This post is part three of a series.

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series I described some of the lessons I learned during the process of publishing my first two books for the public, which detailed some of the amazing stories of my patients who learned how to heal themselves with the aid of clinical hypnosis.

Unfortunately, hypnosis has a negative reputation among the general public, in large part because of how it’s been portrayed by the movie and entertainment industry.

Also, I was aware that in the late 19th century there were many false positive and negative claims about hypnosis that soured the public on the possibility that hypnosis could be helpful.

I did not want to create or add to a 21st-century perception that hypnosis was quackery, and therefore chose to withhold telling about some of the most amazing events that I had encountered with my patients when I first wrote about hypnosis, because these stories might have been too hard to believe.

Most of the stories involved information and wisdom shared with me through my patients’ subconscious. They’ve included tales of other realms and beings, as well as circumstantial evidence of their veracity, including details that were clearly out of the scope of knowledge of my........

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