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The Magnetic Gaze PDF
The Magnetic Gaze PDF
Marco Paret
The Magnetic
Gaze
What is and how to acquire it
Applications of Fascination to Hypnotic Practice
Self Fascination and other techniques
ISBN13 978-0-935410-65-5
© 2011 – International Academic Productions
Preface
Can we not see that a stronger force is exercised by the
human eyes which, through a mere look, almost bring about
life or death, cause blood to flow away and come back, wrest
away strength and restitute it, and, even more remarkably,
corrupt the judgment of human minds”
(Sonnet by Lorenzo de’ Medici, known as “Il Magnifico” 1)
Volume 4, at p. 109.
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Attractive charm, according to the ancient way of looking at
things, is in fact “a far-reaching power that is exercised by a
look over another look, one charged with such a force that
whoever was subjected to it was unable to extricate his self
from it, and was accordingly compelled to be fascinated by it”.
We are able, in this context, to record an age-long
uninterrupted sequence, running across centuries, of
witnesses’ first-hand descriptions of how such force would
materialize. This ongoing chain of consistent records spans the
medieval, Roman and pre-Roman ages without exception.
The most recondite aspects of such tradition appear to have
been incessantly transmitted in Italy more than in any other
part of the world, though such transmission took place within
the most exclusive elites of special affiliates.
This ancient mode of looking at things has in fact always
been practiced on the basis of a direct transmission from
master to disciple, without resorting to written texts, other
than, at the most, some allusive documents carrying meanings
which were concealed from non-adepts, and odd systems of
arcane symbols.
In order to lend efficacy to this force, it is essential for us to
develop awareness of the strength inherent in our look, as well
as to develop a different vision. Though this is a practically
orientated tradition, in order to understand and, even more, to
put this art into practice, what is indeed required is an
approach to reality which opens up to different and all-
encompassing dimensions. They have to differ, in other words,
from the linear and limited dimension of modern man. For
modern man, the eye is a mere passive organ. If we, however,
desire to appropriate the power inherent in the eye, we have to
actively employ it and draw close to quantistic physics, which
teaches us precisely that “the observer influences the
observed”.
In fascination we detect transformation, both the
transformation of the one who actively inspires it and the one
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When it came to the second customer, he did not even utter
a single word to him. He fixed him closely, and this other
customer’s look turned pallid and diaphanous as if it was made
of wax. At that point, Virgilio carried out a facetious probative
exercise: Faced with the question on what his name was, such
customer answered by mentioning a woman’s name which had
not even been verbally suggested (to him by Virgilio), only
through the power of thought.
Virgilio thereupon woke him up.
Moved by his curiosity, Max took to Virgilio a number of his
friends, and witnessed similar events on several other
occasions.
Even I succeeded in experiencing on my own skin the power
of this seemingly quiet person who, besides the ability I have
just described, had also developed a special sensitivity to
energies, to such an extent that he was a capable medical
diviner equipped with the talent to retrieve an object concealed
inside a room.
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so that he could be simultaneously perceived in two different
places.
That is how we have made our acquaintance with this
technique, which is as ancient as it is beneficial.
These keys had remained hidden up to now. Indeed,
although, since the days of the most remote past, testimonies
had been adduced of people who were able to exercise a
powerful influence with the look, the true method of bringing
that about had in fact always been kept secret, or at least
transmitted only on condition of maintaining a high degree of
confidentiality.
Even a very committed devotee of this type of subjects such
as William Atkinson, who is one of the few people to have
consecrated an entire book to the subject, one that bears the
title of “Mental Fascination” 4, deals with it from the outside,
in the process mentioning that he had interviewed some
people, while clarifying the fact that had not been personally
initiated to the technique.
Likewise, Seligmann, a German ophthalmologist who
authoured in this regard a monumental work comprising more
than 2500 literary sources he had quoted therein, had never
been let in the art from inside. Accordingly, as with many
authors in the field, he offers us a puzzle without however
being able to provide us with a true solution to it.
It does not end here, however. Though we have been
introduced to the technique, we can personally attest to the
fact that there are still many obscure points in need of
clarification, as regards the degree of potency of this hidden
and extraordinary power.
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equivalent of the action we were able to notice in Virgilio T., as
he literally “turned” his subjects “into statues”.
Though it might be deemed strange that merely through the
use of the sight it is possible to freeze a person by placing him
in a state of “incantation”, the action exercised by this on the
brain is given greater intelligibility if we were simply to pay
notice to what happens after all to simple animals when they
are dazzled by light. They stop dead in their tracks, as if
immobilized in a state of astonishment, no longer able to
decipher the situation they find themselves in. Mosquitoes go
as far as incinerating themselves, a typical feature which is
exploited by people in order to spend their summer without
suffering too many bites.
A possible way of explaining the phenomenon is that a
direct look produces a restriction of the attention field in
respect of the recipient of it, whence the gamut of different
uses of the technique as applied in daily actions of persuasion.
So long as, therefore, you keep some person under the grip
of your look, you will learn that he will gain a greater capacity
to perceive emotions and feelings. You will, at the same time,
increasingly reduce the force of his subjective judgment and
will 7.
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abandoned to dependence on mere instinctiveness. The ability
to enchant, indeed, is not only human, yet only man is capable
of steering it toward positive and delopment-bound purposes.
Animals capture prey through the look as well, but only in an
unconscious manner. There have always been tales of snakes
gifted with special faculties to cast their charm upon their
victim and thereby disable it from shunning its spires; their
power reaches such an extreme degree that they cause birds to
step down, draw closer, and let themselves be grabbed without
being able to offer any resistance in an attempt at self-
protection. A similar narration had also been reported to us by
our master. The protagonists of that story consisted in a fox
and some hens 8. A friend of his owned a hen house, and was
astounded by the fact that some of the hens would go missing.
Imagine how much did his astonishment escalate when he
realized that such hens used to climb over a branch, while
underneath, on the ground, a fox used to look at them and
wave its head in the process. It appears as if, on their own
initiative, the hens would then throw themselves underneath,
where they would be devoured by the fox.
Fascination is also the historical basis of the classical “give
me your eyes, please” of the hypnotizers of yesteryear. Though
such a personage is still alive in popular perceptions, he has
effectively become extinct by now, given that the techniques of
hypnosis which are currently utilized on a preponderant basis
are both lengthy and based on the use of words. They mostly
derive from a practice strand of American origin which is
disconnected from the ancient tradition 9. No one among
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how, within the space of a few seconds, he was able to remove pains
and a wide array of blocks.
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phantom of old thoughts and go round and round the same set
of concepts. The charming attraction of the look, therefore,
smashes such deeply engrained ideas. It is as if through the
means of fascination, moreover, we succeeded in “entering the
other person”. Every person’s world is fenced off by a limiting
boundary consisting in the narrow space of what his sight
encompasses and reaches up to. Accordingly, by meeting such
person’s look we simultaneously penetrate inside the
interpersonal reality of our interlocutor, and we are then able
to help him “from within”. Even the phase of concentration
and meditation techniques that one passes through with the
aim of strengthening the eye contains within itself a practical
usefulness in the field of personality reinforcement.
3. Within the arena of personal growth: We must possess
awareness of the look. The exercises that are utilized for the
sake of fascination might additionally prove to be of great avail
if one seeks to acquire a clearer, neater and more magnetic
personality, as well as to attain greater "Presence".
4. To induce a «hypnotic trance» in a natural way.
Fascination might represent the key to develop a specific form
of instant hypnosis. Besides, all hypnotic techniques are
speeded up by prior recourse to the use of fascination.
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has made his restless, which has unleashed into his soul a
storm that is unable to subside unless he can again look out
from the thresholds of this divine enigma. The reverse is
likewise true: Man, with his look, captivates the woman, gazes
at her, and she, in turn, lowers her gaze in order to attract him
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The eye is, moreover, the sensory organ that is most closely
related to light, which is an element that is fundamental to life
15. The eye is an essential organ of man, both as regards his life
15 The sun is also the irradiating eye of heaven, the eye of Jupiter,
were the eyes of a large divinity, Hor-jerti, i.e. “Horus of the two
eyes”. This pair of eyes is similarly linked to two snakes as part of a
tradition reminiscent of the Indian tradition which is part of
kundalini, and in accordance with which ida and pingala are the
names of the two lateral channels around the sushunna. This
tradition about the two lateral parts of the body sill goes on even in
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A link might be established between such phenomenology
and factors which are both physiological and purely connected
to percepton.
A French researcher, Dr. Lefebure 17, used to observe the
fact that this central point of the “third eye” corresponded to a
certain physiological position where the normal three-
dimensional vision was suspended. In theory, we could then
simultaneously discern an object placed on that point from
every side. Dr. Lefebure’s hypothesis was that such a
suspension of the ordinary mode of perception might have a
significant impact on the brain, by steering it “beyond space”.
According to many traditions, such a third eye is also
portrayed as being contained inside a triangle which functions
as a symbol of fire as well. Fire is in fact the element endowed
with the highest level of vibration 18.
This link between the triangle and the eye is similarly
present, in Europe, in both medieval and renaissance
iconography, in terms of which the eye, often inserted within a
triangle, was after all seen as an explicit image of the trinity.
We find a similar symbolism in the East, where Buddha
(often called "the eye of the world") is represented in the form
of a triangle known as Tiratna or threefold gem.
It is important to understand that such an intuitive center
or third eye, though already quite present as perceptive centre
in man, and recognized by for instance the Indians as ajna
chakra, is nevertheless in a state of slumber in most cases.
Being in a stage of embryonic development, it has to be
fashioned through development and opening itself up in
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instances of man’s conduct are recorded in writing, namely,
the ether. In it, all the units of human behaviour are inscribed,
including the look of the eyes, or whatever nice or evil is said”
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Exercise 1
While in front of a mirror, you should fix your gaze on the
third eye without batting your eyelids. You should pursue this
exercise gradually, until you can manage to extend its
duration. Refer in this regard to the instructions applicable to
the next exercise.
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Exercise 2
Take a business card and, at the back thereof, sketch the
contour of a large coin. Thereafter, blacken the whole of the
inside with some China ink leaving a strong mark, save for a
minuscule little circle in the middle you are going to leave it
white. Thereupon, affix the small cardboard piece onto the wall
at your eyes’ level, while you remain seated. You should set
your self at a distance of some half a metre, which will then
need to be increasingly reduced. Focus your look firmly upon
the central white spot for a minute. During this period, no
effort should be spared to avoid lowering the pupils of your
eyes. In the event that you are gripped by an irresistible desire
to lower them, you ought to engage in the opposite muscular
effort, that is, striving to lift the pupils. Once you have
mastered how to effortlessly stare at the disk for half a minute,
you should then gradually extend the session until you can
manage to fix your gaze on the disk for 15 to 20 minutes. It
must be clearly understood that the eyes should not limit
themselves to look at the small white dot, but should actually
see it; throughout such period, your mind must refrain from
wandering absent-mindedly, and must rather concentrate,
with the greatest possible energy, on the thought that you are
carrying out this exercise for the purpose of strengthening your
eyes.
a) After a while, the strain will diminish, and you will feel a
surge of calm and tranquil stillness inside your self;
b) The white dot might disappear, it will turn grey, it will
undergo a change, and it will stretch into the black area;
c) The black space is going to acquire a distinct splendour, and
you might go as far as feeling a kind of fine sand under the
eyelids;
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Exercise 2 – The mirror
Implement now the very same exercise in front of a mirror.
Keep in mind, as you proceed with it, that you should always
retain self-consciousness. 22
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Exercise 4
While you look at the spot which lies between your eyes,
draw closer and more distant as you incessantly look at the
same spot. This exercise develops a person’s magnetic look
even if he is in motion.24
Exercise 5. The oblique luminous ball
It consists in repeating the motion-related exercise in its
different positions, with the sole variation of replacing the
black disk with the shining ball.
Exercise 6 The needle of the watch
Place in front of your self, no more than 40 centimetres
away, your pocket watch, and then begin to fix your look on the
needle that indicates the seconds, following its head as it
rotates clockwise, without your sight letting go of it. By means
of this exercise, you will become capable of maintaining
automatic control over the increasing resistance of your look.
Exercise 7. The wall
Sit comfortably in the middle of a room in such a way that
you are freely capable of observing the four corners of the wall
in front of you. Once that preliminary step has been taken (and
while you unerringly keep your self still), you must then begin
to stare for a minute at the top left corner. You follow that up
by staring at the top right corner, whereafter, once more for
the duration of one minute in each instance, you should fix
your look on the bottom right corner and the bottom left
corner respectively.
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Exercise 8. The rotation of the look
This exercise ought to be carried out in some open space by
the countryside, or else in a place boasting a vast horizon. As
you unflinchingly keep your head motionless, you should then
begin, starting from either a real or an imaginary point in front
of you, to trace with your look a gradually expanding spiral,
until you are eventually able to encompass the largest possible
portion of earth and sky, to your right and to your left, above
and below you.
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intensely fix your gaze on that point for growingly longer time
periods.
Exercise 10. The oblique mirror
Turn your right shoulder in the direction of the mirror and,
as you keep your head straight ahead of you in a motionless
state, you must then attempt, by turning the eyes, to meet your
own look. If you fail to bring that about, turn your head as little
as possible, until you have managed to meet your look. At that
point, you should stare at your eyes intensely for progressively
more extended time spans. Repeat the exercise by your left
side. Lift the mirror or sit in a low position, so that, for you to
meet your own look, you will be required to lift up your eyes as
high as you can.
In front of the mirror, you should analyse the various
possible blends of combinations, in such a way that the pupils
respectively turn to the right top, the right bottom, the left top,
and the left bottom. The exercise is implemented more
comfortably in the event that you have at your disposal a
revolving mirror which turns around a fulcrum, or, better still,
a “psyche” (which consists in the combination of three
different mirrors that cast their reflections from different
angles).
Exercise 11. The exercise of the line
Stare at the corner of a table, and then go through one of its
edges with your look, all the way until you reach the opposite
corner, whereupon you move backward. You then keep
following this process.
The ocular itinerary must be gone through in a gradually
slower manner, «by being careful neither to let your sight halt
at any one specific point nor to jump any one point with your
look». The most thorough consistency is an imperative must.
Repeat then the exercise verticall,y along the seam of a
wardrobe, window, tent and so on.
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Exercise 12. The exercise of the book
Take a book and begin to run through its lines with your
sight, in such a way as to cover every alternate page in an
opposite sense, as was the case with the ancient Greek script.
In other words, once you have run through the first line
normally (from left to right), you should proceed in the
contrary direction with the next line, i.e. from right to left, and
so on and so forth. While doing that, you ought to lower your
look constantly. Repeat this exercise by covering an
increasingly larger number of lines.
N. B. What is of course required is not to understand what
one is reading through.
Exercise 13. The policeman’s look
This exercise, which is the consequential fruit of all the
previous ones, is so called because it tends to bestow on
policemen the special prerogative of watching objects from
right to left, while making as if they are not actually seeing
them.
You must thus walk along the road while you keep your
head down, as if a stiff neck precluded you from turning it in
any direction.
As you keep still in the said fashion, you should strive to see
and recognize the people walking to your right or to your left,
read the posters, count the windows and the trees, etc.
This exercise is of a capital importance, and it should be
adopted as an invariable norm. It is after all the secret of the
mobility and variety of one’s look.
Exercise 14. The farewell look
While on the road, a bus, a train compartment, a railway,
stare at any object that has popped up in front of you (ahead of
you, to your right or to your left), and, while you unceasingly
keep your head motionless, begin to fix it as the vehicle draws
you close to such object. When you are about to move past it,
you should not let go of the object with your sight. Rather, you
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Exercise 15. The restless eyes
As we emulate – we would be tempted to say – a suspicious
individual, you should move your eyes continuously and
restlessly, thrusting your look upwardly, to the right and to the
left, indeed, in every possible direction, and you should do so
as rapidly as you can possibly manage, for a time span of 5 to
10 minutes.
It is however imperative that the look should really settle on
the objects which it turns to for a sufficiently long period to
enable it to recognize them, whereupon you should detach
your look from any such object at once in order to direct it
firmly, in the selfsame manner, on some object situated on the
opposite side.
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But how can self-persuasion be accomplished? The
following exercise will help you.
Exercise 16. Suggestive persuasion
Here is the simplest system to actualize it. Self-persuasion
might take place at any time of the day, but the most
propitious moment is in the evening, as one is lying in bed
prior to catching sleep. We are thus going to start by you
forcing your thought into a state of tranquillity, by making sure
that you forget the events and worries of that particular day.
When you eventually feel you are immersed in a state of
perfect calm, you will have to focus your mind on the thought
that your look becomes exquisite, luminous, glowingly bright,
and that in future other people cannot but concur that what
you are busy thinking in that connection is actually true.
You will have, in other words, to perceive yourself as
already endowed with a particular look, whichever one you
might happen to crave for.
Take care to fall asleep with this thought. In the morning,
when you wake up, you will undoubtedly still recall the self-
persuasion of the previous night. You are encouraged in that
instance to confirm it to your own self, in the invariable sense
we have alluded at, i.e. not merely desiring for yourselves, but
rather believing yourselves to be already factually endowed
with the look you prefer, and thus imagining its manifold
effects, agreeable consequences, etc.
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You ought to simultaneously inject your look with an
intense expression, in so doing striving to be truly permeated
by that feeling which you want your eyes to give expression to.
Exercise 19. With one eye only
Repeat now the immediately preceding exercise, only that
this time you shall carry it out by using one eye only, covering
with your hand, alternatively bandaging, the right eye or the
left one at alternate times.
Exercise 20 – Gather your attention in the middle
Take a makeup mirror, and fix the black spot within the
white circle with such an intensity that it is as if through it you
were looking at the brain. Do that with each eye in turn for
four seconds, whereafter you will stare at the median point
situated between your eyelids.
Exercise 21. The vowel “eee”
This particular exercise lends the sight a magical strength.
It is sufficient if you were to calmly look at yourself in the
mirror and then breathe deeply and slowly, until you
eventually feel calm and harmonious, at which point you
pronounce the vowel "eee"28 so long as there is air in your
lungs. You must feel the sensation that your whole head is
oscillating at once. This exercise massages the nerves of your
eyes and the whole skull in a very powerful manner.29
Exercise 22. The look of the glands
Erase the spot you had previously drawn on the mirror, and
fix the look on your own self, moving ever more closely
forward. In doing so, you should look at yourself by the corners
of your lachrymal glands.
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This is the very same method in terms of which you are later
going to look at people you deal with.
Looking at the pupils, as every one is aware, will tire you
very quickly. By contrast, looking at the point we have
demarcated can be prolonged indefinitely (the more so if one
keeps on shifting the look from one gland to the other), and
that has the effect of compelling your interlocutor to
unfailingly lower his own eyes and feel perturbed by yours,
without being able to understand why that is so.
Exercise 23. Exercises combining rapidity with
massage
An alternative practice is to shut your eyes as firmly as you
can, in order for you to open them widely to the maximum
possible extent while you squeeze your temples with the palms
of your hands by pulling toward the ears, as indicated in the
illustration here below.
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You must alternate your looks between your right and your
left as much as it is feasible. Repeat the action 12 or more
times.
Look down as much as possible, while you squeeze your
temples in the above-illustrated manner.
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Exercise 24. The look on the road
We are going now to teach a rule aimed at impressing
whoever happens to approach you on the road.
If you want to make him take notice of the power of your
look, you cannot begin by fixing your gaze on him from afar.
You should rather figure out the most appropriate point at
which you will start fixing the look of your eyes on his person.
This point coincides with the moment in which your pupils
are bound, in order to meet his pupils, to cover the largest
space in their motion. This is something which confers on the
eye a special and unforgettable glow.
Accordingly, if the relevant individual were to stand right in
front of us, we would only lift up our eyes to his person, in a
flash, precisely when he is close to us. If, on the other hand, he
happened to accost us from the side, we might safely begin to
fix our look upon him a little earlier, but only on condition that
you have first turned your head in the opposite direction. The
look will thus be projected out twice: Firstly in order to reach
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Comprehending ocular expressions
The eyes provide a clear idea of the feelings ensconced in
our heart and soul. By looking into the eyes, we can discern the
most intimate emotions, the eye appears to be in a direct
relationship with the soul, and it appears as if it touches the
soul and shares all its impulses. It is on account of such reason
that Galen termed the eyes divine organs. In his view, the head
was made exclusively for them. Pliny deemed the eye to be the
residence of the soul and its natural dwelling, whereas others
defined it as “the wrist of the reasonable soul”.
In love, eyes open up along their median line: The white
part remains still, and the pupil sparkles. When desire grips
the eyes, they light up, become more lively and comely, and the
pupil spurts out fire – as it is normally put –. If they are
steeped in intimacy, shame, or reticence, the eyes are lowered;
whereas the pupil is stirred up by a disquieting motion in a
state of joy and satisfaction. As for moments of merriment or
when one is laughing, the eye, too, is worried, sad, it does not
shine, it is as if switched off, and it fixes the ground, nearly
shut, or else looks ahead without really seeing. In anger, when
eyes redden, the agitated pupil is set into motion in every 30
sense.
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The eyelid
The pupil, too, corresponds to a large extent to the attitude
of a person, thereby identifying his approach to the world.
• Contracted Pupil (needle’s eye). It is typical of the act of
observing, be it detached or attentive, as well as of the
electrical profile of the person concerned. The person is
imposing his own reality.
• Enlarged Pupil (mydriatic profile). It is characteristically
representative of the attention to the here and now. It
typifies a magnetic and attractive profile. The person
concerned is entering the world of the other human being.
In the image set out here below, the woman evinces a clear
mydriatic profile, which is precisely what makes her eyes
particularly “magnetic”.
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happens to be. That is so because of the fact that it is in the
eyes that the reflection of one’s inner life, feelings, passions,
signs of approval or disapproval, attraction or repulsion,
exteriorize. The eyes speak.
a) You ought to hide every image other than the one you
are studying at any given time;
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Scrutinizing look.
Fluffy look.
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Pensive look.
Haughty look.
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Investigative look.
Shining look.
Absorbed look.
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Eyebrows shaping a normal line, eyes open, fixed but
indeterminate look.
Meditative look.
Reflective look.
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Sarcastic look.
Pure look.
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Infantile look.
Ironic look.
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Astonished look.
Proud look.
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Protective look.
Contemplative look.
Desirous look.
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Voluptuous look.
Imperious look.
Dejected look.
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Eyebrows shaping a normal line, straight pupils slightly turned
upwardly. Japanese people bestow a special attention on this
type of look, by virtue of which it is possible to notice the white
part of the eye both laterally and from underneath. They call it
sanpaku, a term which might be literally translated as “three
(san) whites (paku)”. This look accordingly evidences an
imbalance.32
Lustful look.
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Ironic look.
Additional Exercises
The one who has the good fortune of having, within his
retinue of elite associates, some person gifted with
extraordinarily expressive eyes, should never tire of fixing him
in his eyes, so as to try and emulate their expression, steal, so
to speak, their secret.
The eye belongs to the soul more than any other organ of
the body. The eyes are in fact the window through which the
soul looks at the world. 33 Even when you are in a road or at
some other place, if you meet two beautiful eyes you should
not neglect to carefully analyse their specific expression, while
firmly holding inside that suggestive will which urges us, too,
to acquire an equally lovely look, as previously laid out by us.
Besides, by adhering to the norms clarified in this work, we
might perfect the study of expression by collecting models
(photos, postcards, etc).
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Utilization of Fascination in Therapeutic
practices:
Therapeutic treatment by the look
Let God bless my eye,
And my eye will bless all I see;
I will bless my neighbor
And my neighbor will bless me
(Incantation from the Isle of Skye) 34
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Concentration in India
If we turn our look to the East, we will notice that in
Yoga, too, one works on the aspect of concentration.
There are three distinct levels of concentration. The first
level is called dharana, and it consists in directing one’s
concentration to an inflexible point. This initial phase is
then succeeded by the one termed dhyana, being a phase
in which concentration becomes a single continuum.
Lastly, we have the so-called phase of samadhi, the one in
which the object-subject relationship finally ceases to
exist. This last state presents a number of nuances,
although its defining characteristic is the fact that the
individual loses every inclination to be identified with the
contents of the mind, and he then enters a state of
“freedom”.
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whereafter we had fallen asleep, imprisoned by our
thoughts.
If we happen to be either healers or counsellors, on the
strength of this technique we can wrest our patients out
of the “trances” which they had stumbled into in the past
and which now rule their lives, and empower them to
transcend the emotional states which accompany or
invade existence at certain defined moments.
We in fact often think of being awake, whereas, in
reality, we go through life as if piloted by our automatic
reactions. Even the psychosomatic states of tensions
escorting our daily life, the ones characterized by specific
forms of muscular rigidity, or by inward reactions we are
unable to loosen on our own, represent “trances”.
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Instant Fascination
One of the most spectacular manifestations is provided
by “instant fascination”. This technique has the ability to
immediately eradicate physical pains, muscular tensions,
headaches, tinnitus, and a whole assortment of additional
ailments.
We owe this methodology to Erminio from Pisa, who
was accustomed to call it “Instant Hypnosis”. He was its
sole practitioner throughout Italy. Once, he gave us an
astounding demonstration of it in the presence of three
hundred people in Milan. He did so by working on each
of those persons in attendance for some twenty seconds,
thereby producing results which in most cases endured
through the following days, while in other instances they
actually proved conclusive in their effect. In certain cases,
a single intervention is enough to engender a permanent
result. In other instances, it is necessary to apply the
technique twice or thrice in a row, whereupon a more
than highly satisfactory overall percentage of 98% of
healed people will be actualized. At our institute, we keep
a number of videos which corroborate what we have
stated in this connection.
The methodology is rather simple. After we have
caused the patient to indicate to you where he is
experiencing pain, we fix him intensely so as to fascinate
him, for the explicit purpose of taking him “beyond the
point”, that is, beyond rigid positions and mental habits
which represent the sum-total of his personal problems.
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At some stage, one feels intuitively that the patient’s
pain has vanished. He is then woken up by a simple rapid
knock of the hand over his shoulder.
The most positive aspect of it all is that the person is
feeling better!
That seems impossible to the person who is merely
watching. From a technical point of view, it is on the
contrary very natural. The pains and the other problems
we have referred to represent “fixed realities”. The
moment we look at the subject, we settle his attention
upon some other space. We would say that we are now in
direct contact with the unconscious, if we wished to
borrow Erickson’s terminology. The unconscious, indeed,
always works for the person’s wellbeing and in his
interest.
We are not dealing here with some mere hypnotic
suggestion, so much so that on some occasions (albeit
rarely) it is necessary to operate two or three times before
“the right moment can be grabbed”. If it had been no
more than a suggestion, the third attempt would be
bound to emulate what happened to the previous ones. As
that is not the case, however, it means we have actually
guided our patient to a new life dimension.
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us to talk with that part of the brain which generates such
symptom. We thereby give effect to a mechanism which
some healers have already resorted to, namely,
"utilizing the crisis as a cure".38 What at that point
helps the efficacy and, in particular, the rapidity of the
process, is the re-enactment of the problem itself. As
stated by Rossi (1986), "by asking the patient to
experience the symptom (alternatively, even by
increasing it, as was for instance Erickson’s wont), we are
probably switching on certain processes in the right
hemisphere which are gifted with a more immediate
access to the encoding of the problem that is related to
the state itself ".39
A further scientific support for this theory and the
useful benefit of re-enacting the symptom, to be
immediately followed by a state of “void” where such
symptom is no longer extant, being a result that can be
achieved through fascination by the look, is provided by a
research in the US we are going to make mention of. It is
proven in this research that it is indeed possible to
eradicate traumas without needing to intervene through a
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merely through his recollection of the tragic night of the
past 6th of April.
Muscular tensions, too, are purely reminiscences of
significant events which have become “embedded” in the
body, in the light of the fact that a tension of the body
might correspond to any mental tension.
The said study has been carried out by inducing a state
of fear in some volunteers who chose to be tested. That
state of fear was engineered by showing them some
coloured squares and by associating with them a light
electrical shock by their wrists, a shock which was merely
annoying without being painful.
The subsequent day, fear was recalled to any such
patient’s mind by showing him the coloured squares once
more. Thereafter, within the space of a few hours from
the creation of the said stimulus, the researchers showed
them the squares quite a number of times, but now
without accompanying them by the electrical shock. At
the end of this training, fear is removed.
The disappearance of the symptom only takes place if
the action which is engaged in so as to extirpate it takes
place within a short period from the moment when the
patient is presented again with the scary symptom; if
such symptom is not reintroduced, or if the ‘fear-erasing’
training is conducted many hours later, the volunteering
patients retain a trace of the fear. Put it in other words,
they retain their fear of having to see the squares again.
According to the researchers, this fact is explainable on
the basis that when the fear is recreated, the memory
associated with it crystallizes once more, precisely at that
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longer concentrating on the outside, but rather on the
inside and on the operator who then turns into a
resource.
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The void
One might be tempted to ask why so much effort
should be put on casting the outside objects out of one’s
focus. It is however possible to detect a useful aspect in
that endeavour. It paralyzes one’s will. It also paralyzes
the attention which, if it happens to settle on one object
only, is inclined to forget the others.
Through the assistance of ocular concentration, the
yogi is not just able to remove the vision of external
objects, but also to empty his thoughts, whereupon it
becomes easy for him to meditate in the void.
In an analogous manner, when fascination is resorted
to, the subject enters a state of void where an automatic
rebalancing might occur, and where one can rid himself
of limiting thoughts. The process is as mental as it is
physical, so much so that one can fascinate even while he
is standing quite far from a person.
Mental attitude
This type of therapy encompasses an inward
dimension as well. In order to achieve the best possible
results, it is imperative that first and foremost your inner
being should be open. Your intention plays a very
important role. Life, indeed, offers countless occasions in
which you can practice this ability.
Exercise 25
Try and calm down a raging person with your look, or make
someone who is sad laugh, etc.
Undoubtedly, the best exercise is represented by lightening
the pain of some one who is suffering.
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Exercise 26
When you meet a sick person or one who is suffering either
physically or mentally, direct your look in such a manner as to
alleviate his pain. In order to accomplish that, address him
mentally, by making use of calm and stimulating words.
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words". That way, by abandoning conceptualizations, he
discovered how senses become sharper and “the form of
objects renews itself”, and he felt “a powerful calm and
the conviction of having been successful”. It is precisely
here in France that he began to talk of “sixth sense”,
mentioning in the process the fact that such sense could
only be understood by experiencing it.41
If we want to translate it into modern terms, we would
assert that he reached a different state of consciousness
in his work, such that his patients were able to detect it in
his look and access it themselves in turn.
There is always, in fact, a close rapport between
consciousness and vision. Some scholars have put
forward the theory that the actual ocular pathologies
which we can observe are often the reflection of our
models of thinking. Kellum, for instance, says: The eye
responds to the way in which we live.
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even when she is in front of a mirror, she has the
impression of being fat.
These are but a few illustrations from the numerous
examples of how imagination pervades everyday life,
whereupon we do not perceive reality but only our
personal image thereof.
Exactly as in the example we have mentioned earlier of
the nocturnal traveller who saw the trees as being
dangerous persons ready to assail him, there might be the
human type who sees any person he meets as a danger.
This person, therefore, is not perceiving reality: He is
perceiving his own image of reality.
Every person, as he wakes up in the morning, is
convinced that he is awake. The truth is however
different. It is the fact that imagination mixes with our
mental mechanisms that keeps us in a state which is as if
a dreamy one, and in which we only discern what we
want to see.
Most people are captured by their own mental
mechanisms, their own pensive reflections, and the inner
atmosphere of incessant self-talk. Some people have
indeed contended that each one of us churns out fifty-
thousand thoughts on a daily basis. Every one of those
thoughts that we formulate influences us, and alters our
mental images as well as our peculiar perception of
reality.
What would happen, moreover, if these thoughts are
negative? The reality is that a subject who is worried is
less aware of the surrounding environment. Even if
positive elements are found in it, he is often oblivious to
their existence. He is in a state of “trance with his own
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behaving himself with all and sundry in the same
manner.
Assuming for instance that his parents were
accustomed to shout at him and that he used to react by
entering a state of block, he might then display an
identical reaction vis-à-vis a traffic policeman who wants
to issue him with a fine for a road-related infringement.
Traditional psychology sometimes refers to this form
of conduct by the term “projection”. In the example we
have just mentioned, such variety of psychology would
contend that the subject “projects” onto the member of
the traffic cops the image he had of his own parents.
We can observe that the initial comportment is born
within an “interpersonal” ambit, or, said it in another
manner, it is as if a model of perceiving reality were to
“become solidly enrooted” in the relevant person.
When we are small, we have a greater tendency to be in
reality than at a more adult age. Our patterns of
behaviour often originate in the shape of interpersonal
trances, and later transmute into intrapersonal
trances. In other words, we learn behavioural modes
and reactions from other people and from the
surrounding milieu in which we grow, and we
subsequently appropriate them as part of our own modus
operandi.
If, at this later stage, we have become divested of
control over such trances and unable to prevent their
occurrence, we can safely affirm that they are now
unfolding themselves automatically.
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mental thoughts. It has a physiological correspondence in
the motions of the eye. When we step inside our thoughts,
in fact, we perform certain movements of the pupils in
specific directions, whereas, in other cases, we de-
focalize.42
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, for instance, notices
that when a person bends his pupils toward the top left
side, he is often accessing constructed images, whereas, if
he performs that motion to his left, he is accessing some
reiterated patterns. In an analogous fashion, horizontal
movements stand for hearing-based constructs, while
downward motions denote gaining access to our own
inner dialogue or possibly to our own sensations.
When the eye adopts such positions, the client is then
“inside his own self” and is recreating the problem.
By requesting from our client a direct and sustained
eye contact, we actively intervene and melt away those
parts of automatic “trances” which serve as defence
mechanisms within the depth of his being. We thereby
transcend the reactions which help our client defend
himself from the intensity of interpersonal contact, and
which allow him to recreate the symptom.
42This type of motions are those which are for instance observed
by Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Cf. Bandler, Grinder”
“Programmazione Neuro-linguistica”, edited by Astrolabio.
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distinction between things, in which we transcend, that
is, the distinction “between this and that”.
This phenomenon is a common feature of various
quantic therapies, and it is already implied in the process
of the Gestalt. It is a similar phenomenon to the one we
can ascertain during a meditation on a Japanese koan or
a kindred one on some mantra.
The Japanese “koan” is a statement, often bearing a
paradoxical meaning, to which the mind seeks to provide
an intelligible connotation, e.g. “what is the sound
produced by a single clapping hand?”. Reflecting over the
paradox, in fact, makes the conscious mind weary.
The effect of the “mantra” is analogous. The “mantra”
is a constantly repeated word. Here, too, a similar
phenomenon involving the weariness of some cerebral
mechanisms is produced.
In the instances described above, the koan or the
mantra is utilized as single point of the contemplative
«focus». Step by step, this type of concentration turns
into an automatic process. The moment the mind
concentrates, we can reach a specific instant in which our
mind “releases itself”, whereupon we experience a
“collapse on the part of the previous system of thoughts”,
or possibly even a “moment of deep change”. When that
point is reached, the mind is ready for a spontaneous
experience of accomplishment, that is, it is ready to
perceive non-duality.
To recapitulate, a trance is accordingly a daily
phenomenon, in spite of the possibility that we might fail
to realize that, due to the fact that, normally, our
conscious mind denies the reality of such phenomenon.
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amazing, but in actual reality it is no more than the
simple elucidation of a natural human mechanism. This
type of spectacular phenomenon is essentially possible
because it also occurs daily in a very subtle manner: We
meet for instance an obese lady, with a habit of eating a
lot, who utters the promise that, from the following day,
she is no longer going to eat chocolate sweets. This obese
female appears to be persuasive when she articulates that
promise. Nevertheless, two seconds later she walks in
front of a confectionery, moves in, takes two such sweets,
and eats them. How is that possible?
Such a kink of phenomenon is a "behavioural
occurrence of daily trance". 44 If we were to examine it in
detail, we would actually unveil the truth that, rather than
being merely a single trance, the aforesaid example
evinces the existence of a series of micro-trances. The
first trance that takes place is part of a phenomenology of
amnesia. Our subject, despite having told us a short while
earlier that she would have restrained herself, no longer
remembers the promise she made. The second “trance”
consists in a time regression to an earlier age: Why, in
fact, does she eat the sweet? She is behaving like a child
facing a table fully laid out with food, and so on. Our life,
which we believe to be “fully conscious”, is saturated with
such kinds of phenomena.
Some people, in order to indicate this concept, are
accustomed to state that most of human beings “are
asleep” instead of being inside reality.
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1. Dissociation. In a state of dissociation, we detach
ourselves from one part of us. We might, for instance,
be unable to feel our own sensations. An example
from daily life of a person in such a condition is one
who cannot experience emotions at all.
2. Positive hallucination, which might for instance
cause us to perceive people around us being different
from what they really are. In that event, such
phenomenon will coincide with the one which is
termed "transference".
3. Progression in the future, to wit, one which, in its
pathological varieties, corresponds to imaginations
distancing us from reality.
4. Daily imaginations, being the type which keeps us
fixed in another dimension. It is the hypnotic dream
preventing us from being in the here and now: The
relevant person is “lost in the clouds”.
5. Hypermnesia, i.e. focusing in an excessive manner
on past moments. This occurs for instance in cases of
traumas when a person declares himself “unable to
forget”.
6. Temporal distortion, which makes us lose
awareness of the fact that time passes, and which
precludes us from accomplishing our objectives. It
seems to us as if time “is flying away too quickly”.
7. Sensory distortion, which is present in several
compulsive habits wherein the subject “does not
realize” the consequences of his actions upon his own
self.
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Relation between the vision of the world
and hypnotic states
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instils fear in us, and we then extend our look
widely. Oftentimes, in fact, we merely concentrate
on a few significant elements, for example, the
faces of the people who used to talk to us. By
expanding one’s look, everything takes on a
different perspective.
• We might identify a certain symbol or carry out a
certain action that proves to be particularly
effective, owing to the degree of concentration we
have managed to establish. A gesture, too, is
included within what is meant by symbol, for
example, a movement which is implemented with
the hands as a gesture that signifies distancing the
negative state away.
• We might also compartmentalize: Discovering the
point where the emotion is felt more strongly,
paying heed to such point alone, and further
enhancing the symptom in that area, if need be
repeating the process until we can switch to a
different perception mode. This last-mentioned
process, however, is rather complex and as such
recommended for use by expert operators only.
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mechanism by which motivational urge is brought about.
A young lad, for example, might presage the taste of the
moment in which he is going to graduate.
Future visual impression (the person, e.g. imagines his
graduation) positive sensation.
The problem is that it is befitting, in order for the
person thus motivated to engage in tangible action, that
this first step should be conjoined to an additional
second step: This is the practice which invariably uses
the present as its departure point.
By means of fascination, we as the operators might
prove to be an important resource of the present for our
patient, one that is indeed capable of activating the said
link 48.
Technical characteristics of this state: We can often
notice in it a hyperopic attitude, which is focused on what
is distant. The visionary gazes at some distant point 49.
Treatment
The standard application of the relevant technique is
extremely simple: We should fix our look on the patient
and, at the moment in which we have reached the stage of
fascination, we are going to conjoin the future state to the
present one by uttering some encouraging words and by
asserting that the subject shall henceforth work towards
accomplishing his own goal. One might say for instance,
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‘From now on you will act with confidence. Every day you
should take a new step towards your ultimate objective.’
What would otherwise happen is that this type of
persons will fail to act in the present, and will only live
out their particular dreams.
Treatment in the event of fear of the future (anxiety)
Even what is called “anxiety” is linked to time 50. The
anxious person is in fact always bent on creating for
himself negative images of the future.
A technique which yields almost immediate results
consists in making the subject imagine the future in a
positive guise, by saying to him, while we stare at him,
‘Feel yourself achieving whatever you wish to achieve, feel
it as something which is already real.’ In doing so, we will
lead him to experience the feelings associated with a
successfully actualized result. For the sake of increasing
the efficacy of such technique, the “accomplished” result
might be depicted in the form of a symbol. This symbol
might be absorbed by the patient while he is accordingly
brought back to the present, where the look retains an
ongoing awareness of it.
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Dissociation and Hyper-association
(Small Pupil and large Pupil)
Most frequent effects when the state of dissociation is
pervasive: Frigidity, absence of emotions, muscular
stiffness, difficult interpersonal relationships, imaginary
pains, “gelid eyes”
In the state of dissociation, the person “shelves aside”
one part of experience. A very frequent example of this
state is represented by the person who is only marginally
alert to his own physical perceptions. We in fact come
across some people who are for example unable to feel
one part of themselves, such as their own emotions. They
often have small pupils, and their look is then described
as being “ice-cold”. They are the individuals who in
common parlance are referred to as “cold”. Emotions
flow out through the body and, frequently, the inability to
experience feelings reflects a denial of the sensations
experienced by the body. Some exemplars of this human
category are so detached from their own selves that they
are even unable to experience such primary feelings as
hunger or pain.
It is indeed significant that our current society
nurtures the quality of coldness, and that at times it
fosters in that regard an urge to be hyper-rational, i.e.
dissociated from feelings and associated with thoughts
(rationality).
We also get the opposite of dissociation, which is
sometimes simultaneously present with it, and that is
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(foveal) vision escorted by an imaginary impression of
distancing (probable dilatation of the pupil).
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methodology of magnetic steps, whereupon the lateral
vision will grow, and there will no longer be a tunnel
vision, as that is in fact going to be replaced by an
enlarged vision.
It is possible to pursue, in this regard, the same path
which is treaded in relation to regression into a past age
in the event that images were to appear. By solving the
regressions, in fact, we would bring the subject back to
reality.
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Erminio from Pisa, once he had placed the relevant
individual in a state of passive consciousness, would then
lead him back to the past, whereupon he would impart
direct suggestions, thereby playing the role of a
“resource” for the fascinated subject.
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Negative hallucination
(deflection of the look)
Most frequent effects when it is negatively pervasive:
Finding it difficult to identify resources in one’s own life.
An illustrating example of this state might be
encountered in a depressed person who says, ‘I have
never been happy!’, even though we saw him laughing
only on the day before. How is it possible that he does not
remember? What he says probably originates in a
“cancellation” of a part of reality. Indeed, this
phenomenology is also termed "cancellation" by Neuro-
Linguistic Programming, and consists in failing to
perceive one part of reality.
Technical characteristics: It is often as if a small filter
(time regression-like) were to drop down before the eyes
of a person, who, as a result thereof, is thus prevented
from accurately focusing upon the scene. Even the short-
sighted attitude of the one affected by myopia might be
related to the concept of negative hallucinations, as do
some phenomena of astigmatism.
Treatment: A modus operandi that might be resorted
to in this context consists in suggesting variations to the
type of mist surrounding the person. Possibly divide that
mist into quadrants. All of this should take place as the
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patient is urged not to drop his look. It has the effect of
changing the structure of the phenomenon which the
patient is suffering, and of altering the entrenched state
of trance.
Passages the treatment should go through:
1 – Encouraging the negative hallucination to reach its
maximum potential (while it is in a state of
entrenchment)
2 – Causing it to turn even stronger
3 – Modifying the structure thereof
4 – Suggesting positive hallucinations
5 – Expanding it further, in order to encompass even
things which were either not perceived (because they lay
beyond the original visual field) or whose contours were
vaguely indecisive
Positive hallucination
(mydriasis – large pupil)
The concept of projection is strongly linked to the
concept of positive hallucination.
Technical characteristics: A phenomenon of positive
hallucination we have often come across might be
observed by focusing the eyes on the spot that is located
immediately after the person we are looking at (as if we
were looking behind him). It might even be carried out
before a mirror with a view to “lending voice to the
unconscious”.
Note on the treatment: In order to avoid transference
phenomena in the event of positive hallucinations, we
might request the patient to observe something enabling
him to distinguish the operator from his past memory.
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Confusion
(strabismus)
One can discern, under this heading, phenomena of
confusion, by observing a person through the medium of
diverging strabismus. That is accomplished by looking at
two spots behind or beside the relevant person. Divergent
strabismus produces confusion, in that one needs to
combine two distinct images.
Treatment
In order to overcome confusion, it might prove
beneficial to individually separate and clarify the single
parts of the experience.
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SELF-FASCINATION
We use the term "self-fascination" to describe that type
of hypnotic fascination which is done on our own selves
by looking into a mirror.
It is an extremely potent system of self-development,
and, at the same time, it is one that is very easy to
implement. Through the medium of your own
concentration by the mirror, you might be able to give
yourselves a series of useful suggestions.
Exercise 29: Simple self-fascination
As you face a mirror, focus on your own image. Place
yourself at a distance of around forty centimetres, and then
look at where the nose is attached to the front. Stare at your
own self. Try not to flap your eyelids.
Exercise 30: Mental suggestions
Concentrate on your own image while in front of a mirror,
and simultaneously impart some mental suggestions to your
own self (‘come forward’, ‘move backward’, ‘the arm is lifting
up’, etc.). You then realize that you will come to reply to
yourselves unconsciously.
Exercise 31: Positive suggestions
Carry out the two immediately preceding exercises (i.e.
simple self-fascination and “mental suggestions”). Thereafter,
in front of a mirror, and after implementing the two previous
exercises, you should impart to yourselves a series of positive
suggestions.
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• During the second stage, give yourselves
suggestions by making use of the
pronoun “you”
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between body, mind and soul, since both the hemispheres
are energized. In the course of our meditation on the
light, we should think that light is magnetic, and that it
represents a source of power. It ensues from it that
working with a source of light is both energizing and
tranquillizing 54.
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APPLICATIONS OF FASCINATION TO
HYPNOTIC PRACTICE
Energy
The most widespread hypnotic techniques in use at
present are verbal. If, by contrast, you choose to utilize
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fascination in hypnosis, you will not be restricted to
operating at a psychological level in a traditional way, but
you will further operate through the medium of energy
and through presencing. "Hypnotic fascination"
establishes a link with the power of the present moment,
and with the energy we might be able to perceive in the
moment of the now.
Exercise 34 Being in the present.
Try and be in the present. Apply a sensory methodology: Be
consciously aware of your body and your sensations. FEEL
your being in the particular environment you find yourself in.
If you do as we have suggested, you will notice that, as you
pursue such a practice, you will develop a specific energetic
sensation.
The practice further shows that, even in order to effectively
practice hypnotic fascination, believing in the idea of energy or
fluid might prove beneficial. At the beginning, this consists
mainly in having a receptive frame of mind. As one delves
deeper into it, this mode of thinking opens itself up to the
possibility of a communication which additionally takes place
at levels differing from the immediately perceptible ones.
Exercise 35 Create an energetic image.
Observe one point on the wall and imagine yourself capable
of hurling small arrows in the direction of that point (Do not
move your eyelids). You will eventually discern that this
exercise helps you intensify your volition.
What is essentially necessary is the idea that our thought
and our speech might impact on those around us, and in any
event exercise an influence on the flow of their thoughts. As a
way of helping you evolve such a state of being, it would be
useful to observe that, irrespective of anything else, this
concept likewise represents simple healthy psychology.
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from the 30’s which can be obtained from the author of this book.
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passive recipient of your suggestions. Firmly retain this mental
representation.
56 Refer to what has already been stated with regard to the energy
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Other Methods
Virgilio’s Method: The essential element is to observe
the person. The facial tension reveals the effort one
makes in the process of transmission. The whole body
gets into a state of tension, into a total effort of
57 Cf. Jean Filiatre, “L’Ipnotismo Illustrato”, which we have
made available to the public at the following website address:
http://www.pnl-
nlp.org/courses/ebooks/page.php?pid=46&bid=46&pageid=617
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transmission, until one’s breathing nearly comes to a
halt.
Asymmetrical hypnosis by looking through one eye
only. Lastly, it is possible to deepen hypnosis by exerting
pressure on the ocular globes, inasmuch as such
movement directly acts on the vagus nerve and on the
parasympathetic nervous system. The compression of the
ocular globe generates a slowing of the wrist, due to an
ocular-cardiac reflection. If, therefore, we press on one
eye while we stare at the subject from the other eye, we
will occasion the so-called “asymmetrical hypnosis”,
namely, a state of hypnosis which is different for the two
halves of the body.
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engages in 62. Pliny, indeed, recounts the fact that some
nations hypnotize whilst having an “image of a horse” in
their pupils. Such an interpretation is corroborated by
Seligmann 63, who was a professional ophthalmologist.
Seligmann observes that, in Greek, “Hyppos”, i.e. the
word for “horse”, was in fact the noun by which the
ancient Greeks used to call the nystagmus. Even among
the Assyrians, the power of the eyes was linked to their
motion 64.
Rotational look: Erminio from Pisa used to rotate the
eyes in connection with divergent strabismus.
Look based on a horizontal movement: Prof. Hoehn
advices the operator to look to the right and the left of the
subject’s nose “depending on what is most suitable”.
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Pupil
Even the dilated pupil (mydriasis) is quite effective
when it comes to the purposes sought to be achieved by
fascination. This method, too, is an ancient one that is
probably quoted by Pliny, who refers however to people
with a “double pupil”. Given that having a “double pupil”
is a most rare genetic anomaly, we deem it more correct
to refer such expression to the size of the pupil.
Normally, it is possible to notice that, by focusing on
the detail, the pupil turns smaller, and that, when strong
emotions are experienced, the pupil widens.
Other aids
The finger: It is very useful to indicate a person with a
pointed finger. From a mental point of view, you have to
think as if the finger is perforating the subject.
Motion of the head: It resembles the way a snake
approaches its prey. A method utilized by Virgilio T.
consisted in bringing the subject’s face close. By contrast,
an image of god, whereas closing one eye alters the balance. This
might be the origin of the fear of one-eyed people, which is
widespread among several peoples (Arabs or Bulgarians, though
similar traditions are present in Veneto as well – Cf. Seligmann, op.
cit., at p. 232). Petrarca, too, narrates that as he was staring intensely
at his beloved Laura, an arrow was thrown by his right eye.
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at the time of imparting advices, the head then moves
away 66.
The spiral: Our master Virgilio often looks toward a
person and rotates one finger at the level of the third eye.
Such practice helps the operator create a bit of confusion,
but at the same time it assists one in hypnotizing. In fact
Virgilio, who is particularly adept at mental imagination,
conjures up in his mind the idea that there is a true spiral
rotating in front of him.
Exercise 37
Point your finger towards the front of the person you want
to hypnotize. Turn that finger clockwise, in so doing imagining
that a spiral is rotating as you turn the finger. Thereafter, you
should stare at the centre, between the eyes of your subject. As
you engage in that, you ought to give one intense look. You will
moreover feel that a change has occurred in your subject’s
perception.
This method is further endowed with a physiological value.
Special receptors located in the visual cortex (at the back of the
brain), which are called “detectors”, are thus stimulated up to a
straining degree. For example, the detectors in charge of the
clockwise movement will get tired, and, when you turn to look
from a distance at the detectors which are responsible for the
opposite (= anti-clockwise) motion, the latter will get into
action and thereby create the illusion of an expanding world
(or else the illusion of an aura). By virtue of this phenomenon,
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Gypsy Hypnosis
It us related that the great esoteric practitioner Hanussen,
who lived during the age of the Nazi regime, had succeeded in
avoiding incarceration simply by looking their jail wardens in
their eyes and causing them to turn stupefied 68.
At times, fascination might also be utilized for negative and
illegal purposes. In Italy, testimonies in that sense date back to
the medieval period 69.
A similar phenomenon which is widespread nowadays is
called “robberies through hypnosis”. In the course of such
robberies, the subject is left in a state of passive consciousness,
while the fascinator acts without any obstacle.
We have gathered various testimonies in that regard. Such
phenomenon consists in a specific form of application of
fascination. A very peculiar method is what has been reported
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Utilizing the Lexicon of hypnotic
fascination:
The most classical form of mental fascination is also
endowed with its specific lexical quality which is based on
mental words and imagery:
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Index
PREFACE................................................................................................. 3
FIELDS OF UTILIZATION OF FASCINATION...................................................... 10
THE ART OF CONFERRING FASCINATION ON THE EYES ..................................... 22
I. – FIXITY OF THE LOOK ................................................................ 22
II. – THE RAPIDITY OF THE LOOK ................................................... 30
III. – EXPRESSION OF THE LOOK .................................................... 31
COMPREHENDING OCULAR EXPRESSIONS..................................................... 41
The eyelid ...................................................................................... 42
Methodical study of the expression of the eyes............................ 42
Additional Exercises ...................................................................... 54
UTILIZATION OF FASCINATION IN THERAPEUTIC PRACTICES: THERAPEUTIC
TREATMENT BY THE LOOK ............................................................................... 55
The various concentration levels .................................................. 56
CONCENTRATION IN INDIA ....................................................................... 57
Comparison with Western methodologies.................................... 57
Beyond daily “trances” ................................................................. 58
INSTANT FASCINATION ............................................................................ 60
Our further studies ........................................................................ 61
The origin of problems .................................................................. 66
Further comparisons with Eastern techniques.............................. 67
The void ........................................................................................ 68
Mental attitude............................................................................. 68
CHANGE OF THE VISION IN HYPNOTIC STATES AND RELATED THERAPY .............. 70
The Varieties of daily Trance......................................................... 71
The effectiveness of the look-based therapy ................................ 76
Acting on the symptom ................................................................. 77
THE DAILY TRANCE.................................................................................. 80
What is, then, a trance?................................................................ 82
Recapitulation of the most frequent “trances”............................. 82
The role of language ..................................................................... 84
RELATION BETWEEN THE VISION OF THE WORLD AND HYPNOTIC STATES ............ 85
Regression in time (look BEFORE) ................................................. 85
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