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CHAPTER1 - THE HISTORY OF HYPNOSIS
Like the unconscious act of breathing, the hypnotic state has always been part of
the human experience. The thing is, we haven’t always known how to induce it,
maintain it, or use it to heal, help and enhance our lives. In fact, it’s really only
since the 19th Century that hypnosis has been pursued as a science and a
therapeutic tool for the treatment of mental health challenges, as well as physical
ailments.
Forms of hypnotism can be seen dotting the pages of recorded history, but their
presence is generally in the form of divine intervention, practiced with the aid of
an intermediary. Shamans and priestesses, ritual and magic, checker the past of
hypnosis, from the pages of the ancient Vedic texts to the papyri of pharaonic
Egypt. Even today, the modern attitude toward hypnosis tends to be that of
“hocus pocus”; a contemporary reflection of long ago practices which were not
scientifically or empirically-based, but firmly rooted in the world of mysticism.
In ancient India, the first recorded instance of hypnosis dates back 3,000 years. 
Sleep temples were dedicated to the extraction of dreams, said to be sent to
believers by the gods. Temple clergy were engaged in ritual practices which
were believed to induce a state in which believers could receive divine messages
and directives. But these rituals didn’t make any distinction between the trance
state and actual sleep. That didn’t happen until 1017 CE, with the publication of
The Book of Healing, by Persian physician Avicenna Ibn Sina. Ibn Sina referred
to the induced trance state (hypnosis) as “al wahm al-amil”, meaning the ability
of a subject of hypnosis being able to willingly accept induction (“going under”).
Over the ages, hypnosis has appeared in a variety of incarnations, as people
sought to understand the apparent connection between hypnosis and the healing
process. From Paracelsus (who believed that magnets or “lodestones” passed

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over the body were the key), to Father Maximilian Hell (who added steel plates
to Paracelsus’s equation), a wide array of practitioners sought in vain. That’s
until a student of Father Hell’s, a certain Franz Anton Mesmer, began asking the
right questions.