The Hypnotism Delusion

The first version of this book, titled The Superconscious World, was ghostwritten for Dr. Harwood’s employer, a stage hypnotist, at a time when the author still believed that hypnotism exists. The second version, Hypnotism Then and Now, was completed after he had come to realize that hypnotism does not exist, has never existed in the past, and will not exist in the future, but at a time when acknowledging that reality in a book designed to be sold by a hypnotist would have been inexpedient. This third version, The Hypnotism Delusion, was written for the purpose of making clear that hypnotism is as much an imaginative fantasy as the god delusion, the parapsychology delusion, the alien-abduction delusion, and the various other contrary-to-fact beliefs that Dr. Harwood has analyzed in his previous books. To persons who wonder why every chapter is significantly different from the versions written to conform to the beliefs of retired hypnotist Peter Reveen, that is the explanation.