Scientific Remote Viewing

Contemporary History
The damage caused by the excitement over psychoanalysis continued until after World War I in Britain where a lack of psychiatrists to treat paralytic illnesses and amnesia of psychogenic origins encouraged some physicians to once again look towards hypnosis. Hadfield pioneered what he called hypnoanalysis and help develop age regression.
The British Medical Association officially endorsed teaching of hypnosis in all medical schools in the early 1950’s. This event was followed by the founding of the American Institute of Hypnosis on May 5, 1955 by William J. Bryan Jr. M.D. Perhaps no one individual has been more important in recent times than Dr. H. Joshua Sloan, a dentist who uses hypnosis as the exclusive anesthetic. Other major pioneers are Aaron A. Moss, the third president of the American Institute of Hypnosis, Dr. Garland Fross, Dr. Tom Wall, Dr. Jack Bart of Beverly Hills, California who has traveled all over the world teaching medical hypnosis.
Dr. Sydney Van Pelt is the first contemporary full time medical hypnotist. Originally from Australia but based in London, Dr. Van Pelt is the inspiration behind the British Society of Medical Hypnotism and editor of the British Journal of Medical Hypnotism, the oldest such journal still in publication. He is perhaps the most renowned medical hypnotist of recent times.

Milton H. Erickson, M.D. (1901 – 80) was stricken with polio and paralyzed for much of his childhood. He was able to remobilize himself and took advantage of his illness to develop his incredible powers of observation. He has developed some of the most effective induction procedures (explained below). Erickson has been known to heal through surprise, confusion, metaphor, and humor in addition to hypnosis.
Hypnotic states, aside from being present in the earliest societies as well as tribal ones today, were used by artists and intellectuals to attain higher states of awareness or more sublime levels of creativity. Alfred Lord Tennyson would repeat his name several times like a mantra until poems flowed from his trance state. Mozart is said to have written Cosi Fan Tutte (The Magic Flute) while under a hypnotic trance while Rachmaninov composed concertos following hypnotic episodes. Goethe and Chopin both studied Hypnosis. Many others, like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Albert Einstein, and Aldous Huxley, all used trance states to develop their ideas.