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.