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HOW TO HYPNOTIZE. IT SEEMS THAT IN ANCIENT EGYPT TOO, HYPNOSIS WAS PRACTICED. IT HAS EVEN BEEN SUGGESTED THAT JESUS WAS A SKILLED HYPNOTIST.
WAS HYPNOSIS ONCE A RESPECTED FORM OF HEALING? HOW DID IT EVOLVE, AND HOW DID IT FALL INTO DISREPUTE?
The science of hypnosis -- and remember, I am calling it science of hypnosis, not art of hypnosis -- is one of the most ancient sciences.
It was practiced in the lost continent of Atlantis. Its literature was saved in Alexandria in Egypt.
Pythagoras, a great seeker and searcher from Greece, visited the library in Alexandria and he refers to great literature on the science of hypnosis that has come from the lost continent of Atlantis, which sank into the Atlantic ocean in some natural calamity.
The name `Atlantic' comes from `Atlantis'.
Perhaps Atlantis had the greatest and the most ancient civilization. And Egypt tried to learn as much from the teachers and the universities of Atlantis as was possible, because the pharoahs -- the kings of Egypt -- were tremendously interested in collecting all possible sources of knowledge.
The library of Alexandria was perhaps the greatest library that has ever existed. Even the library of the British Museum is just a small library in comparison to the library of Alexandria.
The library of the British Museum is a big library. If we put books on the ground just as we put them on the shelf, they would make three rounds of the earth -- that many books are in the British Museum library. But the library of Alexandria was many many times bigger than the British Museum library.
It was burned by Mohammedans, by Khalif Omar. It took six months to put the fire out. That can give you an idea of the bigness and the vastness of the collection.
And why did the Mohammedans burn it?
I am mentioning it knowingly because it refers to your question.
The library contained many things side by side with the science of hypnosis. If they had remained, Mohammedanism would not have survived.
Christianity burned living women in thousands, calling them witches.
The word `witch' is not a bad word; it simply means a wise woman.
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