Charlie is a normal guy with a normal life and a normal job. But he’s got one less-than-normal hobby: hypnotism. It’s a new hobby that he’s only tried out a few times with his co-workers. He helped one girl stop smoking and he helped a close friend with a mild eating disorder. He’s got a lot to learn still, so he puts an ad out, to see if he can find some new willing patients. To his own surprise, he gets a hit: a man who needs help winning a peculiar bet. Charlie isn’t sure he can help, but he’s willing to give it a shot. He invites the man to his place and discovers that the man is Adam, an old friend from school. And the bet is a strange one: Adam needs to pass as a woman at a party, and there’s a few hundred bucks on the line. He’s got the look down and now he just needs to get into the right headspace.

This brilliant romantic novel of three generations of men in Warsaw is “19th-century realism at its best.” (Czesław Miłosz) Boleslaw Prus is often compared to Chekhov, and Prus’s masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-century Warsaw, which is also a prophetic reckoning with some of the social forces—imperialism, nationalism, anti-Semitism among them—that would soon convulse Europe as never before. But The Doll is above all a brilliant novel of character, dramatizing conflicting ideas through the various convictions, ambitions, confusions, and frustrations of an extensive and varied cast. At the center of the book are three men from three different generations. Prus’s fatally flawed hero is Wokulski, a successful businessman who yearns for recognition from Poland’s decadent aristocracy and falls desperately in love with the highborn, glacially beautiful Izabela. Wokulski’s story is intertwined with those of the incorrigibly romantic old clerk Rzecki, nostalgic for the revolutions of 1848, and of the bright young scientist Ochocki, who dreams of a future full of flying machines and other marvels, making for a book of great scope and richness that is, as Stanisław Barańczak writes in his introduction, at once “an old-fashioned yet still fascinating love story . . . , a still topical diagnosis of society’s ills, and a forceful yet subtle portrayal of a tragically doomed man.

These elements that include narcissism, Machiavellian-ism, psychopathy and sadism are the different aspects where dark psychology is used. The book discusses how people with these different elements use dark psychology to manipulate, influence and persuade others for their own benefits. In This Book You’ll Learn: • What Is Hypnosis And How It Works • 3 Steps To Induce A Trance (With Exact Scripts You Can Use) • Hypnotic Techniques World’s Top Hypnotists Use • Betty Erickson’s 3-2-1 Script • 5 Techniques To Focus Anyone’s Attention And Sneak Into The Subconscious • How To Hypnotize Anyone Using Breath, Voice, Memorization And Language • The Staircase: How To Use Metaphors To Speak To The Subconscious • Hypnotic Tips, Tricks And Secrets That Most People Don’t Know • How To Use Hypnosis To Help People Achieve Their Goals Easier • A Complete Script To Take Someone From Beginning To End In A Hypnotic Session • Myths And Frequently Asked Questions About Hypnosis While we can’t promise someone they will be awarded hypnosis skills, we can promise that we will increase their chances of controlling their minds by showing them techniques and the steps to take to be the master of their mind.

In this completely revised, updated and expanded volume, the editors have brought together some of the field's most outstanding contributors to examine the wide-ranging applications and promise of the use of hypnosis with children. The book develops core principles of clinical hypnosis with children and adolescents and each contributor delineates how they apply these precepts in a range of psychological and medical settings. The result is a constellation of perspectives and clinical applications that move the reader beyond literature review to practical advice.

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Susy Smith, internationally known author of twenty-one books on parapsychology and the occult, traces the fascinting, many-faceted history of hypnosis—from its shady origins to its present status of quasi-respectability and its promising future as a tool for producing Extrasensory Perception. In this book you will read about astonishing cases of hypnosis and the people who practice it. The report of the California doctor who used hypnosis as the sole anesthetic in heart surgery on two teenagers . . . The frightening story of a group of amateur hypnotists who placed a young girl in a trance so deep that she lost the use of English and began to speak in a strange, unknown language. The resulting loss of communication made it impossible for the hypnotists to bring the subject out of her trance . . . The staggering implications of statistics—which show that many hypnotic trances lead to communication with the dead . . . The Soviet professor who conducted long-distance telepathic hypnosis tests designed to make telepathy useful for the Russian cosmonauts . . . Be sure to visit the Afterlife Codes website of the Susy Smith Project at www.afterlifecodes.com.

The award-winning author of The End of Vandalism pens “a gorgeous, inexplicably sad and funny novel about screwups trying to do better” (Salon). In this mesmerizing novel, Tom Drury once again journeys to the quiet Midwest to spend an action-packed October weekend in the lives of a precarious family whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles, an heirloom shotgun; for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew; for their young son, Micah, a knowledge of the scope and reliability of his world, aided by prowling the empty town at night; and for Joan’s daughter, Lyris, a stable foot from which to begin to grow up. Sometimes together, sometimes crucially apart, father, mother, son, and daughter move through a series of vivid encounters that demonstrate how even the most provisional family can endure in its own particular way. “A beguiling novel . . . perceptive and captivating.” —The New York Times “Entrancing.” —The Guardian “Startling and utterly original.” —Newsday “Drury is an absolutely delightful writer who has carved out a world of his own in American fiction, one that is odd, revealing, and yet filled with love.” —Library Journal “The trick and true pleasure here are in the utterly ordinary context these extraordinary events occur in. Drury never misses a beat—the quiet moments dazzle as much the louder ones.” —Kirkus Reviews

This is a work of "systematic parapsychology." The book aims to construct a framework and system of parapsychology, taking a comprehensive approach to the field. The Outline of Parapsychology states that parapsychology has a different philosophical background from the existing science and religions, and posits that pantheism could be the theoretical basis of parapsychology. The book also integrates parapsychology with oriental philosophies and New Age movement thought.