I drive a 13-year-old car. Sometimes it needs service. If the person I pay for service is limited in their scope of practice to wiggling wires and randomly flicking switches while reciting the mantra, “I wonder what this thing does,” I have paid a fake, a fraud and/or a charlatan. Or I am at Jiffy Lube. Now, if the “mechanic” were to tell me that my car was possessed by a demon, I would find this disconcerting, but I might want to watch how the auto-exocism was conducted. I love kooks.

But if I or a loved one were suffering the last thing I want is an allegation of mystical “expertise.” It is by definition oxymoronic. “Oh, I’ve seen all sorts of demons, I know all about them. I have friends that are smarter and more powerful than demons, if you know what I mean by ‘friends’. And I have technique and a NGH certificate.” Or worse, having encountered some phenomenon outside familiarity, for a practitioner to start improvising within a frame of being terrified and ego-involved is beyond incompetant. It is morally and often criminally wrong. Installing a frame that puts healing choices and power outside the client’s immediate realm (however THEY frame it) is ego-tripping at the client’s expense and that cost can be very very high.

You want to play angels and demons, go ahead. But do it on your own time. And if they keep coming up in your practice, quit practicing. You have no idea what you are doing.

Sorry to be blunt. But in this realm, hypnosis and hypnotherapy, where we have no legitimate established standards, no requirements for demonstration of competancy or legitimate continuing education, no scorecards, no reporting, no supervision, the barriers to entry are essentially non-existent. Those who depend heavily on first-person hallucination to practice are delusional and dangerous and need to find some other realm to find their places in the world. I hear Jiffy Lube has a good benefit package.

Maybe It is unwise for a hypnotist to tell any client that the client is possessed by a demon; On the other hand, to tell another client that he is possessed, and implant in their subconscious a more powerful symbol than the conceived demon, is the only way to help that client get free from the “demon”, as this clent did believe at the deepest level of his psyche that he was demon possessed. There is simply no logic at that level of the mind.

Ultimately, the demons are not real, but equally unreal are the motivations driving the behaviors. Ultimately there is only energy, but this energy is perceived as different forms according to the levels of people’s consciousness.

I know people are healed by all kinds of suggestions, the important thing is to find one that can really take away the client’s problem.

Thank you all.

It is indeed an honor for me to work with individuals who harbor “dark forces”. This specialization is the most fascinating part of my work.

Upon completing unique and particular cases that I am addressing, it is my intention to publish my findings.

Look forward to that day!

Of course, when we have a more accurate idea of what’s going on, we can make changes with a minimum of muss and fuss. From what I’ve seen though, entity possession is not generally much in the way of an accurate idea of what’s going on.

Also, there’s the fact that opposite motivations can easily occur in folks–and it’s easy for one part of a person to label another evil or an entity. That makes working in the entity framework dangerous (to the client) and mostly silly (IMO).

Certainly, there are things that exist in this world that are beyond my imagination. My guess about entities though? No. To sum up my attitude about it? “I could be wrong–but I’m not,” to quote The Eagles.

And just to be fair, I am equally suspicious of anything that sounds like it might match up to a diagnostic code that some “provider” put on a claim form somewhere. I believe it’s all about paying attention to what is going on in the room, right now. Not what we have studied at great expense and time commitment. The literature is filled with examples of sincere practicioners finding, falsely, phenomena they studied for their theses. This isn’t just bad hypnosis (of which there is plenty), it’s just plain bad practice. It further victimizes clients/patients, rather than helping develop generative choices.

And not to gore your ox, but I am having trouble getting my head around these “entities” putting up with basic standards of replicability, double-bind studies or peer-review in the context of legitimate research. But I really like the phrase “lucid scripting.” Good album title.

In my quest for understanding this deviation from the norm I have mixed reviews. The possibility for its veracity still exists with respect to my limited sampling, however key to making that determination is implementation of lucid scripting, consistency in communication and accuracy of reporting in addition to proper training and understanding of the elements comprising the drawing of any conclusions.

Since my training includes Spiritual Hypnotism and Metaphysical Hypnotherapy in addition to Traditional Hypnotism, I suggest further exploration into this topic before shunning it completely. At first I was somewhat skeptical myself, however some of my findings are rather extraordinary. Consider then remaining open-minded to the possibilities, for the unknown realm is truly beyond our immediate comprehension.