In my last discussion, I mentioned how a lazy person in AMORC might skip some of the techniques and therefore partially save himself from the kind of total programming I experienced. But AMORC’s techniques, if properly practiced, intersect many of the techniques Singer talks about.
            For one thing, there are quite a few breathing techniques, which can also be combined with meditation, chanting and visualization. For another, chanting, in itself is a major exercise in the Rosicrucian portfolio.
            Singer describes chanting as carried out in more traditional religious cults:

Within some cultic groups, older members demonstrate chanting techniques, urging the newer members to say the chanting phrases along with them. The new members soon learn to imitate the tonal qualities, patterns and rhythms of their neighbors. Carried out for a prolonged period in a loud voice, sometimes accompanied with swaying, this exercise, too, produces the hyperventilation syndrome, which is then relabeled as progress, closeness to God, or a new level of enlightenment.

            One of the key concepts Singer uses is “reframing,” where exercises are said to be generating ultra-positive experiences, a concept, which alleviates some of the concerns of members, when exercises develop dizziness, headaches or gastrointestinal effects.
            Chanting is a big part of AMORC’s exercise book, which various sounds corresponding to different psychic centers. These are RA, MA, MAR, THA, EH, MEH, EHM, ER, THO, KHEI, AUM, and OM. So are visualizations, so are certain ritualistic movements. As I say in AMORC Unmasked, these exercises follow and enhance the authority given to AMORC in the early monographs.  After that,

“…you are told to do certain things, ritualistic and otherwise, that act as ‘trance’ reinforcers. These are specific kinds of hypnotic ‘triggers’ that serve to deepen a state of hypnosis. In my opinion, drinking a ritual class of water; doing certain types of breathing; chanting and progressive relaxation are among those ‘triggers’ that serve to initiate (or re-initiate), deepen and direct the hypnotic trance.”

As I say, later on, in AMORC Unmasked–

As we look carefully at these chanting practices and what is claimed for them, we should ask ourselves, how much can we really know about their effects? Can we, indeed, in any sense, verify the effect of these sounds on specific centers, on the physiological operations of various organs or on the intercellular processes that go on in a microscopic level?

            Coupling the chanting and the breathing with visualization and a deep hypnotic agenda can eventually produce the level of suggestibility that leads to positive hallucinations.
            In my opinion, AMORC’s training, if members submit to their exercises on some level of intensity, will produce at least that- the ability to create auras, visions and different types of light phenomena- as opposed to actually seeing what is. This experience of “occult” powers or perceptions can drive one very deep into the mindset that perceives these things as real.             All this is intensified by lack of sleep, the stress occasioned by never being able to read, write or exercise enough, the demands of the duties at the Lodge (if appropriate), the uncomfortable sleeping posture, the ritual glass of water beside you before you sleep, the morning salutation of the Sun exercise- a continual, unrelenting cycle of things to do, accompanied by the physiological effects of certain practices.