Frequently a subject
who in auditing hypnosis has experienced
hallucinations concerning murder, rape, and other
criminal and disgraceful behaviour comes to believe
that such behaviour actually occurred during his
present lifetime. This results in feelings of
anxiety, guilt and self-loathing and a desire for
confession and self-abasement, all of which increase
dependency on and domination of the
hypnotist/auditor. Unlike traditional
hypnotherapy,
which helps the subject realize the unreal nature of
hypnotic experiences and deal with halucinations
realisticly and quickly, scientology sessions are
designed to focus on hallucinations as reality and
bring to light fresh ones.
One
characteristic feature of hypnosis is the increased
suggestibility of the subject, which the hypnotist
can take advantage of. In the state of regression
found in hypnosis, fantasies may be experienced
which may be spontaneous or the result of
suggestion. To the subject, these fantasies are
apparently real and true experiences, and if
authoritative hypnosis is used, these fantasies
persist as reality.
Scientology hypnosis subjects are highly suggestible
and readily conjure up past life experiences of a
kind and along lines suggested by the auditor and by
what Hubbard has written. Hubbard finds much of the
material for his "research" in these hallucinations
which are quite fanciful and often contain details
of "past lives".
In
hypnosis, it is not uncommon for the subject to
experience disturbing hallucinations that relate to
repressed things in his mind, such as hallucinatory
homosexual experiences which a subject in his normal
existence may never have experienced or entertained.
Because of loss of repression, these thoughts become
known to him in a hallucinatory form, and the
subject is likely to experience extremely severe
anxiety even to the extent of panic and
self-loathing. A subject who, in passive hypnosis,
has experienced these or similar thoughts and may
have had feelings of revulsion while under hypnosis,
may safely be brought out of hypnosis and no ill
effects will follow; on the contrary, benefit may
result and feelings of shame will not persist.
However, if similar hallucinatory and shameful
thoughts are conjured up in authoritative hypnosis
there may be dangerous consequences. In scientology,
subjects have frequently complained of morbid
feelings of guilt and depression persisting after
auditing/hypnosis.
