I want to do this post about fascination, as it is a topic of high interest that can lead to new discoveries. I will speak here of some stages that are very typical of fascination. For fully describing one of them, very important, a new word has to be used. We will use the word stupor to adress a state where the person has some characteristics that we observe also in stunning situations that stupefy us. First I want to explain for the first time in this forum the fascinative process were we can achieve strong changes. To achieve strong fascination we have several steps we pass through. First it is mastery of the attention, second is a certain loss of references, third is stupor (the term we are using now, that we can also link to the fact to be stupefied). Today I will speak of this stupor. I think it is necessary to use this term. All terms used normally by hypnotists (overloading, pattern interrupt, etc...) dont get to the real point. This is a real big missing point in actual hypnotic researches. Only using fascination what really is stupor can be really discovered. I even discussed of it for a long time with an hypnosis university researcher. He participated in our courses recently for planning some experiments on rare hypnotic phenomenologies. Stupor is used in medicine. Stupor is the lack of critical cognitive function and level of consciousness and a person responds only to base stimuli. A person is also rigid and mute and only appears to be conscious as the eyes are open and follow surrounding objects (Gelder, Mayou and Geddes 2005). This can in fact happen even in hypnosis but you can read many books and only the old ones mention it as the technique for developing it has in part being lost. Even animals can in fact manifest this stupor. Most of the time with the use of the gaze. In the past the reaction of the animals has been confused by somebody with fear, but it is not fear, as animals love to repeat the experience and human beings only sometimes use this term. In the photo below a lion (that rarely fear people) is probably in this state. Speaking of human beings, with stupor a strange state develops inside the person. Memory can very easily get affected, much more than with verbal hypnosis. Verbal hypnosis rarely can produce stupor. The apparence is not of a sleeping trance and the person seems awake but can react as an automaton. A specific kind of therapy can be done. Regressions can be done very easily as the construction of time is affected. This state interact also very well for therapeutic purposes with what we call magnetism. This stupor (that physically can be characterized often by the fact of having the eye receptors open and the jaw relaxed) is a state where the world is seen without previous associations, memories and thought. Therefore effects are immediate. Why the eye is so important? Opening the gaze probably is the main key as when we have a very open gaze internal dialogue get blocked. The eye is a key and I can say that if it were not for our researches the most powerful techniques to use for fascination had been lost to the world. I think the eye is a similar key in many western and eastern exercises were presence is worked with wide open eyes (for example the basic four points of Dzogchen). In this case the exercise is self conduced, and a state similar to the stupor is created. But as awareness is very present in the process, a detachment between pure awareness and the physiology is in this case possible. More obviously of our researches in this field in a next post, as this one is already very full of ideas and concepts that are real food for thought. In the picture below an ancient hypnotizer working with a lion using fascination. Similar feats were also realized by LaFontaine and others.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:38:47 +0000
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