In it arise whatever mystical experiences we may have, and our automatisms, sensory or motor; our life in hypnotic and "hypnoid" conditions, if we are subjects to such conditions; our delusions, fixed ideas, and hysterical accidents, if we are hysteric subjects; our supra-normal cognitions, if such there be, and if we are telepathic subjects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference

Not, James explains, in the way advocated by the "medical materialists" – those for whom mysticism signifies nothing but "suggested and imitated hypnoid states, on an intellectual basis of superstition, and a corporeal one of degeneration and hysteria".    From Wordnik.com.  [William James, part 6: Mystical states] Reference

The surrounding rocks are covered with jungermannias and hypnoid mosses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

Many persons cannot under any circumstances be brought beyond such a hypnoid degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

The expectation that something wonderful will happen can even produce an almost hypnoid state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

Thus there is no sharp demarcation between suggestions in a waking state and suggestions in a hypnoid state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

For that purpose I brought her into a hypnoid state, bending her head backwards and speaking to her with slow voice until I saw that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

The developed hypnotism finally shades off into innumerable states of hypnoid character in which the sleeplike symptoms are entirely in the background.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

It is the post-hypnotic after-effectiveness which gives to the hypnoid and to the hypnotic states their importance for the treatment of the most exasperating symptoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

If we do it, we certainly should acknowledge from the start that the hypnoid states are for therapeutic purposes not a bit less important than the full hypnotic states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

To the medical mind these ecstasies signify nothing but suggested and imitated hypnoid states, on an intellectual basis of superstition, and a corporeal one of degeneration and hysteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference

If the subject with his eyes closed is touched perhaps by two pencils at various and unexpected points of the face and hands, a skillful playing on his tactual senses soon produces a half-dozing state of hypnoid character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

It is almost arbitrary to decide where those waking states with high tension of suggestibility end and the hypnotic states begin, and not less arbitrary to call the higher degrees only hypnotism and to designate the lower degrees as hypnoid states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

Certainly the hypnoid states do not allow complex hallucinations and absurd post-hypnotic actions, but they offer excellent starting points for the removal of light obsessions and phobias and for the reënforcement of desirable impulses, volitions, and emotions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

There can be no doubt that, whatever may have been the value of his theories, he cured a large number of patients, evidently producing a state which we would call today a hypnoid state and often simply appealing to the natural suggestibility of the impressionable minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

They may remain in a completely waking state with reënforced suggestibility, or they may go over into a drowsy or hypnoid state or deeply into a hypnotic state, or may receive the suggestions as we saw even in sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

A vast sector of modern advertising ... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Pot easily accessible at Montreal club: report] Reference

Monad http ((((full rez ART images at)))) www. flickr.com or meet some new friends at myspace at profile. myspace.com --------------------------------------------------------------- A vast sector of modern advertising ... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Pot easily accessible at Montreal club: report] Reference