Friday, December 26, 2008

Panga condemns alleged killing



Saturday, 27 December 2008

GUADALCANAL premier Stephen Panga has condemned the alleged killing of the Guadalcanal man whose body was found two weeks ago behind the Varamata SDA church.

The deceased, whose body had been decomposed when found, was only identified by relatives last Saturday.
“The Guadalcanal provincial government has learned with great shock of the recent revelation that the person whose body was found was from Guadalcanal,” Mr Panga said.

He said although the cause of death was yet to be confirmed, he believed the man had been murdered.
“I condemned in the strongest term the killing of the Guadalcanal man who has been a victim of unwarranted killing that should not have taken place in our society,” the premier said.

Mr Panga said this incident has brought the number of deaths of Guadalcanal people to three after the social unrest.

He added that this was not a good sign for a peaceful co-existence and social unity that the people of this nation were trying to achieve.

“Such killings should be stopped by all means because the Guadalcanal people cannot stand to see the continuous killing of our people,” he added.

The Guadalcanal premier added that in future if such incidents continue to happen, the people of Guadalcanal might not engaged in any proposed reconciliations.

Meanwhile, Mr Panga urged the police to continue with their investigations until they get to the bottom of the incident.

He also called on the government to look into such issues seriously.

“I would like to call on the good people of Solomon Islands to be good advocators of peace and unity. Let’s all be good citizens that loves one and another.”

By DOUGLAS MARAU



Everybody's crooked: A self-fulfilling prophecy

Posted: December 25, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008

My dad never voted – at least, not while I knew him. "They're all crooks," he'd say when pressed. One of the generation for whom Jack Kennedy was viewed similarly to a certain messianic president-elect we presently have, when JFK was assassinated, it was sort of the last straw where elected officials were concerned. He became the perennial cynic. Of course, living in New York – where he was not raised – likely didn't help his outlook, since the corruption there was as legendary as in the city from which the aforementioned messianic president-elect hails.

I have a good friend whose family escaped from Castro's Cuba years ago. His is a profoundly enlightening perspective, so I occasionally cite his experiences and anecdotes. Although he loves this country, one of the things he finds appalling about America is that half of our eligible voters don't vote. This apathy is symptomatic of the subject matter that follows.

My political leanings are no secret to anyone who regularly peruses this space. That said, it has become clear that both of our major political parties have degenerated into dangerously destructive, subversive entities. The Democratic Party's leadership is rife with socialists and neo-Marxists who deny history and the realities of geopolitics, sociology and economics. The Republican Party has abandoned the pillar of its greatest success – conservatism; it is captained by socially disconnected milquetoasts and career politicians whose political philosophy varies from their Democrat counterparts but little in the practical sense.

In short, politicians have become more corrupt, rather than less.

In November 2008, the electorate effectively (and even eagerly) swept the Chicago political machine – one of the most notoriously corrupt in the history of politics – into Washington. This was punctuated by the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on charges of corruption mere weeks after the election. While informed opponents of President-elect Barack Obama were not surprised, it is probable that most Americans see this as incidental, rather than a harbinger of things to come. All this is happening despite that the age in which we live provides a wealth of easily accessible information, and on a scale dwarfing that which existed 40 years ago.

So it would appear that voters have become less savvy, rather than more.

Ted Kennedy killed a woman while driving drunk, yet he became one of the most powerful senators in American history. Why? Because of his celebrity (he's a Kennedy, after all) and the public's moral ambivalence. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, with zero political experience – is currently a contender for a Senate seat (that will become vacant when Hillary Clinton becomes secretary of state in the Obama administration) for some of the same reasons.

Lest I wax partisan, the list of corrupt and disgraced GOP lawmakers covering recent years rivals that of the Democrats. Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, dubbed "Hastert the Bastard" by his constituents, became a multimillionaire profiting from congressional earmarks. In 2007, Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho was accused of making a sexual advance toward an undercover officer in a men's room. In October, former Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska was convicted for concealing his receipt of expensive gifts and services eight days before he faced a tight re-election contest. He lost his seat.


And then there's Richard Nixon, whose name became synonymous with corruption due to the Watergate scandal, which led to his resignation from the presidency in 1974. Who can blame Democrats – whose party was more quickly associated with corruption – for reminding Republicans of this fact when the need arises?

So … is everybody crooked?

No, but politics has become a radically different animal over the last 100 years. Gone are the days when the majority of lawmakers were successful, conscientious people who went to Washington to serve. Politics has long since become a career game, with corruption being an accepted and integral aspect of the play. In particular, the vice that used to be associated with urban centers has become the norm in national politics. What is known as "Washingtonian" or "beltway" politics manifests a narcissistic elitism among those who practice it – and this phenomenon transcends party lines.

The axiom "They're all crooks" is taken as a truism by millions of Americans. One can surmise that among the 50 percent of non-voting Americans, there is likely a majority of concerned and conscientious citizens who are nevertheless plagued by apathy. Failing to see the forest for the trees, and disbelieving their ability to affect change, too few become involved in the process to make a difference.

What remains? Ideologues and poorly educated, propagandized Americans who continue to vote for politicians with whom they are familiar on only the most superficial level. Indeed, the general election of 2008 is a stark example of this self-evident proposition.

Whether it will be through the emergence of a strong third party, or some widespread social upheaval such as a world war or economic depression, it is becoming clear that drastic and sweeping changes will have to be made to preserve our nation as something we might recognize 50 years hence. For now, we are effectively living under an oligarchy and marching dangerously close to the borders of totalitarianism.


Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84461

Pope Urban II orders first Crusade



On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of "Deus volt!" or "God wills it!"

Born Odo of Lagery in 1042, Urban was a protege of the great reformer Pope Gregory VII. Like Gregory, he made internal reform his main focus, railing against simony (the selling of church offices) and other clerical abuses prevalent during the Middle Ages. Urban showed himself to be an adept and powerful cleric, and when he was elected pope in 1088, he applied his statecraft to weakening support for his rivals, notably Clement III.

By the end of the 11th century, the Holy Land--the area now commonly referred to as the Middle East--had become a point of conflict for European Christians. Since the 6th century, Christians frequently made pilgrimages to the birthplace of their religion, but when the Seljuk Turks took control of Jerusalem, Christians were barred from the Holy City. When the Turks then threatened to invade the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople, Byzantine Emperor Alexius I made a special appeal to Urban for help. This was not the first appeal of its kind, but it came at an important time for Urban. Wanting to reinforce the power of the papacy, Urban seized the opportunity to unite Christian Europe under him as he fought to take back the Holy Land from the Turks.

At the Council of Clermont, in France, at which several hundred clerics and noblemen gathered, Urban delivered a rousing speech summoning rich and poor alike to stop their in-fighting and embark on a righteous war to help their fellow Christians in the East and take back Jerusalem. Urban denigrated the Muslims, exaggerating stories of their anti-Christian acts, and promised absolution and remission of sins for all who died in the service of Christ.

Urban's war cry caught fire, mobilizing clerics to drum up support throughout Europe for the crusade against the Muslims. All told, between 60,000 and 100,000 people responded to Urban's call to march on Jerusalem. Not all who responded did so out of piety: European nobles were tempted by the prospect of increased land holdings and riches to be gained from the conquest. These nobles were responsible for the death of a great many innocents both on the way to and in the Holy Land, absorbing the riches and estates of those they conveniently deemed opponents to their cause. Adding to the death toll was the inexperience and lack of discipline of the Christian peasants against the trained, professional armies of the Muslims. As a result, the Christians were initially beaten back, and only through sheer force of numbers were they eventually able to triumph.

Urban died in 1099, two weeks after the fall of Jerusalem but before news of the Christian victory made it back to Europe. His was the first of seven major military campaigns fought over the next two centuries known as the Crusades, the bloody repercussions of which are still felt today. Urban was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1881.


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P.S. I see many parallels with the Global War on Terror and the Crusades; The Middle-East homeland of the Muslims, The "Holy" land (now the State of Israel), and the constant propaganda hypeing the progress and democracy being brought to the region. This is a "Just War"...Sound familiar? Remember 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'?..........Arsenio.

U.S. Military Preparing for Domestic Disturbances


U.S. Military Preparing for Domestic Disturbances

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:14 PM

By: Jim Meyers



A new report from the U.S. Army War College discusses the use of American troops to quell civil unrest brought about by a worsening economic crisis.

The report from the War College’s Strategic Studies Institute warns that the U.S. military must prepare for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States” that could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.”

Entitled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development,” the report was produced by Nathan Freier, a recently retired Army lieutenant colonel who is a professor at the college — the Army’s main training institute for prospective senior officers.

He writes: “To the extent events like this involve organized violence against local, state, and national authorities and exceed the capacity of the former two to restore public order and protect vulnerable populations, DoD [Department of Defense] would be required to fill the gap.”

Freier continues: “Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order … An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home.”

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned last week of riots and unrest in global markets if the ongoing financial crisis is not addressed and lower-income households are beset with credit constraints and rising unemployment, the Phoenix Business Journal reported.

Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Rep. Brad Sherman of California disclosed that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson discussed a worst-case scenario as he pushed the Wall Street bailout in September, and said that scenario might even require a declaration of martial law.

The Army College report states: “DoD might be forced by circumstances to put its broad resources at the disposal of civil authorities to contain and reverse violent threats to domestic tranquility. Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States.

“Further, DoD would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance.”

He concludes this section of the report by observing: “DoD is already challenged by stabilization abroad. Imagine the challenges associated with doing so on a massive scale at home."

As Newsmax reported earlier, the Defense Department has made plans to deploy 20,000 troops nationwide by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to emergencies.

The 130-year-old Posse Comitatus Act restricts the military’s role in domestic law enforcement. But a 1994 Defense Department Directive allows military commanders to take emergency actions in domestic situations to save lives, prevent suffering or mitigate great property damage, according to the Business Journal.

And Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the U.S. military operations to liberate Iraq, said in a 2003 interview that if the U.S. is attacked with a weapon of mass destruction, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.


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GUARDING YOUR MIND


GUARDING YOUR MIND


Exposing the Mind-Influencing Suggestive Techniques Utilized by Infiltrators of the Churches

By Kenneth M. Hoeck

What is hypnosis? What is NLP? Why do we need this type of information within the Churches of God at large?

We have all heard the term "brainwashing" before and many of our loved ones have even proposed that the "cult-like" churches we are part of used it upon us "gullible people". Many of us can chuckle in recall of hearing that one used repeatedly by family members who did not share our "new understanding." But what if it were partially true? What if there were people within the various Churches of God who covertly were guiding the members to slowly accept new ideas which are alien to the true faith and who were dedicated to destroying that faith at all costs?

Now I do not say this to frighten or intimidate any of us, but there are such people, ungodly men, who thrive within the churches of God. Do not be surprised for the apostle, that is called Paul, warned the ministry in Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. 31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

Paul was telling them (and us today) to WATCH for this to happen for he KNEW that it definitely would occur. He pleaded this urgent message to them for three whole years! He wanted us to take notice of this. He knew how these wolves would sneak into the flock and devour them from within the fold. This knowledge pained him to heartwretching sobs as he uttered his warning out of love for the brethren. Paul mirrored Christ's own urging as we can read that Jesus said in Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

These imposters fellowship with you and partake of the Holydays among you, many speaking from the podium. These "salesmen of false doctrine" use many techniques to attach their "products" to your mind. How can you spot them? 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. 31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.


The world is full of many (trained and untrained) people who used charm, personality, speaking ability, and charisma to influence the thinking of others. From politicians to used car salesmen, from doctors to inspirational/motivational speakers - many have utilized the power of "hypnotic suggestion" in its several forms. Who hasn't been approached at the supermarket and entreated to try a "sample" of a product? How many of us end up walking away with one of these sampled products out of a feeling of obligation! You just experienced a subtle and quite harmless use of a form of hypnosis. There are other forms that are even more subtle yet potentially quite dangerous to the followers of Christ within the churches.

The people who use these techniques do so very discreetly. They will, most often, intentionally tell you lies if confronted to cover up the mind games that they perform to their usually unsuspecting audience. In nearly all cases though, the audience is completely unaware that any "suggestions" have been implanted in their subconscious minds. Eventually the "hypnotist" gets comfortable very quickly with his "subjects" (his audience) and will begin to make his suggestions bolder or less subliminal and it is then that they can be better identified for what they are using.

ABOUT HYPNOSIS

Charles Tebbetts, in his book titled Miracles On Demand stated "There is no legal definition of hypnosis. Webster's dictionary describes it incorrectly as an artificially induced sleep, but it is actually a natural state of mind and induced normally in everyday living much more often than it is induced artificially. Every time we become engrossed in a novel or a motion picture, we are in a natural hypnotic trance (p. 211-212)."

Myron Teitelbaum, M.D., author of Hypnosis Induction Technics, concluded: "The hypnotist is merely the guide who directs and leads the subject into the trance (chapter 3: page 18)."

Roy Hunter, MS,CHt is a Certified Hypnotherapy Instructor, Published Author and Professional Speaker/Trainer Publisher: TranceNet Journal (http://www.trancenet.com) He states "To me, the most accurate way of defining hypnosis is to simply call it "guided meditation." Since many of us enter a meditative or "trance" state while listening to music, watching TV, listening to a good speaker or a good sermon at church, or even while reading, you could say that the hypnotist does not even have to be a live person.

Roy Hunter also said "There are certain abilities which are enhanced during the actual hypnotic process itself: (a) the ability to Imagine, (b) the ability to Remember, (c) the Creative abilities, and (d) RESPONSIVENESS TO SUGGESTIONS. Naturally, it is this last ability which creates the appeal of hypnosis to some and the fear of hypnosis to others "

The method used to induce a trance upon a particular subject or group of subjects is identified as the Induction Type. Virtually all techniques of hypnotic induction can be categorized into six main induction categories. The ones we need to be most concerned with are summarized below:


Progressive relaxation and imagery methods are frequently used on self-hypnosis tapes, as well as by some who facilitate meditation. Hypnotists and meditation leaders often use relaxation induction or guided imagery to have someone imagine being in a safe or peaceful place, and then awaken to full consciousness. It is important to understand that often those who actually use hypnosis inductions of this type will deny their use of hypnosis--and some facilitators of such meditations will even say that they don't believe in hypnosis. Yet they might ask you to "close your eyes and picture this......" or they may use certain "trigger" words to bring forth intense emotions in order to influence your thinking ... which is still a form of a trance ...which is still hypnosis.

Mental confusion methods are designed to confuse the conscious mind, so that it simply becomes easier to just relax and "let go" into hypnosis. Top hypnotists warn that hypnosis trainees should not attempt this type of induction until they understand it, and know what to do when a client enters hypnosis, as it is very powerful to the mind. This is an induction type employed by many "alternate agenda speakers" in the churches. These tares will highlight contradictive ideas to the listeners subconscious mind during a sermon to make it easier to later breakdown their faith.

Mental misdirection methods employ active use of the imagination, coupled with response, to hypnotize through responding to suggestions. This is a favorite of the Masons and Jesuits. The responses of certain groupings of people are investigated and recorded. If they know what outcome or end-thought they want to foster in the minds of their listeners/readers then they use this data to select the appropriate stimuli to obtain the desired result. People in each culture develop certain responses to common situations in the persuasion process. It is because of these responses to certain stimuli that make it possible to predict behavior and therefore persuade others. Unfortunately it is the same responses that make it possible to manipulate or be manipulated by unscrupulous individuals.
Once understood, a competently trained individual in these techniques can use them to create almost limitless induction techniques, combining two or more as "building blocks" for combo-techniques.

What is NLP?

The name Neuro-Linguistic Programming comes from the disciplines which influenced the early development of the field. It began as an exploration of the relationship between neurology, linguistics, and observable patterns ("programs") of behavior. It is a powerful form of combined hypnosis techniques. NLP is a set of models of how communication impacts and is impacted by subjective experience.

NLP consists of a number of models, and then techniques based on those models. The major models usually associated with NLP are: Sensory acuity and physiology. Thinking is tied closely to physiology. People's thought processes change their physiological state. Sufficiently sensitive sensory acuity will help a communicator fine-tune their communication to a person in ways over and above mere linguistics.

NLP has several techniques for diagnosing and intervening in certain situations. They have a phobia cure, a way to detraumatize past traumas, ways to identify and integrate conflicting belief systems that keep you from doing things you want or vice-versa, etc.

There are always minimal cues people give that indicate very specific kinds of thought processes. These include eye movements, certain gestures, breathing patterns, voice tone changes and even very subtle cues such as pupil dilation and skin color changes (training of Practitioners of NLP includes the skills and knowledge to use these information gathering techniques and to notice and interpret the subtle cues).

A basic observance and imitation of someones body language is a simple form of NLP. This is actually taught in some of those "How To Become A Better Communicator" classes. Sometimes you will find NLP trained people who annoyingly mimic body posture to distraction, in an attempt to gain "rapport." They were poorly trained so they are easily identified and avoided. Go out in public; watch couples; watch good friends. They walk in synchronization. They move in synchronization. They naturally mirror each other movements. NLP'ers just noticed this, and said "if you don't have initial rapport, here's one thing to pay attention to."

NLP is this gathering of information to make models, based on the internal experience and information processing of the people being studied and modeled, including the part that is outside of their conscious awareness. The word neuro refers to an understanding of the brain and its functioning (response). Linguistic denotes the (both verbal and non-verbal) communication aspects of our information processing. Programming is the thinking and behavioral patterns that we all go through. There is a relationship between perceptions, thinking and behavior that is neuro-linguistic in nature. The relationship is operating all the time, no matter what we are doing, and it can be studied by exploring our internal or subjective experience.To do this well means to actually study the structure of people's thought processes and internal experience, as well as their observable behavior.

All human change is nothing more than an integration of resources or a collapsing of realities, one into the other. The particular process of collapsing anchors involves taking a negative state, and integrating or collapsing it into a positive state or vice-versa. Teachers of NLP say that doing this gives the person we're dealing with more neurological choice. One of the major premises of NLP is to increase the choices a person has or to obliterate the idea of a single absolute reality (even if it is truth).

Speaking of NLP tecniques used in a clinic setting, Training and Development Journal said "(NLP) does offer the potential for making changes without the usual agony that accompanies these phenomena. . . Thus it affords the opportunity to gain flexibility, creativity, and greater freedom of action than most of us now know. . ." --

It has been noted that people respond more agreeably to something if it is somewhat familiar to them. The hypnotist/ NLP practitioner has learned that implanting words or ideas into your subconscious mind makes it simpler to effect a change in your behavior or your beliefs. This is sometimes refered to as "seeding of the thought". Planting suggestions that will influence others to adopt their way of thinking is an effective tool to the modern day sorcerer (user of mind control techniques).

A common question is "Does knowing what's being done make it less effective?" I've found that knowing what someone is doing lets me barricade against certain things, but there are definite cases where knowledge is not sufficient to keep it from working. Certain aspects of NLP are like this: if someone is using NLP techniques and doing it well, even if you know they may be doing it, you may not be cognizant of the actual use of this Jesuit tool and even fall prey to it.

"NLP cannot be dismissed as just another hustle. Its theoretical underpinnings represent an ambitious attempt to codify and synthesize the insights of linguistics, body language, and the study of communication systems." -- Psychology Today

THE EFFECTS

"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, not the intellect." --Herbert Spencer

The trained "manipulator" works on your emotions as well as your intellect. A person's feeling's are much more powerful than academic thought processes. After the repeated mental raping of the mind, anyone can begin to lose ground to these subtle influences. The subject (one who receives the hypnotic suggestions) can begin to question things he or she "used to know". Eventually, or sometimes even suddenly, the truth of God becomes obscure to them and they may even accept or re-accept old traditions, ideas, and beliefs!

The experts say that a type of amnesia (basically selective forgetting in this case) sometimes occurs spontaneously in hypnosis, and sometimes happens as the result of a direct or indirect suggestion to forget something. The amnesia effect may last a variable time, possibly months or longer, depending on the psychological significance of the amnesia and the forgotten material and on the intensity of attempts to recall and availability of recall cues in the environment.

THE PRACTITIONERS

Besides the salesmen, the hypnotist doctors, the motivational speakers and other common professional workers who use NLP and hypnosis techniques to better their careers, there are others who have a deeper more devious agenda. These "tools" are used by all advanced level Jesuits and high degree Freemason's. These unscrupulous individuals disguise themselves as your brothers, your friends, your administrators, and your ministers to gain your confidence.

"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend." --Abraham Lincoln

In the Jesuit Oath, the new Jesuit leader is instructed "you have been taught to act the dissembler: among Roman Catholics to be a Roman Catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethren; to believe no man, to trust no man. Among the Reformers, to be a reformer; among the Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist; among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant, and obtaining their confidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to descend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you might be enabled to gather together all information for the benefit of your Order as a faithful soldier of the Pope....To take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the Church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means."(The Jesuit Oath as told by Carlos Didier, Subterranean Rome, pp349-351)

The hidden agenda is to spy upon the church members of various groups, to be one of the brethren, to become speakers in the assembly, and to gather all information about you and send it to the boss in Rome! These involve the same NLP hypnotic techniques we described earlier in the article.

The Jesuit Oath continues: "You have been taught to insidiously plant the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces, states that were at peace, and incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace. To take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the Church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means."(The Jesuit Oath as told by Carlos Didier, Subterranean Rome, pp349-351)

The "seeding" or implanting of thoughts and ideas formerly foreign to you are sown in your subconscious. They then proceed to "water" this implanted "seed" through advanced NLP methodology.

The Jesuit Oath also states "You have been taught your duty as a spy, to gather all statistics, facts and information in your power from every source; to ingratiate yourself into the confidence of the family circle of Protestants and heretics of every class and character, as well as that of the merchant, the banker, the lawyer, among the schools and universities, in parliaments and legislatures, and the judiciaries and councils of state, and to 'be all things to all men,' for the Pope' sake, whose servants we are unto death." (The Jesuit Oath as told by Carlos Didier, Subterranean Rome, pp349-351)

These trained Jesuits have infiltrated every church group they can weasel into, as well as all other positions of power and authority. They have gathered, and continue to gather and record, all the responses to their rhetorical stimuli. They use this information to achieve their Supreme Leader's main objective ... to maintain manipulative control over us ... their "subjects" in this sorcerer's lab experiment.

EXAMPLES IN ACTION

1.) One of the first recorded cases of these techniques, before they were labeled with a name, seems to have been applied a long time ago in Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Let us examine this and the subsequent verses of the passage for the truth. [subtil = "aruwm" in Hebrew-Strong's# 6175-cunning (usually in a bad sense):-crafty, prudent, subtil] The technique here is a mental confusion induction method. Satan states "Didn't God say you can eat from EVERY tree?" [serpent = "nachash" (Strong's #5172 & 5175) meaning hissing, (fig) a snake [ because of its hiss ], whisperer, enchanter, divine, a shiny one, bright. ].

He quotes God (Genesis 2:16) using God's exact words but only part of the whole message given by God on the subject (Genesis 2:17). He used this same device on Jesus (Matthew 4:6) but Christ used the scripture correctly (Matthew 4:7)and was not ensnared by the Devil's wily ways

Now, it is important to note, this Nachash or Satan was no more a literal snake than Dan when he was called one in Gen 49:17..... or Herod a fox in Luke 13:32 .....or Satan a roaring lion in 1 Peter 5:8. Satan was a cherub(Ezekiel 28:14-16), one of God's angelic host, and the cherubim are described in Ezekiel 1:5-14 as bright illuminated beings. Utilizing the same "presence" and "charisma" that had influenced one-third of the angels of heaven to follow him, Satan attacked the first couple with his superior (to their fully carnal) mind.

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Satan directly contradicts God's word bringing confusion to Eve's subconscious mind. [Satan is a liar - John 8:44 , Proverbs 30:5, I John 2:4,] "Ye shall not surely die..." : This was Satan seeding the false doctrine of an immortal soul in man, implying that man could break God's command and not eventually pay the price (eternal death) [refer to Romans 6:16,23, Matthew 19:16-17.]

Enchanting with all persuasive powers such as "Didn't God say, my dear, that you can eat of every tree you desire? Go ahead, why not my precious, I bet its the best tasting fruit in the garden; don't you think?. God wants to save it for himself. Come now child, do you think you'll really die? God just knows that if you eat it you'll be like Him, becoming full of knowledge (...of good and evil)." He tried the same method of temptation in the encounter with Jesus in Matthew 4:8-9 and , once again, the very mind of God in Christ prevailed rebuking him in Matthew 4:10.

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Genesis 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

The woman's eyes were now "opened" ... she had been "enlightened" to ideas that she would not have ordinarily come to. She experienced the immediate deception of Satan and also carried with her the seed of doubting God's word and the seed of the false doctrine of Immortality of the Soul deep in her subconscious thoughts. [beguiled = "nasha"in Hebrew- Strong's#5377- to lead astray, i.e. (ment.) to delude, or (mor.) to seduce,]

The scriptures do not say how many times previous to this encounter that Satan spoke with the first couple. The text does not show any "introductions" taking place so it is possible that Satan had already befriended them and this was one of many times that he launched mind control (subconscious influence) tactics upon them. Either way, this analysis was good to demonstrate how these "techniques" work. Satan used a bold approach showing he was comfortable in his craft.

2.) Here is a present day example to examine. In a blatant, yet probably unintended, admission on an ecumenical sabbatarian webpage, one COG elder wrote the following on the topic of unity based on sabbath-keeping alone.-"First, there is the psychological barrier which needs to be surmounted - certainly at grass-roots level initially. Second, there needs to be a certain amount of 'seeding' of the idea amongst the laymembership, ministry and leadership. Finally, the leadership should adopt approaches and policies which will lead to agreements on how to work together."

These ideas and the language that they are presented in seem to come straight from a Hypnotist's Instruction Book. The obviousness of this communication lends one to believe that it was either accidental or executed in boldness by a long-time "friend" of the group being addressed. The ecumenical approach is a common one as it allows a slow but sure changing of ideas or behaviors. The suggestion here is to breech the firewall that keeps one group from fellowshipping with another. This is accomplished by directing focus to the single commonality (in this case sabbath-keeping) and taking the mind away from looking at other facets of the group interaction. This allows a small, but ever-widening, chink in the armor that protects you from false doctrine.

3.) Let us return to the scriptures for a glimpse at another short example. Acts of the Apostles 8:9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. 11 And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

This is more of an example that such things were taking place even in the first century A.D than of methodology. Notice than Simon the Magician used the "magic of the wisemen" (or Magi) to befuddle the minds of the townspeople. [Sorcery means the techniques or devices of the Magi's of the East ... it could include conjuring, mind persuasion tricks, rabbit out of the hat tricks, or even up to physical manifestations of objects] The "tricks" that Simon played (most likely with the help of unseen demons) supplied the confusion in their minds so he can influence them to exalt him as the very power of God. We do not have biblical quotations of any of Simon's deceptive speeches but surely he utilized some of the same devices as Satan and todays psychological sorcerers.

4.) The following is an excerpt of some techniques exhibited recently by a prominent speaker within the Churches of God (at Large) at a sermon taped before a live audience . The entire excerpt added up to less than one minute of elapsed time yet is chock full of suggestive thought emanations. Read it and see if you can pick up on the subliminal messages.

"...But where are you going to go to find someone that is valiant for the truth? There are a few people out there who still seem to be trying. I noticed something interesting really recently that I never quite focused on. There is a range of journalists out there who are strongly involved in political commentary who are extremely critical of President Clinton they are, every one of them, Catholic, most of them Irish catholic, and they have been educated in the strict excellence of Catholic Universities. Also they were educated by Nuns and Priests who taught them a strict set of morals that are afterall, in their origins, based on the bible. And its really fascinating to watch this - how they have been educated, in many cases, Jesuit Universities. They have that Jesuit manner of cutting through all the malarkey and going straight to the heart of the matter and these are individuals who were taught by their mentors to tell the truth. This group of them wound up in journalism."

Here is an thought-by-thought breakdown of the NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) used in this portion of this particular sermon:


"where are you going to go to find someone that is valiant for the truth?"
Suggested Idea: Apparently one in the Church of God (his audience) doesn't have the truth because they must GO somewhere else to find someone who is valiant for the truth.


"There is a range of journalists out there who are strongly involved in political commentary who are extremely critical of President Clinton they are, every one of them, Catholic,"
Suggested Idea: This speaker spends alot of time speaking out against President Clinton's behaviors, including in this sermon. Here he tries to identify this "range of journalists" with himself and the position of the Church of God concerning Clinton by suggesting: These people are JUST LIKE us - they're critical of Clinton's immorality too (and oh, by the way, they just happen to be Catholic...yet they are like us.)


"...they have been educated in the strict excellence of Catholic Universities. Also they were educated by nuns and priests who taught them a strict set of morals that are afterall, in their origins, based on the bible... they have been educated, in many cases, Jesuit Universities."
Suggested Idea: Bet you never realized what "EXCELLENCE" there is in Catholic universities (especially the Jesuit ones). Again, see how much the Catholics are like us: they have a strict set of morals that are afterall, in their origins, based on the bible. The speaker is saying: See, Catholicism IS based on the Bible, you know...be sure to follow those nuns and priests. (sarcasm intended)


"They have that Jesuit manner of cutting through all the malarkey and going straight to the heart of the matter and these are individuals who were taught by their mentors to tell the truth."
Suggested Idea: So...who is "valiant for the truth"? Who "cuts through all the malarkey" and goes "straight to the heart of the matter"? Why, it MUST be the Catholics, for they "were taught by their mentors to tell the truth" (and we know their mentors are JESUITS--for these people were trained in the "strict excellence" of the Jesuit universities and after all, it is a "JESUIT manner" that they follow to cut through the malarkey)


"This group of them wound up in journalism."
Comment: This group of who? Jesuit-trained Catholics. This particular group of Jesuits wound up in journalism (gotta control the media). And it just so happens that another group of Jesuits wound up in the Church of God--and isn't that great since, after all, they are the ones with the truth (sarcasm intended).

Also notice the contradiction when the speaker first says "I noticed something interesting really recently that I never quite focused on" and yet three sentences later, ........"And its really fascinating to watch this" ... he tells us how he has been observing this in fascination! This person's character is brought into question by our examination of these opposing comments. His subtle contradiction also causes further ripples of confusion to the listeners minds.

2Co 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

OUR VOICE IS ONE OF WARNING

These examples have been presented for our examination to enable us to possibly detect when these Wolf-in-Sheep-Clothing Techniques are being used in our presence. The tares have been planted with the wheat and will grow alongside us until the time of reaping comes. It is not our intention to defame or harm anyone (hence the speakers names have been withheld) but to inform you- the churches of God of what could be occuring right under our noses.

We do encourage you all to remember Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. 31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. We add our voices to Paul's own, in love, that you all may escape the fiery darts of the Wicked One.

The solution only lies in deepening our relationship with God. To continue to humble ourselves before Him and to pray to Him for understanding and guidance. To read His word, as often as we can, so we will know Him and thereby know His will for us ... to put on the mind of Christ.

We will conclude with a meditative thought from God's mind (His Word) taken from that wonderful Book of Psalms.

Ps 64:1 <> Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: 4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. 5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? 6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

Ps 64:7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. 9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing. 10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.


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HYPNOTISM WITHIN THE ADVENTIST CHURCH -1


HYPNOTISM WITHIN THE ADVENTIST CHURCH -1


Above all-Keeping thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. {margin) Pr 4:23


We live in Crisis Times! This 10 part article will cover the many faces of Spiritistic Hypnotism which we now have around us both in the world AND in the church:

Meditation Sermons; LAB I and II; Ericksonian Hypnosis; Entertainment Behavioral Transfer; Seminar Hypnosis Books; Yoga; Neuro-Linguistic Programming; Master Student Guide; Casual-conversation Hypnosis; Hypnotic Cassettes; Story-telling Hypnosis; Power from Within Tobacco Classes; Celebration Pantomime Fixation;

THE PLAN


THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SEDUCTION OF ADVENTISM

PART ONE OF TEN

This set of several tracts will open up before you a major spiritistic takeover in our denomination. Some of our workers are [HAVE] taking courses in hypnotic mind-control exercises, with the purpose in mind of using them on our people. This is a serious matter, and as you read through all the documented material here, you will be astounded to think that some of our leaders could be so gullible as to go to the world for their training.

Non-Adventist hypnosis specialists are teaching these courses to a number of our church leaders so they can use this information. In addition, advanced instructor-level courses are being taken, so that church workers can instruct our pastors, and bring it into our local churches. In special conference-wide meetings, some of this information is being taught to our church members as a means of reclaiming former members. " There are sons and daughters of the church who may need to be reclaimed, but let us use prayer, understanding, and the Word of God to do it, not hypnotic techniques! Some leave the church because of their own desires to experience the husks of worldliness. But others leave because our churches are drifting away from the historic landmarks. This is not a time to use spiritism to win back former members! What is needed is heartfelt revival and reformation in our own lives and churches first. Let us get rid of the worldly entertainment, clothing, diet, and education.

An advanced instructor-level course In how to teach these mind-changing, hypnotic procedures will be [was] given to our leaders In Takoma Park, Maryland, on May 5-10, 1991. This course is very expensive, and the expert giving it only schedules an average of three such instructor-level courses per year. But, by special arrangement, this advanced course will be given to many of our top leaders this year. Read, weep, pray, and act. This is the story of stuporless-trance hypnosis that is coming into our church.

One of the first to speak up was a layman in the Oregon Conference, Terry Ross by name. As you may know, the leadership of the Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has rapidly become the foremost and fastest growing pioneer in introducing worldly concepts into our North American church services: Such things as Pentecostal celebration entertainment-type services, Korean Evangelical "cell" mid-week church member conditioning meetings, variations of Protestant celebration and cell training manuals,and now hypnotic counseling!

Whether or not Terry was the first to discover this fourth phase, he was the first to loudly condemn it. God needs people like Terry Ross at this time in history! First, he spoke up against the practice, and then wrote and printed an introductory warning about this practice. When he began distributing it throughout the Oregon Conference, the leadership was highly incensed. Little wonder, for Don Jacobsen, President of the Oregon Conference was closely working With certain conference pastors in developing training programs in these new techniques and training pastors attending training sessions at the Milwaukee Adventist Church, in south Portland.

"On February 8 of Last year (1990) another personal friend of mind, who I choose not to name (as I'm painfully aware of what happens to those who take stands for truth which expose certain facts), called Elder Don Jacobsen, president of the Oregon SDA Conference. During the 45 minute conversation, my friend brought up the NLP hypnosis issue and asked Elder Jacobsen what his thoughts were on it. My friend wrote down at that time specifically what Elder Jacobsen said so he wouldn't forget or misconstrue it. Elder Jacobsen told him he thought that hypnotism could be used for good or bad but he thought 'if God were here today it wouldn't surprise him if He [God) used hypnotism.' - Terry Ross, You Are Growing Sleepy, p.9.

Later that year, after the 1990 Indianapolis Session, a letter was written to Robert Folkenberg, the new General Conference president, appealing to him to step in and do something about this terrible new trend in our church. It is very unlikely that Folkenberg ever saw that letter. Instead, it was routinely passed along to an officer in the very department which is sponsoring the Takoma Park NLP training sessions: the General Conference Ministerial Department (which is in charge of Ministry magazine)! In the paragraph just proceeding the one quoted above, we are told this:

"A personal friend of mine wrote a letter of concern on this subject of NLP to Elder Folkenberg not too long ago. He had a heavy schedule and was unable to respond personally, so it was forwarded to the Ministerial Association. The letter of reply is from a well-known man at Ministry magazine, and he states clearly that he took part of the training himself in 1981! The letter demonstrates that Adventist leadership has been involved with NLP training which has dearly been shown to be the devil's ground. It also sadly demonstrates leadership involvement in this training has been going on for at least 10 years and that the training has reached all the way up into the highest ranks of the SDA Church."-Ibid..

Those of you who have read our recent report on the peculiar and very expensive New Age painting that Ministry magazine made available in August 1990 to our conference evangelists, pastors, and church members (The Coming of the New Age Christ [WM-301]), will have had some advance warning of the kind of "training" that Ministerial Department and Ministry magazine officers are being indoctrinated into.

Because of the total lack of willingness on the part of conference or union leaders to do anything about the matter, in the spring of 1990, Terry printed a brief warning, entitled Omega, and began circulating it throughout the conference and elsewhere. The only response was a determination by the conference president to put Terry out of the church.

In that study, Terry covered the following points: (1) Pertinent Spirit of Prophecy quotations which we will reprint in this study, along with still others. (2) Quotations from a book by Roland Hegstad, warning against spiritistic inroads in the modern world, which we will quote here. (3) A warning about NLP, and Lab I and Lab 11, which we will also sound here, although in more detail. (4) A warning about certain training books, one of which we will cite as evidence that supernatural aid is given to those using these methods.

(5) A call for denominational action in regard to certain denominational leaders, which we will reprint here.

It is our hope that we may add to and provide a still wider circulation to the heartfelt warning that Terry Ross gave in Oregon. May our Father bless him and all like him who will stand for the right and protest the wrong in these last days of earth's history.

May it not be said of any of us that we were willing to remain neutral as an immense crisis gripped our church down here at the end of time. And, we might add, may God have mercy on those who placidly feel that "Christian love" requires continued silence on their part, at a time when spiritism, clothed with a thousand changes of raiment is entering our denomination.

Let us now consider the message of Terry's booklet, Omega, for which he was later disfellowshiped:

"Bringing the lesson right to our own doorsteps here in Oregon we must say, with breaking hearts and a prayer on our lips that what's happening in this conference has been calculated and well planned for some time.

The "Celebration" style of worship isn't something that just happened. Our men at the top of the Oregon Conference have been and may still be in the process of being trained; and have been studying with those who believe and practice Pentecostalism." -Omega, p. 4.

Terry directs our attention to a book by RR Hegsted written 17 years ago, in which he noted that spiritist forces are at work within the tongues movement churches:

"In 1974 Roland R. Hegstad wrote a book, entitled "Rattling the Gates." which deals specifically with the Charismatic movement and how it was trying to influence. Adventism. On page 47 of the book, Elder Hegstad is explaining .Matt. 7:13-23:

"In that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we preach in your name, didn't we cast out devils in your name, and do many great things in your name?' Then I shall tell them plainly: 'I have never known you. Go away from me; you have worked on the side of evil!" (Matt. 7:1323, Phillips).

"Several points are worth pondering here. First, the false teachers are not operating from outside of the church, but from within. They are false religious teachers. -Omega, p.5.

Some people think that the spiritists are only outside the church. That little misconception can be costly. What is it that renders the charismatic churches so especially vulnerable to spiritism? It is the emphasis on emotion as the basis of Christian experience. Over two decades ago the present writer lived near the headquarters of a large charismatic church for about two years, and made acquaintance with a number of their members. They were nice people, but the emphasis on feelings and emotions as the vital basis of their religious experience was noteworthy.

That basic flaw is essentially the same that we find in the celebration-type meetings. Under the influence of such Sabbath morning worship services, the Christian experience of those who attend them gradually comes to depend on the emotional pick-up of the entertainment meetings, rather than a personal relationship with Christ. In such an environment, it is rather easy for spiritistic activities to be forthcoming.

Significantly enough, the very leaders of the Adventist 3 celebration church movement in Oregon-are the leaders In introducing hypnotic training into our churches there!

Terry Ross said this:

"When the flood was about to destroy the antediluvian race, and Noah was faithfully proclaiming the straight testimony for his time, what were they doing?

" 'They (the antediluvians) used the probation so graciously granted them in ridiculing Noah. They caricatured him and criticized him. They laughed at him for his peculiar earnestness and intense feeling in regard to the judgments which he declared God would surely fulfill. They talked of science and of the laws controlling nature. Then they held a carnival over the words of Noah, calling him a crazy fanatic: (7BC 22 (1BC 1090)

"Yes, just before the antediluvians were destroyed by God they were singing and dancing, calling the message bearer a fanatic.

'And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall is be also in the days of the Son of man.' (Luke 17:26)

Did you notice that the Spirit of Prophecy said, 'minds will be hypnotized'? Satan is using hypnosis at this time in a tremendous effort to gain influence over our minds. ..

'This entering in of Satan through the sciences is well devised. Through the channel of phrenology, psychology, and mesmerism (hypnosis], he comes more directly to the people of this generation, and works with that power which is to characterize his efforts near the dose of probation. The minds of thousands have thus been poisoned, and led into infidelity. While it is believed that one human mind so wonderfully affects another, Satan, who is ready to press every advantage, insinuates himself, and works on the right hand and on the left. And while those who are devoted to these sciences laud them to the heavens because of the great and good works which they affirm are wrought by, them, they little know what a power for evil they are cherishing; but it is a power which will yet work with all signs and lying wonders with all deceivableness of unrighteousness. Mark the influence of these sciences, dear reader, for the conflict between Christ and Satan is not yet ended:' (2 SM 351-352)

The power of hypnotic suggestion and so-called "psychological analysis" is, in these last days, to "especially characterize his [Satan's) efforts near the close of probation'" What is the door through which men and women enter the practice of these devilish arts? What is it that permits them to be willing to dabble in it? First, is the belief that one human mind can "so wonderfully" affect another, as mentioned in the above quotation. A second is the strange, more-than-human power exhibited in it.

"When brought face to face with manifestations which they cannot but regard as supernatural, they will be deceived."-Great Controversy, 553.

A third is the fascination that, apart from God or obedience to His laws, man's mind can accomplish such extraordinary things.

"If there were no other evidence of the real character of spiritualism, it should be enough for the Christian that the spirits make no difference between righteousness and sin, between the noblest and purest of the apostles of Christ and the most corrupt of the servants of Satan:' Great Controversy, 556-557.

Should the people of God be taking courses in how to change human thoughts and attitudesfrom men who do not believe in obedience to the law of God? Speaking of spiritualism, we are told:

"Thus, in place of the righteousness and perfection of the infinite God, the true object of adoration; in place of the perfect righteousness of His law, the true standard of human attainment, Satan has substituted the sinful, erring nature of man himself as the only object of adoration, the only rule of judgment, or standard of character. This is progress, not upward, but downward."-Great Controversy, pp. 554-555.

A fourth reason that men tamper with these forbidden things is, initially, curiosity. Then, gradually, they behold a more than human power at work, and before long they are taken in the snare.

"There are few who have any just conception of the deceptive power of spiritualism and the danger of coming under its influence. Many tamper with it merely to gratify their curiosity. They have no real faith in it and would be filled with horror at the thought of yielding themselves to the spirits' control. But they venture upon the forbidden ground, and the mighty destroyer exercises his power upon them against their will. Let them once be induced to submit their minds to his direction, and he holds them captive. It is impossible, in their own strength, to break away from the bewitching, alluring spell. Nothing but the power of God, granted in answer to the earnest prayer of faith, can deliver these ensnared souls."-Great Controversy, p. 558.

Yet a fifth reason why men venture near to spiritistic phenomena is the fact it is so well disguised. Eve thought she was talking to a snake, but she was actually talking to the devil. Men and women today imagine they are receiving instruction from "magnetic healers," "water witching experts," "mind-cure scientists," or, as in this case, from "personal counseling trainers," or "sales experts."

ORIGINS OF HYPNOSIS

Whereas herbal remedies were developed and used in China, Japan, the Americas, and other parts of the world, hypnotism and chemical medications originated with the Hindus, Egyptians, and Babylonians.

"Hypnotism as therapy seems to have originated among the Hindus, who often took their sick to the temples to be cured by hypnotic suggestion or 'temple-sleep,' as in Egypt and Greece. The Englishmen who introduced hypnotherapy into England Braid, Esdaile and Elliotson'undoubtedly got their ideas, and some of their experience, from contact with India' . .

"The general picture of Indian medicine is one of rapid, development in the Vedic and Buddhist periods, followed, by centuries of slow and cautious improvement. . It is difficult to say how much Indian medicine owed to the physicians in the Near East; on the one hand certain remedies, like opium and mercury, and some modes of diagnosis, like feeling the pulse, appear to have entered India from Persia; on the other we find Persians and Arabs translating into their languages, in the eighth century A.D., the thousand-year-old compendia of Sushruta and Charaka. The great Caliph Haroun-al-Rashid accepted the preeminence of Indian medicine and scholarship, and imported Hindu physicians to organize hospitals and medical schools in Baghdad. Lord Amphthill concludes that medieval and modern Europe owes its system of medicine directly to the Arabs, and through them to India. Probably this noblest and most uncertain of the sciences had an approximately equal antiquity, and developed in contemporary contact and mutual influence, in Sumeria, Egypt and India.. "-Will Durant, Story of Civilization, Vol. 1, p. 532.

"The unfortunate reason we must bring up hypnotism at this time is because many of our pastors have been and will be trained in the craft of hypnosis. Yes, you read it correctly! Although plainly told in the Spirit of Prophecy that this is from the devil, many pastors, including some local ones, have, nonetheless, taken the training." Omega, 8.

There are five levels to these mystic arts:

Level 1: Certain men and women make a contract with Satan. In exchange for unusual guidance and power, they give him their life and their soul. From Satan they then learn various things which they write down. Here you will find occult sorcery, and ritual demonic practices.

Level 2: Other men read these writings and they write still more books on the subject, thus spreading the poisonous teachings still farther. In this category you will find sances, and talking with "departed spirits,"-who are really demons.

Level 3: Reading the books, other men use this bewitching information for purposes of mesmerism. Here you will find what most people consider to be hypnotism, with its distinct sleep-tike trances.

Many people are afraid of the first three levels, but few realize the danger in Level 4 and 5.

Level 4: On this level, the hypnotic arts are transformed into apparent means of helping people, but they are openly stated to be hypnotic in function and effect. The leaders in these fields may not realize the source of what they are working with, and their followers may not realize it either. But that does not render it any the less harmful. Yet, here also, more than human manifestations are to be seen. This fascinates people and they study more deeply into it. When, later in this study, we analyze portions of a certain book, you will be startled to note the supernatural things that occur. Yet similar training sessions have been and are being taken by certain leaders in our church. On this level, the instructors openly declare that they are teaching non-sleep trance hypnosis, and that it is even more powerful than "classical" hypnosis.

Level 5: Only part of the hypnotic procedures are used on this level. Instead, it is mingled in with a variety of other things, much of which appears harmless.

We will begin with, what in our opinion, is Level 5: Dr. John S. Savage was a United Methodist minister who decided to take advanced training in the universities in various aspects of psychology, counseling, and similar areas. After acquiring four degrees from East Coast universities, he founded LEAD Consultants, Inc., of which he is president: A certified psychotherapist, he is now a "consultant to many churches, organizations, and corporations, working with educational designing, problem solving, conflict management, team teaching, and research." He is also a visiting professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and several other educational institutions.

His methods are not only used in industry and schools, but Protestant and Catholic churches are in keen demand of his services also. He presents his educational materials in training classes which he calls LAB I and LAB II.

"As a skilled designer of training systems, Dr. Savage, with other staff members, developed many significant training events for churches and business organizations. These include Calling-Caring Ministries (LABS I and II), Conflict Management and Resolution, Advanced Consultation Skills, One to One Witness Skills, The Evangelistic Consultant, The Christian Education Consultant, and Listening Skills for Business, Education, Medical Professions, and Couples."-Brochure, LEAD Consultants, p. 1.

For LAB I Savage trains pastors, local church leaders, and selected church members how to be "callers," and visit and reclaim former church members. Certain psychological techniques are taught for this purpose. The purpose is for local churches to form calling teams" to visit and sway former members to resume church attendance. According to one brochure, he trains "callers in skills, theology and caring." (At the top of that promotional brochure, he writes in capital letters: "EVANGELISM, CARING, CELEBRATION." Another brochure says his instruction includes "theological" knowledge. This theology is probably solidly modern Protestant, which, in our church, would be termed new-theology." in other words, you are saved as you are, and, in fact have already been saved, so come back to church!"

He also says his instruction will result in a "development in self-confidence" in those who attend his training sessions. It is also said to produce certain "skills" in "communication, perception checks, fogging," etc.

MIND CONTROL

Satan wants to control human minds. He seeks to do this directly, and also through human beings who, in so doing, become his agents. Whenever one person seeks to control another person's mind, Satan is thereby given permission to control both minds! Hypnotism is thus only one of the means by which he seeks to control one mind through another. Licentious enticers, and men who seek to dictate to workers and members-are also engaged in mind control. In seeking to do so, they are immediately controlled by an evil spirit. For, to say it again: when one man seeks to control another man's mind, Satan is thereby given permission to control the controller's mind. It matters not whether the controller be a psychiatrist, physician, counselor, or pastor; in seeking to control the mind of another, his mind will be taken captive by Satan!

On yet a third brochure, even more information is given on the content of these LAB I classes. We are told that these skills will include "communication," "fogging," "negative inquiry, neuro-linguistics, paraphrase, perception check, story listening, story polarization listening." Elsewhere in this present study, we will reprint a few of these brochures.

On page 1 of the same brochure for LAB I, several strange, new things: "interpersonal gap, Neuro-Lingustic Training, process to debrief calls, fogging, stop action role play, role renegotiation, story polarizations, closure role play, return tracks, turtle interview, and religious journey interview,"

What is it all about? The stated purposes are to teach pastors and church members new methods of working with people, in order to bring them back into active church attendance. Yet it is by beholding that we become changed, in these last days, what is it that we should be beholding? Who should we permit to change us? Most significantly, LAB I and LAB II include various aspects of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

What is that? It is a trademark name for an advanced series of training classes. In other words, level 5 teaches you part of Level 4. After taking level 5, you graduate to level 4 training. And by that time you have become a full-fledged hypnotist! Someone may reply, "This may be for the Protestants and Catholics, but surely, not for our church!"

The truth is that a number of our leaders have taken, are taking, or will soon take this coursework, which includes level 4 information on hypnotic procedures! On the 1989, 1990, and 1991 training schedules for LAB II, it showed two courses listed for our church. One of them is a LAB II course. At some earlier time, LAB I training must have been given to a sizable number of our leaders who attended it. We know this to be true, since LAB II can only be taken by those who have received careful instruction in LAB I.

PART TWO OF TEN

On December 3-7, 1990, at Takoma Park, Maryland, by special arrangement with LEAD Consultants and Or. Savage, under the auspices of the Potomic Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, our leaders took a follow-up course in "Conflict Management and Corporate Pain. " But, on May 5-10,1991, at Takoma Park, they will take the most advanced course that Dr. Savage offers to the churches: LAB II.

According to a different brochure, "LAB II" is "the training of LAB I leaders"! LAB II graduates LAB I instructors! No one can take this expensive course unless they have earlier taken Savage's expensive LAB 1 course. They objective of LAB II is to train men and women so they can, themselves, begin training still others in LAB I techniques,-which includes Neuro-Linguistic Training! Looking at that training session schedule, you will note that Savage gave scheduled in advance five "Conflict .. Management and Corporate Pain" training courses for the year 1990. (Others were also given, not listed on this initial list.) Our leaders arranged in advance that they would receive one of them. The cost of this must have run into more than $10-$20,000! .

Looking over the names and locations on that schedule page, they vary all over the eastern half of America and Canada. From October 1989 to May 1991, only seven LAB II programs were listed well ahead of time.

(Later in this study we shall learn that still more LAB I and LAB II seminars were also held during that time in Adventist churches on both the East and West Coasts.) LAB II must be extremely expensive, for in it, Savage is teaching others to do as he does. At the end of each course, he certifies the graduates to be able to teach his materials (probably with a franchise fee for each time they do so). Yet, over a span of 20 months, one of those earliest planned LAB II courses, given by the founder and president of LEAD and LAB I and II, was arranged to be given to our own leaders! It would be interesting to attend that meeting and see who will be there. Included will probably be a variety of conference officers from all across America. But, because you have not had LAB I training, you will not be permitted through the door into those meetings. (We will learn later in this study that LAB II instructor training courses have already been given in Adventist churches and conferences prior to May 1991.)

Keep in mind that LAB I and II instruction includes partial training in the techniques of Neuro-Linguistic Training. That is what it says on the advertisement brochures.

Although they are part of the subject content, those receiving LAB I instruction may never recognize they are learning hypnotic techniques. That is because this is level 5.

By now, we are beginning to wonder: If this is Level 5, what is level 4?

To review the five levels once again:

Level 1: Direct communication with evil spirits by certain men and women, who then write down the instruction given them.

Level 2: Spiritualistic sances by those who study these magic books.

Level 3: Classical hypnotism: Direct hypnotic sleep trances.

Level 4: Covert hypnotic activity with overt results: stealthy hypnotic techniques, carried out without the patient realizing he is being hypnotized. .

Level 5: Covert hypnosis, plus a variety of visitation and interview devices.

On Level 5, we find LAB I and II, in which certain Seventh day Adventist church leaders and workers are receiving instruction. Part of that training includes "Neuro Linguistic Programming" (NLP) which is level 4 material. You can know that graduates of LAB II-who by completing that course have become instructors of LAB I,-will now be anxious for advanced courses in NLP. That next course, solidly in Level 4, is Neuro-Linguistic Programming. On Level 4, the teachers dispense with discussions about "caring church" and "listening to pain,"-and go into a deeper study of the hypnotic personality-changing techniques that LAB I and II partially taught them.

Dr. Milton H. Erickson was a careful researcher into advanced techniques of hypnotism. He specialized in the study of that type of hypnosis, which could be used without the client knowing he was being hypnotized. Milton determined that the use of such "covert," as he called them, techniques would result in far more successful patient manipulation and mind-conditioning.

"ERICKSONIAN HYPNOSlS also called 'the new hypnosis,' based on the pioneering work of Dr. Milton H. Erickson. This style of hypnosis, is gentle, open-ended, and indirect. The hypnotic messages and suggestions are offered in a way that evokes powerful unconscious resources, yet is respectful of your individuality. "-Advertisement brochure for "Changeworks Cassettes. "

A number of sales organizations are making money by selling aspects of Erickson's hypnotic methods, known as Ericksonian hypnosis. This includes, among others, (1) Change works Cassettes of California; (2) LEAD Consultant's LAB courses, based in Ohio; and (3) New England Institute for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, In Massachusetts. They are apparently franchised to use Erickson's hypnotic techniques through the Milton Erickson Foundation, based in Arizona, which provides the field with ongoing research update reports and lecture seminars. In fact, there are enough of these Ericksonian promotional sales organizations in the field, that a professional association has even been established. Entitled, The National Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, it helps coordinate inter-organizational activities and communication interchange.

Here is data on some of these Ericksonian programs:

Change works: Changeworks Cassettes does just that: through hypnotic suggestion, it changes a person's thoughts and actions without his realizing what is taking place. It is being used and recommended by some Adventist church workers, especially those who have taken the LAB courses or the higher-level NLP seminars. From ad sheets from Changeworks, here are some quotations. Notice that the objective is to (1) quiet and confuse the mind, (2) then directly hypnotize it, (3) and then tell it what to do:

"Multiple Voices: Each multi-Evocation cassette features at least two voices speaking simultaneously during hypnosis. This is an innovative method which works especially well for rapid, easy trance induction and to help the analytical thinking mind to let go."

"Special Effects: The Tapes use music, advanced psycho-acoustic techniques, and state-of-the-art special effects to deepen the reality of your hypnotic experience. Some Changeworks cassettes feature 3-dimensional sound-specially processed effects that sound like they are actually happening in your presence. Listeners report that the realistic quality of sound puts them more fully into their hypnotic experience. "Multi-evocation tapes are used by therapists, doctors, hospitals, high schools, businesses, colleges, hypnotists, clients of hypnotists, regular people making changes." "Positive reviews and endorsements from [medical, new age, and hypnotic journals such as] Magical Blend; Medical Self Care; The New Times; Whole Earth Review; Common Boundary; Whole Life Monthly; Yoga Journal; Body, Mind, & Spirit" "Expanded Intuition Training will greatly enhance decision making, finding inner guidance, and improving relationships."-Changeworks Cassettes brochures.

You are reading what NLP can do! THIS is Ericksonian hypnotic technique in action! Here are descriptions of what some of their cassettes will (shudder) do for you. Please keep in mind that the following is essentially the same as the premises, concepts, and objectives of all the other Ericksonian sales firms, including LAB I and II, which our church leaders are being trained into. This is because all these Ericksonian franchise firms are heavily based on the same hypnotic conceptual approaches.

'This cassette teaches you how to first identify and then interpret the language of your intuitions." "This tape helps identify and work with any blocks or resistance you may

have to use your intuition more often." "This tape takes you on an inner journey to library where the sum total knowledge of the universe is stored. On Side B you can ask specific questions and receive answers from the library." "Tape 5 introduces you to your Intuitive Guide, A being of personal significance to you, who will also answer questions. The tape is long, rich and leisurely: it will increase self-esteem, lower stress. and promote a deeper sense of security." "Self-Hypnosis-for Reducing Your Stress: For a relaxing time out! This tape takes you to a magical place." .. A beautiful tape that offers a natural setting where you can experience the depths of confidence within your unconscious mind." Rapid Pain Control: A comfortable drug-free alternative to all types of pain. From chronic pain that drugs can't touch to low level nagging aches. . The tape combines the best of the 'new hypnosis' with 'Multi-Evocation' in a series of musical journeys to 3-D environments. It win bring fast relief to all kinds of pain and also works as an emotional mood elevator. No hypnotic experience necessary." "This tape will help you learn faster and retain more of what you learn." "This tape has 2 purposes: . . Chronic insomnia, as well as the occasional night when you just can't sleep. . . Once you are asleep, the tape will also enrich your dreams. . With this tape, you can not only solve problems, but get insights, resources, and have especially enjoyable dreams. "Creative Inspiration takes you to a secret garden, a refreshing sanctuary from the world where you can contact the essence of creativity. The tone of this tape is quite spiritual. Its focus is on Artistic Creativity, freeing the creative spirit from its source within you. Changeworks brochures.

Imagine an audiocassette that will let you ask it questions,-and then answers will come back from a being" who is your intuitive Guide ! Let me say it again, this is Ericksonian hypnosis, which is the basis of LAB I and II training. This is all part of Neuro-Linguistic Training, plus added exotic music and sound.

"Multi-Evocation" is a trademark word of Changeworks Cassettes.The word, evoke, means to call forth, or bring out." Using multiple speakers and a variety of strange music and tones, Changeworks Cassettes is designed to subtly change you through hypnotic techniques! Ericksonian hypnosis in action.

"The Creativity Unlimited Series uses Ericksonian Hypnosis, Multi-Evocation, and 3-0 Holophonic sound along with sequenced exercises and lectures." -Change works brochure.

"Multi-Evocation cassettes are so effective because 01 new and unique methods of learning. Each tape features: "ERICKSONIAN HYPNOSIS-also called 'the new hypnosis', based on the pioneering work of Dr. Milton H. Erickson. This style of hypnosis, is gentle, open-ended, and indirect. The hypnotic messages and suggestions are offered in a way that evokes powerful unconscious resources, yet is respectful of your individuality.

"MULTIPLE VOICES. .

"METAPHORICAL ENVIRONMENTS..

"SPECIAL EFFECTS- . ." -Brochure for "Changeworks Cassettes."

LAB Courses: We have earthier discussed the LEAD Consultant LAB courses. Here is still more data on the type of courses which LEAD offers, some of which our leaders are taking in Takoma Park, Maryland. The following reprinted information from LEAD Consultants will show that their courses are solidly keyed to Ericksonian hypnosis.

You will only see the full implications of what LEAD teaches when, later in this study, we examine part of a book that LEAD highly recommends to LAB II students.

Here is what you will learn by taking one of the LEAD courses:

"Know much more about how other people learn, store, access, and use their human experiences by just observing their behavior. . Know the effect your presence and conversation is having on others by learning to read the non-verbal feedback they are constantly sending. "-LEAD brochure. '

This is the kind of things our leaders are delving into. For one "introductory workshop" on "level 1," LEAD teaches its students the following:

"Principles of Neuro-Linguistics: understanding the research, rationale, history and state-of-the-art of the (NLP) field.

"Rapport skills: body mirroring, voice and tonal matching, postural, gestural and facial positions and other useful techniques to develop and keep rapport, including pacing and leading.

"Sensory acuity: learning to notice and monitor the external beamers' accompanying another person's changing internal experiences.

"Representational systems: the way in which people internally represent the experiences of their lives. Also, the student learns to translate experiences expressed through one modality to another to greatly increase understanding and rapport..

"Predictaes: identifying and matching the most used sensory-based process words for purposes of insuring rapport and understanding.

"Meta model: learning the language patterns upon which Neuro-Linguistics is based, enabling you to detect and challenge the generalizations, distortions and deletions which so often lead to miscommunication, assisting you to transform low quality verbal 'maps' into high quality descriptions.

"Behavioral flexibility: creating and maintaining flexible personal approaches to problems and challenges in order to more systematically and consistently produce additional choices and options.

"Anchoring: establishing triggers for responses (pairing one thing with another) to increase one's choices for positive experiences and stronger resources.

"Accessing cues: noticing how people represent, experience, and access information they have learned, and systematically using these accessing cues to bridge to better communication."-LEAD brochure.

Advanced training from LEAD includes the following learnings:

"Hemispheric lateralization: . . Outcomes: . . Utilization: . . Calibration: enhancing 'people-reading' skills. . Fast phobia cure: . . Reframing: choosing the most beneficial perception of experiences from among the many possible interpretations, and reframing problematic behaviors and responses. . This (reframing) makes possible separation of a person from behavior, thus validating the person while choosing new approaches to their problem behaviors:'-LEAD brochure.

"Satir categories: learning to recognize another type of language pattern. . Metaphors: using language in multilevel fashion to maximally produce desired outcomes. . Incongruence: . . Identifying and changing 'calibrated loops' that lock in un-useful behavior. Polarities: . . Hypnosis: studying therapeutic language patterns in the Ericksonian mode, known as the Milton-Model, or the inverse of the Meta-Model. Self-hypnosis: learning to use personal trance for growth,learning, creativity, problem resolution and healing."-LEAD brochure.

COMPANION TRACT

It has seemed best to place the Spirit of Prophecy quotations referring to this topic in a separate tract which is being released simultaneousty with this set. Entitled, The Dangers of Hypnotism [RS-9], it is a powerful compilation. In it, we are told that these various types of mind-control are bewitching, terrible, and we should have nothing to do with them. The Dangers of Hypnotism [RS-9] is a single sheet tract that should be shared widely with our people-before hypnotism comes to their local church, and when it does.

As you might guess, the term "meta" appears to be a code word for reaching, what the NLP practitioners call, the "unconscious." Sigmund Freud would have labeled it the "subconscious." As we continue, you will note that those dealing with NLP are far more concerned with reaching and affecting the meta-mind, than the reasoning, judging mind. And they explain why: it provides them with something of a sneak attack on the brain, enabling changed beliefs, motives, standards, likes, and dislikes to be more easily instilled in the mind.

"Sub-modality distinctions: learning to determine the various chunked-down elements in representation experience. Key Criteria: discerning a person's internal set of criteria by which that person makes key judgments, decisions and choices. Interventions: based on sub-modality distinctions to bring about more helpful, healthy adaptations. Interventions include working with a person's core beliefs. . Language: directing your language to have maximum effect and impact upon the person or situation at hand in terms of altering sub-modalities usefully. Strategies: eliciting, marking and working with the sequences of activities in a person's representational systems that have become functional units of behavior."-LEAD brochure.

"Sub-modalities" and "intervention" are two other frequently-found words in the NLP vocabulary. The first means the "unconscious;" the second means to reach down into the unconscious and make changes in it, thus changing both the feelings, objectives, and conclusions of both the unconscious and conscious mind.

Please do not think that the persons taking these training courses only listen to lectures and ask questions! They also practice on each other. Such courses produce seasoned hypnotists. This is the objective of NLP instruction.

New England Institute for Neuro-Linguistic Programming: We have noted that LEAD Consultants base their methods on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), as initially developed by Milton Erickson. We have found that brochures for their courses contain essential Ericksonian elements. In the materials by LEAD Consultants and Changeworks, we have already overviewed some of the NLP content. But here is more information on Ericksonian hypnosis, franchised to various practitioner firms under this name, Neuro- Linguistic Programming. We will provide you with this data in connection with materials distributed by The New England Institute for Neuro- Linguistic Programming. The basic raw material for NLP was extracted from research into deep hypnosis by Dr. Milton Erickson. Because many people are afraid of sleep-like hypnotic trances, Erickson had as his objective the placing of people in a non-sleep hypnotic trance, so that the very same objectives could be accomplished as in deep hypnosis.

"The person most responsible for advancing the field of hypnosis was Dr. Milton Erickson. This extraordinary person showed us how to use hypnosis to meet therapeutic goals more effectively. He taught us that we can communicate with the whole person by reaching both the conscious and unconscious levels. Erickson also taught us how to utilize and bypass client 'resistance' by embedding therapeutic interventions in seemingly casual conversation." -NEINLP brochure.

Someone will ask, "What can be wrong with LAB I and LAB II training, when all they do is teach you how to visit homes and get people to come back to church?" In reply we say, read again the above quotation. We will repeat it for you:

"This extraordinary person showed us how to use hypnosis to meet therapeutic GOALS more effectively. He taught us that we can communicate with the whole person by reaching BOTH the conscious and unconscious levels. Erickson also taught us how to utilize and BYPASS client 'resistance' by EMBEDDING therapeutic interventions in SEEMINGLY CASUAL conversation." -NEINLP brochure.

(By "therapeutic, " is meant getting people to do what you want them to do, either in attitude, belief, action, or physical changes. (We will learn later that Ericksonian hypnosis is also used for sudden healings.) Interestingly enough, Although Erickson, himself, is a reputed master at "therapeutic" hypnosis, yet the book we will later consider, mentions in passing that he is now confined to a wheelchair. He is now practicing hypnosis on those who come to him for helpsimply by telling them stories! More on this later.)

Are you now beginning to grasp the significance of NLP? Ericksonian hypnosis is carried on through casual conversation, not regular hypnotic sessions (in the trade known as "classical hypnosis"). People are hypnotized into doing things they might not otherwise do during the course of a casual conversation.

Later in this study we will discover, in a book recommended by LEAD (producers of the LAB courses), that more-than-human power and ability is apparent in the methods and results of Ericksonian hypnosis. When we earlier considered Changeworks Cassettes (which is the application of NLP to audiocassettes), we found that a "being" or "Guide" was present, and would answer specific questions. Do not underrate Ericksonian hypnosis! LAB I, LAB II training, and the other NLP coursework is not something to toy with, and it is not something our people should be involved with.

The research by Milton Erickson was later expanded by Richard Sandler and John Grinder. They took his findings, and combined them with discoveries made by other "masters," (That is another code word.) Hypnotism involves communicating what you want another to do, and getting him to do it. Well, do we not try to do that all the time? Yes, but hypnotism is getting him to do what you want, whether or not he had intended to do it; whether or not he knew why. Instead of force or coercion, hypnotic mind control is used to change actions and beliefs. "How do people who are masters in communicating and effecting changes in others achieve their excellence? It was in pursuit of the answers to this question that NLP began . .

"In the early 1970s, Dr. Richard Bandler and R. John Grinder through careful study of acknowledged masters of communication and change such as Drs. Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir, Gregory Bateson, and Fritz Perts, discovered what made these individuals so effective, and in the process developed the field of Neuro-LInguistic Programing . .

"There is a growing body of patterns for accomplishing specific desired changes in emotions, beliefs, thinking strategies, and behavior. In accomplishing all of this, NLP fosters an attitude of respectful fascination for the unique way in which each person creates his or her own experience."-New England Institute of NLP, brochure. The second paragraph, above, was very important. It is clear that the Ericksonian passive-type hypnotism is actually far worse than classical hypnosis, which puts people into a trance. Its intensity is due to the fact that it operates more subtly, and can be repeated over a period of time. The reason it can be so easily repeated is that people do not realize they are being hypnotically worked on. The result can be devastating. Why? Because, according to the above statement, it can change your beliefs, your behavior, the way you feel about things, and the way you think! What else is left? What is the difference between a historic Adventist and a hardened criminal? The difference is your beliefs, your behavior, the way you feel about things, and the way you think! All your life experience is summarized in those factors. They represent your distinct personality. Those are the factors, which will determine your future destiny; whether or not you will be saved.

Although Richard Bandler and John Grinder somewhat modified and made Ericksonian hypnosis less obtrusive and therefore more effective, yet it was Milton Erickson which laid the foundation for this modern hypnotism which has become a hot franchise and sales item.

"The person most responsible for advancing the field of hypnosis was Dr. Milton H. Erickson. This extraordinary person showed us how to. . utilize and bypass client resistance by embedding therapeutic interventions in seemingly casual conversation.

"Perhaps most importantly he taught us that each person is an individual and psychotherapy should be more compatible with the way each person structures his or her own experience."-Same brochure.

The sentence in each of the above two quotations is significant. Ericksonian hypnosis works so effectively by starting with your present likes, dislikes, belief system, and feelings,hooking you emotionally through them, and then turning you toward whatever new direction the hypnotic manipulator wishes to take you,

Is all this moral? No, it is outside the realm of morality and has nothing to do with it. Why can I say that? First- because when a hypnotist-any hypnotist-takes you from one emotion/logic system to another, he did it apart from moral considerations. He did it simply because that is what he wanted to do. Second, because, nowhere in the hypnotic change-over did he ever concern himself with convincing you of a new belief pattern. He just gave it to you, outside of and away from your conscientious judgment. Think about that awhile. Hypnotism, whatever form it may take, always dangerous..

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