Simplify this even further.
In magick, there are 3 main processes, done for 3 reasons:
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Access your subconscious.
Reprogram your mindbody for self-change, and to develop hypnotic phenomena). -
Access your superconscious.
Communicate with higher intelligences and become possessed by them. And, -
Access both consciousnesses.
Request for higher intelligences to reprogram your mindbody and your living reality.
This is all of magick in a nutshell.
Magick is done in either hypnotic depth trances, or flow (lucidity) states. The depth trance of note is somnambulism. This is where you have sleepwalking (closed somnambulism), and the hallucinations that allow you to see and hear spirit forces (open-eyed somnambulism). The flow state of note is what is called samadhi in Buddhism, or Uptime Calibration in NLP. It also leads to things such as lucid dreaming seeing auras, and telepathy (reading minds).
All of this is Hypnosis, which is closely related to Mesmerism.
Those who want to get to the good stuff can go find a hypnotist to train them with trance triggers and show them Uptime Calibration exercises such as the ones on Win Wenger’s Project Renaissance site, or in Dr. Paul Scheele’s Genius Code course.