Last week, after having had a lot of time at home due to flu, I finally got around to finishing something I had been working on for some time. Last Friday saw the release of two new effects of mine to the world’s magic community. Nobody gets rich from selling the secrets of their magic [...] Read more »
Jon Chase and I have become good friends over the past couple of years but we have often disagreed about Street Hypnosis. This is my response to this blog post from Jon. What’s this? “Jon Chase Protector of Somnambulists?” LOL Wow. That’s a scary picture of the world you’ve painted there Jon. Some kind of [...] Read more »
While trying to advise someone as to what to include in their “Stage Hypnosis Pre-talk” (the stuff we spout while trying to convince you to volunteer) it occurred to me I was having some difficulty beyond the usual key points because it’s not necessarily about finding the right words. My good friend Jon Chase says [...] Read more »
It’s been two years since I posted my first videos on YouTube and so two years since people first started asking me to teach them how to hypnotize. You can watch those first videos here: Apologies for the dress sense and nervousness. I like to think both have improved somewhat since then! The [...] Read more »
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr. When it comes to Hypnosis, are you Crawling, Walking, Running or Flying? (Inspired by Edelman’s Crawl, Walk, Run Methodology for Social [...] Read more »
I often get asked whether Hypnosis can be carried out in a noisy, distracting environment. This really isn’t a problem provided the person being Hypnotised is still able to focus on what the Hypnotist is saying and able to follow instructions. You don’t only encounter distractions on the street or on stage. Distractions are everywhere [...] Read more »
I recently got my hands on an original copy of this book, self-published by the author in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1901. Fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in Hypnosis/Metaphysics. This post shows an old newspaper advertisement for the book from 1902 as well as the cover and a couple of pages from the book. Here [...] Read more »
I hope you’ve enjoyed this short series of blog entries on Hypnosis in Popular Culture. I’ll conclude by saying: Once you start looking, you’ll find representations of Hypnosis everywhere! Unfortunately, negative or inaccurate imagery of Hypnosis in Popular Culture isn’t only limited to cartoons like these. Some might say some of the worst offenders [...] Read more »
Another image of Hypnosis from popular culture. This one reinforces the common concern that you can “get stuck” in Hypnosis at the same time as using the old “bark like a dog” cliche. Needless to say, providing the Hypnosis is properly managed, there really isn’t much chance of getting stuck, and if your Hypnotist makes you bark [...] Read more »
I’ve often said we all hold within our minds an idea of what Hypnosis is. Our own personal version of what it means to be Hypnotized. So, where does it come from? I firmly believe there’s an anthropologically based, deeply held subconscious ability to trance, meditate or engage in prayer prevalent in every human culture, [...] Read more »
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