Practical Hypnotism

What is hypnotism? Does it have the power to achieve the impossible? Is it a negative or a positive science? What are its practical uses? All these and many such questions get answered in this book. The fertile power of human mind and the infinite possibilities that emerge by the use of its innate potential are immense. Hypnotism is merely one such system, an occult science, that tries to tap these mental faculties. It takes the subject to a deep state of slumber or stupor after which the hypnotist exerts his will or extracts information. All these techniques, principles and philosophies of hypnotism that are prevalent for use on others or oneself are detailed in this book. The results and analysis of various such experiments and exercises conducted the world over also find a detailed description.

Various kinds of hypnotism, their utility, the involved procedures and implementation-all these matters as well as other related facts have been explained in a lucid and well illustrated manner in this book so that even a layman can understand it well. As one progresses through its chapters, one is informed of means and methods to relieve illness, remove the impediments, blockades and negative energies from one's life.

This book teaches one to practice this occult science all by himself without any external help or guidance!

Dr. Narayan Dutt Shrimali needs no introduction in the fields of astrology or hypnotism. A renowned astrologer world wide and having earned international acclaim in his field, he has attempted to portray the positive and diverse aspects of the science of hypnotism for a novice and use it to alleviate human suffering: be it in physical body or mind. He has outlined the results of penetrative powers of the mind.

In India hypnotism or the art and science of hypnotism, to be precise, has been a priceless asset. It has been sanctified by timeless traditions. It was largely from India that the rest of the world learnt and followed and imbibed this knowledge. Evidently the outstanding achievements recorded in India in this discipline has remained unsurpassed by and large.

India, at this stage, is passing through a strange crisis, beset as it is with a harrowing sense of uncertainty, a self-defeating apathy and a turbulence which has overtaken its teeming millions. A haunting sense of insecurity appears to have taken the people of India in its vicious grip. Look at anything whatsoever and you will feel terribly put off by the very brokenness or lack of integrity or sheer incompleteness of things. The kind of society such as we have envisioned to have, eludes us, the structures having gone awry and the fabric grievously missing.

What, one fears, principally accounts for this frightening confusion is the Western impact on India. For the Indian mode of life has always been contemplative and inwardly, the summum bonum of which was an intuitive grasp of the truth. As part of such contemplation the Indian endeavour has been to delve deep into the dark recesses of the inner self and realise all potential existing in any form and to any degree whatsoever. No wonder the ancient seers of India chose to overlook the empirical dimensions of the material world and preferred as such to retreat into solitude. Through contemplation they always tried to envision, comprehend and identify the human form gifted to mankind by the Almighty, and discover the potential of the powers that lay embedded in the human body. They contemplated the elements which brought off the human body in its form. They made a total submission to the Almighty, and went deep into these profound mysteries and elements so that man derived a great measure of happiness and higher powers, and extended his environment to a yet wider canvas. Conversely, the West remained riveted to the external world. Seldom did it try to seek out answers to the complex questions of body and soul. The West hardly bothered to know how body and soul came into being, and what all we could do to extend the frontiers of human environment. Instead it remained bogged down merely in the external trappings of customs, modes of living, eating habits and culture and civilization. The West was merely interested in exhibiting its deeds. It was more interested in showing off its superiority. The Western idea, unmistakably, was that man is what he himself wills to be. Understandably, man, as the argument runs, owes nothing whatsoever to the powers beyond, to the Creator, the Brahma and to the immanent power of soul.

It was precisely for this understanding that the West tried to enrich only the external trappings of the human body. Obsessed as it was with only physical comforts and leisurely life, the West brought into existence a whole body of science as also a series of inventions. The exercise led only to the tilting of the sensualness of the human flesh.

Needless to say the outcome of the Western obsession led to a precipitate shrinking of man's wider canvas. When he found himself reduced to narrower concerns, the Western man set out to dominate others, approves the weaker sections and seek fulfilment in founding and extending imperialist empires. Soon, however, he had had good cause to realise that this entire exercise the manner as well as the object-ended up in utter futility. For he found that despite possession of empires and extension of materialistic claptrap spiritual peace continued to elude him.

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