College Hypnosis Show Review Continued

Last week I posted a link to a review of my college hypnosis show that the Buffalo newspaper ran after my event at Niagara University. If you missed it here’s the link to that article.

Anyway, they’ve published a followup piece where the reporter interviewed me about hypnosis, life on the road, and “the future”. I ended up revealing quite a bit and think the piece came out great. Thanks to Mike Kamo for an excellent interview.

Here’s an excerpt from the article where I discuss the difference between hypnosis and mentalism:

“Q: Could you explain the difference between the mentalist and hypnosis portions of your show?

A: With the mentalism, everyone is awake. I’m applying the same principles [body language, influence, persuasion] and thought projection, while picking up on people’s emotional states using intuition- a variety of techniques that are all basically rooted in psychology and listening on a deep level- in order to tell people and get them to think of the things that I am projecting. That’s the mentalism- everyone’s awake, but I’m using sort of hypnotic procedures in their awake state in order to get that effect. I’m influencing them to make certain decisions and perceive certain things.

When the hypnosis portion of the show takes place, I’m obviously taking volunteers from the audience and actually putting them under trance, which is also called “theta state,” which is a brain wave state that basically means you’re in a heightened state of sensitivity to suggestion. So when I suggest something in that state, you respond to though it’s real- your body believes it’s real. You’re hallucinating that it’s real, and that’s what hypnosis is.”

Here’s a link to the full article.

And here’s a link to my college hypnosis show site.