In May 1960 a 16 year boy was admitted to Queen
Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, suffering from a complaint known as
fish-scale disease. He looked ghastly. John’s body was covered in black warts while
his hands were encased in a black, rigid horny scale so inelastic that any
attempt to bend it would cause it to crack and become infected. Fish-scale
disease is congenital and considered incurable.
Queen Victoria’s Hospital had a worldwide reputation
for plastic surgery. An attempt was made to transplant skin from John’s chest
to the palms of his hands. The attempt was a failure. However the anesthetist, who
was also a skilled hypnotist, had previously cured a case of warts with
hypnotism. He had an idea. If a couple of warts could be made to disappear with
hypnosis why not try with the boy whose skin resembled a mass of warts. When he
suggested this to the surgeon, Sir Archibald McIndoe, he was not amused and,
turning on Mason, sourly told him to have a go if he wanted to.
Dr Mason went ahead with John’s session and the boy
fairly quickly went into a hypnotic trance in which Dr Mason suggested that the
disease in his left arm was healing and would soon be gone. Five days later the scaly layer covering the
boy's left arm fell off, revealing soft, healthy flesh beneath. By the
end of ten days the arm was completely normal. Dr Mason took John along to Sir
Archibald who was stunned. “Good God man, do you know what you’ve done. That
boy had congenital ichthyosiform
erythroderma. Go and look it up.”
Dr Mason took himself to the Medical Library and
learned that congenital ichthyosiform
erythroderma is a rare type of skin diseases which occurs in 1 in
200,000 to 300,000 births. The boys' condition was caused by a
genetic fault and, therefore, should not have been curable in the
least. The evidence as it stood suggested the possibility that Dr. Mason had
somehow changed the boys' genetic code was impossible. There is no way the
genetic code can be changed like that.
This discovery that the
disease was incurable had a curious effect on Dr. Mason. Whereas before he had
a sort of innocent confidence, now, in spite of his visible success, a shadow
of doubt must have crept into his unconscious. For when he tried to repeat the
process on the boy’s right arm, nothing happened.
The success of hypnosis
depends not only on reaching the unconscious of the subject and on implanting,
you might say, a belief. It also depends on the hypnotist’s state of mind too.
He has to be confident, or just simply lack any doubt, a knowing that hypnosis
works. Dr Mason’s discovery that what he
had visibly achieved was impossible cast a doubt right where it mattered. Logic
cannot reach into the Soul Mind. And so, the second and third attempt to cure John’s
right arm failed. Not only that, but some time later the boy himself proved to
be unhypnotizable. Whereas before he had easily gone into a trance he was now
completely resistant.
If we take divine
intervention out of the equation, there are some important insights to be
gained from remarkable stories like the one above. The first is that the mind
(the Inner Soul Mind not the Analytical Mind) can create realities in
the most dramatic way. When a person is hypnotised their Analytical Mind goes to sleep, making the Inner Soul Mind reachable. Their fantasy life and their perceptions
can be completely changed. The imagination can make us see things that are not
there and render things invisible that are - but John’s fish-scale disease was
not just an illusion. This was not
dealing with mere imagination, but with physical reality. Quite a different thing.
Somehow the laws of nature were subverted by human mental intervention. * That the mind can directly effect physical
reality we might call miraculous, forgetting for the moment that telepathy, an
everyday occurrence, also violates ordinary scientific common sense. So does
every placebo effect in the doctor’s surgery.
* The ability of the mind to directly effect
physical objects is called telekinesis.
See
Dr Mason’s Hypnotic Miracle : http://anomalyinfo.com/articles/sa00107.php
See also
: http://www.hypnosis-kids.com/hypnosis-healing-stories-brocq.htm
contact:
stanrich@vodafone.co.nz
(03) 981 2264
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