The World Trance – Waking up the world – how the world trance works

I’ve been told that the definition of insanity is to repeat the same system, technique, method, over and over and expect a different result. I believe no increased amount of money, armed forces, policing or drugs [and I’m sure you can think of a few more things] will change the end result if these things are simply supporting the same old systems, techniques and methods and hoping for different results. They simply amplify insanity.

When one studies hypnotherapy deeply it’s amazing how the world is understood. And I’m pleased to say that in many ways many thoughtful people from areas other than hypnosis are coming to the same conclusions.

As individuals we consist of energy which maintains our inner trances. Those inner trances are our beliefs - positive, negative, correct, incorrect and functional held in our subconscious minds. We continually feed reinforcement to these trances – usually without knowing we do. Of course when the reinforcement is for the things that make us better humans and better humanity this is great reinforcement. But our inner trances aren’t discriminatory. We reinforce the negative and incorrect as well. And then we simply react to what is going on inside.

So you may wonder what the conscious part of the mind, the one reading these words now, does. Not much. It uses rationalization, logic, decision, will power, short term memory. All else – emotions, imagination, long term memory are in the subconscious supporting our inner trances - making a drama out of living our lives.

So what does this mean to an individual? An individual who isn’t aware of the above is an unthinking reactor. That individual thinks he or she is deciding and following a course of action. More often that is simply rationalization from the conscious mind.

Let me give you an example. Smokers rationalize that smoking is calming, good for stress. Nope. It increases hand tremors 300% and of course can lead to death. Actually the smoker is reacting to stress and emotional difficulties with a coping skill called smoking.

Another example? A worker is advised to quit the work force by a medical authority due to his or her IBS or Fibromyalgia.. That worker is told that ‘nothing can be done’, he or she will ‘just have to live with it’, and lots of drugs are given. Lots of reaction here – the worker’s and the medical authority’s.

Let’s take a look.
First the medical authority – for the most part well meaning.
The inner trance of the authority is that science has spoken and there is nothing beyond what science has said. So that authority says in a reactive way with absolute inner belief ‘nothing can be done, live with it’ [even if something can be done]. So a possible cure is controlled by an inner belief both as an individual and a group trance [more further on]

Now the individual who hears these words reinforces the inner trance of IBS and Fibromyalgia. And it is increasingly being found that both of these syndromes have major emotional triggers for their existence [see John Sarno M.D. The Divided Mind]. But the individual doesn’t know this. So maintaining the trance of the syndrome is reinforced by the voice of authority, drug taking, and even self-fulfilling symptom groups.

The individual isn’t aware that he or she is reacting to an inner trigger with outer symptoms. He or she builds the walls of the reaction to such an extent that it is impossible to look at the reaction in any other way even though the proof has been given by medical authorities that there is another way to get out of he reaction.

The individual is comfortably ‘blind’ to taking on the inner trance until all the drugs, authorities and groups aren’t answering the other needs of that individual’s inner trance to be well and self-responsible. It is only then that the inner IBS or Fibro trance may be taken on. It takes courage, insight, persistence and moving against the exterior group trance to do so. I’ve worked with these individuals. They do change for the better – much, much better – but it takes kicking the inner trance and establishing a new one, being aware that those in authority may not have a clue about other methods because they themselves are reacting to their own trances. It takes working against ‘group think’ which provides the comfort of living in the symptom. It takes thinking differently – literally changing the mind.

Now let’s take reaction to inner things further. We are living with world reaction right now. Intransigent ideologies are firing reactions into wars. There is a reason the armed forces are trained to instant reactions and desensitized. That’s the military trance. And yes we do need the military but an inner trance is deliberately built into every soldier. Could this be why many suffer from PTSD when this inner trance is no longer needed?

Then we see the unthinking group think of places like Jonestown. And we see this in unbending religious formats. We see it in our world failure to think beyond the edges of the reactive trance as it reacts to satisfying greed, acquisition and wiping each other out..

In some cases science itself is challenging its inner trances. Scientists have proven life after death [the AfterLife Experiments – G. Schwartz PhD]. At least 3 people have found cures to cancer – Rife [The Rife Report] in the 1930s, Hoxsey [the Hoxsey clinics, 85% success rate, driven out of the U.S. in the 1960s – read about this in Killing Cncer without killing yourself A.Chips PhD], and Wilhelm Reich PhD [work burned]. But the somnolent world trance of continual search using the same methods reinforces itself so the other scientists simply don’t know, can’t see, or angrily react against this information. The loser of course is the public who must abide by the reactive ‘blind’ world trance of the scientific authorities.

I watched with interest the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. Yes I reinforced my inner trance that things can be changed and hope, honesty and honour restored through this man but I question the group think about him. In a way he was hypnotically elected much like 13 year olds vote in the American idol. He became a ‘star’. T-shirts were sold. Parties held. Group reinforcement of an icon. What will happen when this icon works against group think – the world trance – because I believe he is capable of recognizing is own reactive trances and the world’s ad working to change them. It will be interesting.

There is a saying that when Captain Cook arrived at what we know as the Cook islands the natives there simply couldn’t see the ships – they were way outside their inner trance understanding of things. It was only a select few who could actually see them. Were these few the ones who challenged their world trances? I think so. On the whole though we don’t create these challengers. Despite lip service concerning individuality and individual thinking the status quo is really the area which gets the reinforcement. Nowhere do we see this more than with the media.

Yet despite the media’s adherence to the world trance [and we see it by what they exclude from information not what is included] I do believe the challengers to unthinking reaction both individually and in the world are out there. You may be one of them.

I do know that the role of hypnosis is to take on the inner trance and change it but it can only be done with the complete commitment of the person in whom the trance resides. Still it can be done and is being done more and more.