Hypnotized? Not me.
Have you ever been hypnotized? That might sound like a silly question. And if you’d asked me that a few years ago, my answer would have been, “Of course not.” But hypnotism is actually a lot more common, and appears in more ways, than you might think.
Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, thought this was such an important topic that she included it in one of the 26 weekly Christian Science Bible Lessons published in the Christian Science Quarterly—specifically the one titled “Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced.” Those aren’t words that we use a lot in normal conversation, so a couple of years ago, when the topic came around (as it does twice a year), my Sunday School teacher gave every student in class a dictionary and asked us to look up mesmerism, hypnotism, and necromancy. It turns out that hypnotism occurs when false concepts have been introduced into thought and accepted as reality.
Hypnotism occurs when false concepts have been introduced into thought and accepted as reality.
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