What else did the researchers discover?

Knight also withstood a number of psychological tests, along with a number of her students. "Knight and the students tested extremely high in their hypnotic abilities," said Dr. Stanley Krippner, a former divisional president of the American Parapsychological Association and Psychology Professor at Saybrook Institute in San Francisco. That, Krippner went on to explain, was a significant finding because the relationship between hypnotic ability and bipolar personality (schizophrenia) and other organic disorders is counterbalancing: when one goes up, the other goes down. "You cannot have both," he stated.