Not just “an person” the author is jimmy towards whom I replied above.
For myself reading literature and hearing audio books didn’t give my any skills in the subject. I learned the largest chunk of my skills from Chris Mulzer. I also went to other people and read afterwards about the subject but I’m not an autodidact in it.
jimmy on the other hand is an autodidact. In http://lesswrong.com/lw/pbt/social_insight_when_a_lie_is_not_a_lie_when_a/dw9g?context=3 , both I and jimmy consider the strategy of getting Reality Is Plastic: The Art of Impromptu Hypnosis and doing the exercises in it with a willing subject to be a good starting point for developing actual skill.
At the moment there’s an idea in my head that it would be possible to create a better course for this learning hypnosis from the beginning than what’s out there. If you find someone who wants to practice with you hypnosis in person, I would be willing to do more specific guidance about what to do. Maybe jimmy also wants to pitch in and we can create a kind of course together.
I don’t think reading blog posts or forum posts is enough to develop actual skill but if your goal is just information there’s the forum http://www.uncommonforum.com/viewforum.php?f=16 where jimmy, myself and a bunch of other people had a few long discussions about hypnosis in the past.
After this post of yours I think you might be really interesting to talk to on the subject. Let me know if you want to chat sometime (I’m that LW person mentioned).
I’m actually just starting to look into hypnosis a bit. I found a blog by an LW person at https://cognitiveengineer.blogspot.com/
You have any recommendations? I’m getting enough to tell there’s something interesting being described, but not enough to get it quite down pat.
Not just “an person” the author is jimmy towards whom I replied above.
For myself reading literature and hearing audio books didn’t give my any skills in the subject. I learned the largest chunk of my skills from Chris Mulzer. I also went to other people and read afterwards about the subject but I’m not an autodidact in it. jimmy on the other hand is an autodidact. In http://lesswrong.com/lw/pbt/social_insight_when_a_lie_is_not_a_lie_when_a/dw9g?context=3 , both I and jimmy consider the strategy of getting Reality Is Plastic: The Art of Impromptu Hypnosis and doing the exercises in it with a willing subject to be a good starting point for developing actual skill.
At the moment there’s an idea in my head that it would be possible to create a better course for this learning hypnosis from the beginning than what’s out there. If you find someone who wants to practice with you hypnosis in person, I would be willing to do more specific guidance about what to do. Maybe jimmy also wants to pitch in and we can create a kind of course together.
I don’t think reading blog posts or forum posts is enough to develop actual skill but if your goal is just information there’s the forum http://www.uncommonforum.com/viewforum.php?f=16 where jimmy, myself and a bunch of other people had a few long discussions about hypnosis in the past.
After this post of yours I think you might be really interesting to talk to on the subject. Let me know if you want to chat sometime (I’m that LW person mentioned).