From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



The elementary groups of the latter are intact and long 

 remain so ; but if the superior control is not re-established 

 the prolonged disorganisation reacts on cerebral function 

 and ends in the brain lesions of degeneracy. 



7. HYPNOTISM 



Hypnotism and its modalities are capable of very 

 simple explanation. Its manifestations are analogous 

 to those of hysteria, with this difference that they are 

 artificial and generally wider in scope. Hypnosis demands 

 a certain predisposition to decentralisation, such as the 

 mediumistic temperament. It comes about by a factitious 

 rupture in the equilibrium of the individual grouping. 



The real and true cause and primary condition is the 

 decentralisation of the individual grouping. 



All the usual phenomena are then easily understood 

 automatism, suggestibility, modifications of person- 

 ality, the substitution of an inner or outer direction for 

 the central control, mono-ideaism, etc, etc. 



The isolated cerebral psychism is remarkably sug- 

 gestible and automatic. Its manifestations appear as 

 % kind of inferior subconsciousness, very passive, and 

 unable to go beyond its acquisitions and habits. 



The extra-cerebral psychism shows itself in cryptom- 

 nesia and cryptopsychism, and its grouping into very 

 diverse personalities. Sometimes it will reveal higher 

 powers and supernormal flashes due to decentralisation, 

 and therefore to the momentary and relative release from 

 organic limitations. Hypnotism resembles a half-opened 

 door on the cryptoid portion of the Self. 



What part is to be referred to suggestion in the 

 genesis of hypnosis ? Simply that it is a frequent and 

 useful, but by no means an indispensable factor. Sugges- 

 tion, by itself, explains nothing; it is a secondary reaction 

 resulting from lessened or suppressed control by the 



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