istina said:
One therapist said that is something to be done permanently, like some sort of spirit hygiene because we catch attachments often in everydays life. What do you think about that?
The way I see it at this point, you shouldn't worry so much about attachments as long as you work hard to make your real I stronger and stronger each day. Could be that EE and Prayer of the Soul is powerful tool for spirit hygiene.
I don't claim to be an expert on the subject. I read few books - namely Entity Possesion by Samuel Sagan MD and Remarkable Healings by Shakuntala Modi MD. The accounts given in these books are truly impressive and they all involve some form of hypnosis.
I cannot be sure if I have attachments or not. Several times I did catch a glimpse of something that could be attachment and I described this here
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=15063.0
After reading the above mentioned books, I wouldn't mind trying spirit releasement therapy with someone qualified and experienced in this field, unfortunately such people are not easy to come by in my part of the world.
As for the ability to be hypnotized here is my experience:
Few years ago I went to this hypnotherapist ___http://www.marshall-warren.com/ with the fixed idea to explore past lives. She doesn't do this kind of work and since I knew her personally she reluctantly agreed to try it.
Cannot say that I was really impressed with the results.
First of all - how can you tell if you were hypnotized?
All I know is that I was very very relaxed, but my mind and sense of myself was fully there. Some images and plots came up, but even as this was going on I was wondering if I am inventing all this or these are true memories.
The strongest plot that came up was of the person which was prosecuted, and maimed (at one point I couldnt feel my hands and I decided they were burned and cut off?) for religious (Cathar or Bogumil?) beliefs, but neither then nor today I can be sure if this was real memory or just the invention of my mind built around the fact that my arms fell asleep due to the position I was laying in.
Later I noticed that whenever I lay on my back with my arms folded on the stomach they soon go numb. At this point I move them, but during hypnotherapy session I didn't for long period of time and this could have easily caused total lack of sensation in my hands. Also I was always fascinated with Manichean heresy and have read a lot about Cathars, Bogumils and others. So what came first chicken or the egg?
In short this session didn't clarify anything, and it was too expensive to probe for more.
Although this all sounds very interesting something tells me its wild goose chase and distraction from true Work on yourself.