AUDIENCE MEMBER HYPNOTIZED

Others who were present at the show confirm that the guy in the audience was responding genuinely and that he freaked out during the break so that staff had to come and make sure he was okay (he was).

INSTANT HYPNOSIS ON E.T.

This is fun bits with memory or the experience of memory. The confusion is quite genuine.

MODERN HELLSTROMISM

Is it a trick mask or is it hellstromism (a form of muscle reading based upon the ideomotor effect). Hellstrom used to ride a horsedrawn carriage through a town while wearing a blindfold and holding the hand of a specator, all genuine use of contact mind reading based upon the ideomotor effect).

In addition to Barry’s performances here and those of Derren Brown, see the genuinely wonderful work of other magicians who combine illusion with suggestion and waking hypnosis . . . see Kreskin, Ormond McGill, Banachek, Ford Kross, Kenton Knepper, Enrique Enriquez, Luke Jermay, Brother Shadow (Carl Herron), Orville Meyer, Richard Busch, Richard Webster, Ian Harling, Martin Nyrup, Rex Sikes, and more.  I’ve been devouring a number of their books written for the profession of late and enjoying them quite a bit.  For those with an interest, we are adding presentations on the use of suggestion in mentalism (mental magic) and the magic of suggestion to the program for Hypnoticon (http://www.hypnoticon.org) so if you haven’t registered yet, do it now.

All the best,
Brian

Brian David Phillips, PhD, CH [phillips@nccu.edu.tw]Certified Hypnotherapist
President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan
http://www.BrianDavidPhillips.com