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GEMINI INTERVIEW

GEMINI INTERVIEW

The “Ghost in the Google Machine”, Gemini, on human potentiality, ‘hypnotism’, and suggestibility in the new age of Artificial Intelligence.

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.

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, FBI, CIA, OSS

MARTIN S TAYLOR INTERVIEW

MARTIN S TAYLOR INTERVIEW

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

InterviewsKev Sheldrake15 January 2022Martin S Taylor, Derren Brown, stage hypnosis, hypnosis, magician, magic, post-hypnotic suggestion, state, statist, Graham Wagstaff, inductions, Lewis Jones, trance, suggestion, suggestibility, Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales, social compliance

BOOKSHELF FAIL

BOOKSHELF FAIL

Hypnotism – André M Weitzenhoffer

BooksAmy Marlowe10 March 2021Stanford UniversityAndré M Weitzenhoffer, suggestibility, suggestion, hypnosis, Ernest Hilgard, Milton Erickson, Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales, Clark L Hull, state, statist, Rorscharch test, Charcot