ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the phenomenon of hypnosis may have played and may continue to play a role in our human-caused planetary crises, from climate change to pandemics. If so, it may also offer a significant solution. The authors offer a brief argument supporting the influence of spontaneous hypnosis in behaviors causing destruction to life systems and suggest ways to reduce or mitigate the thinking or images behind the behaviors. One of these ways goes as far as to suggest that our deep beliefs might even directly affect life systems, negatively or positively, in the same way a first responder’s words can affect the medical emergency victim positively or negatively.
