Transforming the Mind with Hypnosis

Hypnosis is well known for smoking cessation, weight loss, and stage shows. But it has other benefits that most people have never actually considered.

It has consistently been proven that hypnosis can provide a way to access inner sources of knowledge and wisdom that are greater than ordinary waking states of consciousness. In some cases, such as that of the Edgar Cayce, the powers and abilities that can be accessed as a result of a shift of consciousness are so impressive that they are nothing short of remarkable, powers that the most hardened cynics have never been able to even begin to explain or dismiss. Cayce could provide detailed medical diagnoses of individuals whom he never met and never saw, as well as remote viewing places and settings that he had never been to, among many other remarkable displays of abilities thought to be beyond human capacity. The readings he gave were checked for accuracy. And in every case that they were compared to the known facts, they were confirmed to be correct in every way. No “rational” explanation has ever been provided for how he could know what he knew. Though Cayce displayed these abilities to an extremely rare degree, it is observable that virtually all people, should they take the time and make the effort to explore and utilize trance states, can significantly expand their personal mental abilities.

The excellent biography Edgar Cayce, an American Prophet, by Sidney Kirkpatrick provides a first-rate illustration of the value of the frequent practice making trance work into a consistent personal practice.

As the book shows, Cayce was highly psychic as a child and able to display striking levels of intuitive knowledge and ability. By the time he reached early adulthood, however, he was able to display almost no psychic ability on a conscious level.

After discovering his remarkable ability to go into a hypnotic trance and as an adult, Cayce was able to utilize his psychic gifts once again. But in his ordinary state of consciousness, things were far different. With the frequent and dedicated practice of hypnosis, however, a shift began to occur. In the later stages of his life, Cayce was, even while he was conscious, able to remain in a mental state of knowledge and wisdom something like the state that he was able to achieve while in a hypnotic trance. The conscious psychic ability that he had been able to access and display as a child returned.

Why did this return occur? The most likely explanation is that the frequent practice of hypnosis had gradually brought about a shift and transformation of Cayce’s conscious mind, through a kind of conditioning. It has often been observed that some children have the ability to display knowledge of past lives and other psychic abilities. Like Cayce, however, they usually lose these abilities after the age of seven. If children have these unusual abilities, it only makes sense to conclude that it is because their constant state of consciousness is something closer to a trance state than adults. If adults condition their minds through hypnosis and trance, they can bring their minds back to a conscious state closer to trance and achieve a kind of attunement, gradually becoming more connected to a deeper source of inner knowledge on a more continuous basis.

Not everyone can ultimately perform the remarkable feats that Edgar Cayce did while in trance. But one of the greatest tools that anyone can unleash to achieve personal, spiritual knowledge, growth, and transformation is to learn about trance through hypnosis. The rewards of this practice go far beyond what is conventionally understood.