Franklin Merrell-Wolff discusses some of the experiences reported by individuals present at the “Induction Talk” delivered on 24 January 1970. He begins by suggesting the use of the term ‘inverse consciousness’ instead of the word ‘trance’ in speaking of mystical consciousness, and he stresses the distinction between the existential fact of trance on one hand and the meaning or spiritual value of trance consciousness on the other. Wolff goes on to examine Jung’s definition of the unconscious as found in his commentary to The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation in order to distinguish the psychological approach of the West from the yogic orientation of the East. He then reads and comments upon several of the reports submitted by those attending the Induction Talk.