA, PSYCHE AND PNEUMA

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James Braid is recognized as the father of the modern phenomenon known as hypnosis, or hypnotism.

 

When Dr. James Braid (1795-1860)--a British surgeon in Manchester, England, in the 1840's--first heard of the phenomenon then called mesmerism, he was, initially, very skeptical. The name mesmerism got its name from Dr. Antoine Mesmer, a doctor in Vienna. He called the phenomenon, 'animal magnetism'. In my opinion, he probably was a student of eastern mysticism, yoga and the like, which led him to discover what he called animal amgneticism. His new ideas and his flamboyant way of promoting himself--despite his success as a healer--did not go over very well with the doctors and other authorities of Vienna. Eventually, he was forced to leave Vienna. He moved to Paris, France in 1778.

 

MESMER

In Paris, Mesmer, in an attempt to impress the French Academy of doctors published a treatise on his ideas in 1779.  He became such a success, from the some doctors interested, he had to take on assistant magnetizers. He opened a clinic at Creteil. Mesmer's treatment cured many learned people who published accounts of their cures. The result? He became wealthy and lived in a castle-like home. However, he failed to get the sanction he sought from the medical authorities. The Faculty of Medicine ordered Dr. Charles Desion, and others, to renounce magnetism, or be struck from the roll of doctors. Deslon asked the king to appoint a commission to rule on the effectiveness of magnetism.

 

To protect their territory and the vested interest they had in mining the "gold in them thar 'ills", the doctors of Paris, with the help of the king, succeeded in persuading the French Academy of Sciences to set up a Royal Commission. The chair of the commission, interestingly, was none other than Benjamin Franklin--then American ambassador to France and known for his interest in electricity and magnetism. Unfortunately, blind to the role that the mind and the human spirit play in the cause and cure of disease, the commission condemned Mesmer as a quack and forced him to move on, or else. He moved to Basle, Switzerland, where he died in 1815.

 

Despite what happened to Mesmer, Braid, with an open mind, decided, with the help of a well-know mesmerist, Charles Lafontaine (1803–1892) from Paris, to explore the phenomenon. Quickly he became convinced that something was going on here. He openly expressed his view that this was a very valuable tool, of particularly value to surgeons. Not long after this he used it to take away people's fear of surgery. He found that the control of pain became less and less of a problem. To him at the time, it appeared that in the trance state many patients looked like they were asleep. So based on the Greek for sleep (hypnos), Braid named the phenomenon hypnosis. Sometimes he called it hypnotism. Later, because he came to the understanding that it was not what we call sleep, he tried to change the name. He named it monoideism--the ability to keep ones thought focused on one idea. For more information about Braid go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Braid_%28surgeon%29  & Hypnosis--History of - Daniel Olson, Hypnosis

 

PNEUMATHERAPY

OK, why did Dr. Braid's use the word "monoideism". I understand that he did so to get away from the authoritarian kind of mesmerism, and what he called hypnotism, then in vogue--the idea that the therapist is a master who manipulates his subjects. It seems to me that Braid was ahead of his time. Much like the psychiatrist Dr. Milton Erickson, of recent history, he involved his patients in the process of getting well. In effect, he gave his patients credit for being in on what was taking place and that they were important members of the healing team.I can imagine Braid saying, "I am here to help you heal yourself, not to do it for you." This bring me to the three factors of holistic health: SOMA, PSYCHE AND PNEUMA FACTORS:

 

1. SOMA FACTOR

Of course medical teams--doctors, surgeons, nurses, whoever--with their surgeries and medicines were, and still are, important. Of course the healing of the patient's body (soma) was, and is, the focus of attention. But, to Braid and others like him, it quickly became apparent that the patient's mind (psyche) was affected by, and involved in, what was going on.

 

2. PSYCHE FACTOR

Furthermore, it became apparent that the mind, including the mind of the health professionals, was in on the healing process. No wonder that, it was out of the minds of the philosophers--no doubt some were pneumatologists--of that time, that not long after Braid, the very new science of psychology was born (1879). See the work of Wilhelm Wundt, MD   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Wundt  Interestingly, he was the brilliant son of a Protestant minister.By the 1930's the word 'psychosomatic' disease, and health, was in common use in medical literature.

 

3. PNEUMA FACTOR

Meanwhile, other philosophers--some were called transcendentalists--talked and wrote about a factor other than the soma and the psyche factors--important though they be. They talked, holistically, about the integration of body (soma), mind (psyche) and spirit (pneuma)--non of which are stand-alone components. It was this kind of thinking that, in the 1940's, '50's and 60's, led me to explore the nature and function of the pneuma factor. It also led me to the re-discovery of pneumatology (a common study in 16th Century). After I used pneumatherapy on my daughter, and her dramatic recovery from a deep and deadly psychosomatic disease, I was led me to establish what came to be called the:

 

PNEUMATOLOGY LECTURE SERIES (1964)

This series was, and is, based on the principles of pneumatology--a word I concocted before I discovered that it was already in the literature  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatology, --that, in 1964 I decided to establish a lectures series under the general title PNEUMATOLOGY. To my pleasant surprise, by popular demand, I gave that series several times a year from then on until I retired in 1994. I retired. 

 

By the way, as I--now in my 80's--prepare for the great transition in the future, I study pneumatology, daily, and do pneumatherapy, especially on myself, in a variety of ways. I love writing about it.

 

In my next post, if I am not being too long-winded, I would like to tell you about the routine I usually use to begin the day.  Are you up to it?

LGK

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Steve Andrade said:

Hello RevLindsay G. King

 I am intrigued with your accomplishments and your direction.

 I would also like to know more about pneumatherapy—hypnosis.

 You wrote:

"I learned how to apply what I now call pneumatherapy--hypnosis without the hocus pocus. He inspired me to use my imagination and to apply hypnotherapy to her condition. There was almost immediate success." 

 

Is this a different style of using hypnosis in hypnotherapy? And if I may ask, how did you use your imagination in the application of hypnotherapy in her case?

Thanks,

Steve

Hi LGK,

By the way, thanks for the detailed reply.

As you told the old story about Braid, Mesmer, and good ole Ben Franklin….I often wonder what it was like back in that day…plenty of excitement and fright. No internet, no cell phones, no radio or tv, the information had to be read maybe in a local paper, or read and or spread by word of mouth. I wonder how many different versions were circulating on a daily basis. A time where one good rumor or slant can become bigger than the truth and last longer. Anyway, it fascinates me to take that journey as I was reading your post.

 

I must say, I’m still a bit confused on how hypnosis and spirit work together in the process you are referring to.

 

I’m still very interested in the correlation between pneumatherapy hypnosis and the imagination, or how you used your imagination with the pneumatherapy hypnosis with your seven year old daughter at that time. And if I may ask, did you hypnotize your daughter with an induction technique, or did you induce trance with imaginative thoughts?

 

Was it guided imagery, an analogy story, and what part did spirit play in the whole thing. Was it religious?

Or more metaphysical and imagination?

 

My curiosity is about what connected so well.

 

When you say,

“By the way, as I--now in my 80's--prepare for the great transition in the future, I study pneumatology, daily, and do pneumatherapy, especially on myself, in a variety of ways. I love writing about it.

In my next post, if I am not being too long-winded, I would like to tell you about the routine I usually use to begin the day.  Are you up to it?”

I would love to hear your long wind. And the routine you use to begin the day. Most people start their day without a direction, they cross their fingers and hope that it won’t be what they are focusing on. How funny, huh? If they only knew that not only is it a choice, but being afraid something will happen, is almost the same as choosing that direction. I applaud that you choose to begin your day, as the driver of your bus and not just a passenger of a bus driven by others.

You ask if I am up for it, I was born up for it, let it rip.

Steve

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABOUT PNEUMATOLOGY

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Scholars tell us that, like its offspring, psychology, pneumatology came into use among scholars around the time of the Protestant Reformation and the rise of general interest in the sciences. Both words, it is said, were created by the scholar and friend of Martin Luther, Phillip Melanchton. For details about pneumatology, which I introduced to Wikipedia--I think it was in 2003--please check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatology

Interestingly, looking for a term with a scientific flavour to it, out of the blue, I concocted the term in 1964. It was only later that I found it was already in the major dictionaries and with the same meaning which I intended--the study of the human and divine spirit.Later I added the word pneumatheraphy. More on this, later.XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

 

 

 

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Steve Andrade said:

Hi LGK,

By the way, thanks for the detailed reply.

As you told the old story about Braid, Mesmer, and good ole Ben Franklin….I often wonder what it was like back in that day…plenty of excitement and fright. No internet, no cell phones, no radio or tv, the information had to be read maybe in a local paper, or read and or spread by word of mouth. I wonder how many different versions were circulating on a daily basis. A time where one good rumor or slant can become bigger than the truth and last longer. Anyway, it fascinates me to take that journey as I was reading your post.

 

I must say, I’m still a bit confused on how hypnosis and spirit work together in the process you are referring to.

 

I’m still very interested in the correlation between pneumatherapy hypnosis and the imagination, or how you used your imagination with the pneumatherapy hypnosis with your seven year old daughter at that time. And if I may ask, did you hypnotize your daughter with an induction technique, or did you induce trance with imaginative thoughts?

 

Was it guided imagery, an analogy story, and what part did spirit play in the whole thing. Was it religious?

Or more metaphysical and imagination?

 

My curiosity is about what connected so well.

 

When you say,

“By the way, as I--now in my 80's--prepare for the great transition in the future, I study pneumatology, daily, and do pneumatherapy, especially on myself, in a variety of ways. I love writing about it.

In my next post, if I am not being too long-winded, I would like to tell you about the routine I usually use to begin the day.  Are you up to it?”

I would love to hear your long wind. And the routine you use to begin the day. Most people start their day without a direction, they cross their fingers and hope that it won’t be what they are focusing on. How funny, huh? If they only knew that not only is it a choice, but being afraid something will happen, is almost the same as choosing that direction. I applaud that you choose to begin your day, as the driver of your bus and not just a passenger of a bus driven by others.

You ask if I am up for it, I was born up for it, let it rip.

Steve

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



RevLindsay G. King said:

ABOUT PNEUMATOLOGY

===================

Scholars tell us that, like its offspring, psychology, pneumatology came into use among scholars around the time of the Protestant Reformation and the rise of general interest in the sciences. Both words, it is said, were created by the scholar and friend of Martin Luther, Phillip Melanchton. For details about pneumatology, which I introduced to Wikipedia--I think it was in 2003--please check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatology

Interestingly, looking for a term with a scientific flavour to it, out of the blue, I concocted the term in 1964. It was only later that I found it was already in the major dictionaries and with the same meaning which I intended--the study of the human and divine spirit. Later I added the word pneumatheraphy. More on this, later.XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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The following is a column just recently published in The National Post (Canada), my paper. Barbara Kay is a very respected writer who often writes on social issues having to do with the physical, mental and spiritual health of individuals, families and communities from a point of view similar to that of the Family Life Foundation (FLF) www.flfcanada.com a charity run by volunteers which I helped found in 1973. Here is the column.

Sometimes, life is just really sad

Barbara Kay, National Post · Apr. 27, 2011 

Grief over the loss of a loved one is a universal phenomenon. But grief's expression and attendant rituals vary greatly according to individual circumstances and cultural tradition. The stiff upper lip and discrete silent tear is the norm amongst my WASP friends, while a West Indian acquaintance of mine took comfort from the histrionic style; with obvious admiration, she once recalled for me the moment when a wailing cousin had to be restrained from jumping into her mother's grave.

Mourning is a more complex matter. Some people recover quickly from bereavement, or make a point of pretending to, and get on with their lives; others not so much. Queen Victoria never stopped mourning the death of her beloved Prince Albert. Considering their loving union, the perfection of their working partnership, the loneliness of solitary reign and the culture of her era, her emotional withdrawal seems understandable to me. But according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the bible of psychiatrists everywhere, Victoria was suffering from a mental disorder.

The fifth version of the DSM (DSM-5) is due out in 2013. In DSM-4, grief used to occupy a special category: One could suffer depression from grief longer than from other stressors and still be considered "normal." But in DSM-5, grief is likely to be lumped in with other triggers for depression, such as job loss, divorce or any other life stressor.

In other words, whether your child dies of leukemia or Walmart laid you off: They're both just "stressors." So if after two weeks, for either reason, you feel sad, can't sleep well, find your appetite diminished and experience low energy, you'll have a DSM-stamped "disorder." And lo, official disorders rather conveniently require the services of those tasked with identifying them.

This pathologization of grief, according to Dr. Allen Francis, the U.S. psychiatrist who chaired the task force for DSM-4, is a "disaster," which "ignores the inescapable fact that grief is the necessary price we pay for our mammalian capacity to love."

He's right, of course, but he's spitting into the zeistgeist. Our era isn't governed by common sense and respect for universal human nature, but by therapism -a kind of emotional correctness that confuses aspects of the human condition with disease. Anyone subject to a "stressor" may henceforth claim to be a passive victim. His negative mood or behaviour is seen as beyond his free will or moral agency to overcome.

The DSM-5 could end up making Person A feel there is something medically wrong with her if she mourns the passing of her mate of 50 years longer than Person B mourns that of his beloved dog. Meanwhile, Person C's obnoxious child will just be a victim of "temper dysregulaton disorder with dysphoria"; and hey, Person D is not promiscuous, she merely has a "sex addiction." Not your fault. Here, have a pill. Big Pharma must be doing the chicken dance in anticipation.

After 9/11, the greatest "stressor" of our times, 9,000 counsellors and therapists descended on New York City. Turns out their services were in little demand. Apparently the bereaved were coping quite adequately with their losses by drawing on support from family and friends, not to mention their own inner fortitude. Just as the bereaved have done from time immemorial before psychiatry came along.

I am no Scientologist. And so I know that mental illness is a reality. But bona fide mental illnesses and disorders demonstrate invariable somatic characteristics discovered through methodical scientific observation. That's not the case with grief and mourning. It is not possible to set down a "science" of human identity and behaviour for life passages. Psychological states of mind like "anxious" and "unhappy" cannot be quantified or standardized, even though they can be chemically anesthetized. Freely chosen talk or chemical therapy may give welcome relief to those who can't cope in other ways. But those who choose to embrace bereavement as a natural process, even if it takes a while longer than psychiatrists like, do not deserve to be labelled disordered.

There are many bereaved people with "issues" they failed to resolve with the living, and maybe their guilt-ridden mourning is therefore especially stressful (and maybe deserved as well). Let them seek counselling and pills if they must. But let them take ownership of the reasons for their issues. Let them be responsible adults, not infantilized victims.

This paternalistic mania for the medical branding of people's emotions and behaviour must cease. It's a short step from pathologizing individual emotional expression to pathologizing individual opinions. In the Soviet Union, those who exhibited contempt for communism were labelled mentally ill and shut up in hospital prisons. 'Nuff said.

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To her I wrote:


Re: Sometimes, life is just really sad (April 17)

As one whose long career as a minister often involved  helping families--including my own, more than once--deal with feelings around grief and mourning, I certainly agree with Barbara Kay that the embracing of bereavement, and other human and lively feelings, ought to be looked on as a natural process. To her comment: "Grief over the loss of a loved one is a universal phenomenon." I add an enthusiastic, "Amen!" And good grief, can be good for us.

IT IS OK TO BE AWARE OF OUR FEELINGS AND REJOICE IN OUR HUMANITY
Therefore, I would add that we ought to rejoice in the fact that--animal-like though we be--we have evolved to the point that we have the power and we can choose to be pneumatological (spiritual) beings. That is, we can become aware that we have genuine human feelings. Otherwise, we would be psychopaths.

It is OK for truly human, or spiritual, beings to consciously feel sadness, grief, ennui, boredom, frustration, discontent, contempt and the like, not just the happy feelings. Such feelings tell who we are: We are human beings. Yes, some of us do, at times, behave as though we are less than human, but we have the power to will and choose otherwise. We are not destined just to be grasping creatures, predators dominated by base instincts, or simple animals responding mechanistically to the natural stimuli all around us. 

THREE KINDS OF LOVE GUIDE OUR ACTIONS: THEY ARE EROS, PHILIA AND AGAPE
As fully-human and moral beings we actually do have the capacity to give good-will to people (including ourselves) and to the circumstances that we may not actually like, sentimentally speaking. In other words, we have the ability to give agape-love. 
Meanwhile, eros-love (sensual feelings) and philia-love (friendly feelings) do have their place, but only when morally guided by agape-love (willing good). 

THE THREE COMPONENTS WHICH MAKE US FULLY-HUMAN BEINGS ARE THE
SOMA (body), 
PSYCHE (mind) AND PNEUMA (spirit--consciousness of self)
With the pneuma factor--consciousness of self--we are more than simply highly evolved and clever animals--puppets controlled by the strings of heredity and environment--nature and nurture. The feelings we experience with our bodies and minds are no longer just diseases, or disorders, to be drugged away with strong medications, or other drastic "therapies" that turn us into zombies. They are messages calling on us to pay attention and to ask ourselves:  Who are we, physically, mentally and spiritually speaking? 
But, one may ask, what can I do about my guilty conscience?
Rejoice that you have it. It is a sign that you are a human being. Keep in mind that a guilty conscience is really a healthy conscience doing it duty.
Pay attention, and be aware who you are!


Rev. Lindsay G. King

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She responded:

Thank you for these words of wisdom and insight, Rev King. I hope they will be published, Barbara

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Steve Andrade said:

Hi LGK,

By the way, thanks for the detailed reply.

As you told the old story about Braid, Mesmer, and good ole Ben Franklin….I often wonder what it was like back in that day…plenty of excitement and fright. No internet, no cell phones, no radio or tv, the information had to be read maybe in a local paper, or read and or spread by word of mouth. I wonder how many different versions were circulating on a daily basis. A time where one good rumor or slant can become bigger than the truth and last longer. Anyway, it fascinates me to take that journey as I was reading your post.

 

I must say, I’m still a bit confused on how hypnosis and spirit work together in the process you are referring to.

 

I’m still very interested in the correlation between pneumatherapy hypnosis and the imagination, or how you used your imagination with the pneumatherapy hypnosis with your seven year old daughter at that time. And if I may ask, did you hypnotize your daughter with an induction technique, or did you induce trance with imaginative thoughts?

 

Was it guided imagery, an analogy story, and what part did spirit play in the whole thing. Was it religious?

Or more metaphysical and imagination?

 

My curiosity is about what connected so well.

 

When you say,

“By the way, as I--now in my 80's--prepare for the great transition in the future, I study pneumatology, daily, and do pneumatherapy, especially on myself, in a variety of ways. I love writing about it.

In my next post, if I am not being too long-winded, I would like to tell you about the routine I usually use to begin the day.  Are you up to it?”

I would love to hear your long wind. And the routine you use to begin the day. Most people start their day without a direction, they cross their fingers and hope that it won’t be what they are focusing on. How funny, huh? If they only knew that not only is it a choice, but being afraid something will happen, is almost the same as choosing that direction. I applaud that you choose to begin your day, as the driver of your bus and not just a passenger of a bus driven by others.

You ask if I am up for it, I was born up for it, let it rip.

Steve

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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