“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Are we in a trance or under light hypnosis when we are talking to you?”)

(“Can hypnosis send an individual ahead into his next incarnation, or into life after his earth cycle is completed?”)

[...] Natural hypnosis, as explained in the last chapter, leads you to seek out those situations that will confirm your beliefs, and to avoid those that threaten them.

[...] If she could not make decisions this other person could, through long-distance hypnosis, force her to act whether she wanted to or not.

(10:29.) If you believe that you come down with a cold every time you are in a draft, you are using natural hypnosis. [...]

[...] When this happens through natural hypnosis, then even the psychic territory of power can be assailed. [...]

Rob then said it was an experiment in self-hypnosis for my next book. [...]

[...] When I saw who was at the door I had visions of long complicated explanations, but the self-hypnosis explanation appeared to satisfy them. [...]

[...] Years ago you learned how potent suggestion could be when Ruburt used hypnosis with you, and you promptly dropped it. [...]

[...] You knew how well hypnosis worked, though the term is meaningless.

[...] “Hypnosis” experiments, again, will free your energy flows, both of you. [...]

[...] They were very effective—so much so that I could have easily fallen asleep; the relaxation I achieved reminded me of the chiropractic treatments I’d had years ago, or of the self-hypnosis effects I used to get any time I had a dental appointment. [I don’t use the hypnosis any more for the dentist, by the way; perhaps a residue lingers, for as soon as I sit in Paul O’Neill’s chair I begin getting very relaxed and sleepy.]

(The hypnosis session referred to here by Seth took place some months ago, and the information given here in this session does not contradict any other information I gave while hypnotized. [...] We have often wondered about the validity of the material I gave during the hypnosis session; we have meant to probe further but have not had the time.)

[...] In hypnosis for example a trance is said to be light or deep. [...]

[...] I could see that she was somewhat tired; her voice was getting hoarse also, but since I hoped we could get a little more information to verify the hypnosis experiment, for use in Jane’s book, I decided to continue.

[...] The suggestions concerning hypnosis, therefore, would be of great help in accelerating Ruburt’s progress, and thereby relieving both of your minds.

Using hypnosis, you can get good dream recall with a good operator. [...] … Another alternative is to suggest that the subject under hypnosis repeat the dreams of the night before.

[...] The dream state and conditions could also be studied legitimately using hypnosis. [...]

[...] Under hypnosis a subject is not as much on guard, as is the subject of an experiment who knows in advance that he will be awakened by experimenters, that electrodes will be attached to his skull and that laboratory conditions are substituted for his nightly environment.

[...] He explained that Bill had allowed the hypnosis to proceed just so far before his ego called a halt, but that he could progress. [...] Peggy, Seth said in high good humor, had actually achieved an excellent state of deep hypnosis when Jane used the more authoritative approach; otherwise she wouldn’t have permitted the cat’s presence.

(I was somewhat dubious about Jane’s hypnosis attempts since we haven’t had time to do much work in this direction lately. [...]

[...] Dr. Instream’s hypnosis experiments now doing very well. [...]

As far as I can see, Seth’s reference to hypnosis had to do with the “training” undergone by some mediums in which hypnosis is used to initiate and stabilize the trance state, and occasionally to call forth the communications of “control” personalities. [...] Although I know how to use self-hypnosis now, having studied it in the past several years, I’ve never used it for a session.

[...] … I was not artificially ‘brought to birth’ through hypnosis. [...]

I mentioned hypnosis before. [...] Simple self-hypnosis on Ruburt’s part, just to induce physical relaxation, would also be of excellent benefit, because it would mean he was willing to induce relaxation.

Hypnosis is not generally understood in its true light. [...]

[...] (Pause at 10:07.) Dr. Instream’s own experiments in hypnosis are now going well, and he received a particular communication yesterday in regard to them. [...]

[...] Later on, using self -hypnosis, you can experiment to see whether or not you weigh less when you suggest that you will become lighter and lighter.

[...] To some extent this fact can be ascertained through hypnosis. [...]

Philip, earlier, mentioned hypnosis. Existence on your plane or any other plane is merely self-hypnosis. [...]

[...] The hallucinations appear more or less consistent merely because everyone on that particular level is under the effects of self-hypnosis, and because they have already constructed hallucinary senses, the outer senses, in order to perceive the hallucinary world that they have created.

[...] Hypnosis may have entered in. [...]

[...] Often such “trips” are mediated by hypnosis. [...] (See Session 721 in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality.) However, neither of us have had such an outright encounter with a future self—that we know of. I’d say that under hypnosis the urge to fantasize the future lives must be a tempting one; but what’s the explanation for achieving little more than a formless future state while “under,” no matter how hard one tries? [...]

Further, Jane and I believe that what really happens during a “past-life regression” under hypnosis is that the subject (aside from any responses given to the hypnotist’s own witting or unwitting suggestions) very cosily views his or her previous lives from the comfort and safety of a present existence. [...]

And how about reaching a future life through the dream state, perhaps abetted by hypnosis or self-suggestion before sleep? [...]

[...] Whether or not reincarnation has been proven objectively, the belief structures surrounding that concept, or even the idea of it, have served very well as a forum within which certain present-life challenges have been worked out, through the therapists’ use of hypnosis, allegory, association, symbolism, and other very respectable methods.

(It might be interesting to note here that Peggy was hypnotized by Dr. Milton Erickson in late March of 1959, during a meeting of the Finger Lakes Clinical Hypnosis Association at the Mark Twain Hotel in Elmira. [...]

[...] His hypnosis experiments have a snag that will be overcome.

[...] It was a kind of muscular hypnosis, as when you might temporarily tense your muscles during a disturbing drama.

Your loving encouragement therefore helps ease the transition into action, again, quite practically, regardless of the reasons for the self-hypnosis—

(“But we’re not really going to get anywhere until he gets over that self-hypnosis.”)

As you understand the nature of natural hypnosis, you will no longer feel the need to generate new negative feelings. [...]

[...] The natural hypnosis exercises (given in the last chapter) allows you greater effectiveness in directing and focusing that power.