Publishing Untold Stories From the Worlds of the Subconscious

"Unfortunately, hypnosis has a negative reputation among the general public, in large part because of how it's been portrayed by the movie and entertainment industry. Also, I was aware that in the late 19th century there were many false positive and negative claims about hypnosis that soured the public on the possibility that hypnosis could be helpful. I did not want to create or add to a 21st-century perception that hypnosis was quackery, and therefore chose to withhold telling about some of the most amazing events that I had encountered with my patients when I first wrote about hypnosis, because these stories might have been too hard to believe."

"Most of the stories involved information and wisdom shared with me through my patients' subconscious. They've included tales of other realms and beings, as well as circumstantial evidence of their veracity, including details that were clearly out of the scope of knowledge of my patients' conscious. But a decade later I decided it was time to tell many of these stories, because they greatly influenced how I viewed difficult personal and world events with an improved and calmer perspective. I hoped that they would similarly influence readers of my third book that I am now writing, Interviews with the Subconscious."

"In a previous post I described the story with which I went the farthest afield in my first book, Changing Children's Lives with Hypnosis. My patient, a 12-year-old girl, reported (outside of her mother's presence) that she was visited by a ghost every night. The ghost told the girl that she should kill herself, which led her to twice attempt suicide. Despite intensive in-patient and medication therapy, the ghost continued to"

Clinical hypnosis yielded remarkable patient-reported events and subconscious communications that included accounts of other realms and beings and details beyond conscious knowledge. Hypnosis suffered a poor reputation from entertainment portrayals and 19th-century false claims, prompting withholding of the most extraordinary cases to avoid reinforcing perceptions of quackery. Years later those cases were disclosed because they provided perspectives that helped view difficult personal and global events with greater calm and understanding. A notable case describes a 12-year-old girl who reported nightly ghost visits urging suicide despite intensive inpatient care and medication.

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