Hello Steve, thanks for your response. I appreciate the time taken to share.

I agree with much of what you’ve said, but the conscious/subconscious model of the mind is refuted by science, neurologists, cognitive psychologists and me. Every single academic that ever contributed to this field, does not even refer to conscious/subconscious – that is, it is not even on their radar; they do not even refute it, they simply do not consider it. You can google my well documented blog entries or books on that subject.

Great hearing from you, have a great day, best wishes, Adam.

Hi Neil, thanks for your comment and response. Good to read it.

You are quite right regarding the etymology. I was really referring to the wide array of people in our field referencing the Greek God. But I learned something there about it’s true translation, thank you. As I put afterwards, many people think Braid derived the term this way; pertaining to the Greek God of sleep, but it was not really so.

With my very best wishes to you, Adam.

Just a small thing, though. The word “hypnos” (or hupnos, depending on whether you opt for Greek or Latinized transliteration) does mean “sleep”. The word was used as the name of the god of sleep – not an Olympian god, just a personification of a phenomenon.

Thanks Juliet, I really appreciate your response and enjoyed reading it. Banyai really studied physical relaxation. A lot of people think you need physical relaxation in order to be hypnotised, and you don’t. That was my main overriding point here. This one will go on the list for our next hypnosis geek evening, eh?

Great hearing from you, as always, best wishes, Adam.