Journal of Experiential Trance

~ Society of Experiential Trance ~ An Open Community Multi-Discipline
Peer-Reviewed Journal of
Hypnosis, Neurolinguistic Programming,
Guided Meditation, and other Focused Trance Forms


Notes for Reviewers


The editors and the entire editorial board of the Journal of Experiential Trance gratefully acknowledge your support for the journal. Your involvement is crucial to the journal’s success. Your suggestions and contributions are always welcome.

If you deem it inappropriate for you to review this particular article, please kindly inform the editors and return the materials as soon as possible. We take pride in providing authors with quality reviews as well as informing them promptly the status of their submissions. We would appreciate it very much if you could return your comments to the editors within three weeks of receiving the materials. Please use e-mail if at all possible.

In addition to general considerations, please take the following points into account:

Informal or creative pieces, such as stories or essays, should be judged more loosely in terms of rigor but must be considered positive contributions:

Please place the article in one of these two categories:

For submissions you mark as Reject, please write some brief comments to the author in regard to what the weaknesses of the piece are with suggestions for revision or for future submissions.

Once you have finished with a piece, please send your review comments immediately to the submissions editor, at brian@briandavidphillips.com as he will compile results and notify contributors. He will also prepare new open submissions for vetting and review and send them to board members as they come in.

Thank you once again. We look forward to receiving your comments soon.


Journal of Experiential Trance

Society of Experiential Trance