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What Professional Hypnotherapy Recognizes—and What It Does Not

Mainstream legitimate hypnotherapy institutions — including ASCH, BSCH, SCEH, NCH, CFCH, AHA, and the European Society of Hypnosis — define hypnosis as a clinical and psychological technique and do not recognize hypnotherapy and regression therapy as a method for validating spiritual or metaphysical claims.  Below, I present the positions of recognized hypnotherapy institutions in their own words. 1. American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH)  “Clinical hypnosis is an altered state of awareness, perception, or consciousness that is used, by licensed and trained doctors or master’s prepared individuals, for treating a psychological or physical problem. In the mental health area, it is used for phobias, anxiety, sexual problems, alcoholism, smoking control, speech disorders, weight control, chronic pain, age regression therapy, self-esteem/ego strengthening, memory/concentration improvement, and forensic work. In medicine, it uses include anesthesia and surgery, obstetrics/gyn...

Why the 7 seals have nothing to do with 7 chakras: Separating biblical truth from spiritual trends

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The 7 seals in the Bible and the 7 chakras are two different things.  The scroll with 7 seals which is written in Revelation 5 is a series of catastrophic events that only Yeshua is worthy to open. The opening of the 7 seals marks the beginning of the end times prophecy. It signals that the world is approaching its final days, leading to the second coming of Jesus Christ and the final judgment. While the chakras, or chakra system, is a teaching that originates in the oldest Hindu texts called the Vedas, which date back to around 1500 to 500 BC. Experts say that the word “chakra” comes from Sanskrit which means “wheel” or “cycle”. The traditional explanation of this is that chakras are described as “wheels” within the subtle body, which are thought to spin in circular motion, channeling energy throughout the body. According to ancient spiritual and yogic traditions, all human beings have chakras. There are seven chakras and each chakra corresponds to specific areas in th...

No Such Thing As Earth Angels: A Simple Look At the True Origins of Angels

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Earth angels do not exist. Here’s why: Major ancient belief systems such as animism and totemism, and earliest major religions such as ancient Mesopotamian religion, ancient Egyptian religion, ancient Greek religion, ancient Hinduism religion, ancient Chinese religion and Zoroastrianism never mention the concept of angel nor mention the term itself. They believe in gods, spirits, demons and supernatural beings. But they never taught about “angels”. Judaism is the only ancient religion to ever introduce the concept of “angels” by calling them malakh  or malakhim  in texts like the Book of Genesis, which means “messengers” of God. In the fullness of time, Christianity, Judaism’s sister in faith, inherited and expanded the concept of “angels”. When the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek around the 3rd to 2nd century BCE, the Hebrew word malakh was rendered as angelos , which also means “messenger”. Later, this became angelus in Latin, and eventually “ angel ” in...

No Ancient Source Confirms Soul Splits (Let's stop pretending they do.)

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“Twin flames” as “split souls”, and was bound for spiritual union, is just a “modern thing” invented by New Age movement in the 20th century CE. The concept borrows inaccurately from older traditions like Plato’s Symposium, Kabbalistic Judaism, Hinduism, Sufism and Gnosticism which are either symbolic, misinterpreted, or rejected by scholars! Now, let's revisit the sources. 1. The Symposium of Plato (written around 385-370 BCE) The Symposium of Plato is proven to be literary fiction. Not only that, Plato never said that it was the soul which was split into 2 by Zeus. Let me explain: According to a philosophical myth told by Aristophanes in Plato’s Symposium, humans were originally round-shaped beings with four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, which faced in opposite directions, four ears and two private areas. There are three types of human beings, and these are male-male, female-female and male-female. These beings were so powerful and proud that they began to challen...

Plato's Symposium Is Just A Fiction - His Real Philosophy Is Found In These Three Dialogues

According to a philosophical myth told by Aristophanes in Plato’s Symposium, humans were originally round-shaped beings with four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, which faced in opposite directions, four ears and two private areas. There are three types of human beings, and these are male-male, female-female and male-female. These beings were so powerful and proud that they began to challenge and threaten the gods with their strength and arrogance. Alarmed by this, Zeus split them in half to weaken and humble them. Since then, everyone has been in constant search of their other half to become whole once again. In Symposium (189e-190d) it says: (189e) The form of each person was round all over, with back and sides encompassing it every way; each had four arms and legs to match these, and two faces perfectly alike  (190a) on a cylindrical neck. There was one head to the two faces, which looked opposite ways; there were four ears, two privy members and all the other parts...

Plato's Symposium: The Myth of the Split Human

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A critical examination of Plato's myth of the split human as a metaphor for love, identity and the human condition. A painting of Plato's Symposium by Anselm Feuerbach, completed in 1869 . According to a philosophical myth told by Aristophanes in Plato’s Symposium, humans were originally round-shaped beings with four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, which faced in opposite directions, four ears and two private areas. There are three types of human beings, and these are male-male, female-female and male-female. These beings were so powerful and proud that they began to challenge and threaten the gods with their strength and arrogance. Alarmed by this, Zeus split them in half to weaken and humble them. Since then, everyone has been in constant search of their other half to become whole once again. In Symposium (189e-190d) it says: (189e) The form of each person was round all over, with back and sides encompassing it every way; each had four arms and legs to match the...

Why Romeo and Juliet Aren't Twin Flames: Here's the Truth

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William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love stories ever written. With its powerful portrayal of passionate love, familial conflicts, sacrifices and tragic deaths, many people believe it is based on real events. And the story itself is often celebrated as a standard for what true love should be. However, both of these assumptions are incorrect. Romeo and Juliet (1968) Although the story feels so real because of its emotional resonance and relatable struggles, it is entirely a work of imagination. Its characters and events are not rooted in reality. Romeo and Juliet is a fictional play written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century CE, designed to teach a valuable lesson about the power of love, the destructive nature of hate, the danger of impulsive decisions and the impact of family feud. Shakespeare was inspired by earlier literary works, including Arthur Brooke’s The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet published in 1562, which itself was b...