ABSTRACT
Considering that we possess little or no knowledge of what mind itself is, it can cause no wonder that all the explanations offered hitherto for the phenomena of hypnotism are still unsatisfactory. Because in the deeper states of hypnosis we notice a condition similar to sleep, hypnotists have identified hypnosis with a peculiar form of sleep. But, as will be shown in succeeding chapters, most of the phenomena can be produced in the waking state.
