Tag: manipulation

Eps 89: Exploring Passive-Agression, guest Dr Leon Seltzer

Welcome to Spark My Muse!

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• Each FRIDAY, guests join me in a conversation.
• Come back each Wednesday
(on “Hump Day” aka Midweek) for a brief Soul School “lesson”–something for your interior world and common life.

Want to help?
LISTENERS, like you, support Spark My Muse with gifts and spreading the word about the show.
• A donation through PayPal is a one-time gift. Regular Support through Patreon.com/sparkmymuse gets you weekly Show Notes and lots of extras.

paypal
Your support keeps me smiling.
THANK YOU. 

Today, my guest is a regular writer for Psychology Today, an author, and a psychologist in general private practice for 30 years, Dr Leon Seltzer.

leon-seltzer1_orig

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:35 — 53.0MB) | Embed

Subscribe to Spark My Muse Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSS | Subscribe to Spark My Muse

To get extensive SHOW NOTES that contain all the highlights (marked at the minute), related articles links to topics mentioned in the show as well as to Dr Seltzer’s work, and unlock many other goodies and features, support the show at just $1 (or more) HERE (patreon.com/sparkmymuse).

Listen to recent episodes:

pick an option that works best for you:

Eps 75: Magic, Deception, Hypnosis–Guest, Kevin Ferguson

Welcome to Spark My Muse!

Thank you for your interest in the show.
Chip in and help with some support today.

paypal

Today, my guest is writer and magician Kevin Ferguson.

KevinFerguson


Just like magic, you can share an audio clip of the show. Use the Clammr app below.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:43 — 60.0MB) | Embed

Subscribe to Spark My Muse Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSS | Subscribe to Spark My Muse

SHOW NOTES:

MIN  1:00

Kevin’s start in magic

MIN 4:00

What is possible (learning magic)

Min 5:30the Magician the tricks that have most stumped Kevin: Derek Brown

 

  • Reading minds, predicting the future,

(no stooges)

MIN 7:00

magic as Psychological

MIN 9:00 Hypnotic techniques

faith healers

Deception and influence

MIN 10:00

ARTICLE:

Should we have a Science of Magic? Kevin’s latest piece in @NautilusMag: http://go.nautil.us/magic_psych 

Magic as a Science

Nautilus Magazine 

Gustav Kuhn

Psychology and Magic and the Brain

How beliefs form or are manipulated.

MIN 12

Eye tracking

Limits of attention

How beliefs are formed

Agency and choice

Events the violate causality / magical thinking

MIN 14:30

Prayer

Looking for patterns

Placebo effect and hypnosis

Assassin episode

A man is hypnotized to murder someone in a theatre.

MIN 17:30

Who is susceptible?

Did they truly believe it was real or just play along?

MIN 18:00

Based on Robert Kennedy assassination case.

MIN 20:00

In Kevin’s opinion, can hypnotized people do something against their morals?

MIN 22:30

What is the hypnosis state actually and measurably?

MIN 25:30

You have to believe you will be hypnotize.

MIN 28:00

Learning from the Science and art of Magic to understand mental disorders and childhood states of wonder.

MIN 29:30

Bringing wonder (or unsolvable puzzle) in the present to adults which is what children have all the time.

MIN 32:30

Performing magic for analytical audiences.

MIN 34:00

Performing Magic in different cultural settings. Card tricks for Japanese.

MIN 36:00

People who believe the magic is real and Kevin has really supernatural powers and the ethical dilemma that presents.

MIN 38:00

Once all mystery is gone. Shallow and throw away knowledge.

MIN 40:30

Never make an iPhone disappear.

MIN 42:30

kferg.me