self-suggestion
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Auto-suggestion, or self-suggestion, is also extremely frequent in these experiments, as well as with writing mediums.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
Before every trip, with self-hypnosis and self-suggestion, I erase my own memories—a sort of artificial amnesia—so that the Lhari can't find out any more than I want them to find out.
From The Colors of Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Dr Hugh Wingfield stated to the Society for Psychical Research that the case of one of his patients proved that hallucinations could be produced by self-suggestion.
From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles
Hypnotic suggestion or self-suggestion is not an agency which stands wholly alone.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Yet, important though these and similar experiments in self-suggestion may be, they do not solve our problem as to the ultimate origin and distribution of the faculty thus displayed.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
