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Hey all,

Saw an AMAZING hypnotist last year in a nearby hall on freshers week in university.

We spoke to him briefly, I told him I was a magician and that I'd love to incorporate something like this into my act. He was really helpful and suggested and few good sites and books, but me being me I managed to forget EVERY SINGLE LINK

Does anyone incorporate/use solely hypnotism in their acts? If so is it something easily mastered? I currently know nothing on the topic so any information would be MOST welcome

Many thanks guys,

Alex

There are several good books on this subject. If you contact eddie burke www.mreenterprises he will send you details of his book "Secrets of stage and cabaret hypnotism". It is an A4 60 page book (spiral bound) that details everything you need to know. Eddie has been performing this act for decades. Many people also recommend the McGill Book.

I'm quite skilled in various waking and non-waking suggestive techniques, but I don't use overt trance any more in my magic. Ormond McGill's "The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism" is expensive but a very good starting point if you're really into it. It takes you through some basic induction techniques etc. and then into a full act. It also has a large section of over ninety inductions.

Is it easily mastered? No. What, for instance, happens when your volunteer freaks out in trance? How do you judge the depth of trance? There are a lot of issues to cover, so you might be better going on a course first then buying the book.

I agree about getting a course. Tomo will be delighted to hear that I am in complete agreement with him here.

However he may not be quite so delighted to hear that the course I recommend above all others is naturally the Mark Lewis Hypnosis Course.

A mere $150 for 3 wondrous 60-90 minute videocassettes and a 90 minute audio. I do accept Paypal and you should contact me privately for details since I do not sell this on my website.

Not that I am the sort to indulge in plugging my incredible products at every opportunity of course..............................

*cough* dvd *cough*

I should clarify that I did actually mean a turn-up-and-do course rather than distance learning. Of course, your mileage may vary, and I'm sure the Reverend Lewis's course is very good, as he'll no doubt tell you himself.

Hands-on tuition, in my experience, allows you to practice on someone in a safe environment with the instructor present, to ask questions and get answers, and you'll also get to experience and understand the state yourself too.

The trouble with "turn up and do" courses is that you cannot remember or review what you have been told quite as well even with the notes that are no doubt provided at these events.

With a book or video you can study when and as often as you please.

With regard to the coughing spurts by abraxus I can indeed provide DVDs if people really want the dreaded things.

With regard to the "turn up and do" course it should be mentioned that they are always being complained about on the Magic Cafe which I will reluctantly agree is a little unjustified.

I learned from a book and just by getting out and doing it. No instructor. No nothing. But then of course I am an unmitigated genius. My videos will certainly make the learning a whole lot easier. At one point they were sold in a great heap of American style marketing with all sorts of free bonuses to up the price. However that was nothing to do with me.

Now that I am selling them on my own I have gotten rid of the fluff and simply provided the core of the course and lowered the price it has worked out quite well.

ed wolff booklet from cards4magic for £3 will show you the basics too...

Trance This by Kenton is very worthwhile too...

I have the Ed Wolf book. Very well explained but very basic. A good first step but you need far, far more.

I am a major fan of Ormond Mc'Gill and I think his books plus my course is the ideal way to go.

Your chief requirement to be a stage hypnotist is lots of nerve. You really need balls of steel.

If you have that plus persistence you can make it.

Oh and one more thing which I consider to be terribly important. Experience on stage or before the public I deem to be essential. If you don't have that I wouldn't bother.

mark lewis wrote:A mere $150 for 3 wondrous 60-90 minute videocassettes and a 90 minute audio. I do accept Paypal and you should contact me privately for details since I do not sell this on my website.

Was just about to enquire as to what rock you just crawled from s'all about CD's and DVD's now! How the world of tech-mology has changed hehe

But many thanks for all of your replies people. What im really looking for is some simple hypnosis that I can master quickly and get excellent reactions. Think Oz Pearlman 'Born To Perform' but with hypnosis and not cards. I havent a lot of funding available (very sorry, $150 is way out of my league right now, although Im sure its a worthwhile purchase - poor student you see)

Is there any one purchase that comes highly recommended that will give me a firm grounding in all the basics of the hypno world?

Thanks again,

A

Hypnosis and Trance States: A New Psychobioloigical Explanation.

Excellent book detailing why hypnosis works.

I must inform the 18 year old from Essex that he shouldn't be looking at CDs, DVDs or even videocassettes anyway. They are far too newfangled and they irritate me intensely. I do not approve of this modern world.

No. He should be studying from the oldest method of all. Books. He will learn far more this way.

Frankly this "Oz Pearlman" (whoever he is) approach to hypnotism which is desired fills me somewhat with horror. Hypnosis is a trifle deeper than that and is not something you learn in 20 minutes.

Whatever happened to the Mark Lewis who thought hypnotism was all a load of a baloney?

hypnotism is a load of baloney!

saw a hypnotist last night, and while he was very good at what he did i just found the whole thing laughable! stage hypnotism, just doesn't work for me. certainly since one of the participants told me the guy had paid him to go along and really camp it up

I dislike stage hypnotism when it isn't done properly as it just lowers peoples opinions of it and makes a mockery of the whole thing.