THE BOOK

Ultra Depth™: The Third Generation of Hypnosis

Rethinking the Subconscious from the Sichort–Ramey Lineage to the ICS Paradigm

About the Book

Ultra Depth™: The Third Generation of Hypnosis is not a manual of technique. It is an argument about what the subconscious is, and what changes when it is no longer treated as something to be controlled.

Drawing on the lineage of Walter Sichort and James R. Ramey, and on independent observations made within ICS, the book traces how depth in hypnosis came to be understood not as the intensity of a response, but as a structural relationship with the subconscious. From that re-definition follows a different account of the work itself: not one of intervention and compliance, but of communication and cooperation.

The book sets out the structural foundations of the Ultra Depth™ Process, examines the limits of earlier paradigms, and presents the third-generation framework developed within ICS — where hypnosis is understood not as an end, but as one instrument in a larger process.

Written for practitioners, scholars, and serious readers, it is offered as a reference for those who wish to understand this work at its foundations.

Published by ICS International Press.

Synopsis

For most of its history, depth in hypnosis has been measured by the intensity of a subject's response — how deeply relaxed, how responsive to suggestion. This book begins by questioning that assumption. Depth, it argues, is not intensity. It is a structural relationship with the subconscious, and beyond a certain threshold, the entire structure of the work changes.

The book builds this argument in stages. It first sets out the structural foundations of the Ultra Depth™ Process: how consciousness differentiates, how the ego forms, and why the subconscious must be understood as an independent layer rather than a deeper region of the unconscious. It then examines the paradigms that came before — the assumptions of suggestion-based hypnosis, and the point at which those assumptions stop accounting for what is observed.

From there it turns to the central claim: that the subconscious is not an object of control, but a partner in cooperation. This re-definition reshapes the work itself — from intervention and compliance toward communication and verification. The book traces what this means in practice, and how the framework developed within ICS extends it from communication into purification.

The argument is completed inductively. Clinical observations from the Ramey lineage in the United States are placed alongside independent observations from ICS practice in Korea — two geographically separate records that converge on the same structure. The book closes not with technique, but with what this work becomes when it is carried into a life.

Ultra Depth™: The Third Generation of Hypnosis is offered as a structural account and a record of observation — a reference for those who wish to understand this work at its foundations.

Preface
Prologue — The Crack in the World I Knew
A Note on the Lineage — The Roots of This Work

PART I — The Structural Foundations of Ultra Depth™
1. The Ego-Centered View and the First Crack
2. What Is Depth?
3. The Differentiation of Consciousness and the Formation of the Ego
4. Subconscious Override and the Structural Shift

PART II — The Limits of the Existing Paradigm
5. The Phenomenon Remains, the Language Changes
6. The Premises of the Ego-Centered Approach
7. The Redefinition of the Subconscious

PART III — The Third-Generation Paradigm
8. Multi-Level Communication
9. Withholding the Message and Verifying Through Reality
10. Structural Expansion and the Therapeutic Spectrum

PART IV — What Was Observed
11. Beyond the Sichort State: MTM and the Zed State
12. Clinical Observations from the Ramey Lineage
13. Observations from ICS Practice in Korea

PART V — The Meaning of This Journey
14. How Life Changes in the Process of Letting Go

Epilogue

About the Authors

Dong-gyu Moon and Dong-hyun Kwon trained directly under James R. Ramey and were certified by him as the two Educators for Korea — among the few practitioners worldwide to have received this direct transmission of the Ultra Depth™ lineage.

Dong-gyu Moon is President and Co-founder of ICS International and Master Trainer of ICS Hypnosis, practicing as a hypnotherapist since the mid-2000s. He is the author of three hypnosis books in Korean and directs the organization's Seoul headquarters.

Dong-hyun Kwon is Co-founder and Director of ICS International and a Trainer of ICS Hypnosis. A hypnotherapist since the mid-2000s, she has accumulated a substantial body of clinical work over the decades and directs the organization's Busan regional branch.

Full biographies and the ICS International board are presented on the About page.

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Editions

Ultra Depth™: The Third Generation of Hypnosis will be available from Amazon in three editions.

Kindle

Digital edition for reading on any device.

Paperback

Softcover print edition.

Hardcover

Cloth-bound hardcover edition.