Guide

The word “mystery” it derives from the Latin mysterium, that also means secret religious rite, accessible knowledge only to the initiates, truth of faith that is inaccessibleto the reason.
Going up again backer still we find the Greek muo that means “to close him of eyes, lips or wounds”. You word mystery contains therefore, in its same history, the sense of “to keep silent the secret” but also of “not to see” and of “to recover”. We are able, along this line, to actually go up again to the etymological root MU that points out the “to press together the lips” (from which the Latin mutus) underlining as the choice of the silence as dimension of sacredness and not violable is shaped.

The mystery surrounds the man since the origins accompanying himself to the amazement and the wonder for the world and for everything how much it is manifested as incomprehensible. From this amazement the superstition and the religion are born before, the philosophy and the science then. In front of them immensely great, to the immoderately powerful, to the unpredictable one and the uncontrollable one, the man is not able that his world of spiritual reality to fill with which is able, somehow, to try to enter relationship. A divinity, as demanding and bloodthirsty as can be, (we for instance remember those of the Mayas and of the Aztecs to which were also made human sacrifices) reassuring more than an impersonal and indifferent natures will result, however extraneous and inaccessible, on which, without suitable knowledges and tools, it would absolutely be impossible to be able to intervene.
The man, intelligent and superb animal, is apparently subdued, he is done small and servile, he completes sacrifices and he is prostrated before to his of the, with the purpose however to find one some indirect form of control and dominion on the inscrutable nature, on the inaccessible and anxious mysteries of the life and the death.
Little by little however the superstitious and religious models of control of the reality, surrender the footstep, to other formality of intervention on the world, on the unknown one, on the pain (you are enough to think about the more and more resounding victories of the medicine).
The desire and the love for the knowledge, incarnate in the philosophy before and in the science then they modify, and they improve these forms of intervention, submitting, with always great forms control’s rigor the possibilities to alter the course of the nature that the man, during his history, goes discovering.

The history of the science is history of the progressive to reveal himself of the truth, agreement in his Greek meaning of aletheia, but also history of the to get sharper himself progressive of a method of search and verification. The science, for his same nature, tightly connected with the mystery and with a nature that obstinately holds, preciously concealed its secret and it slowly surrenders only and with work to the man its treasures.

The hypnosis is an extraordinarily and original discipline because it repeatedly sets, sometimes without wanting it, the researcher to narrow contact with the endless call and the charming charm that the mystery inevitably it emanates. We will shortly see in what possible senses this happens.