Speaking
Appearances
Interviews, guest podcasts, talks, and other conversations.
Interviews, guest podcasts, talks, and other conversations, gathered into one archive. The audio recordings are kept with this site so they remain available even if the original publishers move or remove them.
LLM and the Subconscious
August 2025 · Center Point Radio
With host Ran Anbar and AI podcaster Ayush Parkash, I discuss artificial intelligence and how it might mimic the processes of the subconscious mind.
Buddhist Psychology
February 2025 · Center Point Radio
With host Ran Anbar, I discuss the mysteries of consciousness and self, meditative practices, hypnosis, and language.
Working with People in Transition
November 2024 · Center Point Radio
With host Dr. Ran Anbar, I discussed the parallels between AI large language models and the human unconscious, meditative states, social fragmentation, the collective unconscious, and life after death. I also discuss my morning routine and the healthy practices that have transformed my own daily life.
Hypnosis and Alfred Adler
February 2019 · The Talking Therapy Podcast
I talked with hosts RJ Thomas and John Webber about hypnosis as a tool for understanding and interacting with the unconscious mind, Adlerian techniques for understanding personality development, false memories and personal myths, and trance states in everyday life.
The Future of Clinical Training and Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Hypnosis
October 2014 · Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
In this invited plenary address, I cast new light on the history of clinical training, drawing together early mystical healing traditions, the Hippocratic tradition, early Christian hospitals, magnetism, mesmerism, exorcism, hypnotism, and modern evidence-based clinical practice in medicine and clinical psychology.
Evidence of practitioner effects across clinical disciplines is introduced—including psychology, psychiatry, primary care medicine, and surgery—and the causes and implications of those practitioner effects are explored in light of evidence for relationship effects, at-a-distance healing effects, and quantum nonlocality between human neural tissue samples.
Implications for improvements in clinical practice and clinical training are explored, with an emphasis on potential ways that practitioner effects and training effects might be enhanced.