Samael Aeon Weor--An Obscure Source of Material for South American Entrepreneur Esotericists/Commercial Shamans?
This discussant brought up Weor in context of a discussion from where some others may have obtained their sources.
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This entire thread, all 37 pages of it, is worth studying.
Weor referred to Enneagon in his writings, though much later, others used it to refer to different stuff.
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((IMO I privatly call the enneagram the 9 headed Hydra. It was never tested by psychometricians in an academic setting, but was propagated in personality centered groups. For all we know, it may merely be one of many items that are a useful focal point for cold reading.
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In the above article on hypnosis, Chester notes the three ingredients for success in hypnosis, when discussing another technique: "it excited the imagination of the subject, concentrated his attention, and held him in a state of expectancy: the three essentials for success"
In the section on "Hypnosis among the Arabs" Chester writes that, among "certain important Sufi groups", hypnotic techniques are used only in a very controlled fashion:
"The reason for this is the belief-- or perhaps the fact-- that the personality touched by hypnosis is only a superficial one... experiencing hypnotic states may cause someone to imagine that these are touching a really deep area of his consciousness.... hypnotic states are associated with role-playing: play-acting if you like. To play a part is one thing: to play a part and to imagine that this is something real or significant is very much something else."
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This material is of interest. The person who introduced the Esalen crowd to the enneagon/enneagram seemed to have quite an interest in various technologies.
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