Posts tagged James Braid
THE BEARD QUESTION
THE BEARD QUESTION

The Key to Hypnotism – Walter B Gibson

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BooksAmy MarloweWalter B Gibson, magician, Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, American Society of Psychical Research, supernormal, hypnotist, mesmerist, stage hypnotist, stage hypnotism, James Randi, The Amazing Randi, James Braid, Svengali, Scientific Hypnotism, Franz Mesmer, Mesmerism, dreams, past-life regression, Sigmund Freud, self-hypnosis, fakir, psychology, Rahman Bey, Tahra Bey, Hamid Bey, Tara Bey, long-sleep artist, hypnotic horse, stooge, Aleister Crowley, Alexander Cannon, Albert Moll, Liebeault, Richer, Nancy School, Georges De Dubor, Dr Cook, Donato, Jean-Martin Charcot, The Magic Circle, Walter Brown Gibson
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
THE MAGIC OF MESMERISM
THE MAGIC OF MESMERISM

Kev explains why Animal Magnetism is distinct from hypnosis, in this 25-minute read

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ResourcesKev SheldrakeMesmerism, Franz Anton Mesmer, animal magnetism, witchcraft, hypnosis, hypnotism, James Braid, Isaac Newton, Vincent Buranelli, Johann Christoph Unzer, Francisca Oesterlin, Maximilian Hell, science, religion, universal fluid, spiritualists, Johann Joseph Gassner, Derren Brown, mentalists, mentalism, magic, mesmeric crisis, Marquis de Puységur, Steven Jay Lynn, Irving Kirsch, Essentials of Clinical Hypnosis, somnambulism, state, materialists, Occult, Alison Winter, seance, clairvoyance, the power of suggestion
WON'T LET YOU TRICK ME THRICE
WON'T LET YOU TRICK ME THRICE

That Devil’s Trick – William Hughes

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BooksAmy MarloweWilliam Hughes, Trilby, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, mesmerism, hypnotism, Perkins, Perkinism, John Bonnoit de Mainaduc, Charles Nicolas d’Eslon, Mesmer, Puységur, James Braid, Baron du Potet, Baron Dupotet, porn, hypnokink, Dr John Elliotson, O'Key Sisters, Okey Sisters, Miss Cooper, James Esdaile, George du Maurier, homophobia, Paul McKenna, Derren Brown, Assassin, Bram Stoker, Svengali, seance, women in hypnosis
HISTORY BUFFS
HISTORY BUFFS

Hypnosis: A Brief History – Judith Pintar and Steven Jay Lynn

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BooksAmy MarloweJudith Pintar, Steven Jay Lynn, Alison Winter, academia, Trilby, George du Maurier, mesmerism, hypnosis, Mesmer, Gassner, Puységur, Faria, Elliotson, James Esdaile, James Braid, Charles Poyen St Sauveur, animal magnetism, James Stanley Grimes, John Boves Dods, La Roy Sunderland, Swedenborgianism, New Thought, Christian Science, Salpêtrière School of Hypnosis, Nancy School, Freud, William James, Clark L Hull, state, false memory, Trilbania, Milton Erickson, Anna O, Bertha Pappenheim, Melvin Powers, Franz Polgar, Walter Gibson, John Garrett, Richard Bandler, John Grinder, NLP, Stephen Gilligan, Robert Dilts, Stephen Lankton, Michael Yapko, William Matthews