Hypnology Issue 1i

Issue 1: July 2013
The journal of hypnosis and consciousness exploration
In This Issue
• A Note from the Publisher
• Selling Success to Your Subconscious – Roy Hunter
• Inquiring for Buckminster Fuller: An Interview Revisited –
Fred Kutchins
• Former Major league Ballplayer Eric Soderholm on the
Psychology of Hitting – Bob Rose
• The Secret History of Reincarnation – Roger A. Woolger
• Become a More Powerful Leader: Five Steps to Achieving
Clarity in the Face of Difficult Decisions – Luda Kopeikina
• A List of Alterations of Consciousness – Prof. Imants Barušs
• Doctor Braid and the Stage – Lewis Dark
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we must reach BEYOND the OBVIOUS collective MEMORY could prove EMBARRASSING
CONSCIOUSNESS is the FUNDAMENTAL REALITY ALTERED STATES of consciousness
SUBCONSCIOUS is reached by IMAGINATION and EMOTION WHERE are we GOING?
WHERE do we come FROM? THINKING is an EXCLUSIVELY individual HUMAN FUNCTION
100% COMMIT to being in the PRESENT MOMENT achieving the CLARITY STATE
subconscious COOPERATION WHAT are WE? REINCARNATION is having a COMEBACK
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we must reach BEYOND the OBVIOUS
A Note From the Publisher

by Fred Kutchins
More than one hundred years ago (in 1902) the great American psychologist William
James observed that,
Our normal waking consciousness is but one special

type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from
it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms
of consciousness entirely different.
By the time Professor James had written those words, the scientific world was
already captivated with a purely biological view of the human condition—one that
was not overly concerned with abstractions such as “consciousness.” As philosophy
professor Paul Thaggard pointed out in an article in Psychology Today, “We all have
a basic understanding of conscious experience from our own episodes of perception,
sensation, emotion, and reflection. But there is an unbridgeable explanatory gap that
prevents science from drawing consciousness within its scope.”
The primacy of biology has resulted in a state of affairs where we have become
conditioned to look to pharmaceuticals as the cure for every ill—physical and
otherwise—a situation that is often exacerbated by patients themselves. According
to a survey in DTC Perspectives by Reuters Health, one in five consumers ask their
physicians for brand name drugs they see advertised on TV.
So, is true happiness to be found in a bottle of pills? Are medications really the
ultimate answer to mankind’s eternal quest for internal peace? I think not.
I believe there is something about being human that transcends biology. This
‘something’ is a numinous intelligence that instills us with a burning desire to
understand our place in the universe and, thereby, to understand ourselves. It is
expressed as a fundamental restlessness, a constant yearning for more knowledge
about life, a refusal to be defined by the apparent status quo of the natural order and
the limitations of physicality. We want to know where we came from and where we
are going. But to find the answers we are seeking, we must reach beyond the obvious.
So, where shall we look for greater understanding? At a religious retreat?—In
a mountain fastness high in the Himalayas?—On a vision quest in the Arizona
desert?—In a cave?—On a yoga mat while sitting in the lotus position?—Inside a
house of worship? Actually, greater understanding can be found in any imaginable
setting because the answers inevitably emerge from the depths of our own psyche—
the personal aspect of boundless, timeless, transcendent consciousness.
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CONSCIOUSNESS is the FUNDAMENTAL REALITY
I believe that consciousness is the fundamental reality. Techniques for harnessing your natural ability to
But if we limit ourselves to ordinary, personal waking enter into hypnosis go by many different names,
consciousness alone and ignore the validity of all other e.g., meditation, visualization, guided imagery,
potential forms, we are cutting ourselves off from an Edmund Jacobson’s progressive relaxation, Herbert
unparalleled opportunity for self-growth and greater Benson’s relaxation response, Schulze and Luthe’s
understanding. autogenic training and so on. Some would add prayer
to the list. The goal of these techniques seems to be
Hypnosis opens a portal into that larger spectrum
what master hypnotist Dave Elman called ‘selective
of consciousness. It is the key to a wealth of internal
thinking’—that is, the ability to place your attention
power to cope with the problems of living, and
on one portion of an experience and tune out the rest.
to produce desirable changes in habit patterns,
Selective thinking temporarily quiets the logical,
motivations, self-image, health and lifestyle.
analytical part of your mind, tends to make you relax,
Yet hypnosis is not a rare or obscure phenomenon. It is and enables you to enter hypnosis and open yourself to
a part of normal everyday life. In fact, we frequently ideas, experiences, and suggestions that can help you
go into hypnosis without even noticing it. If you have become a happier, more centered, better functioning
ever been startled out of a daydream by the sound of person.
someone’s voice or become completely absorbed in a
In today’s increasingly complex and unpredictable
movie or any activity, you were in a hypnoid state. A
world, people everywhere are searching for peace and
common example is so-called “highway hypnosis”—
harmony in their lives. Hypnology will assist in this
a condition where you slip into a trancelike inner focus
pursuit through the exploration of all potential forms
while driving but continue responding normally to
of consciousness and will, I hope, foster a greater
road events.
appreciation of hypnosis as an agency of positive
personal transformation.
The Meditative Rose by Salvador Dali
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subconscious COOPERATION
Selling Success to Your Subconscious

by Roy Hunter
Have you every tried to change an undesired habit or attain an important goal, only
to find subconscious resistance preventing you from success?
Weight reduction programs and smoking cessation programs alone represent a multi-
billion dollar industry in the USA. Diets work on the body, but not on the mind.
Many smokers’ new years’ resolutions literally go up in smoke! College students
often procrastinate term papers until the last minute, and/or cram for the final exam
the night before taking it. Professional sales people all over the land often find
themselves failing to do the activities that are necessary to meet sales objectives.
Numerous books describe ways of achieving goals: effective weight control
programs, effective sales techniques, study habits, etc., yet people who read these
books and /or attend classes and seminars still fail…why?
Answering this important question will enable your ability to sell motivation to the
inner mind. The missing ingredient is subconscious cooperation, because the “inner
child” in all of us is tuned into WII-FM. Those are the call letters for “What’s In It
For Me?”
Why Will Power Often Fails

Any professional sales person will tell you that people buy a product or service
because of the benefits that product or service will provide. Conversely, if we fail
to recognize the benefits, most of us will not want to pay the price…and if the
salesperson gets pushy, I am very quick to walk away. Most customers will do
likewise if someone tries to force them to buy.
How does this relate to the subconscious? The answer is a simple metaphor: the
conscious mind (decision maker) is the salesperson, and the subconscious is the
customer – and this customer will normally resist a hard-sell from the conscious
mind! In fact, many clients seeing me over the years have made dozens of attempts to
reach the same goal through “will power” and other programs that have cost money,
only to find the inner child rebels once again at the hard sell of the conscious mind.
Failure to reach a goal at a conscious level doesn’t always mean that we are weak.
Rather, it may indicate a very powerful subconscious. Once that power is re-directed,
the difference can be life-changing!
How can we accomplish using this power? We must persuade the subconscious to
cooperate, otherwise we might run into resistance from the inner mind. We must
use selling skills to persuade the inner child to pay the price of change in order to
enjoy the benefits. I call this “Selling Success to Your Subconscious.” Most people
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SUBCONSCIOUS is reached by IMAGINATION and EMOTION
attempting to achieve a goal simply try to cram the Once you fall in love with the benefits of your goal,
price into the subconscious and then wonder why this action causes the effect of greater motivation
they run into resistance. Price for a dieter is changing to pay whatever price is necessary to achieve the
eating habits, which the inner child is unwilling to do. desired goal. So the key to overcoming subconscious
Price for a smoker is ignoring smoking urges, often resistance lies in persuading the subconscious to
caused by various triggers of habit (putting key in buy the benefits of change. Before accomplishing
ignition, drinking a beverage, etc.). While we may this important step, you must identify your specific
know consciously what the benefits of a goal might be, benefits.
unless those benefits are communicated to the inner
child, the result is: NO SALE. Applying Imagination and Emotion
Here’s what to do: take out a sheet of paper and list
The Language of the Subconscious the main benefits you will enjoy upon fulfillment of
Before any sales person can sell a product or service, your desired goal. (Note: Your subconscious responds
he/she must speak the same language as the customer. better when you choose your own benefits rather than
The conscious mind is the seat of logic while the simply accepting someone else’s benefits.)
subconscious is reached by imagination and emotion.
Get your imagination involved with the benefits of
Whenever imagination and will power are in conflict,
achieving your goal by fantasizing them during self-
imagination will usually win. If I say, “Don’t think
hypnosis. You should also fantasize ways of enjoying
of a dog,” what did you imagine? Most people will
each benefit with as many of your five senses as
immediately imagine seeing a dog, petting one, or
possible. I call this process “Selling Success to Your
hearing one bark. Yet the conscious instructions were
Subconscious” . In a meditative state, imagine your
to NOT think of one! The dieter who uses self-talk to
benefits as vividly as possible, and fantasize how you
avoid the cake or pie will normally fantasize the taste
feel emotionally about enjoying your benefits. In other
of it…and often indulge. Can you relate to this?
words, imagine the attitude of gratitude!
Now let’s apply the above to someone working on
By doing all of the above, you can marry two powerful
weight reduction. The subconscious resists giving
methods of subconscious programming, self-hypnosis
up dessert, but will be comfortable (and happier)
and emotion. Now you are ready to sell success
imagining the benefits of trying on an ideal size of
to your subconscious. If you need assistance, then
clothes. So, in a sense, the conscious mind must sell
choose a competent hypnotist to help you. Although I
success to the subconscious by using the language of
wrote a book about the use of self-hypnosis, it’s like a
the subconscious, which is imagination.
muscle. I can lift a chair by myself, but I need help to
move a couch. If your goal feels like a couch in your
Emotion is Subconscious Power: The subconscious, seek professional help.
Energy of the Subconscious
Before proceeding any further, let’s overview another
very important concept that I’ve used successfully
with clients over the years... While imagination is
the language of the subconscious, emotion is the
motivating power of the mind! Emotion can either
propel us to success, or hinder us from accomplishing
even simple tasks…and the most powerful positive
emotion is love.
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what I inwardly KNEW to be TRUE
Cary Grant Reveals How He Stopped Smoking

(from an unpublished interview)
“For more than thirty years of my life I had smoked with

increasing habit. I was finally separated from the addiction
by Betsy (editor’s note: Betsy Drake, Grant’s wife at the
time), who, after carefully studying hypnosis, practiced it,
with my full permission and trust, as I was going off to sleep
one night. She sat in a chair near the bed and, in a quiet,
calm voice, rhythmically repeated what I inwardly knew to
be true, the fact that smoking was not good for me; and, as
my conscious mind relaxed and no longer cared to offer a
negative thought, her words sank into my subconscious; and
the following day, to my surprise I had no need or wish to
smoke. Nor have I smoked since. Nor have I, as far as I know,
replaced it with any other harmful habit.”
Betsy Drake
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ENGINEER, designer, PHILOSOPHER, architect,
MATHEMATICIAN, poet and—no doubt—a MYSTIC
Inquiring for Buckminster Fuller: An Interview

Revisited
by Fred Kutchins, CH
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was one of the 20th

Century’s most original thinkers and visionaries. Best
remembered as the inventor of the geodesic dome and for
his concept of the earth as a self-sustaining spaceship,
he described himself as a “comprehensive anticipatory
design scientist”. Fuller worked tirelessly to solve global
problems surrounding housing, shelter, transportation,
education, energy, ecological destruction and poverty.
He was an engineer, designer, philosopher, architect,
mathematician, poet and—no doubt—a mystic.
In his 1970 book I Seem to Be a Verb, he wrote: “I live on Earth at present and I don’t
know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to
be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe.”
For many of us who came of age during the late ‘60s–70s, “Bucky” was an iconic
figure—a true genius with the mind of a scientist and the heart of a humanitarian.
I was thrilled when I had the opportunity to interview him for a local magazine
back in 1977. The interview took place in Kansas City, the evening before he was
scheduled to give the keynote address to a convention.
I arrived at his hotel at around 5:00 PM and went to the front desk. An envelope
had been left there for me containing a note from Fuller inviting me to meet him in
the hotel restaurant for dinner. I could hardly believe my good fortune—not just an
interview, but dinner with Buckminster Fuller! By coincidence, Fuller came walking
by a moment later. I recognized him and introduced myself. Together we strolled
across the lobby to the restaurant, where two other guests of his were waiting. After
dinner, Fuller and I went up to his room and we talked for about two hours. It was
a wide-ranging conversation, covering many aspects of his life and work. I left
sometime after 9:00 PM.
I had kept the dinner invitation as a souvenir. On the flight home that night I took the
envelope out of my coat pocket and glanced at it again. Scrawled across the face, in
his handwriting, were the words “Inquiring for Buckminster Fuller”—a perfect title
for my interview. And that is how it ran in the magazine.
I re-read the piece recently and it is striking that many of the things Fuller said still
resonate today some 35 years after the fact. And although I have no idea whether
he ever delved into hypnosis per se, it is apparent that he was tuned into something
far beyond the scope of normal waking consciousness. And the trajectory of his life
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extraordinary INNOVATION
At that time I was interested in the concept of time
as an entity, in the way you might think about it
mathematically and physically. I wanted to know who
the first people were to write about the subject in this
way. So, I studied poems by Sappho and the works
of Father Goethe, who wrote a great deal about the
phenomenon of time.
“Well, one day Margaret found on Emerson’s desk
books by two German authors written in German and
sent to him by Carlyle. Emerson, who did not read
German, turned them over to Margaret, who translated
them into English and soon thereafter introduced these
clearly indicates a remarkable degree of motivation. two new authors—Schiller and Goethe—to Harvard
Here are excerpts from the interview. (I have made University. It is interesting that a hundred years later,
slight edits for continuity.) and under very different conditions, I found myself
discovering Margaret as a kindred thinker, as more
“My first visit to Chicago was when I was four years
than a blood relative. Her thoughts fortified my 1927
of age,” Fuller said, replying to a question about his
thoughts and initiatives.”
long-term link to the Windy City. “It was a wonderful
trip and, for me, an impressionable year. It was when I Here Fuller was referring to the start of his
first got my glasses so I could see things in a different 12-year Dymaxion Period. This was a time for him
way. Up to that time, you know, I couldn’t see very of extraordinary innovation. Besides designing a flat
well. All I have to do is take my glasses off now to see world map, he developed and built the circulator 4-D
what I could see at four—pretty much a blur. I can get House, a three-wheeled streamlined automobile, a
colors but no definition. Without glasses I cannot even one-piece prefabricated bathroom and other advanced
see human eyes. technology. But it was preceded by intense personal
tragedy.
“My great-aunt, Margaret Fuller, came to Chicago
around 1840 and wrote a book. She stayed in the “Our first daughter had died on her fourth birthday
Indian camps on the other side of the river from Fort five years earlier, having gone through infantile
Dearborn. Later, she got with Ralph Waldo Emerson paralysis and spinal meningitis,” Fuller said. “It was
and together founded The Dial, a magazine for the a long battle for life. And it was a terrible thing when
Transcendentalists. She was also the first to publish she died.”
Thoreau. Margaret was way, way ahead of her time. Sometime later he decided to enter the construction
The Europeans liked the new magazine. It was the business.
first intellectual magazine in America. Interestingly,
the letters they sent to the new publication were “We got up 240 buildings,” he remembered, “But
directed to Emerson, not her, even though she was much to my disgrace I was more effective in
the co-editor.” producing good buildings than in making money.
I was really a financial disaster as a builder. So the
I asked Fuller in what ways Margaret had influenced company lost money and they sold it out.
him.
“Many of the well-known names in Chicago had
“Originally, I knew nothing about Margaret though backed me in that building venture. So I was really in
I was aware of our family relationship. The way great disgrace at that time as well as being a failure.
I started to learn about her accomplishments was I was penniless. It was then a terrible moment when
through a book called Margaret Fuller and Goethe.
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THINKING is an EXCLUSIVELY individual HUMAN FUNCTION
this beautiful new life, our second daughter Allegra, manner? And that brought me to saying, you can’t
came to us. I was on the verge of committing suicide do it by words; you can’t do it by reforming the other
one night when I made my basic decision to think for person; I can do it only by developing artifacts. Where
myself. something you see going on is iniquitous, or unfair, or
unwise, you don’t try to reform people, but you make
“My father had died, you see, when I was very
what they’re doing obsolete by producing an artifact
young and I had been brought up being continually
that makes it obsolete.”
discouraged from thinking for myself. So were my
contemporaries. It was assumed in those days that the Thus was born Fuller’s “Inventory of World
young people’s thinking was absolutely unreliable. Resources, Human Trends and Needs” which later
I had been continually admonished at home and at became World Game, a think tank devoted to finding
school, “Never mind what you think! Listen! We are solutions to global issues.
trying to teach you!”
Fuller continued:
“But the game of life that I had been taught to play
“I was eight years old when the Wright Brothers flew.
just didn’t work. Time and time again what I’d been
But all the grown-ups would have had me believe that
thinking was the right way turned out to be wrong.
it was inherently impossible to fly. Wireless? How wild
Either get rid of me, I said—and let my in-laws or my
can you get? Foreigners? They’re all crazy! This is the
mother struggle to support my wife and child—or vow
kind of nonsense we were told. I had been brought up
to turn my life to important account. Each of us is a
in a world that was utterly misinformed.
bundle of experiences and this experience involves
others. So I decided to turn my life around. “In those days, children accepted the authority of the
school and their parents as authority. Today (1977) it’s
“For my first self-questioning and my own thought
answer I asked myself how a little penniless human
being with a remaining life expectancy of only ten
years—I was 32 and the life expectancy of those born,
as I was, in 1895 was 42—could do more effectively
on behalf of all humanity that great corporations and
great political states cannot do.
“I realized the thing about our total planet was that the
big corporations and the big states can only govern
their own corporation and their own state. This leaves
seven-tenths of the planet Earth’s surface. No one
but a little human individual was and is free to think
practically about a total world.
“I said thinking is an exclusively individual human
function. Corporations and political states are only
legal contrivances and cannot think. Well, I said in
1927, I am going to think as incisively and as refinedly
as possible. I’m going to think about the Earth as
a spaceship with a certain amount of equipment
on board and passengers with a great many needs.
How do I take the total physical resources, the total
know-how that has thus far accumulated, and use
them to take care of humanity in the most effective
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no more SECONDHAND GOD
different. Kids are going out on their own. They’re “But the young people of today are coming through
saying, “I love my parents and they love me but they just fine. Every child is being born in the presence of
don’t have anything to do with going to the moon or less misinformation...without any conditioned reflexes.
with any other big matter.” Clearly, the world is in So I find each is being born in the presence of a great
trouble and the older people don’t know how to cope. deal more reliable information. This is a marked
We’ve got to do our own thinking—have a completely contrast to the times when I was growing up.
new world. I think our only hope is a young world
“All our hope is in the young people. The older
that really does its own thinking, a world that realizes
generation’s reflexes are so conditioned to yesterday’s
these potentials.
world that they think everything should be left to the
“Incidentally, I don’t think of any people as inherently politicians. Or they say leave it to religion or some
good or bad. You can’t do clear thinking if you have other intermediary. This is why I wrote my book, No
that kind of nonsense... Human beings are designed More Secondhand God. I deal in god at firsthand. We
to learn by error. They have had to make uncountable can all find god ourselves in whatever the truth may
numbers of incredible mistakes. But nature gave us a be and in all the truths put together. You’ve got to deal
vast bounty of resources, so that by excesses in trial with the truth directly, not leave it to others.”
and error we could eventually learn what the truth
Toward the end of my allotted time with him, I asked
may be and how to get on with it. We had to discover
Fuller if he had any special projects planned for the
our minds and learn that, by comparison, our muscle
Chicago area.
is as a mote of dust to the thus far discovered universe
of a billion galaxies, each consisting of hundreds of “No,” he said with some surprise. “I don’t have any
billions of stars.” plans for areas. My plans have to do with... the world.”
I asked Fuller about tensions between affluent and And the world is truly fortunate, I would say, to have
developing areas of the world. had an advocate such as R. Buckminster Fuller.
“One of the most disastrous mistakes people make
today,” he said, “is that of not wanting others to be
affluent. This springs from the old rationalization of
selfishness based on the mistaken notion that there
is an inherent cosmic insufficiency of life support,
wherefore it has to be either your side or my side that
is to survive, there being an eternal condition of not
enough for both sides. But there is plenty of both the
essentials and any desirables as well for everyone
today.
“Back in 1917, when I commanded a ship in the Navy,
I began to see that the very essence of technology is
to be able to do more with less. I saw, for example,
how one little airplane could sink a battleship. When
we realize that there is enough to go around, the
rationalization for selfishness is gone. But people who
are playing their “economic advantage defense game”
either do not know of or are not used to the idea that
everyone can come up in the world. They’re not used
to the idea that a guy with a beard or his shirttail
sprawled on the ground can be a millionaire.’
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his AVERAGE began to CLIMB and CLIMB
Former Major League Ball Player Eric Soderholm

on the Psychology of Hitting
by Bob Rose
(Note: originally published in

2008. For information about “You have to have a short memory. Even the very
Soderworld, visit best hitters will fail seven out of ten times. You
www.soderworldwellness.com.) must stay in the moment. Not in the past, nor in the
future, the hitter must keep his mind in the present
moment when he digs into the batter’s box. The
present moment, it’s the only moment you really
have.”
It’s one of many pearls of hitting wisdom from Eric
Soderholm, White Sox slugger from the ‘77 South
Side Hitmen team, and AL Comeback Player of
the Year for that season. Few major league players
understand the body/mind/& spirit influence on
plate performance as deeply as Eric.
Soderholm continued, “Fear plays a big role in how well a hitter does. If he learns to
deal with his fear of failure, a ballplayer will make steady progress up the ladder on
his way to the big leagues. Once his level of competence is matched by the players
around him, the player must next overcome ‘the quicksand of comparison’ – the urge
to compare himself with teammates and others in the league. As a Twins rookie, I
thought, ‘Killebrew, Carew, Oliva – am I good enough to hit with these guys?’ You
have to find a way to work through your fears.”
Soderholm found that way by following the lead of seven-time AL batting champion,
Rod Carew. “Rod was seeing a hypnotist named Harvey Misel. Harvey worked
with him on his hitting. I figured if this stuff was approved by Rod it certainly was
good enough for me. So on my first visit to Harvey he tells me, ‘You are going to
be aggressive at the plate. More aggressive than you have ever been. Aggressive.
Aggressive. You’re going to attack that ball.’ So my next game after the session, I go
0 for 3 with two strike-outs. I swung at balls over my head, I was so aggressive.”
Sensing that Harvey could somehow help his hitting, Eric decided to give hypnosis
with Misel another chance. He knew this time what to expect and, overall, what
would happen in the session. He found himself much more relaxed. He was able to go
into a deeper state of subconscious. Misel made a few adjustments himself that also
made a difference. Said Soderholm, “Harvey fine-tuned the ‘aggressive directive’
to be ‘controlled aggressiveness.’ He told me to see a box in front of the strike zone
and to attack the ball when I saw it entering that box.” Soon after, Eric hit a game-
winning two-run home run. His average began to climb and climb. Until one day,
while on road trip in New York, something in the newspaper caught Soderholm’s
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100% COMMIT to being in the PRESENT MOMENT
attention. He shared the moment, “There it was, in those thirteen years was right at .270 and I hit
print, in clear, plain, black and white: Eric Soderholm, 150 home runs. Little did I know it at the time, but
in the top ten, for batting average, in the American Ralph had played a major role in my comfort zone
League.” being established.”
Seeing his name grouped with the best hitters in Now sixty years old, Soderholm has a peacefulness
baseball disrupted his hitting comfort zone. “I about his success at the plate. “I was as good as I
immediately thought when I saw it, ‘Am I that good?’ could have been, knowing what I knew then.” But
My average began to go down, and down, and down. Eric knows so much more now. Soderholm never
I realize now that I was seeking a level of comfort stopped studying the body/mind/spirit connection.
about the hitter that I was.” He is one of Chicago’s leading authorities on
practicing mindfulness in whatever one does. Eric
Soderholm flashed back to a telling, post game
speaks from a place of knowledge gained by direct
conversation he had with Rod Carew. “I had gone
experience: “Thoughts create reality. When our wants
0 for 4 but had hit the ball hard, really hard, every
and desires are in perfect harmony with our beliefs
time. Two of my at bats went to the warning truck
and expectations, everything is all lined-up, and a
and I thought they might be home runs. The other
positive performance or outcome is the very likely
two were line shots that I was robbed on. Rod, on the
result. Then, you are being the best you can be.” As
other hand, was 5 for 5 that night: two drag bunts, two
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the ball and he barely touched it, yet, I had an
learning nestled in the natural beauty of a protected
‘0-fer’ and he was 5 for 5. Carew came over to me and
wetlands area.
laughingly said, ‘You gotta hit ‘em where they ain’t.’
And then he got more serious, pausing and saying, How would Eric help a slumping hitter on the North
‘Can you look me in the eye and believe you are a or South Side? “Most players in an extended slump
.300 hitter?’ Rod, of course, truly believed he was a are suffering on some level from paralysis by analysis.
.330 hitter so he had no trouble topping .300 at all.” Everyone is giving them suggestions. The first thing
I would do would be to get their mind out of the
Eric wanted to learn what the influences were that
mechanics. I would ask them, ‘Remember what it
determined the way he thought of himself as a hitter.
felt like to hit the ball really hard?’ I would get them
He continued to work with Harvey Misel. He did some
to connect with their emotional, feeling body, in all
serious soul-searching. He was determined to find out
the ways they could. Next, I would work on their
why he was the hitter he was. Finally, a breakthrough:
attitude – get them to be a confident hitter filled with
“Way back in my first year of pro ball, Class A, I had
‘controlled aggressiveness’ – which is an important
a manager named Ralph Rowe. I was pretty young
thing that Harvey Misel taught me. The right attitude
back then and Ralph was a guy who I really respected,
helps them to trust this approach to hitting. So does
he was a good guy. It was the end of the season and
having an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ A player needs to
I hit a home run to win the league championship.
be in touch with how fortunate he is to be a major
I got mobbed at home plate and I remember in the
leaguer. Now, I just need them to focus, to focus on
locker room Ralph whispering in my ear, ‘You’re a
the right things. So as they stand in the batter’s box,
hard-worker and if you keep working hard, I see you
they make it as simple as possible, ‘see the ball, hit
making it all the way to the big leagues. I see you as a
the ball hard.’ It all comes back to being in the present
.270 hitter, with power, who hits a lot of home runs.’
moment. If I can get them to 100% commit to being in
Well, I played professional baseball for thirteen years,
the present moment, they’ll hit, they’ll hit for sure, and
nine of them in the major leagues. My average over
enjoy a great career.”
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REINCARNATION is having a COMEBACK
The Secret History of Reincarnation

by Roger A. Woolger, PhD
Worn-out garments
Are shed by the body:
Worn-out bodies
(Extracted from Healing Your Are shed by the dweller
Past Lives, Sounds True, Within the body.
Boulder, Colorado, 2004)
New bodies are donned
By the dweller, like garments.
—Bhagavad-Gita II
Not long ago, I saw a slogan on a bumper sticker: Reincarnation is having a

comeback. It’s a sad fact that the scientific establishment in the United States still
marginalizes most work that even hints at realities beyond our own, including
regression therapy, parapsychology, and a vast body of research into paranormal
phenomena, from out-of body experiences to children’s spontaneous past-
life memories. By clinging to such a narrow protocol, mainstream psychology
risks becoming, in George Orwell’s memorable phrase, one of “the smelly little
orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.” But fortunately, in most
countries where I have lectured, the general public is far ahead of the academics.
Nearly everyone has heard of the doctrine of reincarnation, and recent polls show
that almost one in three Americans now believes in it, even though most of the
Christian churches reject it.
In recent years, a number of influences have brought past lives into present
consciousness. The widely read writings of Edgar Cayce, for one, have been
surprisingly influential in America, lending credence to the idea that past lives can
contribute to illness, emotional difficulties, relationship difficulties, and so on.
(I say “surprisingly” because Cayce channeled thousands of past-life readings while
in a trance state, even though his Christian-fundamentalist conscious self didn’t
initially believe in past lives!)Many people, thanks to Cayce, now understand the
idea of karma as the spiritual fallout of good or bad behavior from the soul’s past.
Still others have encountered Hindu teachings, in which the idea of reincarnation is
central, by being exposed to yoga or reading the popular works of authors such as
Caroline Myss and Barbara Brennan on the chakras, the subtle bodies, and energy
medicine. The famous Bhagavad-Gita is for sale today in nearly every bookstore.
Note: Ian Stevenson, M.D., of the University of Virginia has done a monumental thirty years of research into
children’s spontaneous memories of past lives. (See Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, 2nd ed.,
University Press of Virginia, 1974, and Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vols 1-4, University Press of Virginia,
1975–1983.) His work details meticulous, irrefutable research into nearly a hundred stories of past-life reports
from all over the world that were followed up and found to be accurate to an astonishing degree. There are even
photographs of deformities that derive from mutilations and wounds in past lives. This extraordinary research has
never been disproved or seriously challenged. But no one ever reads it! Happily this is not the case in Britain;
there David Lorimer wrote in the Scientific and Medical Network Review that Stevenson’s last major work,
Reincarnation and Biology (Praeger, 1997), would “surely rank as one of the great classics of 20th-century
psi research.”
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shifting ATTITUDES toward REINCARNATION
And who would have expected to see the Dalai to a friend: “I look upon death to be as necessary to
Lama vying with the Pope in the best seller lists? the constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the
The high-profile presence of Tibetan Buddhist lamas morning.”
throughout America and the world has profoundly
Nor was Franklin the only famous Westerner to
altered the spiritual landscape of Western society. The
believe that the soul not only survives death, but
making of a film like Little Buddha, with its story of a
returns in a new body to continue or to rectify the
Tibetan lama reborn in the body of a young American
life previously lived on earth. Evidence of this belief
boy, would have been unthinkable in Hollywood a
can be found in the writings of poets, writers, and
generation ago, but now it receives huge acclaim. Nor
philosophers across centuries: Dante, Marsilio Ficino,
does an actor like Richard Gere hesitate to profess his
Paracelsus, Shakespeare, Goethe, Wordsworth,
Buddhist affiliations publicly. Many people, myself
Swedenborg, Hume, Schopenhauer, George Sand,
included, have turned to meditation and radically
Walter Scott, Victor Hugo, Emerson, Wagner, Walt
changed our lifestyles after exposure to these powerful
Whitman, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Aldous
emissaries of ancient wisdom.
Huxley, Somerset Maugham, D.H. Lawrence, Rilke,
Pearl S. Buck, Carl Jung, Winston Churchill, Norman
Who Believes in Reincarnation? Mailer, Shirley MacLaine.
A better question might be, “Who doesn’t?” The
influx of traditional teachers and teachings from the Reincarnation, Christianity, and
East clearly accounts in part for our shifting attitudes
Paganism
toward reincarnation, but over the centuries the West
has had many distinguished believers of its own. Take Reincarnation has never officially been condoned by
the following delightful example: the Catholic Church or any of the major Protestant
churches. But it was an almost universal belief among
the many Gnostic and pagan sects that proliferated
The body of B. Franklin,
in the first three centuries of our era. Most educated
Printer,
Greeks and Romans of the Hellenic period subscribed
Like the Cover of an Old Book,
to it, especially those initiated into the great Mystery
Its Contents Torn Out
schools of Eleusis, Mithras, Dionysus, or Osiris.
And
We find it in the teachings of the Pythagorean
Stripped of its Lettering and Gilding,
brotherhood, an offshoot of the Orphic mysteries, and
Lies Here,
of course in the doctrines Plato taught in his famous
Food for Worms
Academy. The philosopher and initiate Plutarch, who
But the Work shall not be Lost,
became a priest at Delphi, wrote:
For it Will as He Believed
Appear Once More We know that the soul is indestructible and should
In a New and more Elegant Edition think of its experience as like that of a bird in a
Revised and Corrected cage. If it has been kept in a body for a long time
By the Author and become tamed to this life as a result of all sorts
of involvements and long habituation, it will alight
Benjamin Franklin’s witty epitaph for himself, written back to a body again after birth and will never stop
supposedly when he was twenty-one, was never used becoming entangled in the passions and chances of
on his tombstone, but it remains one of the most this world.
succinct and memorable summaries of the idea of Many surviving Gnostic writings, whose origins are
reincarnation ever penned. Franklin didn’t have his hotly debated by scholars, show striking similarities to
tongue in his cheek, either. At eighty-eight, he wrote Buddhist and Hindu teachings about the soul’s journey
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collective MEMORY could prove EMBARRASSING
after death, no doubt because of many centuries Shakespeare. (Others are the painters Durer, Botticelli,
of contact between Eastern and Western cultures and da Vinci, the poet Edward Spenser, and the
following the conquests of Alexander the Great. English magus Dr. John Dee.)
(It is known, for example, that Buddhists taught in
From the Renaissance on, with the rise of rationalism
Alexandria and that yogis reached Athens, where they
and early science, the psyche of the West begins to
were dubbed the “gymnophysicists.”)
split. More and more, rationalist philosophers attack
Before the third century C.E., pagan and early anything spiritual as superstition. In the 18th century,
Christian beliefs exist side by side in the Roman John Locke proclaims that the mind is a tabula rasa,
Empire. But when the emperor Constantine adopts a blank slate, at birth. Building on this dogma the
Christianity as the religion of the state, the Gnostics burgeoning “science” of psychology will eventually
and the Mystery schools come in for persecution and decide to throw out any idea of psychic inheritance,
reincarnation comes to be seen as a heresy. It is finally inborn memories or traits, thus breaking with three
excised from Roman Church thinking in 553, when the thousand years of wisdom gleaned from the ancient
teachings of Origen about the preexistence of the soul philosophy of the soul. (Perhaps it’s no coincidence
are anathematized by the emperor Justinian. After that this doctrine appeared just as all of Europe and
this, it disappears from Church history for nearly a its land-grabbing settlers were trying to disown
thousand years, briefly entering Europe as part of the flagrant acts of colonial aggression, genocide, and the
teachings of the Cathars, the late Gnostic group that horrors of slavery. With events like these to remember,
flourished in Northern Italy and Southern France in collective memory could prove embarrassing!)
the 12th and 13th centuries. Considered a threat to
orthodoxy, the Cathars are brutally extirpated by the The Heritage of the Romantics
Church in the notorious Albigensian Crusade, which But side by side with the growth of scientific
spawns the Inquisition (and in which my past-life rationalism, whose achievements within its own
mercenary plays a small but ignominious part). domain should never be underestimated, we see the
appearance of the great Enlightenment explorers of
Secret Teachings and Initiates the soul—Swedenborg, Mesmer, Goethe, Schelling—
In the East, reincarnation survives, buried within followed by the “visionary company” of the Romantic
Hermetic and Platonic teachings that are secretly movement, as Harold Bloom has called them: Blake,
preserved by certain monastic orders during the rise of Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Wordsworth. A
the Orthodox Church in Byzantium. These teachings, generation after Locke’s tabula rasa, Wordsworth
along with hundreds of lost manuscripts, come west pens one of the great affirmations of the soul’s “eternal
again in the 15th century when Cosimo de Medici return”:
acquires the collection for his famous Academy in
Florence, modeled on Plato’s own. This priceless Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
library of ancient texts—among them, famously, The soul that rises with us, our life’s star,
the lost books of Plato¬—lays the intellectual and Hath had elsewhere its setting
spiritual foundations of the Renaissance. And cometh from afar;
But the fearful years of the 16th and 17th centuries, Not in entire forgetfulness,
the Wars of Religion in Europe, force many of the And not in utter nakedness,
Hermetic teachings underground once more. They But trailing clouds of glory do we come
are carefully disguised in the opaque symbolism From God, who is our home…
of alchemy and in Rosicrucian allegories that only
initiates can penetrate; one such initiate, who surely In fact, it is this “alternative” (actually, Neoplatonic)
knows of reincarnation and a great deal more, is philosophy of the soul, declared by the Romantic
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WHERE do we come FROM? WHAT are WE? WHERE are we GOING?
poets all over Europe and later taken up by the radical institutions. Yet we don’t have to look far
Transcendentalists in New England, that lays to see that the idea of the unconscious mind as the
the groundwork for the study of the deeper soul repository of the soul’s experience is still very much
that 19th-century philosophers begin to call the alive. Thanks to Thomas Moore’s best seller Care of
unconscious. And this whole rich tradition, fired by the Soul, inspired in part by his great mentor James
Nietzsche’s dismantling of the Christian psyche and Hillman, we can now talk more openly about the
Schopenhauer’s sense of a divine Will (imported from soul. And thanks to transpersonal psychology, with
the Hindu Upanishads), leads us straight to Freud, its appreciation of “altered states of consciousness”
Jung, and the psychoanalytic movement: the closest (Charles Tart); the manifest benefits of meditation;
thing the modern world has seen to an authentic the “spectrum of consciousness” behind our spiritual
science of the soul. evolution (Ken Wilbur); the soul’s memories before
birth (Stanislav Grof); the psychic journeys of the
The Perennial Questions shaman (Michael Harner); and the healing power of
imagery (Joan Borysenko), we can seriously boast a
Where do we come from? growing science that is neither narrow nor dogmatic.
What are we? Where are we going?* These are the traditions from which I write and which
– Paul Gauguin have influenced my thinking and my practices for
several decades. With Jung and the transpersonalists,
At various points in its increasingly conservative I believe that only by studying the religious
history, mainstream psychology, with a zeal worthy of dimension of the psyche can we fully appreciate the
the early Church casting out heretics, has thrown out greatest mysteries of our being. And once we truly
the soul, thrown out spiritual and psychic experiences, acknowledge the primordial reality of the soul, which
and even come close to throwing out the personal by far transcends our limited human personalities, I
testimony of subjective experience—all with that believe we can address the questions that have always
deadly Behaviorist movement that is still stifling challenged humanity: Where do we come from? What
research today. are we? Where are we going?
To this day, Freudian psychoanalysis is heretical
at most universities; Jung is taught only at more
*These are the words inscribed on Paul Gauguin’s great allegory of human life: D’ou venons nous? Que sommes nous? Ou allons nous?
The original hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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achieving the CLARITY STATE
Become a More Powerful Leader: Five Steps to

Achieving Clarity in the Face of Difficult Decisions
by Luda Kopeikina
Every day, business leaders make decisions that impact hundreds, even thousands
of people. While this seems like a daunting task, the good ones make it look easy.
These leaders can make million dollar decisions based on the information presented
to them and their own gut feelings. What you can’t see behind these seemingly
effortless decisions is the discipline to continuously scrutinize their decisions and
the commitment to continuously improve from what they’ve done in the past. These
leaders, through practice, possess a clarity that allows them to make powerful
decisions with ease.
Recent research shows that you can learn to reach clarity with similar ease by
Relaxing your body and clearing your mind so you can focus on the issue at hand.
By shifting to a higher level of coherence, you can sweep away all the thoughts
that limit your decision-making skills. Plus it makes you a more powerful leader.
Clarity enables you to project your commitment to a chosen path and eliminate
confusion within your management team. It saves time by focusing your energy on
moving forward with implementations, rather than stalling you in decision-making
skills. Plus it makes you a more powerful leader. Clarity enables you to project your
commitment to a chosen path and eliminate confusion within your management
team. It saves time by focusing your energy on moving forward with implementation,
rather than stalling you in decision-making mode—a frustrating state that drains
energy.
You can improve your leadership and decision-making skills by achieving the Clarity
State with the following five-step process.
1. Prepare
First, eliminate distractions by turning off your radio, telephone ringer, and computer
monitor. Get in a comfortable seated position, but not too comfortable. You want to
relax, not fall asleep.
Next, clear off your desk. Put everything away except a clean sheet of white paper
and a pen, in case you want to write down any interesting thoughts you have during
the exercise.
Then, tell yourself you are ready to experiment and have fun with the clarity
exercise. At first, you may find it easier to focus when you close your eyes and tilt
them up about twenty degrees behind your eyelids.
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ACKNOWLEDGING your THOUGHTS and with VISUALIZATION
2. Physical Relaxation at those times. But after you get the hang of it and can
The first part of this step is to relax every muscle achieve a calm state in a shorter countdown, you can
in your body. Start at your toes, and slowly release practice this technique at any time during the day.
all the tension in every muscle in your feet, ankles, Start at one hundred and count down to one. After a
legs, abdomen, chest, hands, arms and back. Progress week or so, cut it back to fifty, and then twenty-five.
slowly, working your way up to your neck and face. Soon you’ll be able to reach your calm state after only
As you do this, say to yourself, “The muscles in my a countdown from five.
_____________ are becoming relaxed and heavy.”
4. Clear Your Mind
The second part of this step involves, deep breathing
You can clear your mind by acknowledging your
techniques similar to those used in yoga. Inhale with
thoughts and with visualization. To acknowledge
your abdomen first. Then as your breath is pulled in,
your thoughts, propose to yourself. “I feel totally fine
inhale with your chest and shoulders. Don’t try to
and joyful about how my life is going.” Inevitably, an
hold your breath, but exhale in the reverse order. Start
unresolved issue will pop into your mind to discredit
with your shoulders and chest, and then allow your
this statement. When this happens, acknowledge the
abdomen to relax at the end of the cycle. Assume a
thought, but don’t expand on it. Just acknowledge it
breathing rhythm that is comfortable for you, but try
and set it aside.
to make your exhalation two times as long as your
inhalation. Then say to yourself, “Besides this issue, I feel totally
fine and joyful about how my life is going.” If another
Allow your mind to focus completely on the rhythm
contradiction pops into your mind, repeat the process
of your breathing, and take as many breaths as
of acknowledging it and setting it aside. Eventually,
necessary to feel completely relaxed. If you are
you’ll have an imaginary stack of unresolved issues
already calm and focused, you may only need a few
that you’ve cleared from your mind and plenty of
breaths to relax. But if you are tense, you will probably
space to devote to the issue at hand.
need many more.
To clear your mind with visualization, imagine you
3. Calm Your Mind are surrounded by a large sphere of light. Every time a
To calm your mind, pick a word or phrase that has thought pops into your head, put it outside the sphere.
meaning to you to repeat as your mantra. For example, Continue doing this until you reach a state of no
in Hinduism and Buddhism, people use the word thoughts.
“om.” But you can use any word you like. Then repeat
this word silently to yourself as you breathe naturally. 5. Charge Up
When other thoughts come to your mind, passively This step builds on your relaxed state by shifting
dismiss them and return to your repetition. Again, your coherence level up the emotional scale so you
continue this practice for as long as it takes to reach a can focus on the issue at hand. You can achieve
calm state of mind. You may need anywhere from five this greater focus by recalling a time when you felt
to twenty minutes. great exhilaration and satisfaction after achieving
something. Perhaps you felt exhilarated after running
You may also want to try the countdown method to
a marathon or completing a large project. Whatever
achieve a calm state of mind. This technique is simple
you choose, make sure it is among the most exciting,
enough, just countdown from a specified number to
most satisfying achievements of your life.
one and allow yourself to focus only on your counting.
At first, you should practice this exercise when you Now imagine that this event is happening again, and
first wake up in the morning or right before you fall recall all the thoughts and feelings that were going
asleep at night. because reaching a calm state is easier through your head at the time. If you were running
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CLARITY in DECISION MAKING is a tremendously POSITIVE experience
a marathon, think about the rhythm of your feet Reaching clarity in decision making is a tremendously
hitting the pavement and visualize the other runners positive experience. It fills you with excitement and
around you. If you were working on an important gives you the confidence to move forward. As a leader,
project, think about the calm silence in the office after you demonstrate your commitment to a vision and
everyone went home for the day and the taste of the eliminate post-decision doubt.
coffee that kept you going long into the night. Use
The inability to make decisions can paralyze an entire
these images to reignite your feelings of excitement,
organization. So as a leader, you must reach clarity in
self-power, and success.
the decision-making process in order to attain success.
When you practice this five-step process for achieving
Clarity for Your Future clarity on every decision, over time it will become an
After following these five steps, you will feel mentally instinctive part of your process. You will see the issues
and physically relaxed. Your mind will be clear, facing your organization and your options clearly, and
focused, and ready to take on the rest of the decision- become a more powerful leader as a result.
making process.
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HYPNOTIC trance, FANTASY proneness, trance, dissociated STATES
A List of Alterations of Consciousness

by Imants Barušs, PhD
The following is taken from Dr. Imants Barušs’ paper entitled What We Can Learn about Consciousness from
Altered States of Consciousness, which originally appeared in the Journal of Consciousness Exploration
& Research | July 2012 | Vol. 3 | Issue 7 | pp. 805-819. Dr. Barušs’ list identifies virtually every form of
consciousness within the purview of Hypnology magazine and provides a succinct description of each one.
The complete paper is available online at http://www.jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/227.
Before talking about specific issues that arise from a study of altered states of
consciousness, it would be instructive simply to list some of the relevant alterations
of consciousness. I use the expression “alteration of consciousness” as a more general
term than “altered state of consciousness” (which implies a stable state that is clearly
separable from the ordinary waking state along some appropriate dimensions). The
following is a list of alterations of consciousness along with some explanatory notes.
Unless indicated otherwise by citations, the material in this list has been taken from
my book Alterations of Consciousness (Barušs, 2003).
1. the ordinary waking state, daydreaming, absorption, mindfulness

2. s ensory restriction
3. sleep, parasomnias
4. hypnagogic and hypnopompic states
5. dreaming, nightmares, dream incubation, lucid dreaming, precognitive
dreaming, shared dreaming
6. h ypnotic trance, fantasy proneness, trance, dissociated states, dissociative
identity disorder, possession, mediumship
7. out-of-body experience
8. a lien abduction experiences
9. drug-induced states
10. fl
ow, mystical states, transcendent states, pure consciousness, nondual states,
states of no-self
11. d eath, impending death states, near-death experiences, shared near-death
experiences
12. p utative memories of: pre-birth experiences, previous-lifetime experiences,
future lifetime experiences, between-lives experiences
13. p athological states such as derealization, depersonalization, depression,
psychosis, anxiety, the ordinary waking state
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COMPLIANT behavior in the ORDINARY waking STATE
1. There are a number of definitions of daydreaming, knows that one is dreaming; that ability can be
depending upon the combination of spontaneity, deliberately cultivated. Precognitive dreaming entails
subjectivity, and fancifulness one adopts for one’s dreaming about events that occur in the future.
definition. Usually, one conceptualizes daydreaming Shared dreaming includes both meshing dreams, in
as being opposed to focussed thinking. In our Western which two people dream the same dream contents,
intellectual tradition, we have epistemically privileged and meeting dreams, in which two or more people
focused rational thinking in the ordinary waking encounter each other in their dreams. Experimentation
state, although acknowledging that insights could with shared dreaming involves becoming lucid while
occur during reverie as described, for example, in dreaming and then seeking to meet with another lucid
Graham Wallas’ (1926) description of the four stages dreamer to exchange specific information (Waggoner,
of problem solving. Absorption is a focussed state of 2009). Whereas there is considerable evidence for
mind with attenuated self-reflection that can occur by precognitive dreaming, there is less proof for shared
itself or in the context of hypnotic trance, trance, flow, dreaming, although its occurrence appears to be likely.
and concentrative styles of meditation. Mindfulness
6. Hypnotic trance is whatever state one enters
usually refers to sustained monitoring of the events of
upon being hypnotized. This is not the same state
one’s experiential stream and includes disidentification
for everyone but depends upon one’s hypnotic
with the contents of mind as well as an attitude of
susceptibility and the dispositions that allow for such
equanimity toward those contents.
susceptibility. In some cases, such trance is simply
2. Sensory restriction, known previously as sensory compliant behavior in the ordinary waking state. In
deprivation and also called “restricted environmental other cases, it could be due to fantasy proneness or
stimulation technique,” refers to the reduction of dissociation. Fantasyproneness refers to a person’s
sensory input. This can be done, for example, by ability to imagine something as though it were real,
staying in a dark and quiet room, lying in a floatation without mistaking the imagined events as being real.
tank, or by experiencing a uniform sensory field, such Often, hypnotic behavior is the result of dissociation,
as in so-called Ganzfeld experiments. whereby there are functional disconnections within a
person’s psyche. “Trance,” in general, is a term used
3 Sleep is a biologically induced altered state of
for a number of states in which there is the appearance
consciousness. Parasomnias are sleep disorders such
of the presence of subjective awareness and self-
as sleep terrors and sleepwalking. Highly complex
determination, but no significant actual awareness or
behaviours can occur during sleepwalking, such as
self determination. Dissociative identity disorder is
in the case of Kenneth Parks who drove his car to his
a psychiatric disorder in which alternate personas or
parents-in-laws’ house and killed his mother-in-law
fragments take turns being that person. Possession
while asleep.
refers to states in which a person appears to have
4. Hypnagogic and hypnopompic states are transition been taken over by something other than who that
states that occur while falling asleep and waking up, person ostensibly is. There can be confusion between
respectively, often characterized by vivid imagery. possession and dissociative identity disorder in that
These are sometimes liminal states in which possession could simply be the manifestation of a
nonconscious material surfaces in awareness. persona derived from that person’s psyche or, vice
5. Dreaming occurs during non-rapid eye movement versa, that personas are possessing entities such as
sleep, during which there is lowered brain metabolism, deceased relatives, if that is possible. In other cases,
as well as during rapid eye movement sleep during it appears that both dissociative identity disorder
which brain metabolism is about the same as it is and possession are occurring within the same
during wakefulness. Nightmares are dysphoric body. Mediumship is the ostensible transmission of
dreams. Lucid dreaming is dreaming in which one information or energy from dimensions of reality
other than ordinary physical manifestation.
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no known EXPLANATIONS for these EXPERIENCES
7. Out-of-body experiences are experiences in which a 12. Either spontaneously or through hypnosis, guided
person has a somasthetic sense of being outside of her imagery, or some other means, people appear to
body, irrespective of whether or not there is any sense “recall” experiences that occurred before they were
in which she is actually outside of her body. born, experiences from apparently previous lifetimes,
experiences from “future” lifetimes, or experiences
8. Alien abduction experiences are experiences in
from between lives.
which a person believes that she has been abducted
by aliens and can include feelings of extreme terror, 13. Consciousness can also be altered in pathological
missing time, and bodily scars such as “scoop marks.” states such as derealization disorder in which feelings
At present there are no known explanations for these of reality are lost; depersonalization disorder, in which
experiences. the sense of self is lost; depression, psychosis, and
anxiety. And finally, it is not difficult to argue that the
9. Psychoactive drugs induce alterations of
ordinary waking state is also a pathological state (cf.
consciousness to varying degrees. The most
Walsh, 1984; Malamud, 1986).
interesting of the drug-induced states are those
caused by psychedelics such as ayahuasca,
dimethyltryptamine, d-lysergic acid diethylamide, References:
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HYPNOSIS is a FUN THING
Doctor Braid and the Stage

by Lewis Dark, CH
Stage hypnotism is legally defined as the exhibition of trance states (usually on

audience volunteers) for the entertainment (usually comic) of the public.
A poll taken last year among the membership of the on-line community
Hypnothoughts.com included an inquiry into opinions about stage hypnotism. (Most
of the members are therapeutic hypnotists of one stripe or another.) This question
harvested the following results: 115 respondents unconditionally approved of stage
hypnotism; 410 approved conditionally (“It’s a good thing only when done well”),
490 approved of stage hypnotism but thought the general public was confused by it,
250 expressed no opinion, and 110 thought stage hypnotism was a terrible thing. (All
these numbers are approximate.)
In response I posted the following comment:
“Speaking as a stage hypnotist, and hopefully speaking for my peers... I am glad that
the survey at least sought out opinions about stage hypnosis.
“For that hundred people who say stage hypnosis is a terrible thing, you have my
sympathy. Some of my colleagues do tasteless or risky things and make the rest
of us look bad. The medical-therapeutic profession has condemned stage hypnosis
not particularly as dangerous but as a trivialization of an important therapeutic
technique, which attitude I find reasonable.
“Now, I have no interest in ever seeing a private client; I am strictly a stage
entertainer, a lecturer, and a teacher of self-hypnosis. I have a certain amount of
professional training, I have read very widely, I hold certification and registered
CEUs with the National Guild of Hypnotists, and I keep up with the literature a bit,
so I can talk somewhat knowledgeably about therapeutic and self-help hypnosis.
“I justify my existence by using the show as propaganda for hypnotherapy as best I
can. That means I present a tasteful show with the moral: ‘Hypnosis is a fun thing
here and a good thing for the rest of your life, either to solve problems or simply
improve your existence.’
“We have a number of colleagues who switch-hit: they are ‘office hypnotists’ who
do shows, or stage hypnotists who see clients. (Jim Wand is an actual Doctor of
Psychology!).
“For those of you who approve of stage hypnosis, conditionally or not, thanks, and I
promise to increase your clientele by spreading the word.”
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promotes HYPNOTISM itself as a technique USEFUL FOR HUMAN WELL-BEING
I mention this post primarily as an introduction. It the fields of medicine and counseling, the ease with
is an uncomfortable fact that in the early twentieth which hypnotized people could quit smoking, lose
century, the few medical experts promoting hypnosis, weight, overcome stage fright, and improve their
such as Clark Hull, George Estabrooks, and a then- performance in academics and sports. And she would
fledgling Milton Erickson, were crying out in the talk about the power of mind over matter, and mind
wild. It was, by majority, stage hypnotists who not over human muscle.
only preserved hypnosis, but
She incidentally did this while
preserved therapeutic hypnosis.
standing behind a “human bridge,”
Dave Ellman, a stage hypnotist,
a deeply-hypnotized subject in a
felt compelled in the public interest
state of effortless rigid catalepsy
to teach hypnotism to doctors
who was suspended across the
after World War II, including
backs of two chairs -- both
therapeutic techniques. The debt
promoting and proving the potential
that therapeutic hypnotism owes to
of hypnosis to enhance human
laymen-showmen such as Ormond
ability.
McGill, Arthur Ellen, and Gil
Boyne is elided by both the medical (I recently discovered to my
and psychological communities. surprise that Martin Orne, M.D.,
Ph. D. [1927 – 2000], one of the
The tradition continues even in this
great academic-medical-research
century: the British stage hypnotist
hypnotists, was first exposed to
Paul McKenna has reconfigured
hypnosis during his teen years in
himself as a sort of trans-Atlantic
his native Austria — while working
self-help guru. He markets an
as a magician’s assistant!)
abundance of self-hypnosis books
and recordings, though At a hypnosis conference
he is most famous now as a few decades back, the
the hypnotist who induced stage hypnotist Mike
the comic and talk-show Mezmer was introduced
host Ellen DeGeneres to to the crowd of attendees
become an ex-smoker. by a therapeutic hypnotist
with the words, “You
Even the contributions
may disapprove of stage
stage hypnotists make
hypnotists; but all I know
to therapists by means
is that whenever one
of simple publicity or
comes through town, my
example are derided
phone starts ringing off
or overlooked. The
the hook.”
late great “Miss” Pat
Collins (d. 1997), “the Hip Hypnotist,” so popular in Indeed, whatever effort my peers and I make for the
her peak times that she owned her own nightclub in public good, we are roundly condemned for the simple
Los Angeles (performing two shows a night), would fact of being stage hypnotists. These condemnations
stop her show in mid-stride for a “propaganda for never cite any actual proven danger to the public
hypnotherapy” lecture. She twice-nightly declared that (but will often vaguely hint at awful possibilities);
she had been cured of hysterical paralysis by hypnosis; usually the outcry merely claims that we trivialize
she spoke about the good works that hypnotists do in and misrepresent an important therapeutic tool. As
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IMAGINARY thoughts could cause ACTUAL healing!
mentioned above, I actually think this is a valid have become insensible to pain. They would display
criticism: quite a few stage hypnotists are tasteless, remarkable abilities: to remember long-past events,
many (especially before World War II) presented to hallucinate imaginary objects and situations, to
themselves as wizards rather than teachers, and even not see or hear actual objects and sounds. He is
many others are careless of the impression they credited as being the first actual, if not intentional,
leave on volunteer subjects and audiences. The main stage hypnotist.
justification for stage hypnotism is that it promotes
Mesmer was eventually discredited by a committee
hypnotism itself as a technique useful for human well-
of scientists who disproved the healing abilities of
being, and any stage hypnotist who fails to mention
magnetic fields. (They explained away even the quite
this aspect in between the various comic routines is
genuine cures as the result of “imagination,” never
doing a disservice to both the public and to hypnotism.
imagining that imaginary thoughts could cause actual
The supreme irony, of course, is that we owe modern healing!) However, the custom of displaying the
therapeutic hypnotism, even the use in English of the “wonders of mesmerism” had taken hold, and various
words hypnosis and hypnotism, to the predecessor of “experts” traveled throughout Europe performing
stage hypnotism -- stage mesmerism. paid shows of this scientific curiosity. Meanwhile,
a few physicians and serious scientists continued
The histories of therapeutic hypnosis and hypnosis
to investigate the genuine effects of this somewhat
for entertainment have been intertwined for over
mystical-seeming technique.
two centuries. Though the use of trance states for
healing is documented as In 1841 James Braid, a Scottish
far back as ancient Egyptian physician working in Manchester,
times, the “modern” scientific England, observed a demonstration
or medical study of what we by the traveling stage mesmerist
now call hypnosis dates back Charles Lafontaine and applied his
to about 1770, when Franz scientific skepticism.
Anton Mesmer, an Austrian
Lafontaine, a Swiss, had been
physician working in Paris,
touring Europe for years, and by
was able to effect cures of
all accounts was an expert and
intractable medical conditions
flamboyant showman who owned
by the application of magnets.
no lack of self-confidence. In those
Mesmer noted that his patients
days of long attention spans, a
convulsed, fainted, or became
public demonstration could last
catatonic. They also tended to
several hours. Lafontaine traveled
follow commands quite literally;
with two experienced subjects,
and to display remarkable, even
a brother and sister, and first
superhuman, powers of body and
demonstrated mesmeric phenomena
mind. He called his technique
on them -- primarily insensitivity
“animal magnetism,” but others
to pain and distraction. He next
coined the term “mesmerism,” a name that has stuck.
called for audience volunteers and induced in them the
A student of Mesmer’s, a nobleman named Armand- “magnetic sleep,” after which he used them to perform
Marie-Jacques de Chartenet and entitled the Marquis more routines.
de Puységur, gave “scientific” public demonstrations
Lafontaine routinely accepted challenges to the
on his estate. He would exhibit patients in a relaxed
genuineness of animal magnetism, and welcomed
stupor so deep they could not be distracted or roused
Dr. Braid and a companion physician onto his stage.
until he “wakened” them. He would show them to
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the ability of humans to ACCEPT COMMUNICATION at a LESS THAN CONSCIOUS LEVEL
Braid’s skepticism washed up against the rocks Some of Braid’s experiments and demonstrations
and dissipated when he personally examined a smack of stage shows. He once hypnotized
“mesmerized” subject, a young woman. He lifted the a housemaid into believing herself to be the
subject’s eyelids and discovered pinpoint pupils that contemporary popular singer Jenny Lind, and
did not respond to changes in light. Upon shoving caused her to give a recital. (It was reported that she
a needle under her fingernail, he observed not the acquitted herself quite competently, and this incident
slightest reaction, and became convinced that the undoubtedly gave rise to the later famous novel and
physical phenomenon was genuine, though not that movie about Trilby, the milkmaid brainwashed by the
magnets had anything to do with it. evil musician Svengali into becoming an international
opera sensation.) On another occasion, he caused a
He later conducted his own
man to hear the ticking of a watch
experiments and determined that
from 35 feet away -- ten times the
the cause of these trance states was
normal audible distance.
suggestion, the ability of humans
to accept communication at a less Hypnotism has been in and out of
than conscious level. It was here fashion in the fields of medicine,
that these fantastic powers of mind psychiatry, dentistry, counseling,
and body resided: the ability to not and psychological research
feel pain; to control one’s heartbeat, ever since, but stage hypnosis
respiration, and even, sometimes, consistently remained a form of
bleeding; the ability to hallucinate public entertainment, from quasi-
or to become another person; to scientific displays in the Victorian
retrieve old memories or forget new era to the pure-entertainment high-
ones; and to be healed of otherwise energy comedy shows of today. In
untreatable or inexplicable illnesses. the English-speaking countries it
Braid added to his practice the was mostly stage hypnotists who
induction of trance states to effect preserved hypnotic techniques
cures, and even performed a during times when professional
number of painless surgeries using or licensed healers shunned it as
trance states and suggestion as the “magic” or “voodoo.” Many stage
anesthetic (ether and chloroform hypnotists have had to double as
having yet to be discovered as therapists, teachers, and prophets
anesthetics). for hypnosis when offstage; and on-
stage as well, in the manner of the
Subjects could be made even to
above-mentioned Pat Collins.
sleepwalk, to act as competently as
if awake, but indistractably and with no subsequent Very few stage performers display the powers of the
memory of their trances. It was from this last effect human mind in any radical fashion anymore: tests
that Braid either coined or adopted (from a French of anesthesia are forbidden by law (as assault and
researcher) the term hypnotism (a contraction of battery), and the “human bridge” has become quite
neuro-hypnotism or neurypnotism), after Hypnos, the rare, but each routine in modern stage hypnosis
ancient Greek god of sleep. Both sleepwalking and still displays a lesson: the abilities that hypnotized
deep hypnosis are called somnambulism. subjects display for both their own fun and audience
entertainment are useful for solving problems, making
Incidentally, “hypnosis” is the name of the actual
general life better, or simply amusing one’s self.
trance state and “hypnotism” refers to the science and
study of these trance states.
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STAGE HYPNOSIS is ultimately USEFUL
Remember that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis, that informed of the true potential powers of the human
hypnosis happens because of agreements made at mind. And I urge my colleagues to higher standards
a less than conscious level, and that subjects can, of professionalism, ethics, good taste, and safety,
and have, refused suggestions or disobeyed orders, beyond those now imposed on them by the insurance
sometimes for good reasons and sometimes even at companies, so that fewer people have reason to think
illogical whim. But the suggestions that are followed stage hypnosis is a terrible thing.
are beneficial, if only by analogy or example.
In my show, I also make a pitch for recreational
If you can become completely relaxed and limp hypnosis and self-hypnosis. I insist that I want my
instantly onstage, you can do it when you need volunteers to have as much or even more fun than
immediate and rapid sleep at night. If you can role- the audience members who are watching the show.
play an interpreter of the Martian language in a trance, I do my best to have them amuse themselves and
you can express yourself more vividly and amusingly each other, because I want them to be glad that
when you’re awake. If you can be comically immune they volunteered. I send them to the beach, I give
from hecklers while giving a speech, you can attain them hysterical amusement, I let them enjoy some
better concentration in work and play. If you can forget uninhibited role-play and creativity. And I talk about
your own name for awhile, and get it back, you can self-hypnosis not just for self-improvement, but for
forget or remember other information at will, storing enjoyment. “I use self-hypnosis all the time,” I say
distracting problems away for when you can face them between routines. “Not just to control stress and
and calling up memories from the past when useful. keep my blood pressure down, but to save myself
from boredom. Many is the time that I have taken a
Last New Year’s Eve I performed a show in a private
wonderful vacation while waiting in line at the bank.”
home. One of my volunteers was a professional folk
singer of great talent and presence, and I utilized her I hope Dr. Braid might not mind.
skills in the following manner: she was set to singing
a song unaccompanied, and I would occasionally
interrupt her performance by freezing her in place
on cue. She could not otherwise be diverted from
her singing and she could not be perturbed from
her mannequin-like state when frozen, even though
I changed her pose, draped her with scarves, and
perpetrated other silliness upon her. She later proved
to have been unaware of the interruptions in her
song. “This is not just for fun,” I announced. “This is
about achieving indistractible concentration!” I was
informed a few months later that an audience member,
inspired by this example of sudden and genuine
changes in affect and perception, subsequently quit
smoking. He didn’t even need actual personal hypnosis
to achieve this.
I assert that this is why stage hypnosis is ultimately
useful. I would like to see preserved the genre of
popular display that caught Dr. Braid’s eye in the ©2013 Lewis Dark
first place, and see it used it to keep the public Lewisdark@findyourhypnotist.com
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. . . from the MOMENT he said it, it NEVER LEFT my MIND.
Edward G. Robinson on the Power of Suggestion

In his autobiograhy All My Yesterdays (Hawthorn Books,
1973) screen legend Edward G. Robinson recounts how,
early in his career, a chance remark had once caused him
to forget his lines. It happened while he was appearing as a
lawyer in a play with actor/director Rudolph Schildkraut:
“I remember him as a painstaking director, but I was a
quick study and pretty optimistic about my chances to cut
the mustard. Unfortunately, I mingled with members of the
audience on the sidewalk before the curtain rose on the first
performance, and a gentleman, an actor, came up to me and
said, “Congratulations. You’re playing with Schildkraut.
What will happen to you if you forget your lines?”
“Such a prospect had never occurred to me. But from the
moment he said it, it never left my mind. While I was
onstage, his words kept interfering with the text of the play.
And I dried up. I fluffed. I could not recall one more line
of the play. Mr. Schildkraut politely gave me the cue again,
and exactly nothing happened. I was catatonic. I managed
to ad lib something and looked beseechingly around for the
prompter—but he was nowhere in sight.
“Desperately I burbled something to the effect that I would
have to go into my office (off stage) to check some law
books relevant to the case. I left Mr. Schildkraut to the
mercies of the audience and fled backstage, looked for the
prompter, and found him eventually. As he gave me my
line, mirable dictu, I also remembered the rest of the play.
“And so I walked back onstage to find that Mr. Schildkraut
had been ad libbing with bits and pieces of previous
plays he had been in, and it was perfectly evident that the
audience had no idea anything was wrong.
“We finished our scene; Mr. Shildkraut took all his bows
and actually motioned me forward to take one of my own,
and then the curtain rang down.
“So what was it, young man?” asked Mr. Schildkraut?
“I’m terribly sorry,” I said. “I forgot my lines.”
“So what was such a problem?” asked Mr. Schildkraut.
“All you had to do was ask me and I would have told you.”
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hypnosis and consciousness EXPLORERS
Contributors to this Issue of Hypnology

Imants Barušs, Bsc, Msc, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at King’s University College at the University of
Western Ontario. He teaches courses in psychology, mostly about consciousness, and has written or co-authored
4 books, 27 papers, and 17 reviews, and given 64 presentations, mostly about fundamental issues concerning
consciousness. He can be contacted at baruss@uwo.ca.
Lewis Dark, CH, has seriously studied hypnotism since the 1970’s, counting among his teachers Larry Garrett
CH, Linda Williamson CHI, Klaus Boettcher, Norma Baretta Ph. D. and Phil Baretta AAMFT. He has performed
as a professional stage hypnotist since 1995, primarily in the Chicago area but also across the Midwest United
States. He is a Certified Hypnotist affiliated with the National Guild of Hypnotists and a member in good
standing of the Association to Advance Ethical Hypnosis (IL Chapter 2). He has lectured to his fellow hypnotists
at the AAEH, the Mid-America Hypnosis Conference, and the Leidecker Institute. He is based in Chicago. Learn
more at his website, www.findyourhypnotist.com.
C. Roy Hunter is a well-known hypnotherapy instructor, a prolific author on the subject of hypnosis and
a professional speaker. He is the recipient of numerous awards. In April 2000, Roy was inducted into the
International Hypnosis Hall of Hypnotherapy Fame for his written contributions to the field. His latest text,
co-authored by Bruce Eimer, PhD, is entitled The Art of Hypnotic Regression Therapy: A Clinical Guide
(Crown House Publishing, 2012). For more information, visit www.royhunter.com.
Luda Kopeikina is CEO of Noventra Corporation www.noventra.com an innovation commercialization firm.

Her book, The Right Decision Every Time: How to Reach Perfect Clarity on Tough Decisions (Prentice Hall,
Oct 2005) is based on her breakthrough research at MIT with over one hundred CEO’s. For more information,
visit www.ludakopeikina.com.
Fred Kutchins, CH, is a consulting hypnotist and founder of the Braid Institute, an educational forum pertaining
to hypnosis and motivation. For more information, visit www.fredkutchins.com.
Robert Rose is a Chicago-based business consultant and writer as well as the founder, editor and publisher
of an award-winning consciousness magazine. He can be contacted at bobrosejr9@aol.com.
Roger Woolger, PhD, (1944-2012), was a Jungian analyst, regression therapist and lecturer with degrees in
psychology, religion and philosophy from Oxford and London Universities. Born in England, Dr. Woolger
taught Jungian and transpersonal psychology and comparative religion in North America and in England. His
original technique, Deep Memory Process ®, is a practical and highly effective therapy of the soul that combines
active imagination (Jung), bodywork (Reich) and psychodrama (Moreno) with shamanic/spirit journeying and
integration between lifetimes derived from The Tibetan Book of the Dead. For more information, visit
www.deepmemoryprocess.com.
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