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YOU'VE BEEN TRILBY'ED

The Hypnotic Tales of Rafael Sabatini – Donald K Hartman (editor)

BooksAmy Ellingham31 January 2024Rafael Sabatini, Donald K Hartman, Trilby, The Trilby Connection, Svengali, Trilbyana, George du Maurier, Felix Moscheles, Carry, murder, suggestion, bible

THE GAME OF HYPNOSIS

Are you playing ‘The Game of Hypnosis’ – or are you being played?

MiscellaneousKev Sheldrake8 January 2024trance, Danny Boyle film Trance, The Jungle Book, Scooby Doo, The Manchurian Candidate, Dean Koontz novel False Memory, V K Kumar, Stephen R Lankton, academia, science, suggestion, hypnokink, hypno-kink, role-play, sleep, hypnotic sleep

CURIOUS, BUT NOT SO MUCH AS TO CHANGE MY MIND

Hypnosis For The Seriously Curious – Kenneth S Bowers

BooksKev Sheldrake22 November 2023Kenneth S Bowers, Theodore R Sarbin, William C Coe, state, statist, hypnosis, role-play, trance, suggestion, Graham Wagstaff, Theodore X Barber, Nicholas Spanos, John Chaves, Zoltan Dienes

YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK

Hypnotism, Imagination, and Human Potentialities – Theodore X Barber, Nicholas P Spanos and John F Chaves

JOHN F KIHLSTROM INTERVIEW (PART 2)

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

InterviewsKev Sheldrake8 May 2023John 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, Adolf Hitler, FBI, CIA, OSS

NO NOSTRADAMUS

Hypnosis in Everyday Life – Francis J Avison (“Jayson – The Hypnotist”)

BooksAmy Ellingham11 January 2023Francis J Avison, Jayson – The Hypnotist, self-hypnosis, suggestion, firewalking, Andrew Scull, Melvin Powers

THE SECRET BEFORE THE SECRET

How to Control Fate Through Suggestion – Henry Harrison Brown

BooksKev Sheldrake12 October 2022New Thought, Henry Harrison Brown, The Secret, suggestion, affirmation, clairvoyance, psychometric

UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUL

Not Hypnotism But Suggestion: A Lesson In Soul Culture – Henry Harrison Brown

BooksKev Sheldrake29 June 2022hypnosis, suggestion, Henry Harrison Brown, animal magnetism, trance, telepathy

BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS

Complete System of Personal Influence and Healing – Professor Elmer E Knowles

BooksAmy Ellingham1 June 2022Professor Elmer E Knowles, hypnosis, suggestion, clairvoyance, animal magnetism, Trilby, Gassner, Greatrakes, Perkins, Albert Moll, stage hypnosis, women in hypnosis

PRINCE CHARMING

Frogs into Princes – Richard Bandler and John Grinder (live)

BooksAmy Ellingham11 May 2022NLP, NLP source books, Neuro-linguistic programming, Richard Bandler, John Grinder, Milton Erickson, Steve Andreas, hypnosis, hypnotist, suggestion, Virginia Satir

HYPNOSIS MADE ME DO IT

The Hypno-Ripper – Donald K Hartman (editor)

BooksAmy Ellingham2 March 2022Donald K Hartman, hypnosis, Fiction, murder, mesmerism, suggestion, self-hypnosis, Jack the Ripper, Whitechapel murders, NT Oliver, Edward Oliver Tilburn

THOUGHT POLICE

Death by Suggestion – Donald K Hartman (editor)

BooksAmy Ellingham2 February 2022Donald K Hartman, hypnosis, mesmerism, Fiction, suggestion, death, murder, suicide, Svengali, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

JAMES BROWN INTERVIEW

We talk bravado, creativity and the value of a magician’s mindset when it comes to hypnosis with ‘the professional opportunist’.

InterviewsAmy Ellingham1 February 2022James Brown, stage hypnosis, magician, magic, mentalism, pickpocket, pickpocketing, hypnosis, hypnotist, inductions, Paul McKenna, Allen Carr, smoking cessation, Adam Eason, amnesia, suggestion, handshake induction

MARTIN S TAYLOR INTERVIEW

He’s famously the hypnotist who inspired Derren Brown – and yet is also “the hypnotist who doesn’t use hypnosis”…?

LIES AND TRUTH

Myths and misconceptions about hypnosis and suggestion: Separating fact and fiction – Steven Jay Lynn, Irving Kirsch, Devin B Terhune, and Joseph P Green

PapersKev Sheldrake5 January 2022academia, hypnosis, suggestion, Steven Jay Lynn, Irving Kirsch, Devin B Terhune, Joseph P Green, hypnotherapy, inductions, state

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