When I started doing erotic hypnosis, I approached it in much the same way some men approach sex--I want to do as much as I can with as many different partners as I can so that I can experience every reaction, every nuance, every possible aspect of hypnosis that I can. I learned a lot from this, had many successes and a few failures, and made some great friends along the way. But in some ways these relationships were self-limiting. I would run a subject through my repertoire, maybe explore a few new things based on her ideas and fantasies, then I would be off to find my next inspiration.
A couple of years ago, something changed. I found my first long term subject. Things started in the usual way with a few tricks, a few fantasies, but there were some differences. First, I found that she was the most easily tranceable subject I'd ever met. I could use any induction on her and it would work. Second, she has grown to trust me implicitly, and I, in turn, have learned where her comfort level is so that I do nothing to jeopardize that trust. Third, she has real life issues that she needs help with, and my hypnosis is helping her with those.
As things progressed, I found that the usual inductions weren't even required anymore. A change in the tone of my voice or a touch of my hand are all she needs to drop deep into a trance. Triggers can be refreshed with a word rather than a full session, and they last indefinitely. Best of all, I KNOW her. I know her mind like it is my own, so I can play in it, soothe it, stimulate it, heal it or simply turn it off for awhile depending on what she needs, and all this is possible with just a few words and touches. It is truly amazing and it is the "Next level" I had been fruitlessly searching for all this time.
I am thankful for all the things I've learned on my journey and I'm sure I still have much more to learn, but I am very grateful to have discovered this aspect of hypnosis that I didn't realize existed.
I've always been fascinated by the link between hypnosis and the occult. I find there are two distinct schools of thought on hypnosis--the idea that hypnosis is a purely scientific process involving the interaction with and manipulation of the subconscious mind and the idea that hypnosis is a mystical process that connects the energies of the hypnotist and the subject, or perhaps even connects their energies to some supreme energy in the universe. We all fall somewhere on that spectrum, I think, and our experiences can shift that position fairly regularly.
I notice people who are hypnosis enthusiasts often seem to also have an interest in the occult, but that doesn't always mean that they believe there's a connection--it might just mean that they have a curious mind, much like the people for whom erotic hypnosis is one of many fetishes. Of course, just like in the fetish example, there is a natural tendency to want to combine interests, even if they aren't necessarily meant to be.
As you can probably guess, I'm one of those curious folks who has an interest in just about everything. On the spectrum of hypnosis, I fall more toward the scientific side, but I keep an open mind. And like those open-minded curious people I've alluded to above, I'm guilty of crossing the line and trying to force hypnosis to be an occult experience. The particular example I'm thinking of happened decades ago, when I was playing around with self hypnosis and enthralled with the idea of astral projection.
I put myself into a deep trance, deeper than I'd ever gone before, and I envisioned myself floating, rising out of my body and looking down. I saw myself, clearly, passed through my roof and flew out into the neighborhood. I travelled miles in seconds, really enjoyed the experience and then came back to my home, where I saw a friends car pulling into the driveway. I was not expecting a visitor. I came back to my body, woke myself from hypnosis and went to my front door just in time to hear the knock--my friend was there! At the time, I had no doubt that I had projected. Looking back, it could have been coincidence, it could have been me subconsciously recognizing the sound of the engine, or it could have been that I remembered it differently than it actually happened (hypnosis can be funny that way). Still, it's enough to put that doubt in my mind that does not allow me to rule out the possibility that there is an occult capability embedded somehwere within the acrt of hypnosis, even if it isn't necessarily an occult act in and of itself.
For others, though, it is an occult act. The act of trancing can be similar to certain rituals of Wiccans and Native American tribal practices. Many occultists, right or wrong, are seen as being wanton, sexual beings with few sexual limits. Boy, that doesn't sound like any of us who are into erotic hypnosis, does it? Anyway, I don't claim to have an answer and I would never presume to judge if someone feels that there is or is not something more to hypnosis than a scientific process. Maybe I'm just stating the obvious, but I find the link fascinating and it is one of the many aspects of hypnosis I'm trying to learn more about, bith here and elsewhere.
