Page 741 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

After being hypnotized, this person
imagines herself to be rapidly
climbing 10 flights of stairs. At that
point she loses her breath and be-
comes tired. The hypnotized per-
son lives in the environment
produced by the hypnotic induc-
tion, and accepts that it is real, de-
spite the fact that the location,
people and incidents that she has
been told about do not exist.

One of the most striking exam-
ples seen in hypnotic applications is that
even a wound can appear on the skin of the

hypnotized person through inculcation. For
example, Paul Thorsen, a researcher, touches
the arm of the person under hypnosis with a

tip of a pen and tells him that it's a hot
skewer. Soon, a blister (as would have been
produced by a second degree burn) formed
in the region where the tip of the pen
touched. Thorsen also hypnotized a person

called Anne O. into believing that the letter A
was being drawn onto her arm by pressing
hard. Although nothing else was done, red-

ness emerged in the shape of an "A" in that area. 21 Researchers H. Bourru and P. Burot, persuading a hyp-
notized person that his arm was being cut, saw that the arm was bleeding after being slightly drawn on
by a pencil. 22
J.A. Hadfield told a sailor in hypnosis that he was going to press a hot iron bar on the sailor's arm and
that the arm would burn. However, he merely touched it gently with his fingertip, after which he cov-

ered it. Six hours later when the cover was removed, there was a slight redness and puffiness in that area.
Hadfield states that "the following day the puffiness became larger and swelled like a burn." 23
These changes that occurred to the human body during hypnosis show that we do not need the out-

side world to produce sensations of sight, sound, touch, feeling, pain or ache. For example, although
there is no hot iron bar in the outside world, if the person is persuaded, there can be a burn mark on his
arm.
These examples show that when we examine how an image occurs, and follow technological devel-
opments, and also when we add consciousness-altering methods such as hypnosis to this knowledge, a

certain truth becomes clear. Throughout his life, a human being assumes that he is living in a world
which is external to his body. However, everything referred to as the world is only our brain's interpreta-
tion of the signals which reach the sense centers. In other words, we can never deal with any world other

than the one that occurs in our mind. We can never know what happens or exists outside us. We cannot
claim that the sources of signals reaching the brain are material existences that exist outside. This reality
has begun to take its place in science books and is taught to people since high school age. The problem is
that people do not consider the full significance of this fact.

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