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This dissertation examined experiences of clinical hypnotherapists who facilitate transpersonal or expanded states of consciousness, which have been described by Wilber (2017), Cortright (1997), Grof (2000), and Washburn (2003). Although such states have been a part of community…

This interdisciplinary study in comparative literature reconceptualizes hypnosis as an aesthetic activity in light of the phenomenology of novel reading, literary theory, and narrative ethics. It begins by tracing the history of hypnotism in the medical literature, from Mesmer, …