Mysticism and HypnosiswithEtzel Cardeña

Etzel Cardeña

Books Mentioned In This Interview

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Etzel Cardeña holds the endowed Thorsen Chair in psychology at Lund University in Sweden, where he directs the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). Among his books are Varieties of Anomalous Experience published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and now in its second edition, the two-volume Altering Consciousness: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, and Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century, which provides a “state-of-the-art” account of the scientific evidence for parapsychology, as well as offering methodological and statistical know-how for beginner and advanced researchers. His website is https://www.parapsych.org/users/etzel9/profile.aspx

Here he delves into the nuances of hypnosis and explores the many similarities between hypnotic states and those reported by mystics. He draws substantially on his own research.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:10 Deep hypnosis

00:13:36 Hypnosis in esoteric culture

00:18:15 The power of hypnosis

00:22:49 Mesmerism

00:34:23 Altered states and psi

00:38:02 How scholars view mysticism

00:53:17 Neutral hypnosis and mysticism

01:04:09 Conclusion

Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, and Swedish.

(Recorded on June 22, 2024)

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Published on July 12, 2024

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