Hypnoidal Trance (Levels 1- 5)

     This form of Hypnosis may be characterized as a highly fluid and volatile transitional state, which fluctuates between waking consciousness on the one hand, and sleep or Hypnosis on the other.   There are therefore varying degrees of access to the subconscious, as attitudes of criticism and resistance are suspended during the Hypnoidal State.
      Hypnosis is established in its lightest form with the subject experiencing an array of sensations ranging from no objective change from waking consciousness, all the way to complete relaxation with eyes closed and/or eye lids fluttering.   This form of Hypnosis is often utilized in (but not limited to), para-normal settings such as channeling, remote viewing, and past life regression.

Light Trance (Levels 6- 11)

     This state of Hypnosis is estabished in the subject, using the Sleeping Method or the like, where catalepsy is established initially in the eyelids, followed by the limbs and finally limb rigidity.   The presence of anesthesia involving the feet and hands (stocking/glove), demonstrates a subject's mental state that is suitable for progression to the level of Medium Trance.

Medium Trance (Levels 13- 20)

There are many clinical manifestations of the Medium Trance!  Initially one observes the subject's ability manifest selective amnesia at the request of the hypnotist.
   Hypnotic amnesia is a temoprary loss of memory, that is associated with an hypnotic experience, rather than by brain injury and the like.   This type of amnesia is reversible upon suggestion!   Hypnotic amnesia is present when a subject fails to recall either the material or events that have been associated with the hypnotic experience, or any other experience the hypnotist has specifically suggested to be forgotten;  and then that same material be recovered at some later time either through appropriate suggestions or by reinduction of the Hypnotic Trance.
      Anesthesia (induced Hypnotically), is on a continuum of diminishing bodily sensations with analgesia.   Anesthesia refers to a complete or near complete elemination of all sensation in all or part of the body.   Analgesia refers only to a reduction in the sensation of pain in all or part of the body;  allowing the associated sensations of pressure, temperature, position, etc. to continue.

Deep Trance (Levels 21- 23)

     Deep Trance is established in a subject who is able to open his eyes during the trance, at the request of the hypnotist, and maintain his already established state of dissociation.   This is the desired state of Hypnosis to reach when efforts are made to establish Post-Hypnotic Suggestions in the subject.

Moderately Deep Trance (Levels 25- 28)

Moderately Deep Trance manifests in the subject with complete somnambulism.  
   Hallucinations that are experienced hypnotically, are suggested experiences the subject can have which are removed from current, objective realities.   An hallucination is a sensory experience that does not arise from external stimulation.    It is possible to hypnotically facilitate halluicinations which are visual, auditory, kinesthetic (as in the experience of cold or heat in a room or on some suggested part of the subject's body), gustatory, and olfactory.   Further, hallucinations can be characterized as being either positive, or negative.
   A positive hallucination can be defined as having the experience of something that is not objectively present.   By contrast, a negative hallucination is not experiencing some sensation that objectively is present.    When the latter observation is carried out with the subject's eyes open, the subject has reached a profoundly deep stage of hypnosis.

Profoundly Deep Trance (Levels 29- 30)

     Profoundly Deep Trance is a lofty goal for the subject to experience.   It is made manifest by the subjective experience of negative hallucinations.
   This phenomenon is the denial (by hypnotic suggestion), of the reality of some sensory impression such as an inability to recognize the presence of a particular person in the room.    Such phenomena represents a Profoundly Deep Stage of Hypnosis and is carried out, of course, with the eyes open and the subject in a Trance State which to the casual observer may appear to be the behavior of a normal, wide awake person.

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