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CLAUDE INTERVIEW
CLAUDE INTERVIEW

Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant explores concepts of human consciousness as they pertain to hypnotism – and robotism.

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InterviewsAmy MarloweGrok, hypnosis, Franz Mesmer, James Braid, state, trance, AI, magician, NLP, Neuro-linguistic programming, placebo, Milton Erickson, Derren Brown, Richard Condon, Richard Bandler, John Grinder, animal hypnosis, xAI, stage hypnosis, AI hypnotist, animal magnetism, Claude, Anthropic, artificial intelligence, Milton Erickson, stage hypnotism, UK Hypnotism Act 1952, Kevin Lepine, Ormond McGill, Pat Collins, Reveen, the bridge
JOHN F KIHLSTROM INTERVIEW (PART 3)
JOHN F KIHLSTROM INTERVIEW (PART 3)

The third part of an epic interview with renowned academic researcher, John F Kihlstrom.

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InterviewsKev SheldrakeJohn F Kihlstrom, Derren Brown, stage hypnosis, psychology, psychologist, academia, Kreskin, Martin Orne, Ernest Hilgard, Jack Hilgard, Josephine Hilgard, hypnotherapy, hysteria, Lucy Kihlstrom, Rorscharch test, Trilby, George du Maurier, Svengali, The Manchurian Candidate, Richard Condon, G H Estabrooks, John Marks, CIA, OSS, Donald K Hartman, Ronald Shorr, Erika Fromm, Mike Nash, Amanda Barnier, Tinterow Collection, Alan Gauld, Steven Jay Lynn, Rhue, Peter Sheehan, Kevin McConkey, Kenneth S Bowers
JOHN F KIHLSTROM INTERVIEW (PART 2)
JOHN F KIHLSTROM INTERVIEW (PART 2)

The second part of an epic interview with renowned academic researcher, John F Kihlstrom.

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InterviewsKev SheldrakeJohn F Kihlstrom, hypnosis, state, statist, inductions, Martin Orne, G H Estabrooks, scales, amnesia, Clark L Hull, ideomotor, André M Weitzenhoffer, Sjoberg, Ernest Hilgard, Jack Hilgard, Charles Tart, Theodore X Barber, Nicholas Spanos, Eysenck, Amir Raz, Stroop effect, Arthur Deikman, Heidi Wenk-Sormaz, Irving Kirsch, suggestibility, suggestion, Kenneth S Bowers, Ivan Pavlov, K.I. Platonov, Zoltan Dienes, Josef Perner, cold control theory, higher order thoughts, David Rosenthal, neodissociation theory, Graham Wagstaff, William C Coe, Charcot, Hippolyte Bernheim, social-cognitive theory, social compliance, John Chaves, Fred Evans, hypnotic analgesia, placebo, placebo effect, Steven Jay Lynn, Edward J Frischholz, George Barton Cutten, William McDougal, Gardner Murphy, J B Rhine, FBI, CIA, OSS
JOHN F KIHLSTROM INTERVIEW (PART 1)
JOHN F KIHLSTROM INTERVIEW (PART 1)

The first part of an epic interview with renowned academic researcher, John F Kihlstrom.

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InterviewsKev SheldrakeJohn F Kihlstrom, William Edmonston, hypnosis, academia, G H Estabrooks, Frank A Pattie, Royal Commission, Benjamin Franklin, Milton Erickson, Mesmer, John Stern, hypnotic analgesia, Charles Tart, Ronald Shor, Ernest Hilgard, Martin Orne, psychology, psychologist, psychiatry, psychiatrist, Emily Orne, Fred Evans, Gordon Hammer, J P Sutcliffe, Pavlov, psychophysiology, Zen, yoga, Abraham Maslov, age regression, post-hypnotic suggestion, trance, state, statist, hysteria, Robert W White, amnesia, memory, false memory, Jack Hilgard, scales, priming, Daniel Schacter, Jennifer Dorfman, Stan Klein
AMANDA BARNIER INTERVIEW
AMANDA BARNIER INTERVIEW

One of the few women in a mostly male academic field, Amanda shares her journey into hypnosis research as well as her interests in Spiritualism and magick.

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InterviewsKev SheldrakeUniversity of MacquarieAmanda Barnier, Zoltan Dienes, Macquarie University, Kevin McConkey, memory, hypnosis, post-hypnotic suggestion, Peter Sheehan, Ernest Hilgard, Kenneth S Bowers, John Kihlstrom, Mike Nash, Pierre Janet, Freud, William James, Clark L Hull, Loftus, state, Joseph Barber, Martin Orne, Esther Damaser, CIA, MK-Ultra, G H Estabrooks, pseudomemory, false memory
MICHAEL HEAP INTERVIEW
MICHAEL HEAP INTERVIEW

Kev chats with Michael, a retired clinical and forensic psychologist who has lectured and taught extensively in the field of hypnosis.

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InterviewsKev SheldrakeMichael Heap, Graham Wagstaff, Zoltan Dienes, John Milne Bramwell, British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis, psychologist, Theodore X Barber, British Journal of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis, Contemporary Hypnosis, trance, state, statist, Lynn, Rhue, British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis, David Oakley, sex, compliance, crime, inductions, Helen Crawford, Nicholas Spanos, Irving Kirsch, Theodore R Sarbin, cold control theory, Ernest Hilgard