Your Induction Sucks
Your induction sucks.
My inductions suck too. But my notes are better than my attitude problem.
While opinions flow freely in the recreational community, practical information is scant, often leading to frustrating or even tragic consequences. My hope is that my guides encourage subjets to play safely and give hypnotists effective no-bullshit techniques, all so we can get back to having fun with this ritual of suggestion.
- Vreahli
Introductory Guides
New here? Perfect. That's what these guides are for. If you're a hypnotist looking to get started, check out the Hypnoquickies. For the other side of the couch, check out the Subject's Guide.
Recreational Book Notes
I've managed to create a labrynth of book notes. Here are some of the highlights. Go support the book authors - these are (mostly) all solid.
- Hypnosis without Trance
Street hypnosis at it's best. The book that changed everything for me.
- Kinky NLP
NLP made worthwhile.
- James Tripp - Hypnosis Without Trance
Seriously - my highest recommendation for someone getting into recreational hypnosis. Read this book. Don't just read my notes. (But read my notes, too.)
- sleepingirl - Kinky NLP
NLP sucks. But sleepingirl does an excellent job of making it approachable and cutting through the bullshit.
- Anthony Jacquin - Reality is Plastic
This book is great - if you have a camera crew behind you and you like wearing a bowler hat. If not, I'm not sure I'd recommend this book. There's a few gems inside of it, but you can read about my gripes as well.
- Mind Play Bonus Bits
Mind Play is a great starting point for hypnokink. That being said - when suggestions aren't effective, it'll leave you a bit lost. I wrote up some notes trying to fill in the gaps that wouldn't fit into a kink-centric intro.
- Ramblings on Academic Literature
More to come here - but I've written some notes on miscellaneous academic journals I've read.
Book Notes - Graham Old
Buy all this guy's books. But here's my notes if you need a convincer.
- Hypnosis with the Hard to Hypnotize
Be more intentional with your suggestions, as well more aware of your subject's experience.
- Revisiting Hypnosis
A gentle way to teach self-hypnosis and relaxation.
- The Elman Induction
The Elman Induction is sort of like a classic car you bought off of Craigslist. No manual, but you lucked out when you got it. Graham Old breaks it down into understandable steps. (Unlike the car, which would just break down.)
- The Hypnotic Handshakes
Handshake inductions mystified the hell out of me until this book. A solid read.
- Therapeutic Inductions
A gentle introduction to rethinking what you're actually doing with an induction.
Academic Notes
Fuck me. Digesting academic literature is hard. But I'll go soft on you - have my notes.
- Clinical Hypnosis and Self Regulation
Even though this is from the late 90's, my go-to recommendation for getting into academic research.
- Hypnosis and Conscious States
A seriously heavy level of neuroscience antfucking looking at neurological hypnotic correlates.
- Response Expectancy
How to put Irving Kirsch and Steven Jay Lynn's late 90s model of hypnotic response into practice. Provides a useful and straightforward approach - even if the theory doesn't explain EVERY phenomena.
- The role of cognition in classical and operant conditioning
Man - psychology is soft and hard all at the same time. Kirsch argues that cognition is at least a major component of classical and operant conditioning.
Therapeutic Book Notes
Should I be reading books on therapeutic hypnosis? Probably not. Do I answer my own questions? Absolutely.
- Hypnotic Realities
Want to see Rossi and Erickson fuck everything up? Here ya go!
- Jeffrey Zeig - Induction of Hypnosis
A reasonable take on how to do Erickonian inductions. It's not gaslighting if it's therapy.
Other Shit
Look I really don't want to resort to a size innuendo - but there's a lot on this website. Here's a few things worth checking out.
- UK Hypnosis Convention Talk
Notes on a spicier, useful take on how to approach street hypnosis from Kev Sheldrake - they know their shit.
- Book Reviews
I read and talk a lot of shit. I'm probably wrong about a lot of stuff. But at least I've read about it.
External Resources
Websites I've personally deemed to be worth your time.
- Phenomenal.ink
Truly dedicated to the art of phenomena and ritual, from someone with a far greater understanding of psychology than my own.
- Cosmic Pancaknes
A wealth of information and solid book reviews from a researcher in the field.
- Binaural Histolog
Really, if there's any one resource to read on Hypnosis, it's this one. A good deal of my understanding of hypnosis is copying this guy's homework.
- Learn Hypnokink
From sleepingirl - arguably a much easier introduction to hypnosis.
- Links and Resources
But wait! There's more. Actually - don't wait. Just click the link and check out some more external resources.