Since I was a kid, I have always been fascinated by hypnosis.

I was amazed by wondering how a guy in front of the room could get people to do funny things without them remembering later, even if they remembered the words that were said. This fascinated me, so I continued to study it until this very day.

The most amazing hypnotist I ever saw (on video) was Milton H. Erickson. He was a little old man with many health problems, but he could make people look like zombies in the deepest states of trance I’ve ever seen. I realized that he talked more in process language than content language. Process language is more open-ended and less specific, allowing the unconscious mind or experiences of the subject to fill in the blanks.

Why Process Language is Important
In hypnosis, Erickson might say something like, “and you notice the color of the sand,” instead of referring to a white-sand beach. Someone may have been to Cancun and remembered a white sand beach, or that person may have been to Daytona and remembered golden beaches. No matter what beach a person references in their mind or their experience, the hypnotic language works. Erickson would also say, “and you can notice the feeling of the sand,” instead of referencing sand under their feet… that person may be referencing feeling the sand with their hands.

Are you starting to understand process language?

Good! Because if you are interested in spirituality, this is important. What I have noticed in my hypnosis and spiritual studies is that the language of spiritual masters throughout history is process language… very similar to hypnosis. The way Erickson told stories was not that much different from the way Jesus told stories. It was all about process, and it was a language deeper than everyday conversation. Process language causes people to take pause; it causes people to go deep within themselves in order to find the right meaning… the right meaning for them.

Through this inner search for meaning, something amazing can happen. If you don’t take the first meaning your brain throws at you, if you continue to go for a deeper meaning while keeping yourself open, you end up at this place of peace within you. You still will not have an answer, and that is perfectly okay. Or, you might even find this place of peace and be flooded with answers that bring tears to your eyes… answers you might not be able to translate into words. But at that point, you likely won’t care much.

Finding the Magical Place Within
Once you have found your way to this magical place within you, you will want to return again and again. You will try to explain it to people and they might not understand it, they might look at you funny. Sooner or later, though, you might run into someone like Jerry Stocking…

Jerry not only knows where you have been, but he can also speak in process language all day about this place. He knows the language of this place so well because he’s been there so long. And when you listen to someone like Jerry talk about your magical place, you realize it is also his magical place.

You realize that not only do you share the same place, you share the same language.

I realized that Jerry knew where I was without knowing even who I was. How could he know?

I listened and studied Jerry’s teachings and methods. I began to apply what he called “the path of breadcrumbs he left to his enlightenment.” Like a scientist, Jerry kept track of what he did to achieve results opening him up more. He taught these techniques, refining them until others would get similar results.

Jerry was at such a magical place all the time, he wanted others to join him at this magical place within themselves and have a common language. He was looking for friends at this place.

I started to get almost identical experiences from the exercises that he talked about, so I became much more interested in this man and his method.

Sometimes I would wonder if this guy might be running some kind of cult and I was falling prey. I thought I might lose control of my mind.

Process Language Makes You Smarter
The funny thing is that i was actually getting more from my mind. I was becoming smarter. I could talk to experts in pretty much any field, and before long I was able to talk about their expertise to the point they would ask me how the heck I knew so much about their work.

My harmonica teacher is one of the best in the world and an expert in music theory. Sometimes I will discuss theory with him, and he will get a kick out of me asking questions he cannot answer. I will recognize a pattern and explain it as best I can, and he will laugh and say I am getting way ahead of him. We have fun, and I like helping him get his wonderful method to be more understandable by explaining how people understand process. We are connecting at his level of expertise and the process of his passion, and I am having a blast doing it.

I might never have been interested in music theory a few years ago. But if I can connect with him at the level of his most available passionate process, I can play with process period. Music theory now becomes exciting to me and I see the beauty in it… and in him.

I once talked for a long time to an exterminator going through my apartment. My roommate at the time said to me, “Man, you will talk to anybody about anything, won’t you?” Yes, I will. If I can see someone leave with a smile on their face, feeling like what is in him is important. When he shakes my hand and thanks me when he leaves, I know he will share some of what just opened up in him with others.

I meet people at the level of deep process. Most experts are experts at process. That is why they are experts usually in the first place. When you open yourself up to this language of process, information begins to flow in you at the rate of high-speed internet access instead of dial-up. How much more can you download in a day through process than content?

This is why I studied with Jerry, and it’s why I still study with him. It is not just about head information either. The same process goes on emotionally.

I have found that emotions and feelings have an even bigger volume data base available. As you open in this arena to high-speed, you really begin to access the heartbeat of the universe and all that it has available to you.

Jerry’s work is all about opening to this level of universal data, and then what to do with it to make your life filled with true abundance.

I will be talking much more about this. This is just a taste of something I wish for all of you to experience.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to talk to each other in a universal language of the spirit? It is a paradox for sure. As I said earlier about the color of sand being different at each beach you might visit, a funny thing begins to happen at this deep spiritual level. Through this language of spirit, we start to realize that no matter what beach we might be on in one level of reality, we are all standing on the same one at a deeper level.

While we are separate on one level, we are not at another. If we can begin to realize and identify with this commonality of language and experience at the spiritual level and see each other from that place, we stop treating each other so badly for being separate.

We begin to realize, at multiple levels within ourselves, that we really are not.