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Powers That Be – Alexander Cannon

BooksAmy Marlowe31 March 2026Alexander Cannon, psychiatrist, hypnotist, occultist, magician, World War II, World War I, mesmerism, animal magnetism, fakir, Cannon Psychograph, telepathy, Mary Baker Eddy, The Magic Circle, The Magic Circle Occult Committee, Black Magic

CLAUDE INTERVIEW

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

INVISIBLE FORCES AT WORK

The Invisible Influence – Alexander Cannon

BooksAmy Marlowe11 January 2026Alexander Cannon, psychiatrist, hypnotist, occultist, magician, records, telepathy, psychic, World War II, animal magnetism, aura reading, mass hypnotism, mass hysteria, hypnotic scales, animal hypnosis

CUE THE SLUMBER MUSIC!

The Science of Hypnotism – Alexander Cannon

GROK INTERVIEW

xAI’s generative artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, shares its insights into hypnotism.

SMILE MONEY HYPNOSIS

Hypnosi$: How to Put a Smile on Your Face, and Money In Your Pocket – Shelley Stockwell

BooksAmy Marlowe20 September 2025Shelley Stockwell, Ormond McGill, hypnotist, magician, stage hypnotist, NLP, Neuro-linguistic programming, psychology, psychologist, self-hypnosis, Pat Collins, John Milne Bramwell, George du Maurier, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Scientology

HYPNOTISING HYPNOTISTS IS EASY

The Search for Cosmic Consciousness – Ormond McGill, PhD, and Shelley Stockwell, PhD

BooksAmy Marlowe1 January 2025Ormond McGill, Shelley Stockwell, stage hypnosis, witchcraft, women in hypnosis, hypnotherapy, past-life regression, psychology, sex, magician, magic, New Thought, the law of attraction, International Hypnosis Federation, Neuro-linguistic programming

TRANCE SHOULD BE DEAD

Hypnosis: A Scientific Approach – Theodore Xenophon Barber

BooksKev Sheldrake13 December 2024Theodore Xenophon Barber, Theodore X Barber, Barber, LSD, academia, science, trance, amnesia, hypnotic analgesia, state, inductions, magician, magic

WATCH HIS ANTICS

Entertaining with Hypnotism – S Edward Dexter

BooksAmy Marlowe16 July 2024S Edward Dexter, Ed Wolff, Calostro, magician, magic, stage hypnosis, Magic Wand Publishing Co, International Brotherhood of Magicians, UK Hypnotism Act 1952, Ralph Slater, inductions, trance, The Bridge, age regression

NOT SO HYPNO

Hypno-Trix: A Complete Act of Fake Hypnotism Without Stooges – Val Andrews

BooksKev Sheldrake17 January 2024Val Andrews, magic, magician, mentalism, stage hypnosis, Edwin Hooper, Ian Adair, The Supreme Magic Company, animal hypnosis

DERREN BROWN IS A MAGICIAN

Kev on why Derren Brown can’t tell you his secrets!

Miscellaneous, NewsKev Sheldrake12 November 2023hypnosis, trance, state, statist, academia, psychology, magic, magician, science

THE LABORIOUS OMG

The Amazing Life of Ormond McGill – Ormond McGill

BooksAmy Marlowe16 August 2023Ormond McGill, stage hypnosis, magician, magic, yoga, Indian mysticism, DeWaldoza, hypnotist

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

Seeing The Unseen: A Past Life Revealed Through Hypnotic Regression – Ormond McGill

BooksAmy Marlowe8 February 2023past-life regression, Ormond McGill, magician, stage hypnosis, mentalism, Bridey Murphy, Spiritualism, metaphor, Martin Roberts

MARC KERSTEIN INTERVIEW

The wizard-behind-curtains magician got in touch to confess his secret formative interest in hypnosis. We chat magic, mentalism, hypnosis, and the power of suggestion.

InterviewsAmy & Kev3 July 2022University of PennsylvaniaMarc Kerstein, magician, magic, Ed Wolff

PAMPHLET FAIL

Entertaining with Hypnotism – ‘Calostro’

BooksAmy Marlowe9 March 2022pamphlet, Calostro, magician, hypnosis, mesmerism, G H Estabrooks, Ralph Slater

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