i've read a lot of Dave Hunt's books, and i believe that there's a lot of Occult (dabbling in the evil spirit-world) within our people, culture, Scientists, Psychologists, schools, magazines, Oprah, and (even!) our churches.

so, i read today.....about Hypnosis at WIKIpedia

the following is copied from their article:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis

Possible Dangers of Hypnosis

[edit] Abreaction

Some psychologists and other mental health professionals are concerned that practitioners of hypnosis who are unlicensed health professionals might evoke intense emotions in their clients that they are untrained to handle. These abreactions might occur when spontaneously or purposefully recalling traumatic events or, some believe, spontaneous mental breakdowns.

[edit] False Memory

False memory obtained via hypnosis has figured prominently in many investigations and court cases, including cases of alleged sexual abuse. There is no scientific way to prove that any of these recollections are completely accurate.

Many individuals can and have been led by an errant hypnotist to believe in things that they later were able to show did not happen have retracted allegations of such abuse (for instance, [4]).

The American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association have both cautioned against the use of repressed memory therapy in dealing with cases of alleged childhood trauma, stating that "it is impossible, without other corroborative evidence, to distinguish a true memory from a false one",[32] and so the procedure is "fraught with problems of potential misapplication".[33] (See also false memory).

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notice that , in Hypnosis, false memories are placed within a person's mind, and they are placed there by a demon!

yet, most people deny that Hypnosis (or anything else) is super-natural,.......because , if the super-natural exists,.......then, that might indicate that the Bible might be True! and the un-believers will tell any lies to dis-credit the truth of the Bible.

A lot of people who are facing many troubles believe there is something wrong with them caused by something which was done to them in their childhood or past life, which the brain has blocked out from remembering because of emotional trauma.

They then undergo regressive hypnosis where demons lie to them directly in their brains accusing relatives and friends of doing all sorts of sordid things to them.
Also many such people, especially those who have been dabbling in occult also are told during regressive hypnosis that they have been abducted by aliens. This is a common theme in alien abduction accounts. Virtually all of them are only remembered through regressive hypnosis.

So I would very much urge Christians NOT to get involved in hypnosis. Even for fun and laughter. Hypnotism is nothing more than a trance. Pagans since the beginning of days have used pounding drums and wild dancing and drugs to enter into trances and make contact with spirits. This practice is condemned in the scripture. Putting a white coat on the witch doctor and giving him a clipboard does not legitimise what is a completely pagan practice.

Amen!

exactly what Dave Hunt has written about

When you were young, possibly still in the mother's womb, you heard the still small voice, 'Are ya ready for some football?' if she watched TV on Monday nights on CBS and maybe one Monday night while she was watching the game, her husband got drunk and mean and beat his wife until she was unconscious.

Now the child is born and grows and on Monday nights he likes to watch TV. He is scanning the dial and comes across, 'Are ya ready for some football?'

Ohhh, his head starts throbbing! His wife gets concerned and says, 'Are ya alright, honey?'

He says, 'YES I'M ALRIGHT!' (smack, smack, pow)

The police report stated an overwrought husband with much concern adapts a hostile attitude toward the spouse. However, the papers the next day stated, 'The demons of the past erupt as husband overcomes wife.' Somewhere in the annals of history the truth will be written.

When you fall under hypnosis, you fall into the past. Whichever past you have, you will be there. An experienced hypnotist stumbles across the right words or makes a certain combination of words or some type of hand giration to call up in your memory a past event or sound or word and then you are under the spel of the hypnotist.

You want to quit smoking and you go to a hypnotist. There is really only so many ways that somebody starts smoking and that is usually because of somebody else introducing that. Run over the situation in the brain and take the charge out of the desire to smoke; that's an easy one.

A little harder one would be the impulse to drink. Or the impulse to take drugs when you get sick, or the absolute need to give your children many gifts, or the desire to live in cities.

But, how do you get hypnotized? Is it by constant repitition of one idea into the psyche so that being part of the mind it becomes a reality?

What would happen if all TV commercials would put at the end of EVERY commercial, 'Love your neighbor, do kindness to those who persecute you.'

If that happened in the US, it probably would not take any more than a week or two and in some factory somewhere a worker will become disgruntled because he was fired and go to his workplace driving a tank and armed with a machine gun and just become all combobulated . . .

We have all become hypnotized. We are all guilty. We hear the messages day after day and the people get tired of the same 'ol routines and they want to break out and fly!

Then all the beaches get crowded and every body starts partying and acting stupid and somebody drowns or gets shot or whatever and it all gets stopped by . . .

'Gotta get up Monday morning and be at work at 8:00, go get my car fixed, go to the grocery store and get some food; what was that commercial I saw? What sounds good for dinner tonight? Oh yeah, McDonalds or Burger King. Yeah, hmmm let's see . . . what movie do I want to watch in my new DVD Player that I bought on special at Wal-Mart? . . . '