Settenario di Ipnosi Superiore — Metodo Di Pisa/en
| 📚 Fonte primaria: opere del Prof. Erminio Di Pisa (1920ca.-2015) |
| Questa pagina deriva dalle opere del Prof. Erminio Di Pisa — figura cardine della tradizione italiana del magnetismo ipnotico del Novecento, allievo di Dante Caravelli e a sua volta maestro di Marco Paret. Di Pisa ha formalizzato il Settenario di Ipnosi Superiore e perfezionato l'applicazione clinica della fascinazione di Donato (l'ipnosi ad occhi aperti) per il trattamento di disturbi muscoloscheletrici, cefalee, blefarospasmo, dolori cronici.
Documenti Drive ISI-CNV — corpus Di Pisa:
Linea di trasmissione documentata: Donato (Parigi-Bruxelles 1880) → Regazzoni / Lafontaine in Italia → Maestro Dante Caravelli (Firenze) → Prof. Erminio Di Pisa (Roma) → Marco Paret (ISI-CNV). |
The Settenario di Ipnosi Superiore is the concluding and most advanced section of the book L'Ipnosi dalla A alla Zeta by Prof. Erminio Di Pisa, explicitly reserved "for professionals only." It represents the highest point of Di Pisa's transmission: not basic techniques, but advanced phenomena requiring years of practice and an inner transformation of the operator.
The Opening: A Philosophy of Operating
Di Pisa introduces the Settenario with words that have an almost initiatory flavor. He writes that the common mind fixes its attention on the object of action, and that "the awareness of what one is doing becomes the greatest obstacle to overcome in training. The opposition between subject and object must be overcome, become one, flow spontaneously with a fluid and serene movement."
Imagination is the engine: "Imagination, once you reach the final stages of hypnosis, must always guide your actions. Imagination is like the sun, whose light is not tangible, but which can set a house on fire. Everything will depend solely on the desire you have to be the sun, that is, to be totally what you want to be. Only then can you realize the visualized phenomena." And again: "You must always apply the golden rule based on the mental effort of the occultists: visualize the suggested action, combining physical action with mental action. Imagination united with reason is genius!"
Fascination is described as something that goes beyond simple technique: "You will thus discover that fascination is a bond or enchantment that will pass from your spirit through your eyes into the eyes of him or her whom you wish to fascinate, into their heart, like a pure, shining, and subtle vapor. The strength of each of you will be proportional to the magnetic charm of your gaze and the will you have been able to employ."
The Seven Contents of the Settenario
Di Pisa lists the phenomena that will be explored in this advanced section:
- Fascination and Instantaneous Hypnosis — the method of Donato and Di Pisa's three personal methods
- Somnambulism, Lethargy, Catalepsy, Anesthesia — the great deep hypnotic states
- Hypnosis with Open Eyes — the subject remains with eyes open but in a hypnotic state
- Regression in Time — reliving past lives
- Mass Hypnosis in Theater — the methods of Webb, Ceccarelli, and Di Pisa for the general public
- Influencing via Radio and TV — therapeutic hypnosis at a distance
- Hypnosis in Soccer — sports applications
Fascination: Foundation of the Settenario
The first and most important technique of the Settenario is fascination, whose inventor Di Pisa explicitly identifies as Donato: "The state of fascination is an intermediate state between wakefulness and sleep. Baron D'Hont, the famous hypnotist known as Donato, invented the method."
The basic technique involves bringing one's nose almost to touch that of the subject and pointing one's eyes at the root of their nose, ordering them energetically to look back in turn. The resulting convergent strabismus quickly tires the eyes of the nervous subject, who loses self-control. From that moment, they imitate all the operator's gestures, obey every suggestion, and remember nothing. Repeating the attempts on the same subject, the state of fascination is produced "more and more," with less effort each repetition.
Di Pisa's Three Personal Methods
Di Pisa develops three variants of Donato's technique, adapted to different situations and magnetic strengths of the subject:
The Counting Method
Di Pisa invites the subject to count aloud: one, two, three... He approaches, brushing their nose, and asks them to look at him. "Within two or three seconds their speech hesitates... four... five... their voice loses more and more strength... finally it falls silent. The jaw muscles contract, fascination has arrived, and they begin to imitate my movements." Di Pisa raises the subject's right arm above their head: left to itself, the limb falls slowly. Rubbed vigorously, all the muscles harden and the arm remains rigid in the air. The subject meanwhile continues to imitate every gesture: they sit when Di Pisa sits, stand when he stands.
The Name Method
Di Pisa approaches the subject, staring severely, and denies their identity: "What is your name? Franco Cazzulani! No, sir, you are lying... your name is Giovanni Aloia." Under the authoritarian repetition of the false name, "Mr. Cazzulani gradually abandons his name while his will is annulled." The face pales, the body tires, the voice becomes faint. From that moment, the subject responds to the false name and obeys like an automaton: "they throw themselves at my feet, raise their arms, bend them, lower themselves, throw themselves to the ground as I order. Every muscle I rub stiffens immediately, they imitate my gestures, repeating every word of mine with the same tone of voice."
The Handkerchief Method
Di Pisa has the subject pick up a handkerchief from the floor. As they are straightening up and looking towards him, a sudden glance hypnotizes them: "the muscles of the arm and trunk contract immediately, remaining motionless in that uncomfortable position." The contraction faithfully reflects the last position of the body at the precise moment the phenomenon occurs.
The Settenario and the European Esoteric Tradition
Di Pisa explicitly connects the Settenario to the tradition of the occultists, citing "the golden rule based on the mental effort of the occultists." It is no coincidence that Di Pisa's book also contains sections dedicated to animal magnetism, telepsychia, doubling, prediction of the future, and astrology: Di Pisa saw hypnosis as part of a broader vision of the power of the human mind.
Fascination, in particular, is for him something that "will pass from your spirit through your eyes" — a vision that aligns with Mesmer's conception of animal magnetism and the tradition of the gaze as a vector of vital force.
The Connection to the Method Paret
Di Pisa's Settenario represents the direct legacy transmitted to Marco Paret through the chain Caravelli → Di Pisa → Paret. The Method Paret develops in particular fascination and its therapeutic application in the Ball of Light, which realizes therapeutic fascination entirely with open eyes: the logical culmination of what Di Pisa taught in the Settenario.
Source
- Prof. Erminio Di Pisa, L'Ipnosi dalla A alla Zeta — Settenario di Ipnosi Superiore (for professionals only)
Sources
Primary Sources
For the framework of the 19th-century European magnetic tradition, the main primary sources, all digitized in the ISI-CNV Drive folders, are:
- Franz Anton Mesmer, Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal, Genève-Paris, 1779.
- Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis de Puységur, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire et à l'établissement du magnétisme animal, Paris, 1784.
- Joseph Philippe François Deleuze, Histoire critique du magnétisme animal, 2 vols., Paris, 1813.
- Charles Lafontaine, L'Art de Magnétiser ou le Magnétisme Animal, Paris, Germer Baillière, 1847 — PDF Drive ISI-CNV.
- Charles Lafontaine, Mémoires d'un magnétiseur, 2 vols., Genève, 1866 — vol. I PDF · vol. II PDF.
- Baron du Potet de Sennevoy, Manuel de l'étudiant magnétiseur, Paris, 1846; Traité complet du magnétisme animal, Paris, 1875; La Magie dévoilée, Paris, 1852.
- Donato (Alfred d'Hont) and Edouard Cavailhon (ed.), Le Magnétisme — Journal de Psycho-Physiologie, Paris-Bruxelles, 1880-1886 — issues 1-50, 50-104, 104-154, 154+ digitized in the ISI-CNV Drive (see page Donato — Il Padre della Fascinazione for direct links).
- Édouard Cavailhon, La Fascination Magnétique, Paris, E. Dentu, 1882.
- Albert de Rochas d'Aiglun, Les états profonds de l'hypnose, Paris, Chamuel, 1892; L'extériorisation de la sensibilité, Paris, 1895; Les états superficiels de l'hypnose, Paris, 1893.
- Hector Durville, Magnétisme personnel ou psychique, Paris, 1903; Traité expérimental de magnétisme, 2 vols., Paris, 1904-1907 — ISI-CNV Drive folder: Durville Books.
Anti-Hallucination Verification Dossier
Verifiable primary source excerpts for the Lafontaine/du Potet/Deleuze school are collected in the primary source excerpts dossier on the ISI-CNV Drive, part of the anti-hallucination verification system adopted by the School to ensure that every historical claim is traced back to a verifiable textual passage.
Reference Secondary Bibliography
- Adam Crabtree, From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing, Yale University Press, 1993.
- Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry, Basic Books, 1970 (chapters on mesmerism and early hypnosis).
- Alan Gauld, A History of Hypnotism, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Bertrand Méheust, Somnambulisme et médiumnité (1784-1930), 2 vols., Le Plessis-Robinson, Synthélabo, 1999.
- Nicole Edelman, Voyantes, guérisseuses et visionnaires en France 1785-1914, Paris, Albin Michel, 1995.
- Daniel Pick, Svengali's Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture, Yale University Press, 2000.
- Marco Paret, A History of Hypnotism (ISI-CNV), for the placement of French-Italian magnetism in the line Mesmer → Puységur → du Potet → Lafontaine → Donato → Caravelli → Di Pisa → Paret.