New Age Health Care - Way of Life Literature

Further, it must be understood that hypnotic healing often
results in “symptom substitution,” whereby victory in
one area results in defeat in another. One woman who
lost her fear of spiders developed a strong addiction to
alcohol. Another who found relief from the pain of gallstones
began to suffer from terrible outbursts of rage. Dr.
Kurt Koch, a Christian expert in occultic phenomena,
warned: “I could quote many examples like this
involving so-called harmless hypnotists. ... The
unfortunate thing is that occult hypnosis is often used as
a means of obtaining healing. The apparent success of the
hypnosis, however, is accompanied without fail with all
sorts of mental and emotional
disturbances” (Demonology Past and Present, 1973, p.
128).
This is a very loud warning to those who have ears to
hear.
Even though hypnotism has been “secularized” and
brought into the fields of health care and education, it is
still intimately associated with the occult.
It is one of the most prominent techniques in the New
Ager’s toolbox. It is used as the door to astral planes, as
the key to uncovering UFO abductions, and as a wonder
tool to help people develop psychic powers. Simeon
Edmunds, author of The Book of Hypnosis, says the first
step to the development of psychic power is to enter the
deepest possible level of hypnosis. In Hypnotism and the
Supernormal, Edmunds says that “many of the most
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