With no judgement intended I don't think Torkom Saraydarian understands this fully. Hypnosis can be used by the negative ego or used by the Christ consciousness. Now the truth is most people misuse it because most hypnotists live out of the personality and not the soul. This is why Torkom Saraydarian is so fearful of it. I actually recommend self-hypnosis more than hypnosis.
Hypnosis however is nothing more than the science of giving suggestions.
In my opinion he is inaccurate in his statement. The difference between hypnosis and meditation is just a question of whether you are focussing on the subconscious mind or superconscious mind. May I remind you that Edgar Cayce who is probably the greatest channel of spiritual information that has ever lived began channeling the universal mind through an initial hypnosis experience. We would not have any of his knowledge if it weren't for hypnosis. A great many forms of meditations are really hypnosis.