🎙️ Episode Highlights for "Hypnotism and the Shape of Human Consciousness" with James Tripp 🎧

In this episode of Agents of Everything we embark on a thought-provoking exploration of hypnotism and nature of ‘structured’ human consciousness. Prepare yourself for a potentially mind-bending journey into the depths of human experiences as shaped by the immense power of language.

🔍 Main Ideas Covered in the Episode:

* The challenge to the traditional notion of hypnosis as a state of trance and introducing "Hypnosis Without Trance" as an alternative approach.

* Entering the realm of hypnotic experience through the example of the ‘hypnotic hand-stick’, achieved purely through applied language and communication.

* Revealing the power of words, ideas, and non-verbal communication in shaping our experience of reality.

* Presenting a process based definition of hypnosis as the intentional use of language and communication to direct attention, lead cognition, and seed ideas.

* Illuminating the connection between hypnotic communication and poetry.

* Examining how directing attention, leading cognition, and seeding ideas can profoundly impact one's experience.

* Illustrating the interconnectedness between language, ideas, and the formation of unique experiences through examples like the "card stick" technique.

* Connecting Owen Barfield's work on language and consciousness with Iain McGilchrist’s work on brain asymmetry and it’s role in ‘the making of the western world’, and how this all connects in to ‘Hypnotism and the Shape of Human Consciousness’.

Join me, James Tripp, on this short tour of the limitless power of language, communication, and the human mind. This episode is not only for those with an interest in hypnosis, but also for those interested in revealing something of the nature of human experience. 🌟✨

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