For those of you reading this who don't know it, I'm certified as a hypnotherapist and I'm certified to teach hypnotherapy. I'm tentatively scheduled to be teaching some of the basics of hypnotherapy at Pantheacon in San Jose, CA, February February 15–18, 2013. Many authors and speakers, including several from Llewellyn, will be there. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy have been known for a long time. There were "sleep temples" in ancient Egypt where people who were ill would be put in a trance, receive some sort of suggestions, and later leave the temples healed. In ancient India, one of the oldest books, the Mahabharata (which dates back to at least 4,000 years ago) makes statements about