This blog has been set up to research, and report the findings, on topic relating to trance states, including hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), meditation, mind control and related fields of psychology.
The use of trance to induce altered states of conscious goes back thousands of years. Shamanism and various meditation and religious practices all use types of trance to enter non-ordinary states of consciousness to bring about healing, knowledge, and spiritual enlightenment. In modern times trancework has been used in medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy, mind control experiments (or by cults), alternative therapies, and New Age and spiritual practices.
An example of the modern use of mind control is the case of the CIA’s MKULTRA experiments.
Project MK-ULTRA, or MKULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA mind-control and chemical interrogation research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. The program began in the early 1950s, continuing at least through the late 1960s, and it used United States citizens as its test subjects. There is much published evidence that the project involved the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methodology, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function.
source: Wikipedia
The research on trance will outline models of trance, such as Dennis Wier’s “Trance Model” and explore competing theories/schools of hypnosis.
Tags: hypnosis, mind control, trance
