Versions of the I Ching. I Ching: The Wilhelm-Baynes Translation. The definitive English translation; from Chinese into German by Wilhelm, into English by Baynes. Wilhelm was in prolonged contact with the oral tradition at the very end of the Imperial era, via his teacher Lao Nai-hsÃ¼an.
highway hypnosis. A light hypnotic state induced by the monotony of driving a motor vehicle, usually on long, straight roads uninterrupted by crossings, municipalities or other visually distracting factors; it most commonly occurs in a background of fatigue.
The earliest definition of hypnosis was given by Braid, who coined the term hypnotism as an abbreviation for neuro-hypnotism, or nervous sleep, which he contrasted with normal sleep, and defined as: a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature.