Hypnosis is a trance state and has been used since ancient times as a means of attaining wisdom via intuition as well as receiving cosmic information, channelling and divination.

The origin of the word is derived from Hypnos, the Greek God of sleep, dreams being our best free psychologist there could ever be. If only we would pay heed to them.

Everyone dreams...and there is such a thing as a non-narrative, seemingly dreamless sleep, but that is still dreaming, just another dimension of it. There are different dream dimensions, as the indiginous peoples often recognise. The aborigines accept the dream state as a dimension of time in itself, and a reality of its own...quantum physics calls this a parrallell reality. Indeed other dimensions are accessed via trance. The kind of trance...the level and route of travel and vibration...determines the dimensional destination.

There are many kinds of trance...more than we have even investigated formally. Trance here is being defined as a suggestable state, the cause can be wonderful or terrible, positive or negative.

Of those known and acknowledged, there are: ecstatic spiritual trance, love trance, romantic trance, sexual trance, creative trance (artists often experience this when fully immersed in theri craft), musical trance, indoctrination trance, environmental trance (also called environmental hypnosis), media trance, trauma trance, shock trance, memory trance...

There are others too...subjects for further discussion.

All those interested in this subject matter or with questions or information to give are welcome to participate in this entrancing forum!

Wishing you positive thoughts,

Isabelle S. Trimble, CHT
www.hypnoholistics.com