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steve.crabtree@synapse.org (Steve Crabtree)  writes:
> radinsky@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Radinsky)  writes:
>WR> steve.crabtree@synapse.org (Steve Crabtree)  writes:
>WR>> What puzzles me is that so little work seems to be done these days
>WR>> exploring the possible links between hypnosis and parapsychology
>WR>> with a view to exploring the nature of humankind.
> 
>WR> You might be interested in "Venture Inward" by Hugh Lynn Cayce (our
>WR> library has it).  It's about the work of Edgar Cayce, who I would
>WR> say does link hypnosis and parapsychology (as well as explore the
>WR> "nature of humankind").
> 
> This raises the point another poster made about the equivalence of
> different forms of trance. From the little I've read about Cayce, his
> trances seemed more like those of the spiritualist mediums of the time,
> spontaneous events rather than specifically induced ones? 

They were deliberately induced twice a day for something like 20
years.  There were about 14,000 such "readings" (as they were called)
when he died in 1945.

> Does anyone have any experience with apparent psi phenomena cropping up
> spontaneously with hetero or self hypnosis?

I'd also like to hear some experiences.

Wayne.