1.Hypnotic Phenomena
Catalepsy: Inability to move Anesthesia: Inability to feel/sense a body part  Amnesia: Inability to remember sth Somnambulism: very deep trance Esdaile State / Coma State: The deepest hypnotic state. When a patient is allergic against narcotics, then some doctors used to bring the patient into the Esdaile State for heart surgeries. You keep full consciousness while in the Esdaile State and are so deep that you wouldn't even feel a heart surgery.  The nice thing about hypnotic phenomena is that they can be anchored. That means, if you anchor the Esdaile State you can enter it at any time in less than 10 seconds.
2.Benefits
2.1. OBEs
- How to reliably have OBEs:
- Benefits of OBEs: 
2.2 Enlightenment
2 possibilities:
Once in the Esdaile State, induce an OBE and then materialize and take psychedelics. The Esdaile State itself is already somewhat nondual. If you want to meditate towards enlightenment, then first go into the Esdaile State, and then do your meditation or self-inquiry, it will be on steroids. How many monks are able to go so deep that they could have a heart surgery without narcotics? Imagine starting your meditation practice from that place.  
2.3 Orgasms
You can have very long hands-free, whole-body orgasms. And if you anchor it, you can have them instantly. Here is one hypnosis audio for hands free orgasms: 
 
Already on the first time listening, I felt a surge of pleasure throuch my whole body every time she clapped her hands. I haven't watched it often, so I haven't had a full whole-body orgasm yet. The deeper you can go into trance, the more powerful it will be. So if you are not in trance, you won't feel anything.
 
2.4 Change your Subconscious
So many people do affirmations while only in a shallow trance. You gotta be in somnambulism for them to be very effective.
 
2.5 Healing and Regeneration
Esdaile State: Marco Lorenz says that your body heals far quicker when in the Esdaile State. He also says that it is the highest form of regeneration. He sometimes goes for a few days without sleep and spends a few hours in the Esdaile State, and he feels perfectly rested. I believe he said 1 hour of being in the Esdaile State equals 8 hours of sleep in terms of energy and regeneration. But he said it doesn't permanently replace sleep. Sichort State: This state is similar to the Esdaile State. Mr Sichort supposedly found that physical healing is increased 6-10 times while being in that state. This was apparently documented by the doctors Dolman and Marko through a method of systemic encyme counts. ( I haven't fact-checked that). Mr. Sichort is for example said to have healed a girl that was born with polio.  
3. Esdaile State
It was discovered by James Esdaile, a Scottish surgeon. It is reported that he reduced the post-operative fatality rate from 50% down to below 10% (compared to surgeries with narcotics), because of a lessening of post-operative shock (in the 19th century).
I guess the Esdaile State is similar to sleep yoga, staying aware during deep sleep. Though sleep yoga is certainly way more nondual, but that might be because the monks are trained and aim for concentrating on the nondual. And it probably also depends on the depth of the Esdaile State (in case it has degrees of depth). In any case, Marco Lorenz said that when you are fully in the Esdaile State, you have epsilon brainwaves (0-0.5hz). And the tibetan monks have delta brain waves (0.5-4 hz) during deep sleep. If you look up epsilon brainwaves, they are found in hard core yogis. So getting into epsilon is definitely very valuable. And it is definitely far easier to get into the Esdaile State than managing sleep yoga. That might indicate that you are in a deeper state in sleep yoga, or that their techniques are less effective, idk.
The fastest way to enter the Eadaile State is by going to a hypnotist. If he is very good, you can enter it within a few sessions. Once you have been there a few times and have already somewhat anchored it, it is far easier to achieve on your own.
On your own, by listening to good  audios, I guess that the average practitioner can reliably enter the Esdaile State after 40-200 hours of practice.
Two videos where Marco talks a bit about the Esdaile State in german:
 
 
4. Going into Trance 
First of all, going into trance is a skill like playing football, the more you practice the better you get. And everyone can be hypnotized and go deep into trance.
I would suggest you listen to a good guided hypnosis that brings you to the Esdaile State. Unfortunately there isn't much out there. 
Unless you find a very good one, I would recommend that after listening to many different hypnosis audios and somewhat learning how hypnosis works, you make your own script and record it. The benefit is that you can perfectly adjust it to your goals, strengths and weaknesses, and you can mix in the binaural beats you like most. I've already made a few hypnosis audios myself. With some I can't go deep in trance, but with one I get deeper than with professional audios. So making them yourself definitely works and it isn't that much work, just write a script, record it, mix the recordings together and add binaural beats. There are free audio editing apps.
Some basic tips:
The most important thing about hypnosis is that you are passive, receptive, surrender and let go. The conscious mind needs to step aside so that it is directly communicated with the subconscious. Dont try to make anything happen, just observe and notice how it happens by itself (when you are suggested to go deeper or relax. But when you are suggested to nod your head, you can consciously nod the head) If you want to get very deep then it's helpful to be a bit tired. You need to find the sweetspot so that you are a bit tired and are more receptive but not as tired that you fall asleep or can't concentrate. I like to do all my hypnosis while lying down. If you want to induce OBEs or mystical states, then do the hypnosis during the night after a WBTB. In order to go very deep into trance you usually need a deep bodily and mental relaxation If you doubt at the beginning whether you are actually in trance: You probably are. Trance doesn't feel magical. Everytime you watch tv you go into trance. The question is how deep you go. Swallow reflex. I put some pillows beneath my matress and pillows beneath my head, that makes a big difference. Otherwise, you just need to get used to the salvio and untrain the swallow reflex. Or just use it as a deepener. "Every time I swallow I sink deeper into trance". You can improve your suggestibility by making suggestions to yourself during the day and then following them like: "when I count to 5 I'm gonna drink sth". I recommend you record yourself saying some suggestions including some which improve your suggestibility and which say that you can easiliy go deep into hypnosis and into the Eadaile State. Then listen to it after a deep hypnosis session.  
5. Audios
5.1 Esdaile State 
Marco Lorenz has a very good Eadaile State Hypnosis. But it's in german: https://www.brainwave3d.com/gateprogramm/gate-1-10/111/esdaile-state-die-tiefste-hypnose-der-welt-gate-5?c=53 This site has Esdaile State inductions, but it seems like the website isn't active anymore. 3 weeks ago I purchased an audio but haven't gotten a download yet, and no answers to my emails. Perhaps you have more luck contacting them. http://firewall.readyhosting.com/Store - Audio Digital.htm The full Elman induction brings you to the Esdaile State. But I haven't found an audio yet, so you would have to record the script yourself.  Just listen to audios which are designed to get you into deep hypnosis: 5.2 Deep Hypnosis
The youtube channel UltraHypnosis has a whole playlist with deep hypnosis audios. Here are some:
https://youtu.be/zzTrR-WsbMU
 
 
 
 
 
 
5.3 Audios by:
Ultrahypnosis: https://www.youtube.com/user/UltraHypnosis They make very good free hypnosis audios on youtube. some good ones:   
Nimja https://www.youtube.com/user/NimjaHypnosis  He doesn't have binaural beats in his audios, so you can mix those you like most. Zach Pincince  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu0USluM11DeKM2-VlczMeA . He has a few videos to induce stuff like catalepsy and amnesia in the viewer.   But most of his videos show how he hypnotizes people on the street.  David Barren: https://mindcontrolpublishing.com/product/super-somnabulist-hypnosis-training/  His super Somnabulist course teaches you catalepsy, anesthesia and amnesia and good visualisation skills.  It is good but not really better than free content in youtube. Though I like the 4th video of his course. I cut out the boring stuff and made the parts about anesthesia and amnesia cycle many times, thus the effectiveness is increased. 5.4 Binaural Beats 
I had been underestimating the power of binaural beats (and isochronic tones). You can't expect them to work on the first try. The brain is like a muscle, and everytime you listen to binaural beats, you train a specific brain region. Thus you can train your brain to go into alpha, theta, delta and ultimately epsilon waves. So binaural beats are very useful to mix into hypsnosis adios. When you practice with binaural beats, you should gradually go down from alpha to epsilon over a course of weeks or months without skipping a stage. And you must have headphones. (I believe In ear headphones are fine too, but the quality is lower). 
I recommend the binaural beats by Marco lorenz. He has the most high quality. Usually you get them in mp3, but he sells them in wav 24 and wav 36. That means the quality is exponentially higher and he said he observed a noticable difference on the EEG. Before you buy the more expensive wav version, make sure that you have a device that can deliver the quality. It certainly isn't necessary to have them in wav but it probably gives an additional boost. Marco has his own research lab and adds some more technologes to his binaural beats like 3D technlogies and dissociative sounds. His website is in german, so use google translate.  The binaural beats are without voice so it doesn't matter.
Here is a link to some of his binaural beats.  https://www.brainwave3d.com/meditation/tiefenmeditation-fuer-profis/ I can recommend alpha till epsilon. If they are too expensive, then binaurals from youtube will certainly do as well.
 
6. Resources to learn hypnosis
Google: go through reddit posts, they have a lot of valuable information. Don't even bother searching through normal internet sites, most are so low quality. YouTube: Watch some of Zeck Pincince videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu0USluM11DeKM2-VlczMeA He is very skilled. You can learn a lot by watching him.  Books: "The Elman Induction" by Graham Old. Informative short book. Also includes some pages about the Esdaile State with an induction script. Very recommended I haven't yet read these two but they are said to be good: "Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Guide: Producing Deep Trance Phenomena". and : "Reality is plastic"  
If you have any questions, Im happy to answer

The challenge with "personal development" is that there can be a belief that if I'm feeling bad, that's bad - and that "feeling good" is the end goal of personal development. There's an idea sold that "If I do enough self-help, I'll feel up, motivated, excited, etc. most of the time - if not all of the time" or "If I'm ever feeling down, I'll be able to instantly change my state and emotion".
The reality is that your emotions are a direct feedback of your thoughts - and when your thoughts are "down" - you feel down. When your thoughts are "up" - you feel up. If you have more down thoughts than up thoughts, you'll feel more down than up.
IF you're doing self-help to stop feeling down - but you still feel down regularly - you'll actually make the situation worse. You'll be angry, upset, sad, frustrated, etc. about your down feelings. It's called a "secondary disturbance". You're angry you're sad or you're upset you're in a bad mood. So you just stack more "negative" on top of "negatives".
When you understand that the human experience is contrast... sometimes up and sometimes down... you stop resisting your "down" feelings - and start accepting them as part of being human. After all, you wouldn't even know what "happy" felt like if there wasn't a constrasting "sad" feeling. We only feel the "up" feelings fully because of the contrast they have with our regular "down" feelings.
The goal of self-help and personal development isn't to transcend the human experience. It's to understand the human experience so you can surf it more intelligently. We want to life hack ourselves to superhuman - but often the way out of suffering is to simply understand all parts of the human experience and accept it "as is".
The weird thing is that when you stop resisting or distracting from "negative" emotions - you start to see them as the transitory emotions they are. When you stop obsessing about why you aren't happier - you allow for anxiety and sadness to appear - and then flow away as your thoughts change. Sometimes you're up. Sometimes you're down. Sometimes you're neutral. But you start to see it as all a part of the river of life - not good or bad - just existing. And you stop all of the negative thoughts and beliefs around your experience that make you feel even worse.
When I feel anxiety, I think "Hello again anxiety. Nice to see you" - and I let myself feel and be in that anxiety. And weirdly, anxiety only rests for a moment before moving on. 
When you start accepting your human experience - and stop resisting it - you'll start to open up to the fact that you're perfectly fine as you are and there's nothing to be fixed. 

Here I am. 
It's infinite. Haha. 
Do you understand? It is infinite! It's fucking infinite! You are the only thing that ever existed. You are Hitler, you are Jesus,
you are a child playing in the sand. 
The ego structure is all a big infinite matrix. The more you try to deconstruct it, the bigger it gets. 
What does really matter? No matter what you're doing, you're doing correctly. You are in the matrix! I am the matrix. I am you. I am
infinite compassion, infinite guilt, infinite shame, infinite hatred, infinite lives, infinite language, infinite porn. It's all the
same thing. If you study computers, you will understand that you are exactly it. What holds all this web? Nothing and everything. 
Life is a fucking paradox. Infinite compassion or infinite hatred? 
The idea I have about my life and all my petty problems are joke because I am you. I am my dog. I am the dust. I am the worst
criminal. On a different time and space. 
IT IS ALL A FUCKING CYCLE! HAHAHA It is infinite! It never ends whether you want it or not. Consciousness is infinite. We are all
made of the same fabric. The petty that I have, you have also. The self-censorship within myself is present in all human beings. I am
just a fucking cell. The strangest thing is that you cannot grasp this. It is as if trying to stop time. I don't know, I am just
confused here.  
It all starts with the first step. All huge successes started with a first step. Do it imperfectly but start. This realization of our
true nature requires tons of responsibility and at the same time zero responsibility. In a way, I am just a tiny cell of the
Manifestation of consciousness. I don't have any fucking responsibility, and at the same time I know that the animals that are
getting slaughtered are ME! All the children that ever felt hurt, abandoned, or rejected are actually myself. As I mention, it is
infinite. I am you, remember? Haha. 
All this idea of "my" life seemed like a joke. Of course I will born again. I am infinite. INFINITE! HAHAHA. I am all that ever was. 
I am so grateful to Leo for all his hard work. I am so grateful for everybody who spend hours and hours on this forum and feel like
you're destroying your life. All I can say is: it is infinite. Infinite births and deaths. Infinite situations. Infinite
possibilities of the mind. Infinite lifetimes. You were Cleopatra. Haha. It is all one hahaha. 
Infinite judgements. 
Infinite shame.
Infinite tension.
Infinite relaxation. 
Infinite infinity. Hahaha!
I feel so fucking inspired. I feel like I had a glimpse of who I really am. It's so crazy to see that this lifetime is just a cycle.
YOU ARE AN ILLUSION. There is no one who is writing here. My cells are like cars on a busy avenue. There isn't much I can do except
engage in consciousness. It fucking  is infinte hahaha
 
When you notice that, you will start laughing. This is all a fucking structure. The moment you brake it, a larger, harder structure
emerges immediately. HAHAH it's infinite. 
All people you walked by today are actually you. You are your cat. You are me.
I feel fucking amazing. A HUGE pressure was lifted off my shoulders. Sure, i will forget this insight infinite times, but it is
there. No matter the situation, here you are. You are everything that ever existed. Just on a different space and time. You are
literally your mom and dad. I am my ancestors. If we trace down to the start, there is only one. We are leaves of the same tree.
Infinite leaves. You cannot die. What dies is the structure. BOOM! Gone. 
I keep repeating "it's infinite" as if my life depended on this. Ha. Having the insight of no-self, a natural feeling compassion
arises. You simply get people. You are like, "oh, why i am going to judge this person if I am that?" I have been quite selfish
lately, and that doesn't make much sense. 
To reach these higher stages, you have to face infinite fear. The bigger the fear, the bigger the expansion. We are composed of
polarities. 
I had a very beautiful image in my mind in which i recalled a conversation i had with a close friend this week. i could see from his
point of view. and i could also feel that he had the insight of interbeing. it was as if he was seeing and sensing everything that i
was feeling because he is extremely developed and has gone through infinite hells haha. 
It is so fucking obvious haha. 
I am beginning to lose it. But... did I ever had it?
Gone. "Make me one with everything." HAHA, i remembered that joke during the trip. haha. life IS a trip. infinite trips. haha.
infinite hatred. infinite egos. infinite fear. infinite courage. infinite repetition because it is right under your nose and you
don't see it haha. 
"You keep wanting wanting so much, why not want EVERYTHING?" Jack Kornfield
it doesn't make much sense writing this name since he is me. HAHAHA. I can't stop laughing. 
It is all a fucking matrix, infinite structure.
 
My mind simply cannot graps what I have experienced. I felt for all the highly schizophrenic folks out there (actually, in here (:P).
Language is infinite. 
I have been a pretty lazy-ass guy, but to Existence this doesn't fucking matter. It is a never ending process. 
You = Buddha = Hitler = Leo = Donald Trump 
Can you see that these are only names? Do you grasp how shallow "names" and "dates" are? It is a joke to plan because all we have is
the now. hHAaha. if you still have checkboxes to check before remembering who you TRULY are, well, the checkboxes are infinite. Haha.
It is a dark hole. I am Christopher Hitchens HAHAHA. It is so hilarious. For most part I think, "dude, I am going crazy." Good.
Awareness is beyond everything. Because it is fucking infinite. I want to program that into your mind. It is all infinite. 
Anyway, thanks to all the Buddhas, thanks to all my reflections I come across. Pure joy awaits you. And pure pain awaits you. Pure
monkey mind. Everything I wrote is monkey mind. It is pointing to something greater. It is possible to escape the matrix? No, you're
part of it. It is like a cell trying to rebel against all the trillion cells haha. haha. it is so beyond you. I want you to
experience this. 
We are very priviliged to get the ultimate knowledge from all these amazing people out there - matt kahn, infinite waters, leo.
People waste so much time with traditional dual ways of worshipping a God as if there were gonna be a "reward". It is like this, a
drop of water remember that it is water. it's infinite, remember? i warn you: once you get this experience, your ego will quickly
get bored. It will come up with infinite thoughts, judgements, projections. It's ok but realize all this monkey mind is like a
never-ending hole. The more you engage in thinking, the more content is generated. simple as that. so what activities can you do that
will bring you back into harmony? actually. everything is in harmony. 
The thing is, "other thoughts cannot deeply change other thoughts." The key is expand your awareness. And psychedelics are a HUGE
time-saver (haha, time is an illusion). life is a trip. that's all I can say. hahah
At some point I wanted to take more ayahuasca, but then I thought, "shit! i want take more of myself." it is as if i was in lack,
lacking the proper clothes, lacking... always lacking... dude, remember to fry the big fish. things take care of themselves. it's
hard to trust, but that's it. you have no control. but You have all control. 
i feel very humble. i feel like listening to people. it is all so beautiful. even lower conscious behaviors. they all stem from the
desire to be happy. yet we don't pay attention to the results we're getting. anyway, that's it dude or girl. I feel in a way like
just a matter of recognizing who you are. 
it's infinite fun. it's infinite seriousness. poles. positivity or negativity. We are included in everything. I feel like I am a cell
telling to other cells that there is a bigger body we're part of. And this body is part of the cells of the world. And the world is a
cell. Micro and macro. You are your heart!! Even though you don't pay attention to it, it is working 24/7. can you imagine that? it
never fucking stops till you're gone. Haha. you'll be gone soon hahahha. me too
i am the youngest, 
i am the oldest, 
i am the billionaire, 
i am the poorest, 
i am the saint, 
i am everything in between also. including yourself. hah. it is funny to send messages to your other selves.
people, if you feel stuck, please consider trying psychedelics. i can understand why I have been going through hell. It is not possible to expand your awareness otherwise. haha. because it includes everything. 
well, as you can read, it is a real mind boggler haha. if you can let yourself go for a moment, it happens. you'll go, "OH MY GOD!
that's fucking obvious." 
my desire is to be ok with being part of this matrix. and really, no matter what I do is absolutely correct. it never ends. you don't have to throw away anything. you don't need to get rid of your overthinking, your bad habits. haha. the idea that you have any control at all is an illusion. let us remember lavoisier (a.k.a., yourself), "nothing can be created. nothing can be destroyed. everything is transformed." 
transformation. you are a metamorphosis of your dad and mom ahaha. i am laughing so hard at myself right now because "i exist as i am. that is enough." you don't to change the world. when you change yourself, the world *which is you* transforms. there are the individual level and the collective level of awakening. I love this word. Awakening. You are the Buddha. Dude, how did we stayed for 42 days meditating under that Boddhi tree? 
to me, the message is clear: you have no control over anything. have you seen what happens when a person drops a bad habit? a brand-new arises. in most cases, it is even a worse one. we are so stuck in this vortex of endless information that we forget what is beyond all this. The Silent Observer. actually, there is no observer. got it? probably not because it is ungraspabble. 
everything i wrote here is being repeated over and over. maybe it is time to take a deep breath. and learn how to surf. 
i feel like the more I write, the farther the Truth goes. Words are endless. Unfortunately it is not possible to feel it through words -- but only through direct experience. So I applaud you for being on this forum, watching Leo's content, and really educating yourself what is possible. Haha, there's nothing left to say. I feel like everything else is secondary. 
i'm curious to see my upcoming days. haha. that's a lie. haha. 
correct less, do more. dude, i feel so stuck right now. again, i am lost in this maze. i feel like i am slowly conquering my insanity. i am first accepting the truth that there is nothing wrong with me. i am perfectly fine.  
trust