Hypnosis induction

Another important difference is that in hypnosis induction the hypnotist takes credit for these anomalous effects, thus helping to incorporate himself into the subject s own psyche we have given little attention to the role of the hypnotist as "outsider," for he only becomes effective as he becomes able to control the subject s own attention/awareness energy. The meditator in the Buddhist tradition is seeking to free himself from control by external events or persons, and so does not value particular phenomena (back)... 

Consensus trance induction starts in conditions that give far more power and influence to the cultural hypnotists than is ever given in in ordinary hypnosis induction. 

To develop "materials to render the induction of hypnosis easier and substances which will produce pure euphoria with n< subsequent let-down."... 

The standard induction dose of etomidate is 0.2-0.4 mg-kg-1 and a target plasma concentration of 300-500 pg-mL-1 is required to maintain hypnosis. 

Induction of Altered States Going to Sleep, Hypnosis, Meditation... 

Let us know look at examples of three inductions of d-ASCs, all starting from a b-SoC of the ordinary waking state-the process of falling asleep, the induction of hypnosis, and the practice of two kinds of meditation toward the goal of reaching a meditative state. These examples are intended not as final analyses from the systems approach, but simply as illustrations of how the systems approach to states of consciousness deals with the induction of d-ASCs. 

An example is the equating of the hypnotic state, the d-ASC of hypnosis, with the performance of the hypnotic induction procedure. 

The hypnotic state is a psychological construct or, if induction has been successful, an experiential reality to the hypnotized person. It is not defined by external measurements. There are no obvious behavioral manifestations that clearly indicate hypnosis has occurred and no known physiological changes that invariably accompany hypnosis. The hypnotic procedure, on the other had, the words that they hypnotist says aloud, is highly amenable to physical measurement. An investigator can film the hypnotic procedure, tape-record the hypnotist s voice, measure the sound intensity of the hypnotist s voice, and accumulate a variety of precise, reproducible physical... 

Aaronson, B. The Hypnotic induction of the void. Paper presented to American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, San Francisco, 1969. 

The formal induction of hypnosis begins by asking the subject to look steadily at a small, shiny spot on the wall (such as a chrome-plated thumbtack) while listening to the hypnotist. The point of fixation is called the target. 

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