“Fate Magazine” — ‘Special Hypnotism Issue’ — July, 1954

The ven­er­a­ble “Fate Mag­a­zine”, first pub­lished in 1948, has been in almost con­stant pub­li­ca­tion ever since. Self-described as “the world’s lead­ing mag­a­zine of the para­nor­mal” it com­bines non­fic­tion vary­ing from per­son­al anec­dotes on the para­nor­mal to stud­ies and research on the var­i­ous sub­jects under the col­lec­tive descrip­tion of “para­nor­mal” to fic­tion, let­ters, reg­u­lar columns and advertisements.

⇒ Con­tin­ue read­ing ““Fate Mag­a­zine” — ‘Spe­cial Hyp­no­tism Issue’ — July, 1954”

December 5th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Nonfiction | Comments are closed

“A Working Life: The Hypnotherapist” — Guardian, UK

The British news­pa­per The Guardian has an inter­est­ing arti­cle on hyp­nother­a­pist Antho­ny Jacquin.

The win­dow sill in the wait­ing room of Antho­ny Jacquin’s hyp­nother­a­py prac­tice is piled high with emp­ty cig­a­rette pack­ets. Unlike most of his clien­tele I am not here for help with quit­ting a debil­i­tat­ing habit of one sort or anoth­er, so I’m momen­tar­i­ly con­fused by this cue. Then the pen­ny drops.

“There’s a few scalps there,” he says proud­ly. “I cleared the office out and found a few pack­ets peo­ple had left so I put them there. That evening there were two more. I don’t ask peo­ple to leave them, but if they do, then good.”

The author Gra­ham Snow­don deserves cred­it for not giv­ing in to the media stereo­types and espe­cial­ly for writ­ing a respect­ful arti­cle that is very informative. 

Dis­cov­ered through Der­ren Brown’s blog.

December 3rd, 2010 | Category: Hypnosis News and Information | Comments are closed

“Realtor used ‘hypnosis’ for cheating”

Anoth­er one of these news arti­cles about the crimes com­mit­ted alleged­ly using hypnosis.

Indi­an Express

Cheat­ing senior cit­i­zens by pre­tend­ing to be an acquain­tance and resort­ing to hyp­no­tism before mak­ing off with their mon­ey was his sig­na­ture style of oper­a­tion for six-sev­en years. Luck, how­ev­er, ran out for Sonu Malik when he was final­ly arrest­ed by a Del­hi Police team, formed espe­cial­ly to track him down, on Wednesday.

…

Begin­ning every con­ver­sa­tion with “Tau­ji Ram Ram”, he would engage them in ban­ter, seek their bless­ings and gift them elec­tron­ic equip­ment to dis­tract them. Soon the vic­tim would begin to feel drowsy and lose con­scious­ness, wak­ing up lat­er to find his cash and/or jew­ellery miss­ing, the police said.

The Tri­bune

Rakesh Johri, an insur­ance offi­cial, told The Tri­bune that Rahul approached him in Decem­ber last year and claimed he knew him. “He was aware about my back­ground and said he had become rich due to my bless­ings. He said he had brought me a gift and I don’t know what hap­pened after I opened it. I removed my gold rings and gave to him. I was hyp­no­tised. I learnt I was cheat­ed only after 20 to 25 min­utes,” he said.

Com­men­tary: Judg­ing from the actu­al oper­a­tion described here, I agree with Bri­an David Phillips in that it appears that some type of drug was used as opposed to an actu­al induc­tion. The sto­ry does­n’t men­tion any­thing in the line of shar­ing drinks but it seems like­ly giv­en the soci­ety; a sug­gest­ed alter­na­tive was some type of aerosol spray. Still, the media, espe­cial­ly in non-West­ern soci­eties, seem to have a fas­ci­na­tion with crimes uti­liz­ing hypnosis.

The crim­i­nal was appar­ent­ly very good at his crimes: he was active for at least 6 years and amassed quite a for­tune doing so, and it took a spe­cial­ly-formed police unit to track him down and cap­ture him. His crimes were deemed so heinous that he is being charged under a spe­cial law designed to pros­e­cute dan­ger­ous criminals.

Adden­da: I have not been able to dis­cov­er what “Tau­ji Ram Ram” trans­lates to but from the con­text I believe it is a respect­ful greet­ing or bless­ing. It is appar­ent­ly not some kind of mys­ti­cal chant or spell, however.

December 2nd, 2010 | Category: Hypnosis News and Information | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

My Blogroll

A blogroll, in blog­ging terms, is a list of exter­nal web­sites that the local web­site lists and has some kind of con­nec­tion with. Its not very long at the moment but I expect it will grow.

Information

A Suc­cu­bi’s Tale — One of the most seduc­tive super­nat­ur­al crea­tures around, suc­cu­bi (and their male coun­ter­parts, incu­bi) are ascribed in pop­u­lar cul­ture to be over­whelm­ing­ly and hyp­not­i­cal­ly charm­ing (sec­ond only to vam­pires in these regards, if only by their sta­tus as sec­ondary to vam­pires in pop­u­lar­i­ty, although the own­er of the blog in ques­tion will say otherwise.)

Mind Con­trol 101 — Okay, hyp­no­sis isn’t Mind Con­trol, or, at least, that’s the point I am try­ing to present. Still the two con­cepts over­lap in the pub­lic con­scious­ness far too much to be ignored.

Hypnotists

Der­ren Brown — Well, he plays on on TV, along with play­ing an illu­sion­ist, show­man and magi­cian, and prob­a­bly a few oth­er kinds of per­former that haven’t been named yet. And he’s pret­ty good at them all, from what lit­tle I’ve been able to see (the Atlantic Ocean and the metaphor­i­cal divide it rep­re­sents makes it dif­fi­cult to watch him here in the US.) Plus he has a lot intel­li­gent things to say about a lot of dif­fer­ent sub­jects in his blog.

Bri­an David Phillips — An Amer­i­can Were­wolf in Taipei — Bri­an David Phillips has appar­ent­ly made one of his life’s goals the pro­mo­tion and pop­u­lar­iza­tion of hyp­no­sis to the lay and pro­fes­sion­al com­mu­ni­ties both through his Soci­ety for Expe­ri­en­tial Trance and his exten­sive col­lec­tion and sup­port sys­tem of train­ing videos.

Friends

Bliss­ful Thoughts — The blog of my good friend Lady Ru’Etha. She is one of the few peo­ple I’ve allowed to hyp­no­tize me. Warn­ing: Con­tent may be NSFW as what she has to say can ven­ture into sex­u­al territory.

Juke­box’s Hyp­not­ic Blog — Some­one I’ve befriend­ed through Lady Ru’Etha and who also has inter­est­ing things to say about hyp­no­sis. Again, some con­tent may be NSFW as what he has to say can ven­ture into sex­u­al territory.

November 29th, 2010 | Category: Website Information and Maintenance | Comments are closed

“Mars Needs Women” (1967)

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“Mars Needs Women”: Men from the plan­et Mars (led by for­mer Dis­ney child actor Tom­my Kirk) come to Earth to steal genet­i­cal­ly-per­fect women (includ­ing stun­ning­ly beau­ti­ful sci­en­tist Yvonne Craig) with which to rebuild their race. Their strat­e­gy leaves a lot to be desired, as they announce to the Earth that they are com­ing and why, so the Earth is imme­di­ate­ly on guard against them.

⇒ Con­tin­ue read­ing ““Mars Needs Women” (1967)”

November 21st, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Movies | One comment - (Comments are closed)
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