So always be careful when using hypnosis. With power comes responsibility.
Chapter 4 - Hypnotism throughout History
Hypnosis has been known to man for thousands of years. Historically, the practice of altering mans consciousness has been carried out by shamans, wiccas, spirit mediums, and spiritual doctors, for various reasons. Ancient civilizations of Egypt and Greece recorded that the fastest way to get in touch with the spiritual realm is through rituals that are similar to what are now called hypnosis, meditation, visualization, and drugs.
Experiences common to deep sleep, anesthesia and the power of the subconscious have been noted in different religious documents, such as in the Old Testament of Christianity and in the Talmud of Judaism.
Some accounts even say that many women were accused as witches and thus burned at the stake because of their practice of cutting up womens bellies during difficult labor in order to help the child get out of the womb. It was said the mothers felt relatively no pain during the operation and the babies were delivered successfully with the midwives using only herbs and oils while uttering some comforting, soothing chant. This practice, many believed, is one of the earliest known practice of what is now called delivery through Caesarean operation, with the aid of hypnosis.
