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THE BREAKFAST QUESTION

Instantaneous Personal Magnetism – Edmund Shaftesbury

BooksAmy Marlowe30 September 2025

A HORSE WITH NO NAME

What is Mesmerism? – Alexander Wood

BooksAmy Marlowe23 September 2025Alexander Wood, mesmerism, medical hypnosis, electro-biology, animal magnetism, homeopathy, placebo effect, conditioning, James Braid, drugs, hypnosis and drugs

SEXUAL DISPLEASURE

Hypnosis and Sexual Pleasure – Judon Riordan

BooksKev Sheldrake23 September 2025Judon Riordan, hypnosis, sex therapy, psychoanalysis

SMILE MONEY HYPNOSIS

Hypnosi$: How to Put a Smile on Your Face, and Money In Your Pocket – Shelley Stockwell

BooksAmy Marlowe20 September 2025Shelley Stockwell, Ormond McGill, hypnotist, magician, stage hypnotist, NLP, Neuro-linguistic programming, psychology, psychologist, self-hypnosis, Pat Collins, John Milne Bramwell, George du Maurier, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Gestalt therapy, Scientology

BANDLERSNATCH

Trance-formations – John Grinder and Richard Bandler

EVERLASTING FLOWER

The Complete Book of Fortune – Anonymous

YOU GOT MAIL

Hypnotism – Fernando Institute of Science

BooksAmy Marlowe14 August 2025Professor Fernando, Ernest C Freyer, Fernando Institute of Science, Fernando Publishing Co, Theron Q Dumont, William Walker Anderson, sex magick, religion, hypnosis, hypnotist, stage hypnosis, The Bridge, Carl Jung

MIND OVER PLATTER

Hypnotism: Psychic Powers, Telepathy, E.S.P., Sex and Hypnosis – Zolar

RIDERS ON THE STORM

Sex Magnetism – Cris W Wiegand

MESSAGES FROM THE OTHER SIDE

Hypnotisme et Suggestion: Petit Cours Pratique – le Medium Aquila

SEX, LIES AND SMOKING

Master Course in Hypnotism – Peter Diamond

BooksKev Sheldrake6 July 2025hypnotism, UK Hypnotism Act 1952, Peter Diamond, magic, hypnosis, hypnosex, hypnokink, women in hypnosis, pamphlet, mail-order course in hypnosis, mentalism, Derren Brown

BABY, YOU CAN’T DRIVE MY CAR

Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles – David A Noebel

BooksAmy Marlowe13 June 2025Communism, Beatles, David A Noebel, Christianity, hypnosis, Ivan Pavlov, mass hypnotism

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU’RE HALLUCINATING?

Toward a Theory of “Hypnotic” Behavior: Positive Visual and Auditory Hallucinations – Theodore Xenophon Barber

BooksKev Sheldrake21 May 2025Theodore Xenophon Barber, Barry Thain, Derren Brown, change | phenomena, science, academia, seers

GUESS WHO'S BACK?!

The Female Hypnotist – Donald K Hartman (editor)

BooksAmy Marlowe17 March 2025Donald K Hartman, women in hypnosis, Judith Pintar, Amanda Barnier, George du Maurier, Derren Brown, Trilby, Dr John Elliotson, Charcot, Alexis Didier, Chauncy Hare Townshend, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Jack the Ripper, witchcraft, Felix Moscheles

HIGHER THAN THE SUN

Vivid Fantasy and Hallucinatory Abilities in the Life Histories of Excellent Hypnotic Subjects – Sheryl C Wilson and Theodore X Barbers

BooksKev Sheldrake12 March 2025Sheryl C Wilson, Theodore Xenophon Barber, Eric Klinger, Theodore R Sarbin, Graham Wagstaff, Nicholas Spanos, Primal Scream, suggestion, science, academia, statistics, Josephine Hilgard, Ernest Hilgard, fantasy, hallucination, Automatic Imagination Model, sociocognitive theorists

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