Dear Matt
interesting issue - not sure about the academic side of that - or indeed
what you mean by 'primitive ritual' but there is some overt use of hypnotic
techniques - mainly self-hypnosis - in modern magick - especially in chaos
magick and 'freeform shamanism' -
a big influence would be the whole NLP thing -
for a practitioner perspective i have to recommend works by jan fries -
especially 'visual magick' and 'seidways' - as a starting point.
In the past there is also some discussion as to whether
there is any common ground between
meditation (raja yoga) and hypnotism -
i suppose another area might be to look at
use of 'hypnotics' in magick - ie ancient use of psychoactives etc -
ie mandrake etc.,
bb/93
mogg
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Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] hypnosis and ritual
Hello!
Has anyone ever come across any literature examining "primitive" ritual
by comparing it with hypnotic techniques? I recently had the idea that
this might be a fruitful study, and this is the obvious place to ask if
anything of this sort has been done before. Of course, I'll continue my
database searches, but any insight would be much appreciated.
All the best,
Matt Habermehl
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