Publisher's Synopsis
This short work has been written with a dichotomy of purpose; on the one hand to entertain and on the other to inform. You, as reader, are best placed to decide upon the success of the former purpose. My wish here is to guide you as to the latter, specifically, the reading of the text. Where words in the text have been emboldened, there is usually a note following, to state that such words should be emphasised with a change in tonality, volume or timing regarding their verbal delivery to enhance their hypnotic effect. However, you will often find words or phrases in bold type, fragmented from their sentences, spread over a paragraph or page. These words may be read alone, discrete from the sentences they form a part of, to form coherent sentences of their own, highlighted in bold type. When read in this way, you will find that they give a concise explanation of the meaning of the larger body of text of which they form a part, without the need to read the whole; as an aid to revision and memory. Where the principles being described have been previously read and understood, memory is refreshed by the concise explanation or meaning conveyed by reading the words and phrases rendered in bold type across the page in this way. This allows you (the reader), to 'dip' into the text to extract information and meaning without undertaking the laborious exercise of re-reading the whole. My advice to those readers whose narrow focus of interest concerns matters of hypnosis and hypnotism solely, is to ignore the Foreword and After- word entirely; since their thoughts and analyses concerning the wider society we live in today (in which you may intend to use your new found hypnotic skills), will be of little interest to you. For this reason, the information and instruction such readers require has been laid out clearly within chapters covering each subject matter, to enable an in-depth study of each section of interest, in un-diluted fashion.
