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HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 2h

Its a wild trip: the guy was a professional therapist who got a call to do a stage hypnosis show, and was really good at it. He wound up performing in Vegas, met (and helped) a lot of Names, and just basically led a life full of incredible experiences.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 2h

And I have to do serious research and writing for the two key books in my interest: "Favorite Stories of Hypnosis", a book I found in my high school library, of all places, and "Spellbound" by Maria Tatar, the first scholarly book on hypnosis in fiction I know of.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 2h

Things like the article 'The Eyes of Lady Krystal', about the hypno-dommes Krystal Mesmer and Soforia that was published in Gentleman's Quarterly back in 2002. The writer actually asked me for background information for writing the article. This community was a very small place back then.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 2h

Things like "The Intimate Casebook of a Hypnotist", which details the people in his stage shows who turned out to be fantastic performers and who went on to famous careers, or his involvement with a TV show and a $100,000 prize, or how he got put on trial for practicing medicine (and was aquitted.)

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 2h

I am looking over the books and stuff I want to write about, and some will need more indepth research and writing than what I would do here, so I am faced with dusting off my old blog. My last sporadic entries (with one exception) were from 2021.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 12h

Hey, look what I found!

I was going through a binder in the bookcase, and found the one "Give Me One Evening" ads with the female hypnotist. Granted, its not a very good image, and not the best source: its probably from a comic book from the 1960s.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 14h

The images have been labelled for non-sexual nudity and sexually suggestive by the automatic moderating system. Nto quite sure now they intersect here.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 14h

But, it belongs in The Collection, if only for the title. I don't think I paid too much for it.

I plan to scan the pages at some point. Overall, it just barely fits on the scanner bed, and I will have to see how the scanner handles the inside pages.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 14h

There is also a copious amount of bad clip art of women, and bad and sloppy layout in general. The middle eight pages are printed on a light blue paper stock, as opposed to the white paper of the rest of the pages, for no apparant reason.

Basically, it looks cheap.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 14h

The photos are, with a couple of exceptions, just show mostly or entirely naked women; the exceptions show the women in which could be in some form of a trance, laying with their eyes closed, or extending their hand and arm as in a catalepsy test.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 14h

There is also one article on whether hypnosis can 'cure' homosexuality, and another on the 'secrets of staring men' which is another article more directly explaining how to hypnotize.

There are also eight pages of 'back of the magazine' ads of that period.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 14h

There are several articles, almost all dealing with the main topic in general terms with anecdotal and contrived stories. There is the requisite article on hypnotizing people, and one article on stage hypnosis that appears to be clipped straight from a newspaper.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 14h

"Love and Passion Under Hypnosis" from Playgirl Magazine, circa 1956-1957

It promises a lot but does not deliver. The enclosed articles on hypnosis and purported pictures of hypnotized women are both pretty generic, and the layout and production is low quality.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 21h

I'll leave it up to the reader to decide just how many tropes were invoked and just how wrong everything is.

My only regret is that I wasn't able to find a video of the sketch online.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 21h

Needless to say, the conversation is just one trigger after another. The finale is when they see The Great Mysto, who hypnotized them before, and is now their waiter: "I'm sorry, I have given up hypnotism. I can't cure you. But I've brought some cold partridge and apple strudel!"

Cue the triggers.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 21h

The sketch of interest is 'Post Hypnotic Suggestion'. People at a restaurant were previously hypnotized and given suggestions to:

* sneeze when someone mentions food
* crow like a rooster when someone mentions a bird
* say "Boom!" when they hear a German word
* say "Wheee!" when someone apologizes

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 21h

"The Two Ronnies" was a sketch comedy show, starring Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker, with a supporting cast. The book here is a compilation of several of their sketches, cartoonishly illustrated, featuring a great deal of word play and typical British humor.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 21h

"The Two Ronnies Sketchbook" (1978)

My thanks to WTTW (PBS Chicago channel 11), who would show Doctor Who on Sunday night, preceeded by three British comedy shows: Monty Python, Dave Allen, and The Two Ronnies, and my parents, who got cable TV so they could watch the Cubs play on WGN (channel 9).

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 22h

He was a Air Force officer, then worked for major defense contractors. In the 60's through the 80's, pagan beliefs could be a handicap. (I could probably find his true identity, but I won't bother now.) He was also know for publishing a great deal of pagan non-fiction.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 22h

Its a decent read, risque and sexual, with shapeshifting and sex rites and some enthralling and mesmerism. It was an early addition to The Collection.

Ed Fitch is a pseudonym, because, at that time (and maybe still) there was a significant prejudice against pagans in the military.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 22h

Tanithia manages to mesmerize the leader of the witch hunters, after finding her charms do not affect him: the leader is gay. She then re-collects the warband, peforms a Great (tantric) Rite to raise power, and finished the cleansing she started. Lyia dies, sacrificing herself out of love.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 22h

Tanithia collects a war band, assaults the site and believes she cleansed it, then stays to enjoy the company of Lyia, a former captive and thrall of the actual evil. However, Lyia enthralls Tanithia, and weakened, she escapes, only to be captured by a band of fantatic witch hunters.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 22h

Ed Fitch "Castle of Deception" (1983)

Part of (and maybe the only one of) the Llewellyn Magical Fantasy Series, this is a pagan-intense medieval fantasy, with the central character being a witch-warrior tasked with cleansing evil from a mystical site.

It wasn't easy, and therein lies the tale.

HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 22h

Dunninger was *famous* he knew people like Houdini, Thomas Edison, Walter Gibson, and performed for presidents. His name became part of cultural slang (now lost) for someone who could predict the future. He also wrote "Dunninger on Hypnotism" .

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_...

Joseph Dunninger - Wikipedia

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HypnoMedia @hypnomedia.bsky.social · 22h

There is a chapter "Telepathy and Hypnosis", which is only 2 1/2 pages long, very brief, almost generic, with nothing about actually using hypnosis to induce or develop telepathy. Another short chapter teaches how to use the Chevreul pendulum.

This book is pretty blase.