Paper—Clinical Hypnosis & VR, Subconscious Restructuring-Brain Rewiring & the Entanglement with… Clinical Hypnosis & VR, Subconscious Restructuring- Brain Rewiring & the Entanglement with the 8 Pillars of Metacognition X 8 Layers of Consciousness X 8 Intelligences https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v18i01.26859 Athanasios Drigas 1() , Eleni Mitsea 1,2 , Charalampos Skianis 2 1 Net Media Lab-Mind & Brain R&D, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Athens, Greece 2 Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece dr@iit.demokritos.gr Abstract—Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Aldous Huxley, Sergei Rachmanicoff, Chopin, Goethe. What do these people have in common? They all used hypnosis to explore and expand the boundaries of their intelli- gence. The aim of the current review is to investigate the impact of clinical hypnosis on Metacognition, Consciousness and Intelligence based on the coun- terpart model. Furthermore, we examine the role of virtual reality hypnosis in service of metacognition. The results showed that clinical hypnosis -with the power of attention and imagery- can effectively and rapidly reformat cognitive and metacognitive skills, upgrade intelligence and raise conscious experience into the higher energy levels. Hypnosis improves metacognition by re- organizing the survival-emotional-reward centers, smoothing the non-verbal pathways for effortless self-regulation. We concluded that the clinical hypnosis guarantees peak performance, innovation, success, and happiness in all areas of life. It can also play a significant role in education as a tool for dealing with the well-established learned weaknesses, for mental/emotional training and brain rewiring, facilitating learning, unlearning and relearning. Virtual reality hypno- sis is a top promising technology assisting metacognitive training. Keywords—clinical hypnosis, metacognition, intelligence, consciousness, sub- consciousness training, unlearning, relearning, self-sabotage, brain rewiring, high performance, imagery, attention, inner vision, effortless self-regulation 1 Introduction Clinical hypnosis enjoyed a period of tremendous growth in the 20 th century when became a valuable psychotherapeutic/psychoanalytic tool for behaviour modification [1]. However, the scientific history of hypnosis had started in 19 th century when Franz Anton Mesmer – based on the magnetism theory- practiced hypnosis-like techniques. Thereafter, many researchers (i.e. Di Faria, James Braid, Charcot, Pierre Janet, Freud) 78 http://www.i-joe.org