Hypnotic Realities

Dr. Ernest Rossi: “Would you like to go on now and demonstrate more phenomena?”

Dr. Milton Erickson: “I might like to, but I did not discuss it with her consciously. Therefore if I go on I must first wake her up and ask her permission. The unconscious always protects the conscious.”

“Would you like to awaken now?”

Commentary -- Dr. Milton Erickson: I cannot ask for permission to do something in trance while she is in trance. Asking for permission belongs to the normal state of awareness, and we must therefore ask while she is awake. You must be careful to protect the integrity of the personality and not exploit the trance state.

From “Hypnotic Realities,” Erickson, Rossi, and Rossi, 1976, p. 13:

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