#religious hypnosis

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

It... it’s almost like it’s just a well-known trick of music, chanting, swaying, waving arms, and other rituals that induce a particular psychological state.

If this is what you’re calling “god,” then your god definitively doesn’t exist. Because we know what this is.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

The Church & Hypnotic Manipulation – Sunday Morning Hypnosis

Deep trance can dramatically alter one’s perception of reality, whether occasioned by traditional hypnosis, meditation, prayer, long term fasting, hypnotic religious rituals, or walking for miles in the hot desert.

The environment, the social convention, the rituals of compliance, the call and response, the repetition, the expectations and anticipation, the music, even the time of day and the crucifix as a fixation point -- all of it intended to make you more suggestible and change your perceptions of what’s real.