Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE,
mind and, through it, on the physical matter of the body. The phenomena of post-hypnotic suggestion furnish the strongest basis for this belief. The most extraordinary feature of this kind of thought-influence is that, even after complete 'waking up,' the subject carries out all orders given him in the hypnotic state, at the appointed time and place, although he remembers nothing about them and has no idea of the action he is about to perform, in obedience to the order of the operator. The question is, by what power and in what manner is the obedience of the subject secured by the operator’s will ?
Now, there are two salient features which distinguish the hypnotic state from the normal condition. In the first place, there is no deliberation, i.e., freedom of choice, in the state of hypnotic trance, and, in the second, there is the functioning of the higher faculties of the soul, that is to say, of the subjective mind following on the abdication or un-seating of reason. Hence, whatever be the true explanation of hypnotic influence--whether it be due to suggestion pure and simple or to the agency of a magnetic fluid--it is certain that the suspension of the function of deliberative faculty has to be effected, before proper hypnotic condition can be induced in the subject. Thus, the whole problem resolves itself into the simple question, how is the dethronement of the faculty of discrimination brought about ?
Further analysis reveals the fact that it is the excitation of will itself which suspends the function of deliberation, for, when it is carried away by an idea, it often leads the individual to perform acts which he deeply