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Hypnotism
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The trance experience must be vivid, vibrant and intense. The same quasi-professionals will tell you that you cannot be forced by hypnosis to do something against your will. Advertising agencies, religious authorities, political powers and many others find this misinformation very amusing. The fact is that you can be hypnotized to do something against your will, and so one very important goal of magickal hypnotism is to break the magnetic hold these powers and authorities hold over you, and to f
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― Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
― Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
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For example, those who have experimented with hypnosis find that, at a certain depth of trance, it happens not too infrequently that subjects, if they are left alone and not distracted, often associated with a perception of light and of spaces vast but not solitary. Sometimes the entranced person feels impelled to speak about his or her experience. Deleuze, who was one of the best observers in the second generation of Animal Magnetists, records that this state of somnambulism is characterized by
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― The Devils of Loudun
― The Devils of Loudun
