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Speaker 1: Future impression. Now I wish to call to your attention

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to what may be called future impression, or as the

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hypnotists call it, post hypnotism, et cetera. Future impressions are

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like seeds planted in the mind, which grow, blossom and

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bear fruit at some future time. The hypnotists produce this

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phenomena by giving the subject, while in the hypnotic sleep,

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the suggestion that at a certain time, either in a

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few minutes or hours or days, he will do certain

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things or feel certain things. But the newer school of

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psychologists have discovered that these future impressions may be made

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in the ordinary receptive state, just as is the case

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with any of the other forms of mental impressions, and

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the result will be the same as that obtained by

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the hypnotists. In spite of their theories and methods the

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general principles, I do not propose going into detail regarding

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this class of phenomena, because all that is necessary to

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be said can be comprised in the following two statements.

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One that generally speaking, all the phenomena of the ordinary

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immediate mental impression may be produced as future impression, and

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two that all the phenomena of future impression produced by

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the operator on the subject may be likewise produced by

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auto impression of the subject, that is, by the subject

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inducing impressions in himself. How future impressions are given. In

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the first of the above stated principles, the subject is

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merely told that you will do so and so at

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such and such a time, instead of do so and

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so now. For instance, instead of telling the impressionable that

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the chair is burning him now, you may tell him

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that in two minutes he will feel the chair burning him.

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The result will be similar in both cases. Apply the

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same principle to any of the mesmeric phenomena mentioned in

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pre chapters, and the result will be similar. The force

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of the impression, the degree of impressionability, et cetera, will

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play the same part in both immediate impression and future impression.

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This principle is called into operation by suggestionists in treating

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for habits, the suggestions being given along the lines of

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every time you pick up a cigar, you will feel

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nauseated and will think of a disgusting barroom spittoon, et cetera,

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et cetera. It is always a case of you will

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in future impression instances from everyday life. Many foolish suggestions

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are given in everyday life along the lines of future impression,

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and alas many of them are accepted carelessly owing to

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a lack of knowledge of the principle. How many times

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has it been said to an impressionable young bride, never mind,

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you'll grow tired of him after a while, et cetera.

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Or to a man, wait until the novelty wears off,

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and you'll see how sick of the job you'll get.

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Or you'll lose your interest and enthusiasm by and by,

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or you'll find him out after a while, and we'll

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see that he's not what he seems, and so on.

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You may add to these instances from your own experience,

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and too often these suggestions are recalled and have a

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tendency to cause the person to make them come true.

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Many fortune tellers prophecies have been made come true in

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this way by impressionable and ignorant people. I have given

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you a key to this principle. Now heed the lesson.

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If you feel that an attempt at future impression is

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being made on you headed off with a mental no,

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I won't. That is the antidote for the bane. Remember this.

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It may save you trouble some day. The secret of

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future auto impressions the second principle in the statement made

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several paragraphs further back. I e. That all the phenomena

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of future impressions may be duplicate by auto impression or

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impressions made by one's self is true and worthy of consideration.

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You make up your mind that you must awaken to

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catch a train at four tomorrow morning, and you awaken

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in time, you have set your mental alarm clock. If

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you have an engagement at three this afternoon, you may

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set your alarm as follows. Talking to yourself. Of course,

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now see here, Remember that you must see Smith at

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three this afternoon. Three three I say. Remember now, three

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I say. And if you impress it sufficiently strong upon

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your mind a little before three, you will begin to

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feel uneasy. And then suddenly your Smith engagement will pop

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into your mind from your subconscious region, and you will

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reach out for your hat and overcoat mental alarm clock.

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Remember that tells the whole tale. The mental alarm clock.

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You see the experimenter giving future impressions, simply, that's the

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mental alarm clock going along impressionable lines. He makes the

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mental impression and attaches it to the mental alarm clock.

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When the alarm goes off, the impression emerges into the

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field of consciousness and acts just as if it had

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been freshly made. That's the whole story, in plain homely

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terms self protection. But don't be frightened, you timid people.

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Remember this that you will not accept a future impression

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unless you would also accept a present impression. The degree

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of impressionability is the same in both cases. The only

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reason a future impression has the advantage over a present

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one is that it is more subtle, and people are

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not as much on guard about future things as they

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are about things to be done right now. You will

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resent an impression that you do this thing right now,

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while you pay but little attention to the earnest impression

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that in a year from now you will feel so

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and so about this matter, and dismiss the subject with

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a shrug of the shoulders instead of saying, at least mentally, no,

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I won't. The present impression is apt to attract your

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attention the more forcibly because it is more apparent, while

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the future impression is more insinuating. But now that you

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know the facts of the matter, you may laugh at

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them both and take the sting out of them by

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your little No, I won't how to kill out old

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adverse impressions. And just one word more, if you feel

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that you are harboring any future impressions made on you

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in the past, but upon which the alarm has not

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yet gone off, you may kill them by direct self

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impression or auto suggestions. To the contrary, That is, you

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may say, I will not act upon any adverse impressions

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that may have been made to me. I will them

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out of my mind. I kill them this moment by

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the power of my will, and at the same time

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make a mental picture of the impression being obliterated by

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the action of your will, just as the chalk mark

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is erased from the blackboard by the passing over of

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it of the eraser. Try this plan and be free.

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Some of you will thank me for this mark my

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words