1. Do what you want (within reason). Do things in moderation, don't go overboard in one direction or another.

2. Do things that give you the most satisfaction and the greatest feeling of well being. 

3. Do what feels like you are doing the correct thing within your own value system.

4.  Have a goal or a strong interest or anything that takes you completely out of yourself.

5.  If possible, put the whole of your being into some one activity that satisfies your greatest need.

The deep hypnosis and trance state are important investigative processes in the work of many of the scientists and in my own work. When the deep trance state is reached, you are working into and with the sub-conscious and that is so powerful in attaining whatever goal one has set forth.

Edgar Cayce used only the deep trance state to make all of his predictions and cures over forty years of time.

Dr. John Lilly used the deep trance state when he worked with his isolation tank and all his psychedelic drugs.

When Timothy Leary was working with psychedelics he was working with the deep trance state.

Meditation and the whole religion of Buddhism are based on the deep trance state. 

Of course, there are many ways to achieve the deep trance state and many hypnotherapists are constantly searching for a subject in their research who can attain an extremely deep trance state, usually through hypnosis.

You can achieve a deep trance state through the isolation tank. You can achieve a deep trance state through psychedelics. You can achieve a deep trance state through meditation.

It is extremely hard to overestimate the value of the deep trance state in effecting almost miraculous cures to many pathological states. And the deep trance state is so very important in all work with hypnotherapy.

In my own work, about 85% of all subjects can reach at least a trance state through hypnosis, not necessarily the deep trance state. The deeper a subject or patient can go in the trance state, the easier it is to effect a cure from a pathological state.

Hypnosis and the deep trance state have been used since at least 1850 and great results were obtained even then. At that time, the psychologists actually didn’t know why or how it worked, but they knew how well it worked.

A few people who can enter the deepest trance are frequently employed in police work, helping to find and apprehend criminals, etc.

Even in ancient times, the oracles used the deep trance state to give their predictions to the reigning king or queen.

Many experiments, much knowledge, and many accurate prophecies have been possible because of subjects who can reach the deepest trance state.

December 21, 2012 has been generally recognized by many scientists as a possible date for either a great tragedy or calamity on Earth.

Some go so far as to predict the end of the world and the end of all life on this date. Of course, not all scientists agree that anything will happen on this particular date.

But a great many scientists do feel strongly that something might happen. The question is, if something does happen, what could it be?

Here is a list in no particular order and certainly not in the order of the possibility of them happening.

1.    A large asteroid could collide with the Earth and cause a great tragedy, possibly killing millions of people if not more.
2.    A comet could strike the Earth, causing tremendous loss of human and all life.
3.    A volcano could erupt causing massive loss of life on Earth.
4.    A tsunami could happen (could be due to a volcanic activity) resulting to cause massive loss of life.
5.    There is a possibility, although slight, of planets leaving their orbit and colliding with the Earth, causing great loss of life.
6.    One scenario which has been widely discussed among scientist is a reversal of the poles. That is the North Pole area would  become the South Pole area and this of course would cause great panic and loss of life. Many scientists believe that reversals of the poles have happened many times in the past on Earth and have caused great loss of life. Many scientists believe that we are long overdue for such a pole reversal, as it has not happened for thousands of years.
7.    Sun spots are constantly appearing on the sun, but there is a possibility, that we are seeing increased sunspot activity even now, and there is a possibility of great explosions occurring on the Sun which would dramatically affect Earth and all life on Earth.

These are just some of the possibilities of what might happen on December 21, 2012, if the scientists who believe this date is valid, are correct. The events I listed could range from minor inconvenience to unbelievable destruction.

I think it is extremely important to live your life without any great fear or any fear at all if possible.

As some philosopher once said, “The brave die but once, and the coward dies many deaths.”

I think if you will consider and think seriously of the worst things that can possibly happen to you, you will find they are not so bad after all.

We all have to die and anything that happens along the way in life is just one step closer to the final end.

And remember what I said that death should be considered another part of life. It might surprise you to know that many people actually look forward to death, for one reason or another. I am not saying, of course, that anyone should look forward to death. I am, again, saying that it is just a part of life.

Dr. Karl Jansen is mainly known for his complete and comprehensive volume of the research on ketamine.

It is a good sized book written by a well regarded psychologist and even contains personal history.

The book “Ketamine: Dreams and Reality.” is a great read for anyone who wants to learn about ketamine.

The psychedelic scene seems to have shifted greatly as we enter a new century away from psychodelic mashrooms and LSD. Now laboratory produced drugs such as ketamine and DMT seem to be taking over the greatest focus of scientific interest.

Ketamine is extremely important drug, not only for its psychedelic properties, but because it is widely used in hospitals. It is especially effective in the very young and the very old because it does not affect respiration or heart rate.

D.M. Turner accomplished a lot of research on ketmine and mostly worked with a new psychedelic called DMT.

DMT is a very short acting drug and very powerful and dangerous. D.M. Turner and his brother were both involved in ketamine and DMT research and published a few books on their research findings, here and here.

The books are so popular you won’t be able to get them from the library because as fast as any library can stock them, they are usually disappear.

D.M. Turner and his brother did their research all through the 1990s. Unfortunately on New Year’s Eve of 1996 after injecting an unknown quantity of ketamine D.M. Turner was found drowned in his bathtub.

It is common knowledge that many of the researchers of these psychedelic drugs, especially in the last ten years, would take a dose while relaxing in the bathtub.

This is however extremely dangerous, because if you overdose even just slightly you are likely to slip under the water and drown. I say, it was not the DMT, but the unfortunate and dangerous circumstances that killed D.M. Turner.

Dr. Timothy Leary came to Harvard University in 1962 and was hired as a teacher specializing in theories of personality.

He became very interested in Wassons' work. So, along with his best friend and colleague Dr. Richard Alpert, he began organizing trips to Mexico and repeating what Wassons had discovered about psychedelic mashrooms.

They now knew which mushrooms to look for. And their goal was to discover something new in this now wide open field.

They also had many interested students to help them along and they brought back a huge quantity of the LSD-type mushrooms.

At the same time, Dr. Albert Hofmann in a Swiss laboratory managed to synthesize LSD and could produce a great quantity of this psychedelic drug.

Here is how it happened. Dr. Hofmann was working in his laboratory, synthesizing various drugs, and got a little bit of dust on his fingers which apparently went to his mouth accidentally and he swallowed a minute quantity of this new drug. On his way home, on his bicycle, he experienced and strange and frightening visions and went to bed immediately.

The next morning he was determined to find out what caused these visions. He discovered it was a very minute quantity of the drug he had synthesized,  LSD. So, now Drs. Leary and Alpert didn’t have to go on long trips anymore to investigate psychedelics (although they did anyway) because they could obtain as much as they wanted, very cheaply from Dr. Hofmann at Sandoz Laboratory in Switzerland.

Now, Leary’s whole focus changed.  He and Dr. Alpert, like Wassons before him, began to devote all of their time and research to the investigation of LSD and other psychedelic drugs.

On their trips they did discover a new psychedelic drug, mescaline, and it was found in certain mushrooms which they could identify so they broadened their knowledge of psychedelics quickly.

The rest is pretty much history and just about everyone is familiar with it and through Dr. Leary’s and Alpert’s books, lectures, and demonstrations, the whole world became aware of LSD, mescaline, and other psychedelic drugs.

The psychedelic drug phenomenon was probably the most important single development from the years 1960 on.

Dr. Leary went on to have great fame, great adventures, prison time, and through everything, continued to work diligently on processing and testing all the information he could get through long trips, interacting with natives, and discussions with many scientists interested in the field.

Dr. Leary died in hospice care at home in 1996, after being diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer. His last word to his son, Zachary Leary, was "beautiful."

The  modern psychedelic movement started from about the late ‘30s to the late ‘50s and was initiated by Dr. Gordon Wasson and wife.

They carried out the initial investigations and experiments. Dr. Gordon Wasson was a high ranking investment banker in a large New York bank.

On one of his trips to Russia he met a very intelligent Russian female scientist named Valentina Pavlovna Guercken and eventually they married.

They lived in the US Northeast and one day after a considerable period of time together, Gordon and Valentina were out on a picnic in the woods as they both loved nature. And Valentina collected a whole bucketful of wild mushrooms.

She proceeded to bring them home along with the wild berries Gordon had collected and started to prepare them for the dinner. Gordon became horrified and said, “What are you doing? We can’t eat those wild mushrooms. A lot of them can be poisonous and can kill us just like that.”

She said, “Don’t worry, I know exactly which mushrooms are edible and are very good for you.” Gordon refused to touch any of the mushrooms anyway and told Valentina he wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t see her at all the following morning.

Well, Valentina was physically alright next day and these mushrooms started to fascinate Gordon because he had a scientific frame of mind. He  began immediately looking up in esoteric texts about all the mushrooms in the world, their properties, and especially the psychedelic effects on the human mind.

Gordon had a lot of vacation time from his job and he and Valentina began planning long trips, especially to Mexico, where there was a great variety of psychedelic mushrooms and a history of the native indigenous peoples using these mushrooms in their religious ceremonies and activities.

They planned a long trip to Mexico and were fortunate enough to find some friendly native peoples where some of the most psychedelic and interesting mushrooms grew.

So, they decided to make camp at this point and try to get to know the people and discover which mushrooms were psychedelic and how and how much these native peoples used and how they prepared them for their religious ceremonies.

In the native societies, there is usually only one person in the whole society that is responsible for the mushrooms, the preparing of the mushrooms, and the religious ceremonies with them.

This person is called a shaman or “medicine man” and is not only responsible for the religious ceremonies of the community, but is also responsible, in case anyone of the tribe becomes ill, for preparing the mushrooms (cooking, etc.) in order to effect a complete cure of whatever illness anyone in the tribe might have.

So, the shaman is probably the most important person in any given tribe because they are held in such great esteem by everyone because of their special knowledge both in conducting the ceremonies and curing and helping all the individuals in the tribe.

Gordon and Valentina were extremely lucky to make contact and establish a very good friendship with the female shaman of this tribe. Usually, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to even get near or talk to a shaman, let alone establish a good friendly relationship. Most of these tribes are extremely secretive and wary of outsiders and will not even identify the shaman in the tribe and usually, any scientific investigators are just out of luck.

Now, this was the very beginning of the psychedelic movement that completely swept the world for the next twenty or thirty years.

Gordon, of course, wanted to do a complete scientific study, with the help of Valentina, on a number of factors in this tribe. After luckily becoming such good friends with the female shaman, Gordon wanted to scientifically study their religious ceremonies, exactly what the shaman did and performed during these ceremonies, the type of mushrooms that she used and how they were prepared, how much of a dose was given to each person, the results of the ingestion of these mushrooms, and the results of the healing sessions that occurred afterwards.

Again very luckily, they were both allowed to witness the preparing of the mushrooms and the complete ceremony from beginning to end and both of them were busily taking down every detail in their notebooks.

I can’t go into what they discovered in great detail but I can just mention the important factors that they discovered. They found out exactly which mushrooms were psychedelic and exactly how much to prepare for a session.

They also discovered upon analysis later (they took a great quantity of these mushrooms home) that these particular mushrooms had lysergic acid (LSD) in them. That was the psychedelic ingredient that made them so powerful and allowed the natives to have all these visions. And these particular mushrooms with the LSD in them were the ones that the shaman used in the healing sessions along, strangely enough, with a theraphy form of what we would call hypnosis.

They spent over a month in Mexico and collected voluminous data. On their return home they both started to work industriously on analyzing and cataloging the mushrooms. One by one they listed all the psychoactive drugs and psychedelic drugs that they found and what effect these drugs had on them.

Being careful scientists, they discovered the doses and exactly what effects all these mushrooms had on their minds and what they felt and saw after they consumed these mushrooms.

Gordon had found a new occupation, in essence, and they both started on a large book and made further numerous trips, all over the world, in search of more indigenous tribes and mushrooms so they could continue to catalogue and research all of them in their books, here and here.

So, this is the start of the whole psychedelic movement and it occurred ten years before anyone else knew hardly anything about psychedelics and mushrooms. Ten years after the Wassons work, came a long line of researchers including Dr. Timothy Leary, Dr. John Lilly, Dr. Terrence McKenna, Marcia Moore, D.M. Turner, and Dr. Karl Jansen.

Let's see. As humans we have been around for the last 50,000 years or so.

Out of the thousands of generations we are one in a thousand. If that was put into a 24-hour time period our generation is only 5 min the 24 hours.

If I remember it right, the Earth itself is around 3-5 billion years old so the time that man has been on the Earth is really insignificant, taking it on a 24-hour clock, the Earth (we assume to be 5 billion years old) a mans lifetime equals about 1-2 seconds.

Comparing the age of the Universe with the whole human existence, we would be even less of the 24 hours…

We are sure insignificant on a grand scale, as each of our lives goes by faster then a blink of an eye.

It is really amazing. Just think, after each of us is gone, life goes on for such a immense amount of time.

There been more written about Edgar Cayce, his life, his research, and his discovery than probably any other psychic in history.

Cayce was born in the deep South in Kentucky and never went beyond about the eighth grade in education because of learning disabilities and family poverty.

However in his life time, not only was he the greatest psychic of the century but there is a huge library in Virginia devoted solely to Edgar Cayce, his research, his healing sessions, his writing, his predictions, and the thousands of books written about him and his work.

At an early age he found that he had the unusual ability to diagnose and cure almost any illness from any distance in the world.

A person might call him from thousands of miles away and he would give just as good a diagnosis and cure over the phone as if he actually saw the person in his office.

Over his lifetime, he diagnosed and cured literally thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people who would call from around the world at all hours to the point where he was almost constantly in a state of exhaustion.

All these calls and all these sessions with all these people from around the world, have been carefully recorded and preserved, every one, and these make up a special section in this library.

Most of these people that called in (and all this was carefully recorded) would call back later and report a partial or complete cure. He had a cure for almost anything from a heart attack victim to the gout. And anyone is free to go to this library and look up any cure to any disease that he handled.

He died relatively young, in his fifties, probably form overwork, and he never charged anyone for all his cures and died in poverty as he was born.

In addition to all the diseases he cured, which as I said are all carefully recorded and verified in this library, he also made a great number of prophecy predictions.

These predictions ranged from simple weather predictions to Atlantis, the lost continent, and even predictions concerning the date of the end of the world. For more read book Edgar Cayce on Prophecy by Mary Carter.

He died some time in the ‘70s or so and so many of his prophecies can be verified in the time since then. Some have turned out to be true, and some not.

I must emphasize that he refused no one and until someone with similar abilities comes along, he will remain the greatest psychic and greatest curer of illness that the world has ever seen.