Sometimes good things take time. Sometimes, great ideas meet up with resistance and even hostility. Sometimes only tenacity and conviction can accomplish what you believe is the right thing to do. And if the final results are so solid, so robust, so convincing that the opposition and resistance grow silent, chances are that you have achieved something out of the ordinary – something that has never been achieved before. Pioneering work.
And for the results of this pioneering work, we have gathered today, not only to celebrate, but to say thank you to all those who supported the project in any way possible, believing in the project and sharing the vision.
If it were easy, others would have done it before us. But with the competence and support of the scientists and the administration from the University of Zurich, the editors, the reviewers, the OMNI Hypnotherapists who spent hundreds of hours hypnotizing, and all the amazing volunteers who participated as test subjects, all this would not have been possible.
Three separate forms of measurement, fMRI, EEG, and MRS, were used to study two different states of hypnosis – Somnambulism and the Esdaile State. 50 individuals underwent each all three types of measurement.
The papers were published on Frontiers (fMRI) and on Cortex from ScienceDirect (EEG). The third paper, MRS, is in the process of final peer review.
fMRI: Investigating functional brain connectivity patterns associated with two hypnotic states
EEG: An interhemispheric frontoparietal network supports hypnotic states
MRS: Neurochemical Dynamics during Two Hypnotic States: Evidence from Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
The HypnoScience® project is not about you and I. it is about what is right. Right for the people who are in search of relief from all kinds of mental and physical illnesses and challenges.
Without the wonderful support of all those involved, the HypnoScience® project would not have been possible.
The jurors have therefore selected this exclusive group of professionals who have spent countless hours, late evenings, early Saturday or Sunday mornings, as the recipients of the 2024 Gerald F. Kein Award.
Congratulations and thank you to all involved.
November 8th, 2024
The Jury
Ina Oostrom Ralph Benko Hansruedi Wipf
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