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You are hypnotized, and you hypnotize yourselves daily, to believe there is only one reality, the physical one that you know and so I would call it, you see, a state of being—hypnotization, where you are freed from a compulsive demanding focus upon physical reality, and where your consciousness is allowed some freedom to pursue its own nature. [...]

[...] Hypnotism got me to sleep. [...]

[...] In waking life, however, you have both been literally hypnotized by the idea that such a recovery is one of the hardest things in the world to achieve (intently). [...]

Psychocybernetics (underlined) is a good handbook, very simplified, with some distortions, but its premise is quite correct: you do hypnotize yourself into such situations. [...]

I said once that Ruburt became hypnotized by the symptoms, and you agreed. But you become as hypnotized by your own thought patterns in certain areas. [...]

You become hypnotized then, both of you, by the effects. [...]

A note about the curb incident Ruburt mentioned (the other day while shopping at Centertown): it was precisely because each of you are still so hypnotized by effects that such incidents are charged to each of you. [...]

[...] The physical patterns are of course the results of inner ones, but the deliberate breaking of a physical pattern serves as a physical example that those patterns can indeed be broken, and helps break the exterior hypnotizing effects of continued repetitious action of a given kind.

[...] It increases the concentration upon whatever problem is involved, for one thing, and it has a self-hypnotizing effect. [...]

[...] Now, after reading about the hypnotic testing undergone by Mrs. Eileen Garrett, the famous medium, I know I’d never stand for it myself. [...]

[...] Lowering his voice, he said that since most of those in the audience used hypnosis professionally, they should know what it felt like to be hypnotized themselves. [...]

[...] I decided that I wasn’t going to be hypnotized, but I lowered my eyes so as not to be conspicuous. [...]

In that area you have individually and, jointly, and on Ruburt’s part more than yours, allowed yourselves to become hypnotized by “effects.” [...]

[...] I’d had the idea of starting right in trying to hypnotize her, but thought better of it. [...]

(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. [...]

Your name was Williams, as your hypnotic session showed. [...]

(During the hypnotic session I had been unable to be more specific about where I had lived.)

[...] At this point proper suggestion given by you while he is in a light hypnotic state will help. [...]

([Florence:] “Can you tell me who was trying to hypnotize me?”)

You were trying to hypnotize yourself. [...]

[...] Because of the reasons given earlier in this session, he retreats and hypnotizes his muscles into believing they cannot act such and such a way. [...]

[...] The situation is not nearly as hopeless as it appears, and I tell you, Joseph, that your joint feelings of hopelessness are as hypnotizing as what I just explained to you of Ruburt’s actions.

(Friday evening, January 21, Jane had some success hypnotizing both Bill and Peggy Gallagher at their request, separately. [...] Peggy has been hypnotized twice—one of these times by Dr. Milton Erickson—but this was Bill’s first experience. [...]

[...] I didn’t think Bill could be easily hypnotized, but he was quite pleased with his results for a first attempt. [...]

[...] Hypnotism, as I have mentioned, will be a basic tool in the beginning. Hypnotism, you see, is not a camouflage tool, but a psychological tool which is therefore uncamouflaged, and relatively undistorted.

Hypnotism will be necessary, however, only for a time, and only to induce the light trance state. [...]

[...] To imagine otherwise is to become hypnotized by the physical symbols. [...]

(“Could this sense be brought out by hypnotism?”)

[...] An hypnotic session would be helpful, but only when you feel confident. [...]

[...] To some extent, however, you are both still hypnotized by the evidence of Ruburt’s condition—where instead it should be used as a jumping-off board, as a gap to be filled with reality (emphatically). [...]