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With Your The American Board of Hypnotherapy Convention The convention at the Newport Beach Sheraton Hotel was attended by approximately 500 professional hypnotists and students working toward degrees in hypnotherapy. Dick Sutphen taught a pre-convention, two-day "Past-Life Therapy Course," February 10-11 for three units of credit. He also delivered the opening keynote speech on February 13. Sophia, a "songhealer," formally opened the convention with two songs. Director, Dr. Richard Neeves made announcements, then introduced Dick: "Our first speaker needs no introduction. He has been in the field of hypnotherapy for many, many years. One of the first conventions I ever attended back in the early eighties, he was the main presenter. He's a main presenter wherever he goes. He's well known in the hypnotherapy industry. He's an outstanding individual and has one of the largest companies producing hypnotic audio/video tapes and CDs. Ladies and gentlemen, let's give a warm welcome to Dick Sutphen."
Dick's talk: "Thank you. Early eighties? We're not that old, Richard. /// I wish. /// The last few days, so many of you have come up to me and said things like, 'Gee, I remember back in 1976, when I attended your seminar and you started me down a metaphysical road.' "And the time has gone by so fast. "All right, I'm going to finish on time this year, Richard. /// I appreciate being invited back. After last year, I wasn't so sure that would happen, because I went way over my time limit. For some incomprehensible reason, I decided to try to squeeze a 90-minute session into 30-minutes. And I was in the midst of this psychic session in which Tara and I were telepathically sending symbols to the group . . . . when in the back of the room I noticed Richard going (holds up five fingers). And I thought, God, I have 500 people in trance and 20-minutes to go. I can't just jerk these hypnotists out of hypnosis. /// And pretty soon I look at Richard and he's doing this (points to wristwatch). So now, I try to avoid his eyes, because, man it's building (index finger violently jabs at watch). It was going to get to this soon (throat slicing gesture with index finger). /// "So this time, I'm going to talk less. And if I hypnotize you, and we run out of time, I may have to just leave you there. /// There's something presumptuous about a hypnotist hypnotizing hypnotists in the first place, isn't there? ("No, no" and laughter response from audience.). No? Sounds like book title to me. He was the Hypnotist Who Hypnotized Hypnotists. /// I could write that book. /// "Anyway, in just a few minutes, I'd like to share some of our latest electronic hypnotic experiments. Experiments to drop people down into an altered state of consciousness fast and effectively. The potential problem, of course, in working with any kind of a light stimulator or electronic device, is you can hypnotize yourself, while you're on stage hypnotizing the hypnotists or anyone else. /// Have you done that? /// How many of you have hypnotized yourself while hypnotizing others? /// (About half the audience raises their hand.) "God, I'm glad I'm not alone. I thought in asking that if no one puts up their hand, I'm going to feel foolish. /// "It has usually happened to me as the result of getting carried away with electronic and light experiments. The first time was probably 20 years ago at a resort in Scottsdale, AZ. I decided to enhance the group hypnosis with big discotheque strobe lights and mirrors. I was working with hundreds of people. And I didn't test it first. "Does that make you a little wary about what I'm going to be doing with you this morning? //// "Anyway, I had mirrored panels all over the room, and I even broke up mirrors to place them at different angles to reflect the light. Come to think of it, maybe breaking the mirrors is what caused it to go wrong. //// Anyway, the strobes were rigged to flash beginning in mid-beta. Converting the cycle-per-second electrical activity of the brain to beats-per-minute, that's about 850 beats-per-minute. The flashes than slowed down over a period of about seven minutes to the hypnogogic line -- the bottom of alpha, top of theta -- about 145 beats per minutes. This assured a brain/mind follow response, dropping everyone into deep hypnosis. And on top of this, I also planned to verbally invoke trance. "I told my audience to keep their eyes open as long as was comfortable, and I knew that even when they closed them there would be no escape, because the strobe lights would penetrate their eyelids. "I explained what was going to happen, and we darkened the ballroom, turned on soothing music, and switched on the strobes. Now, the lights were aimed at the audience, but what I hadn't really figured out, the damned mirrored panels bounced the lights right back at me. IT WAS INSANE! LIKE BEING IN A WAR ZONE! LIGHT CANNONS! /// "In response, I closed my own eyes to hide from the lights while continuing to verbally induce the trance. And that didn't work. Soon I was saying, 'and the relaxing power is now moving on up your s-p-i-n-e . . . u- - p - - - y- - o - - u - - r - - - - - s - - - p - - - i - - - n - - - e . . . . . u - - - - - p - - - - y - - -o - - -u - - - r . . . ' (Tilts his head to the side and feigns sleep.) //// "And I don't think my fried audience even knew I'd stopped talking, because they were so far gone. Some of them may have never come all the way back. /// "Okay, now it's your turn. I'll begin by playing a theta-wave sound we've synthesized. You can use it low behind music in your office, or just like I'm going to play it. Stereo speakers or headphones guarantee the best results. I'll put it on and you can just close your eyes and relax and go with the flow." (3-minute theta wave demonstration.) "While doing their normal work, my poor staff has to listen to this sort of thing coming out of the recording studio while it's being mixed and we're experimenting. I have a secretary that came to work for us as a normal person, but now she just looks at you with wide eyes and she smiles a lot. So . . . when she doesn't have things to do in the office, we have her sell flowers for us on the street corners. /// "Okay, let's do another demonstration. This one is a commercial exploration -- an attempt to attract as many kinds of consumers as possible: people who like music, and people who like spirituality, and people who like hypnosis, and people who like sex. //// Get all those people buying one CD and the royalties could be sizable. //// "It's called Trance Sex and it combines music and theta waves, and subliminal suggestions. Can't play very much of this because it contains some pretty sexy subliminal suggestions and we can't have you running back to your rooms right now . . . now can we?" //// (3-minute trance sex demonstration) "Everybody still in full control? Good. /// Someone in the audience shouted, "Are these CDs available?" "At our table in the dealer room, and every home should have one or two or more." Dick responded. /// "All right, the next demonstration is going to use our Hypnotic OM to conduct a session in which you meet and communicate with your spirit guide in Higher-Self. My new book is called With Your Spirit Guide's Help. It's a metaphysical travelogue, written in journal style, and covering Tara and me on the road conducting seminars and searching for past lives over a six-month period. And it shows how we interact with our own spirit guides on a day-to-day basis. "The book illustrates by example, how our guides continually open the doors to new adventures. I've always had a good relationship with my own guide, but over the last 16 years, Tara has developed a one-to-one relationship with her guide named Abenda that is beyond anything I've every experienced or investigated. So With Your Spirit Guide's Help is primarily about Abenda providing input relating to our lives here at home in Malibu, and in New York, Scotland, England, Ireland and Italy in search of past-life themes and psychic adventures. "In our household, Abenda is so real and the relationship so intimate, it's almost like living with two women, without the obvious benefits one might expect of living in a menage a trois. //// "Well, you can't expect things like that if one of the women is DEAD. //// "But dead or not, Abenda still adds her comments through my wife. Tara will say, 'Richard, Abenda wants you to drink more water.' "Oh, okay." "Tara will say, 'Richard, Abenda thinks you need to get on writing that new book.' Or, 'Abenda thinks we should spend next summer in Scotland.' /// "Anyway, in my private-practice, I found that many of my clients liked working with their spirit guides as part of a self-help plan, even for problems such as weight loss. So in some sessions, I introduced my client to their spirit guide, if they didn't already have a one-to-one relationship. Then, as part of the process, whatever the problem they were working on, I'd record a self-help tape requesting spirit-guide assistance. When the counseling session was over, they would take the tape home with them to use regularly. "A simple invocation is enough. Here's an example: 'And it's now time to humbly request your spirit guide's loving assistance. So silently in your mind repeat after me, "I call out to my primary spirit guide. I ask your loving support and to guide me in attaining the wisdom to transcend restrictions. Help me to make positive changes, as long as your assistance does not conflict with my karma or spiritual laws. I ask that you combine your energy with my own. And I sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support and assistance. I ask it, I beseech it, I mark it, and so it is.' //// "All right, let's do a session in which I direct you up into Higher Self and meet your own spirit guide. Following a body relaxation, I'll use an aura opening, chakra balancing induction that increases my group-hypnosis success rate by at least ten percent in sessions where the participants are seeking subjective awareness. When you've reached the level of Higher Self, your spirit guide will be there waiting for you at the top of the stairs. Vividly perceive what your guide looks like and directly communicate with thought language." (20-minute Higher-Self Spirit Guide Hypnosis Session) "Welcome back! I'd like to be able to further process you on this, but by my watch I have only 27 seconds left. I did it, Richard. Thank you so very much for having me. I've loved it." /////
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