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    Deeper and Deeper: A Brief History of Hypnotic Trance
    Deeper and Deeper: A Brief History of Hypnotic Trance
    Deeper and Deeper: A Brief History of Hypnotic Trance
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    Deeper and Deeper: A Brief History of Hypnotic Trance

    By G.E. McNally

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    This is a short eBook examining the history of hypnotic trance and how the concepts and beliefs attached to the process are effected by the times and the culture in which the phenomena occurred. It begins with the sleep temples of the Ancient Egyptians and the Greeks and extends through to the teachings of NLP and conversational hypnosis. On the way we learn of how different eras conceived of new developments and understood the nature of those developments within the historical context of the zeitgeist.
    In particular, the contributions of Franz Anton Mesmer, the originator of the process of mesmerism from which get the word 'mesmerized', James Braid, the Scottish physician who was to give hypnosis its modern name and Milton H. Erickson, the founder of conversational hypnosis, are examined in some depth.
    This book should be ideal for anyone wanting a brief, concise, yet reasonably comprehensive introduction into the world of hypnosis and how it has developed over time through the various contributions of its most illustrious practitioners.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherG.E. McNally
    Release dateDec 31, 2014
    ISBN9781310073762
    Deeper and Deeper: A Brief History of Hypnotic Trance
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    G.E. McNally

    I tend to travel a lot these days and have recently spent time in China, Thailand and the UK. If all goes well this year there are further plans for extended trips to Spain, Turkey, China (again) and maybe France. Essentially, I seem to have become the character in my blog - the nomadic flaneur: http://www.nomadicflaneur.blogspot.com . Much of my earlier life was spent on fire stations, initially due to my father's career as an officer in London Fire Brigade and secondly because, in my mid twenties, I chose to follow him into the profession. Due to ill health, I had to leave some years ago and change my focus in life. It was during this period that I started to write. I had always loved travel and had done so extensively during my brigade career but, for several years, this became something of a challenge owing to various ongoing injuries and illnesses. Of recent times these problems have improved greatly and I now find myself able to travel once more. During this time of my life there is a strong desire is to make up for lost time and spend much of my life on the road experiencing the world directly and reflecting this in my blog and my books.Update,Due to the challenges of Covid, much of the above is no longer the case. My travelling has been severely curtailed but, by a happy coincidence, this has allowed me to focus my attention on a newly acquired wife and son. In between the duties of nappy changing and educating my son, I have managed to do some writing, however. Most of this is contained on my www.ketopensioner.com site, though I am presently branching out into substacks and medium, just for the fun of writing shorter articles.

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      Deeper and Deeper - G.E. McNally

      ISBN: 9781310073762

      Title: Deeper and Deeper: A Brief History of Hypnotic Trance

      Author: G.E. McNally

      Publisher: Smashwords, Inc.

      A Brief History Of Hypnotic Trance

      By G. E. McNally

      Published by G.E.McNally at Smashwords

      Copyright 2015 G.E.McNally

      Also by the Author on Smashwords: The Cambridge Vampire

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      A Short History of Hypnotic Trance

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1. Hypnosis – beginning the journey

      Chapter 2. Ancient times to the start of Mesmerism

      Chapter 3. Mesmer and Animal Magnetism

      Chapter 4. After Mesmer

      Chapter 5. European Developments

      Chapter 6. Hypnosis Develops in The New World

      Chapter 7. Erickson and Conversational Hypnosis

      Chapter 8. Modern Developments

      Chapter 9. ...3,2,1...eyes open, back to the present time...

      Chapter 1. Hypnosis – beginning the journey

      This eBook was born of a desire to explain something of the phenomenon of hypnosis and hypnotic trance and to set that explanation within the context of the era in which the various developments within hypnosis took place. Looking back from our vantage point of the early twenty first century, some of these developments and ideas seem strange indeed but the question has to be asked... how strange will our own ideas seem in the years to come? This same phenomenon can be seen in areas such as literature, music and other fields of human creativity and endeavour – whatever may seem clear and obvious to one generation may seem positively bizarre to another blessed with the acquisition of a different perspective or with the benefit of hindsight.

      The process of writing such a resume often allows the writer himself the chance to clarify his or her own ideas. Sometimes these ideas may seem to be but vague notions, almost a feeling or an intuition that something may be so, but until given the chance to research, and maybe even explain in some depth, those ideas at best remain nebulous. The further I have looked into hypnosis the more I have come to realise that the expectations of both the person performing the induction and the person being induced colour, to a large extent, the experience of both. We are, in many ways, a continuous reflection of our expectations – we will tend to see what we expect to see, to experience what we expect to experience.

      My own journey into hypnosis and related fields started some years ago, although the genesis of the journey may be traced back to teenage years and an early interest in what was called at the time 'depth psychology'. As a seventeen year old I was exposed to the ideas of Carl Jung and, to a somewhat lesser extent, Sigmund Freud. I

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