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The modern intellectual of today may or may not believe but on the basis of this principle these people have completely remedied the mental agonies ot many a man.
In the above book, Alexander Cannon has stated several experiments of hypnotism. We shall here examine only two of them.
There was a man who never got down by a lift because the fear always obsessed him that the lift might fall. Once he went to a hypnotist and disclosed to him all his fears. The hypnotist made many enquiries but he cauld not trace any cause of fear from his personal life. He was then made to sleep and subjected to deep hypnotism. The memories of past lives revived and in his talks of these lives, he talked of his life as a Chinese General. He said, "Once I accidentally fell down from a very high building and my skull was split and I instantaneously died".
After hearing this much talk, the said man was made to get up and was told, " In your life of a Chinese General the episode that has happened in your life of a fall has impressed strong samskars of the fear of fall and these samskars revive in you the fear of fall with the lift".
Let us observe another case about a woman. This woman was highly afraid of water and would not go near a river, ocean, tank or well. She once visited a hypnotist. He made her sleep and tried to revive in her memories of past lives. In one of these lives she lived as a man and passed the life of a slave in the city of Rome. In that life, for some guilt he was made to descend in deep waters with his feet tied with fetters, He died of strangulation in water. From this he deduced that the present samskars of fear in approaching waters was rooted in the samskars of fear mpressed in the above past life by the above kind of doom she met. As otherwise, there was no cause for any fear.
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