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“afraid to die alone.” When questioned about her belief about what happens after death, she replied, “You rejoin people from the past... maybe .. . I feel I don’t deserve that.” RJ. was assigned homework with Release €9 Recharge during which she was to remember times when she felt alone. Work with Free Flow 10 was initiated to find an internal guide to ameliorate RJ.’s inner loneliness. This patient had never talked about her loneliness or her spiritual beliefs until the therapist's intuitive insight created an opening to do so. Case #3 — G.V. A fifty-one-year-old female, with insulin-dependent dia- betes and a history of stroke that caused a mild decrease in concentration and vision, was originally seen for depression due to job stress. The patient was on antidepressants and underwent therapy with the goal of elevating her level of awareness from the moral to the ethical level. Achieving this goal resolved her depression and led to significant improve- ment at work. The client then expressed a desire to pursue a spiritual path, which she had experienced after her stroke and from which she now felt disconnected because of the work sit- uation. G.V. was loaned the GATEWAY EXPERIENCE, Discovery and Threshold. She felt that these exercises helped her “reconnect with God,” although she was still unable to bring compassion into relationships at work, and held on to resentment for “what they did to her.” We began by discussing the boss’s “favoritism” toward another female employee. The client wanted to detach from the “unfairness” of the situation. Using the GATEWAY EXPERIENCE, Adventure, Free Flow 12, therapist and client entered Focus 12. The therapist first visualized himself floating in front of the semiprone patient, then opening her eyes and looking out from her point of view. He saw an image of chickens, then a farm with a red barn. A thought flashed into his mind, “Who was the favorite in this patient’s family while growing up?” He consciously speculated that it might have been her brother because of the rural envi- ronment. When asked, “How was your experience?” G.V. promptly responded, “Okay, but my eyes wanted to move; they wanted to open.” To the question, “Who was the favorite child in your family?” she replied that her older sister was her moth- er's favorite after they had left the farm: She “loved the farm” and had lived there until age five. It transpired that her moth- er had raised chickens, and the patient became the father's favorite after the family relocated. This led to a very construc- tive conversation regarding G.V.’s relationship to her mother and its association to the current scenario at work. Afterward, the client was able to develop compassion for her coworkers and felt further along on her spiritual path. Case #4—CJ. This forty-year-old male, with obsessive-compulsive traits and chronic mild depression, works in the medical field. Another therapist referred him for Hemi-Sync-enhanced psy- chotherapy. In the patient's third session, while utilizing the GATEWAY EXPERIENCE, Discovery, Advanced Focus 10, the therapist flashed on images of Bryce Canyon, which he had visited many years before. Back in C1, the patient was asked, “Have you ever been to Bryce Canyon?” CJ. answered, “No,” with a smile and said, “I was just talking to one of my patients about Bryce Canyon. . . . I'm going there when I retire” (an event far in the future). The therapist commented, “When you're able to relax?” with the tacit meaning, “What are you waiting for?” The client replied, “Yes,” with an overtone of “aha!” From that point on he has become happier, improve- ments are continuing within his marriage and family, and he no longer brings up the past—he just wants to experience more Hemi-Sync. The therapist hadn't thought of Bryce Canyon in years! Do we therapists actually get inside our patients’ heads or is this just an interesting metaphor? The answer to that ques- tion will depend on the theoretical model employed to filter the information and one’s own level of awareness. Ken Wilber and other philosophers maintain that consciousness is an evolving process. If consciousness evolves, then therapeutic --- PAGE 4 (OCR) --- HEMI-SYNC® JOURNAL. techniques must keep pace in order to serve clients’ needs. By combining natural talent and learning with practice, we can develop the skill of intuiting or knowing information about our patients that is not ordinarily available and utilize it in their therapeutic care. The source of such presentiments may be controversial, but their value has proven to be pivotal in many cases. As long as we heed the warnings to avoid taking our intuitions literally and to validate our metaphors, the insights obtained through this process are a beneficial part of treat- ment. And, as stated in the introduction to this article, addi- tional tools are necessary for clients with spiritual issues. According to Wilber, spiritual transformation requires a con- sistent spiritual practice. That viewpoint might be taken as a mandate to “do this and take the experience that comes.” Hemi-Sync embedded in enhanced intuitive psychotherapy provides experiences of deeper layers of the Self and builds a bridge between the levels of awareness through interpretation of those experiences. Although the need for front-loading prevents validating enhanced intuitive psychotherapy by the same criteria as remote viewing, these case reports show that it has substantial worth. The process can be employed across a wide variety of subjective and consensual models of therapy. It is a mental/psy- chic skill that can be learned and strengthened with practice and experience—from symbols to images, through intuitions, and finally to knowing. Deeper insights into the Self, some- times obtainable only through intuitive mental processing, can assist clients to move past internal blocks, as well as open new paths for growth. Most patients find that this client-centered approach fulfills their needs and provides a much-needed con- nection to spiritual essence. Critics may say of enhanced intuitive psychotherapy—as they have said of remote viewing and psychic functioning in general—that mistakes can be made, erroneous interpretations advanced, and that the process is not 100 percent accurate. I would respond in the same vein as Mr. Joseph McMoneagle, that nothing in life works perfectly. All one has is a greater or a lesser probability. As one of my hypnosis training supervisors said, “If you use good judgement, you will not hurt anyone; and you may certainly help a lot of people.” Bibliography Arrien, Angeles. Signs of Life: The Five Universal Shapes and How to Use Them. 1992. De Backer, Dominque A. “Synchrotherapy and Hemi- Syne.” Hemi-Syne Journal, vol. 16, no. 2 (spring 1998). Gilligan, Stephen G. Therapeutic Trances: The Cooperative Principle in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. 1987. Leuner, Hanscarl. “Guided Affective Imagery (GAI): A method of intensive psychotherapy.” American Journal of Psychotherapy, vol. 23, no. 1 (Jan. 1969): 4-22. McMoneagle, Joseph. Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space through Remote Viewing. 1997. Wilber, Ken. A Brief History of Everything. 1996. Wilmer, Harry A. “What do you say when a patient tells you a dream.” Texas Medicine, vol. 78 (Apr. 1982): 46-48. ce) Binaural-Beat-Induced Theta EEG Activity and Hypnotic Susceptibility Brian Brady Larry Stevens Northern Arizona University Six participants varying in degree of hypnotizability (two lows, two mediums, and two highs) were exposed to three twen- ty-minute sessions of a binaural-beat sound stimulation proto- col designed to enhance theta brain-wave activity. The Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C (SHSS:C), was used for pre- and post-stimulus measures of hypnotic susceptibility. A time-series analysis was utilized to evaluate anterior theta activ- ity in response to binaural-beat sound stimulation over baseline and stimulus sessions. The protocol designed to increase anteri- or theta activity resulted in a significant increase in percent theta for five of six participants. Hypnotic susceptibility levels remained stable in the high-susceptible group and increased significantly in the low- and medium-susceptible groups. Published in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 43:1, July 2000. Address correspondence to and request reprints from: Larry C. Stevens, Department of Psychology, NAU Box 15106, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, Larry.Stevens@nau.edu THE MONROE INSTITUTE BOARD OF ADVISORS Laurie A. Monroe, President James Beal, MS Wilson Bullard, PhD Gregory D. Carroll, PhD Virginia C. Colburn, JD Albert Dahlberg, MD, PhD Eleanor Friede Joseph Gallenberger, PhD Helene Guttman, PhD Fowler Jones, EdD Suzanne Evans Morris, PhD Joseph Chilton Pearce Jill Russell, LCSP HEMI-SYNC? | Journa Editor: Shirley Bliley Layout & Design: Grafton Blankinship Peter Russell, MA, DCS Ronald Russell, MA Carol Sabick-Quinn, LLB, MBA Bill D. Schul, PhD David Stanley, MD Charles Tart, PhD, Emeritus Constance M. Townsend, MD Stanley J. Townsend, PhD Raymond O. Waldkoetter, EdD Marguerite Q. Warren, PhD The HEML-SYNC JOURNAL, a publi- cation of The Monroe Institute, an ‘educational and research organization dedicated to exploring and developing the uses and understanding of human consciousness, offers current reporting on research and application of the Hemi-Sync® technology in a variely of professional fields, The HEMISYNC JOURNAL is pub- lished four times annually by The Monroe Institute, 62 Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938-9749, Telephone: (804) 361-1252. Membership rates from $50 to $150 per year. ©2001 The Monroe Institute. All rights reserved. No part may be reproduced without permission