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Comply With Me: Trump’s Hypnosis Toolkit Exposed – Lisa Morgan

BooksKev Sheldrake9 November 2022Lisa Morgan, Donald Trump, hypnosis, UK Guild of Hypnosis Practitioners, handshake induction, trance, NLP, Neuro-linguistic programming

INCONVENIENT WOMEN

The Mad Women’s Ball – Victoria Mas

Books, FilmsAmy Ellingham2 November 2022Victoria Mas, Andrew Scull, Charcot, psychiatrist, psychiatry, hypnosis, hysteria, Salpêtrière School of Hypnosis, Louise Augustine Gleizes

A LOT TO ANSWER FOR

How to Hypnotize and Self Hypnotize – Ralph Slater

BooksAmy Ellingham26 October 2022Ralph Slater, 1952 British Hypnotism Act, Diane Grace Rains-Bath

UNDINE DE RIVIÈRE INTERVIEW

Hypno-kink is a thing – so who better to ask about it than the leading hypno-kinkster and sex workers’ rights activist in Germany?

InterviewsKev Sheldrake17 October 2022Undine de Rivière, hypno-kink, Zoltan Dienes, cold control theory, phenomenological control, BDSM, fetish, post-hypnotic suggestion, sex-work, neodissociation theory, compliance, social compliance, trance, role-play, trigger-play, mind control, hypno-fetishists

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

THE SCIENCE OF THE VIBRATING CORONET

‘Hypnotism – A Science’ – Kathleen Schlesinger and Charles Geniaux

MiscellaneousKev Sheldrake28 September 2022Edgar Bérillon, Kathleen Schlesinger, Charles Geniaux, mesmerism, neurasthenia, hypnosis, hypnosis machine, James Braid, Clark L Hull, somnambulism

HISTORY BUFFS

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

QUOTE-UNQUOTE

Course in the Science of Hypnotism – Axel Wayne Bacon

50 SHADES OF HYPNOSIS

Sex and Hypnosis – L T Woodward, MD

BooksAmy Ellingham17 August 2022L T Woodward, Dr Walter P Clayton, Don Pendleton, Robert Silverberg, Mesmer, Puységur, James Braid, Liebeault

DRUG-ASSISTED HYPNOSIS

The Uses And Abuses Of Hypnosis – W A H Stevenson

BooksKev Sheldrake3 August 2022statist, W A H Stevenson, pamphlet, lecture, medical hypnosis, dental hypnosis, Royal Society of Medicine, hypnoanalysis, drugs, state, abreaction

GPT-3 INTERVIEW

Google’s GPT-3 human-like-language-producing robot shares its insights into hypnosis.

THE H-FILES

Handbook of Hypnosis – Harvey Day

BooksAmy Ellingham20 July 2022hypnosis, Harvey Day, yoga, voodoo, trance, animal hypnosis, stage hypnosis, mind control, mass hypnosis, murder

AMANDA BARNIER INTERVIEW

One of the few women in a mostly male academic field, Amanda shares her journey into hypnosis research as well as her interests in Spiritualism and magick.

HEAPS OF HYPNOSIS

Kind of Cruel – Sophie Hannah

BooksAmy Ellingham6 July 2022Sophie Hannah, Michael Heap, Fiction, hypnotherapy, murder, psychotherapist, George du Maurier, hidden observer, goal-directed fantasy

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 Ellingham3 July 2022Marc Kerstein, magician, magic, Ed Wolff

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