Chapter 10 - The Experince of Trance - For Discussion

Q1. Why are some people so intense while others are so easily distracted? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each style?

A1. The more intense person will be intent on listening to every word you utter, making internal representation and staying with 'the program'. The disadvantages are that it might take a while to district them from the trance they were in before you arrived or the internal dialogue they are already in before you start your work.


Those easily distracted will be slightly easier to engage from their previous state though they may be different to stay there and the consciousness may stray to outside phenomena away from the trance state, to counteract that you may be able to utilise any distractions.



Q2. Based on your experience of trance, do you think hypnosis can be used to generate antisocial behaviour in someone? Why or why not?

A2. If a person can use the resources of the hidden observer to dissociate what they are experiencing from them having the experience they can always know they can choose not to do something. Just because they feel the response they should give would be anti social, does not mean they should act it out. ASB can be suggested, it should not, but it could be suggested, the client can always refuse.



Q3. Have each person in the class describe their experience of trance. What experiences seem to be common? Which are recognised to be unique to that person?

To be completed.



Q4. When in the course of daily living is having a parallel awareness an asset? A liability?

A4. When in trance or administering a trance process, this might be useful. it might not be as useful if you were trying to read a book or engaging in another procedure which did no require awareness of your person in a 3D sense.



Q5. How is suggestibility different than gullibility?

A5. Suggestibility is acting on and accepting the suggestions of others. Gullibility is the tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived. The difference is the factor of trust. To accept suggestions is to trust the sender.