US & THIS
Here's where we – Kev and Amy – seek to understand our shared interest in hypnosis, and make connections with likeminded hypno-illuminati-types.
KEV
Kev is a hypnotist, magician, hacker, and programmer. In the past he created and ran Head Hacking with Anthony Jacquin. Motivated by a need to know how hypnosis and suggestion works, he recently completed a master of research degree in psychological methods (with distinction) and is currently studying (part-time) for a PhD in experimental psychology, focused on phenomenological control, supervised by leading hypnosis researcher, Professor Zoltan Dienes at the University of Sussex. Kev is also the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
AMY
Amy is a writer, creative, magician, and wifey with a passion for hypnotism. She started her professional career in magazine publishing and marketing-communications before segueing into business leadership consultancy. Since combining forces with Kev in 2019, she has been focused on ‘The Illuminati Mess’ – aka the omnishambles of pale, stale, and male misinformation surrounding psychology and persuasion. She believes the slippery story of hypnotism, mesmerism, and the power of suggestion is more relevant than ever as we navigate an unknown, tech-driven future.
Kev and Amy are married and enjoy buying obscure books from eBay, bickering about the science vs story of hypnosis, and building magical things for their home. If you’d like to support Cosmic Pancakes!, you can buy us a coffee!
Note: We mostly write about old dead dudes, but sometimes we write about and, more pertinently, interview contemporary figures in hypnosis. To be featured on Cosmic Pancakes! is not an endorsement of hypnotherapy or any form of therapy or ideology, past, present or future, and any involvement interviewees or those referenced have in therapies/ideologies, etc, is purely incidental.
Yes, but why Cosmic Pancakes!?
Cosmic Pancakes! is called ‘Cosmic Pancakes!’ thanks to Christopher 'Kit' Green, a fabulous hypnotist and performer Amy met back in 2016 at the launch of their book, Overpowered! The Science and Showbiz of Hypnosis. The book concludes with Kit calling for a ‘hypnosis’ rebrand, and Amy found herself pondering this grand communications challenge…
Amy happened to be reading Robert Anton Wilson’s Cosmic Trigger at the time. The novel features a story of a US farmer visited – apparently – by aliens during the US ‘flying saucer’ epidemic of the 1960s. Two little green men touched down, knocked on the farmhouse door – and duly presented the farmer with a plate of pancakes. An FBI investigation revealed that the perplexed man believed he was telling the truth. (It also revealed that the pancakes were perfectly normal, but for being enhanced with extra wheatgerm-goodness.)
Amy couldn’t help but wonder whether this was the work of hypnotists – rogue/stoned students or a bone fide FBI experiment… What better way to test the limits of hallucination and post-hypnotic suggestion..? It sounded like the sort of shenanigans Estabrooks alludes to!
Lo! ‘Cosmic Pancakes!’ as Amy’s personal term for ‘hypnosis’ was coined. (She emailed Kit in response to their call for rebrand suggestions – they replied saying it was the best they’d received yet.)
And so, in starting a hub where we seek to understand our shared interest in hypnosis, and make connections with likeminded hypno-illuminati-types, it seemed fitting we use it.
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