Hemorrhages and bloody stigmata can be induced by means of suggestion. As a demonstration of this, Dr. M. Bourru put a subject into a hypnotic trance, than gave him the following suggestion:
At four o'clock this afternoon, after the hypnosis, you will come into my office , sit down in this armchair and fold your arms across your chest. Your nose will then begin to bleed.
That afternoon, the young man did exactly as he had been told. After he crossed his arms, several drops of blood came from his left nostril.
On another occasion, the same investigator tranced a patient's name on both his forearms, with a dull point of an insturment while the patient was in a hypnotic trance. Bourru then said:
At four o' clock this afternoon you will go to sleep. Your arms will bleed along the lines I have traced, and your name will appear witten on your arms in letters of blood.
The patient was carefully observed that afternoon. At four o'clock he fell asleep. On his left arm the letters stood out in bright relief and in several places there were drops of blood. Although the letters gradually faded, they were still visible three months afterward.
These facts demonstrate at once the correctness of the two fundamental propositions previously stated, namely, the constant amendability of the subconscious mind to the power of suggestion and the perfect control that the subconscious mind exercises over the functions, sensations, and conditions of the body.
At the foregoing phenomena dramatize vividly abnormal conditions induced by suggestion. They are conclusive proof that as a man thinketh in his heart (subconscious mind) so he is.
I took the above from the book The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. It is full of other stories stories of the power of the subconscious mind and how it can effect even physical healings.
Do you believe that most religious "miracles" are really the works of the subconscious mind and not God? That is not to say that religious faith can not stimulate the subconscious mind to do great things. But is it really God or is it the person's own mind?
At four o'clock this afternoon, after the hypnosis, you will come into my office , sit down in this armchair and fold your arms across your chest. Your nose will then begin to bleed.
That afternoon, the young man did exactly as he had been told. After he crossed his arms, several drops of blood came from his left nostril.
On another occasion, the same investigator tranced a patient's name on both his forearms, with a dull point of an insturment while the patient was in a hypnotic trance. Bourru then said:
At four o' clock this afternoon you will go to sleep. Your arms will bleed along the lines I have traced, and your name will appear witten on your arms in letters of blood.
The patient was carefully observed that afternoon. At four o'clock he fell asleep. On his left arm the letters stood out in bright relief and in several places there were drops of blood. Although the letters gradually faded, they were still visible three months afterward.
These facts demonstrate at once the correctness of the two fundamental propositions previously stated, namely, the constant amendability of the subconscious mind to the power of suggestion and the perfect control that the subconscious mind exercises over the functions, sensations, and conditions of the body.
At the foregoing phenomena dramatize vividly abnormal conditions induced by suggestion. They are conclusive proof that as a man thinketh in his heart (subconscious mind) so he is.
I took the above from the book The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. It is full of other stories stories of the power of the subconscious mind and how it can effect even physical healings.
Do you believe that most religious "miracles" are really the works of the subconscious mind and not God? That is not to say that religious faith can not stimulate the subconscious mind to do great things. But is it really God or is it the person's own mind?