06-04-2013, 04:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-04-2013, 05:07 PM by David Guyatt.)
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Jolly West observes that:
"In fact, hypnosis may be considered a pure-culture, laboratory controlled dissociative reaction. Of the entire phenomenology of the various states described above, there is not one single manifestation which cannot be produced experimentally in the hypnotic subject. Thus, through the use of hypnosis as a laboratory device, the dissociative mechanisms can be studied with a high degree of objectivity."
This is incredibly revealing.
David is correct that West did not know what he was dealing with.
However, West's claim that he could reproduce all these types of dissociative states in the MK-ULTRA laboratory, and that hypnosis is a "pure-culture, laboratory controlled dissociative reaction" is truly sinister.
Exhibit 1: Luis Angel Castillo
Exhibit 2: Sirhan Sirhan
I agree Jan, it is truly sinister. Horrifying, in fact. I'm now off to post something about "Active Imagination" in the alchemy folder and will link it back here.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14