
Monday Brunch: Psychic frauds

This Controversial Technique Can Alter Your Consciousness—And Possibly ‘Reprogram’ Your Mind
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everybody wants to do ayahuasca but nobody wants to do the dishes
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Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
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An example of the misguided use of suggestion concerns what many came to call the “memory wars,” which began noisily in the mid-1980s and reached a deafening crescendo in the mid-1990s. As therapists became more sensitive to the issue of childhood sexual abuse, a phenomenon that had historically and incorrectly been considered rare, the theory took
... See moreMichael D. Yapko • Mindfulness and Hypnosis: The Power of Suggestion to Transform Experience
Mentalism is the branch of conjuring devoted to simulating psychic phenomena. Mentalists perform mind-reading feats, predict newspaper headlines, and demonstrate telepathy. These performers are some of the most trickster-like within the magic fraternity.