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Episode 37 – Mr. Dick Sutphen

A conversation with Mr. Dick Sutphen

DICK SUTPHEN is the author of the million-copy bestseller, You Were Born Again To Be Together. He has authored over 21 book titles⎯He has created over 300 mind-programming CDs. Over 190,000 people have…

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June 14, 2015
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DICK SUTPHEN is the author of the million-copy bestseller, You Were Born Again To Be Together. He has authored over 21 book titles⎯He has created over 300 mind-programming CDs. Over 190,000 people have attended a Sutphen Seminar, workshop, or retreat, which are conducted in major cities throughout the world. Richard is also a featured speaker at Professional Hypnosis conferences and has appeared on over 400 radio and television shows. Simon & Schuster  calls him “America’s Foremost Psychic Researcher.” Richard is called “America’s leading past-life therapist” by the Body Mind Spirit Festivals in England and Australia. Richard first introduced the Sedona Vortexes to the world in his 1978 bestseller, “Past Lives, Future Loves.”

Richard Sutphen created and marketed the first Hypnosis Tapes in 1976. Since then he’s been lauded as one of the finest and most creative hypnotists in the world, by hypnosis organizations, books and festivals. Also in 1976, he conducted the first nationally televised Past-Life Regressions on the “David Susskind Show” and “Tom Snyder’s Tomorrow Show.” As a specialist in brain/mind technology, Richard instructs medical professionals in how to use his life-changing techniques.

As a world recognized Spiritual Hypnotherapist, Richard annually conducts several training seminars to teach others to be professional hypnotists. Working with Roberta Sutphen (a Spiritual Medium) he is available for Private Sessions. Together, they conduct a “Metaphysical Examination,” which is rapidly becoming a benchmark metaphysical exploration. They offer a free webcast every month on their combined teachings. Richard and his wife, Roberta, live and work in the Spiritual Center of America: Sedona, Arizona.

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In this episode we discuss Mr. Sutphen’s long standing career, his experiences with hypnosis and altered states of consciousness.

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Music: Future Sound of London – Cascade

A big thanks to Richard and Roberta for helping make this show happen

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  1. “The hypnagogic state—the threshold between waking and sleep—is especially rich in imagery. Einstein reportedly used afternoon rest to enter a looser state of awareness from which ideas could emerge. Whether or not we call that hypnosis, the practice recognizes that insight sometimes appears when deliberate, linear thought relaxes.”
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  2. “In regression sessions, I did not instruct people to find a past life. I asked them to return to the cause of a problem, wherever it might be. Some then described another time and place in language they interpreted as a different lifetime. I recorded the sessions, but interpretation of such accounts remains a separate question from the experience itself.”
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  3. “The instruction was to locate the memory that seemed most relevant to the current life. Once an image or scene appeared, I guided the person through its sequence until we reached what felt emotionally significant. The method was intended to reveal the narrative organizing present distress, regardless of how one explained the apparent memory.”
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  4. “A regression story can give symbolic form to guilt or fear that previously felt like an unexplained symptom. One participant connected recurring headaches with a narrative about causing a sister’s death. That association should not be treated as historical proof, but the emotional meaning could still help the person understand what had been operating beneath awareness.”
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  5. “Resistance is often rooted in fear, and sustained resistance creates much of the suffering we experience. Life can contain freedom and joy, yet we repeatedly build constricted lives around what we refuse to feel or face. Changing the state of mind begins by noticing the resistance rather than fighting its object more aggressively.”
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Mr. Dick Sutphen

DICK SUTPHEN is the author of the million-copy bestseller, You Were Born Again To Be Together. He has authored over 21 book titles⎯He has created over 300 mind-programming CDs. Over 190,000 people have attended a Sutphen Seminar, workshop, or retreat, which are conducted in major cities throughout the world. Richard is also a featured speaker at Professional Hypnosis conferences and has appeared on over 400 radio and television shows. Simon & Schuster  calls him “America’s Foremost Psychic Researcher.” Richard is called “America’s leading past-life therapist” by the Body Mind Spirit Festivals in England and Australia. Richard first introduced the Sedona Vortexes to the world in his 1978 bestseller, “Past Lives, Future Loves.”

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