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dande48 wrote:
Hypnosis is an induction to a state of consciousness which leaves the subject susceptible to suggestion or direction. And it happens a lot more often than you might think. Take a simple prayer (not a deep prolonged one). They bows their head and closes their eyes, on “command”. They turn their focus inwards, and concentrate on the inner feelings of the Spirit. They let the words resonate through them, and attempt to instill in themselves the change they desire. Looks like light hypnosis to me.
More to the point, there’s really no such thing as a non-suggestible state, and the spectrum is pretty much continuous from end to end; any good salesman knows how to plant suggestions while you’re in a far less suggestible state than even light meditative prayer.
Here’s an interesting one; pain spinning. There’s nothing that particularly resembles a trance state, and yet the result sure looks like a negative hallucination (i.e. getting the mind to not perceive something that does exist) to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYlt1OSUH8 Obviously this one picks up after the initial explanation, so if you poke through some of Snyder’s other videos, you can find the whole thing with intro, but there’s nothing that I would call a real induction either. Of course, in this case, it’s something the client wants very much, so the mind is more cooperative from the start, but still, it’s an effect generally associated with deep trance, happening in a fully aware state.
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