But hypnosis has a surprisingly robust scientific framework. Clinical research has shown that it can help relieve pain and anxiety and aid smoking cessation, weight loss, and sleep. It can help ...

Why does stage hypnosis continue to be such a crowd pleaser? Sheer amusement can’t completely explain the fascination that audiences have with these — for lack of a better term — “stupid human tricks.

Stage hypnotist Rich Guzzi has learned to expect the unexpected. In one memorable performance, he instructed 15 hypnotized audience volunteers to compose and perform a rap song onstage — in Chinese.

Hypnotist Asad Mecci with volunteers onstage at HYPROV Opening Night inside Harrah's Las Vegas. They HYPROV show combines comic improv with hypnotism. Going to Las Vegas this summer? It’s your chance ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.— The Loft at Heavenly Village is bringing a brand new hypnotist show with longtime local Juan Acosta to the stage at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18. Acosta, who has been practicing ...

In 1969, Jimi Hendrix wowed audiences at Woodstock with his poignant and pointed rendition of the national anthem. On the evening of Jan. 28, a student delivered his own take on the song – which ...

For many people, hypnosis is best known as a party trick or a bit of entertainment: A hypnotist on stage asks for a volunteer who undergoes hypnosis, then, at a snap of the hypnotist’s fingers, the ...

Group of eight people under the influence of a rotary mirror apparatus (after Luys), from ‘Hypnotism and the New Witchcraft’ by E.A. Hart (1893) (all images ...