SELF-SUGGESTION
AND THE NEW HUNA
THEORY OF MESMERISM
AND HYPNOSIS
BY- MAX FREEDOM LONG
INTRODUCTION
This
information concerning those parts of psychology which we have come to call
hypnosis, mesmerism and suggestion, is being presented as an addition to the
scant literature on the ancient psycho-religious system of the Polynesians
called "Huna" or the "Secret".
It
is taken for granted that the reader will already have gone through the first
three books dealing with the rediscovery of Huna (The Secret Science Behind
Miracles, The Secret Science At Work, and Growing Into Light). But for those
who come to this book without knowledge of what has been uncovered up to the
present time, an appendix is supplied giving a brief outline of the ten simple
elements which make possible the more practical application of certain
psychological principles hitherto unknown, at least in modern days.
Although
a perusal of the appendix will enable one to understand the ideas embodied in
Huna, and which are frequently mentioned in this treatise, it will be well for
the serious student who wishes to have all of the proofs of the verity of Huna
beliefs to read the books mentioned above. In them will be found background
materials which will bring one up to date on what is perhaps the most important
specialized collection of anthropological findings in this century.
A
word of thanks is given here for assistance in testing the theories and methods
here presented for validity and practicality. Foremost amongst those to be
thanked are the Huna Research Associates, and, especially, some of the more
able researchers in that widely scattered organization. The secondary thanks
goes to the many men who have explored the field of human consciousness in the
past and who have helped bring to us such psychological knowledge as we now
possess.
Max
Freedom Long
Vista, California, U. S. A.
Chapter
1
Back
in the dawn ages, so we are told, everything lived in the seas which covered
most of the earth. Then some of the creatures began to evolve and to come out
onto the land. Amongst these was the serpent, and while he failed to develop
legs or wings in the many centuries which followed, he managed to develop a
most amazing method of capturing his prey.
He
became the first mesmerist.
In
the very new and poorly constructed semi-science called "Psychology",
so little is known as yet of the nature of the forces of mind and thought that
no differentiation is made between mesmerism, such as is used by the serpent,
and hypnotism, in which suggestion is the key.
As
all students of Huna now know, one can accumulate an extra supply of vital
force very easily, and this force, when converted to the "will" type
of energy of either the low or middle self, becomes a strange and exceedingly
potent thing.
The
serpent evolved the ability to accumulate extra vital force and to project it
along the line of its vision toward a bird. The force had a startling effect.
The bird lost the power to control its actions, and could only flutter
helplessly in a state of "fascination" while the serpent wriggled
near, reached out, and began to devour it.
Close
observers have noted that Mother Nature provides an anaesthetic for the
prevention of pain in many of her smaller creatures who must serve as food for
the others. The bird or the rabbit faints and becomes unconscious just as the
snake reaches it. It is popularly believed that this death is caused by fright,
but the evidence of Huna indicates that, with the close approach of the
mesmerist serpent, the full power of the surcharge of vital force strikes the
victim and causes the unconsciousness.
Human
mesmerists have demonstrated similar powers by walking into a room where
volunteer subjects are seated and waiting. The mesmerist then sweeps his gaze
down the row, projects his mesmeric force, and the more sensitive of the subjects
tumble unconscious to the floor, lying there for several minutes before
returning to consciousness. No suggestion is given. Both the serpent and the
mesmerist rely on the impact as the executioner does on the shock of the
electrical current.
Another
point which is not well understood by the psychologist is that it is the low
self (subconscious) which is affected by the vital force shock which is
directed and put into such violent action by the mesmerist.
Birds
and animals are all low self creatures. Only man has added to his inherited
animal or low self, a middle self (a conscious mind self) which in turn has a
connection with a still higher self (the Superconscious) which still is not
recognized in the text books.
Over
a hundred years ago, mesmerism came to public notice because of the healing
work of a Dr. Anton Mesmer. He used it and it came to be named for him. His
healing was spectacular as well as successful. He soon became famous through
the whole of Europe.
He
called the force "animal magnetism", and believed that when he was
more highly charged with it than a patient, it would flow from his body to that
of the patient and would bring about healing. The very fact that he expected
this flow of the force, acted as a mental command to cause it to flow, and it
did.
But
like the serpent, he sometimes caused so much vital force to enter one who was
waiting to be healed, that fluttering movements, hysteria or even
unconsciousness resulted. This unconsciousness was supposed to be sleep, but it
was something very different. However, it gave rise to the belief that sleep
and mesmerism were in some way related.
In
England, some time after Dr. Mesmer was gone, Dr. James Braid, working on this
problem of mesmeric sleep, made what he considered a very remarkable discovery.
He found that "suggestion" could produce the same artificial sleep.
In addition he discovered that by having a patient stare in a certain way at a
small bright object held well above the eye level, he could produce this form
of sleep without (so he thought) the use of either suggestion or anything
resembling magnetic force.
Not
knowing what lay behind mesmerism, he did not realize that suggestion always
contains a slight amount of vital force--Mesmer's "animal
magnetism"--or that suggestion can be silently administered just by
expecting the subject to fall asleep when causing him to stare at a bright
eye-tiring object. (Simple tiring of the eyes causes natural sleep. Given the
element of suggestion or the impact of a charge of vital force directed by the
will, the sleep produced is artificial.)
From
Huna we learn that suggestion is the planting of a thought or idea in the mind
of the subject, either by vocal or telepathic means. We further learn that an
implanted idea has no mesmeric or hypnotic power at all unless mesmeric force
is added to the idea at the time it is created or while it is being implanted.
One may say to a friend, "Go jump in the lake", but, lacking the
mesmeric force to go with this idea as it is given to the friend, he does not
react to it even in the slightest way. On the other hand, if a hypnotist gave
this idea in the form of a suggestion accompanied by enough mesmeric power, the
subject would obediently begin to look for a lake into which to jump.
We
may well marvel that men as clever as were Mesmer and Braid, should fail to
unravel the mystery of what happens in mesmerism and suggestion. For one who
knows Huna, it seems so very simple. But overlook it they did--and in doing so,
they overlooked the most important element in the whole matter.
This
MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT is the fact that a simple idea, when filled with
mesmeric force, will cause the low self of another to react in a surprising
way. MOREOVER, one's own low self will react in much the same manner when given
SELF-SUGGESTION.
One
can give himself self-suggestion easily and quickly. It takes little training
and almost no physical exertion. Once it has been given, the low self takes
over and does all the work of putting the suggestion into action. This
furnishes us with a tool of the greatest value. What things we fail to be able
to do, no matter how we square our jaws and vow to bring about the change, can
be accomplished without strain for us by the low self, once it has been given
an idea heavily charged with mesmeric force.
One
other point needs to be noted. This is that when a suggestion is to be given to
the low self, it must have its normal charge of vital force made inactive
through relaxation of the body and its controlling part of mind. In the course
of this relaxation, its "will" must also be relaxed and made almost
inactive, otherwise the middle self, who acts as the mesmerist-hypnotist in
giving the force-charged idea as a suggestion, will not be able to implant it
in the low self where it will cause the automatic reaction to begin.
Modern
hypnotists have learned that slight tiring of the subject's eyes causes a
weariness which will soon bring bodily relaxation. (Actual sleep is to be
avoided.) This relaxed condition is needed to make the subject ready to accept
suggestion, but the whirling disk with its painted spiral, now so popular, or
the old bright point of light held above the eye level of the subject, have
little to do with actual mesmerism or hypnosis. In the case of the factory hand
who is put to sleep by the eye strain of machine parts moving constantly before
him, that is sleep, not hypnosis. Nor is the beady eye of the serpent what
causes the bird to become mesmerized.
A
popular misconception has been that sleep suggestion, when administered by a
phonograph or tape recorder is effective. There is no mesmeric force in
mechanically spoken words. Such words can be only a reminder to the low self.
True, if the low self is given self-suggestion or is "conditioned" by
being hypnotized by an operator and commanded to accept the mechanically spoken
words as true suggestion, results follow, these coming as post hypnotic
reactions. Sleep recordings have been at their best as builders of memory
impressions. In a state of light sleep the low self will hear and often
remember things if they are repeated over and over--such as words and phrases
in a foreign language.
Conversely,
sleep suggestion administered by voice to a child or adult can attract the
attention of the sleeper and sink into his low self. The breaking of childish
habits has been easy with this method, while all but impossible by scolding or
other non-suggestive use of force when the child is awake and its
"will" is active and defensive.
In
an article published some time ago, Howard Van Smith stated that Dr. Boris
Sidis, a psychologist and professor at Harvard University, undertook to use
suggestion on his sleeping son, Billy, in order to determine the value of such
methods in hastening education. The learning process was not only hastened, it
was made effortless in so far as remembering things was concerned. At the age
of three years the child was using a typewriter. At four he was reading text
books with comprehension. At seven he had finished the elementary grades of
public school, taking but five months to go through all eight grades. At the
age of eight, he completed, in six weeks, the entire high school course, and
invented the perpetual calendar which is still much used. His ability to reason
as well as remember developed with the same swiftness and he could grasp
abstract ideas with ease. At the age of eleven he lectured by invitation of the
Harvard dons and discussed the theory of the fourth dimension, also pointing
out what he considered a defect in the Einstein theory of relativity.
Unfortunately, he died in 1944 before the full possibilities of the method
could be determined. His sister, Helene, was handled in a less intensive manner
and did not pass her college entrance examinations until her fifteenth year.
Neither
of the Sidis children had unusual mental ability if judged by the usual
intelligence tests of the time, but work done with them matches rapidly
accumulating evidence which shows that, given the properly charged and
vitalized ideas when in a receptive condition, the low self can and will
memorize and otherwise react as by magic. We who are the middle selves, and who
live in the body with the low self, have a natural reasoning power, but in
order to use it, we must have the proper material in the form of stored
memories to work with--to recall and to compare. Given a mass of such memories
by suggestion, the reasoning process will grow and the middle self learn
swiftly to use the stored knowledge.
There,
in a largish nut shell, we have a brief outline of mesmerism and suggestion as
presented by Huna to add to and correct the little which is generally known.
Let us now consider some of the details.
First,
it may be well to admit the fact that few of us wish to learn to use mesmeric
suggestion as professionals. Most of us will use self-suggestion.
The
goal and reward of self-suggestion is the control of the low self to bring
about its full cooperation in all the things, we, the middle selves, decide
should be done. There are some delightful and highly valuable things which can
come from such cooperation.
To
begin with we can break habits which have defied us for years. The defiance
always stems from the low self and not until it is caused to make the
correction itself, will it be done swiftly and effortlessly.
Then
there are all the good things the low self can do in matters of bettering
health, stopping pain, developing better learning capacity, and providing us
with a cheery mood instead of the "blues". One gets sound and restful
sleep, a cessation from worry, and peace of mind. When the low self is given
the right suggestion it will respond by making the tasks of the day something
to be performed with pleasure and cheerfulness instead of with wearisome
effort.
Compared
with the usual struggle to stop smoking, and the days and nights of inner
conflict which so often ends in failure, self-suggestion is a telephone
conversation in which the middle self gives orders before hanging up and
rushing away to the dance or theater, certain that the orders will be
faithfully and fully obeyed.
At
this point Huna leaves the standard text books on suggestion and takes one on
and out into the realm where greater rewards begin to materialize.
The
most wonderful thing of all is that full cooperation can be obtained from the
low self in making contact with the High Self and inviting it to take its
proper part in the three-self, or normal, way of living. This can gain us
intuitive guidance and endless direct and indirect help. This is where miracles
become possible.
It
is rather necessary that one come to understand the mysterious and intangible
things involved in any use of suggestion. To begin with we can do no better
than to return to Dr. Mesmer and have a close look at what he actually
succeeded in doing. It makes little difference that he was wrong in his early
belief that he could draw animal magnetism (our vital force, and the
"mana" of Huna) from magnets which he held in his hands or carried in
his pockets, since we now know that magnetism in metals is not what is found in
the human body as vital force. We must ask what it was that Mesmer used, and
where it came from.
What
he did is no secret. He made as strong a mental effort as he could to attract
magnetism into his body from magnets. He imagined himself becoming fuller and
fuller of the magnetism, until he carried a charge that was very large indeed.
This worked in a strange way. When he imagined the magnetism as a living animal
force, and imagined that he was becoming more and more highly charged with it,
he inadvertently caused his low self to increase its supply of vital force. His
low self was able to add to the normal charge in his body in an unexpected way.
Once
so charged, it must be remembered, his touch allowed the vital force to enter
the patients, to cause all the reactions that were later recognized as signs
that hypnosis was taking effect. But the reaction to mesmerism was much greater
than to later hypnosis. Patients often became violently ill, fell down in fits,
or seemed to lie for a time in trance as if dead, only to recover, entirely
cured.
We
must not overlook what he was NOT doing. He was not consciously using suggestion,
at least not the kind of suggestion known later under the heading of hypnosis.
However, because he held the strong intention and purpose of causing the
magnetic force to leave him, enter the body of the patient, and bring about a
cure, there must have been a certain amount of telepathic suggestion
administered.
The
mesmeric healings were made by the use of a large amount of vital force
combined with a small amount of suggestion. In the later hypnotic healing
efforts, almost no mesmeric force was used, but the amount of suggestion was
great. The first system worked much better than the second. This was probably
because a suggestion is an idea which is planted in the low self of the patient
by the operator. If this idea is highly charged with the vital force under the
direction of the "will" or command of the middle self, it impresses
the patient's low self greatly and causes it to react in the desired manner. If
the idea is barely empowered with the force, it gets only a slight response.
Dr.
Mesmer became the centre of a storm in medical circles. It could not be denied
that he had brought about many cures, but his theory of animal magnetism could
be, and was, violently attacked by his enemies. They demonstrated rather
conclusively that holding a magnet in the hands did not give one the mesmeric
power. Even Dr. Mesmer eventually conceded the point, but he laid stress on the
fact that the force, while not of the metallic magnet type, still was a similar
animal force and that it could be generated in the body.
His
enemies would have none of his corrections. They were thoroughly prejudiced.
However, some of Mesmer's friends continued to experiment with the force and to
produce similar effects with resultant healing. Moreover, there are recorded
observations of the fact that Mesmer and his followers could place their hands
on various things or objects and transfer the charge of vital force to them.
Tubs of water were charged in this way by Mesmer, and iron rods were placed so that
one end protruded from the water of the tub. Several iron rods were placed in
each large tub, and, when the patients came to the charged tubs and grasped the
rods, the force which was stored in the water entered them through the rods and
they reacted in the same way that other patients had done when touched directly
by the famous healer.
Baron
Jules Du Potet, a friend of Mesmer, carrying on this experimental transfer of
the force, made a name for himself by charging certain trees. His patients came
to them, touched them or had themselves bound to a tree with strong cords so
that they would not fall away from it and lose contact if rendered unconscious
for a time by the thing we now call "mesmeric shock". The healings
were numerous.
Trees
do not offer silent suggestion of the telepathic sort, or vocal suggestion.
Later critics of mesmerism as a healing system make much of this, especially
when they claim that all healing must come from the use of hypnotic suggestion.
Not in modern texts on psychology will the answer to this puzzle be found, but
in Huna. Furthermore, the answer given by Huna at this juncture needs to be
written in letters a foot high to insure that it will be given full attention
and that it will not be forgotten.
Huna
tells us that the large charges of vital force used in mesmerism or suggestion
MUST BE DIRECTED to cause them to act in the special ways, otherwise the
charges will soon be dissipated and will fade without accomplishing a thing.
The
directing is done by the middle self, and its "will" is the tool
which it uses to give and enforce the direction. This is easily grasped and
accepted, but next comes something quite incredible, even if proven true by
what often happens when vital force is so directed and set to work causing
effects.
The
middle self "will" which is vital force impregnated in some way with
an element of the conscious self, takes on a peculiar quality and shows a
strange and enduring power. It seems to mix with the vital force of the body of
the healer and to remain in the mixture. Note what happened when the force was
placed in the tubs of water by Mesmer or in trees by Baron Du Potet. The
surcharge of force stayed for a long time where it was ordered to go, and with
it went the directing element of "will" so that when a patient
touched the rods or the trees, the "will" caused the force to go into
the body of the patient. Not only that, but, when in the body, to activate the
very slight idea or suggestion of healing imparted by the healer when placing
the vital force in the object for healing use.
There
again we have the tiny element of suggestion made very great and very powerful
because of the overweening size of the charge of vital force placed in it. But
no one from the time of Mesmer to the present has ever understood that there
was a definite force guided by a definite admixture of "will", placed
in the water tubs of Mesmer or in the charged trees--and made to stay there
separated to all intents and purposes from the healer who generated the
original charge.
A
thing never understood is that an idea--an immaterial thing which cannot be
seen even under a microscope--is a material and actual thing capable of
absorbing a large amount of vital force and that the force in turn can carry in
it a directing amount of "will" energy from the middle self. Here are
three "nothings", at least in so far as modern psychology is
concerned. They are intangible, invisible and unidentifiable. By all test tube
rules they should not exist. But they do exist, and this is well proven because
we are able to observe them in action and to note the very definite results
which they produce when applied as the basic forces and materials of
suggestion--that is, a suggested idea plus a charge of vital force directed by
the "will".
It
is quite possible that these unbelievable things might not have been
understood, or even guessed to exist, for a long time to come had not the
ancient Huna lore been rediscovered.
In
passing, it may be well to remind ourselves of the Polynesian native priests
who were expert at the use of the shock charges of mesmeric force. Not only did
they, like some of the medicine men of the American Indian tribes, know how to
use the force to render a subject unconscious by a touch of a finger, but they
made a fine art of charging throwing sticks with mesmeric force and using them
in battle. The priests often stood behind the spearsmen and tossed the charged
sticks over their heads to strike the body of an opposing --the contact knocking
him out so that he was easily overcome. It has been suggested that this
practice was also known to the very old and primitive civilization of the
Aboriginals in Australia. In their boomerangs they have the world's finest
throwing sticks, and these, returning to the thrower after striking the victim,
would have been ideal for the carrying of shock charges of mesmeric force.
There
are many people who deny the possibility that suggestion exists or that there
is such a thing as genuine mesmerism or hypnosis. The slogan of this school of
thought has long been, "It is only the subject's imagination at
work."
A
recent series of tests at Duke University did much to put this negative school
of thought out of the running. Rats and mice, who, we suppose, lack
characteristic human imagination which might make them wish to imitate the
hypnotic state and the hypnotic responses, were the subjects of experiments.
They were caged so that they would have to use either of two exits to escape.
An experimenter was hidden from their sight some 8 to 15 feet away, but was
able to look through a small hole in a screen to see the rodents, select one,
and to try to influence it to leave by whichever exit hole was determined upon.
In
the May, 1957 issue of "Fate" magazine, an experimenter, Dorothy Les
Tina, explained in a short article the nature of the tests and her own
experience with several tame mice purchased from a pet shop. The mice were
placed in a partitioned box so that when a string was pulled from a distance,
one mouse at a time would be released into a larger box in which two exit holes
had been cut. As each mouse was released, she concentrated her gaze on it and
tried to "will" it to leave by a selected exit. At first she got
little more than the results which could be attributed to chance. Then her
score began to rise, and in time she was able to make scores of 10, 12, 14 and
even 15 hits out of 15 tries.
This
experiment, carried out under the direction of Dr. Gardner Murphy, was classified
as a test of the power of "mind over matter" or the power of mind to
move matter--"psychokinesis". Tests had already shown that some
people could influence the fall of dice, supposedly with only the power of
their minds. In this case the influence was supposed to exert itself on the
movements of living creatures. The writer of the article was left, she said,
with some unanswered questions. Apparently she could not determine whether she
had established a form of rapport with the mice and was able to influence them
with telepathically transmitted suggestion, or was in some way able to
influence directly their muscular movements to cause the mice to walk to the
selected exit hole. In any case, we can be quite certain that the mice did not
realize that attempts to influence them by suggestion were being made, and,
because of a fondness for the operator, used their imagination to try to
pretend a response which would match the suggestion given.
We
may safely say that suggestion of the mesmeric-hypnotic sort is something real
and valid. It is not imagination. It produces predictable results.
With
this point settled, we may go a step farther, using Huna information as our
general basis, and give a fairly comprehensive definition of suggestion--a
definition which has been sadly lacking or sadly defective for the past several
decades.
Suggestion,
of the mesmeric or hypnotic type, is composed of a central idea which has been
given the power to cause an appropriate reaction on the part of the subject by
charging it with more than the normal charge of vital force. With the charge of
vital force there is added a directing force of "will", which is
vital force slightly changed and put to use by the middle self of man. The
doubly charged idea is introduced into the low self-Centre of consciousness of
the subject, after which the reaction to it may begin.
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PURAN-BOOK I - CHAPTER 11-22
VISHNU
PURANA. - BOOK I. CHAP. 1. to 10
THE ROLE OF PRAYER.
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HIGHER REASON AND
JUDGMENT= CONQUEST OF FEAR.
QUEEN CHUNDALAI, THE
GREAT YOGIN
THE POWER OF
DHARANA, DHIYANA, AND SAMYAMA YOGA.
THE POWER OF THE
PRANAYAMA YOGA.
KUNDALINI,
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TO THE KUNDALINI—THE
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