Ultimately Under

THE BLURB:
Read this today, put people into trances in your
performances tomorrow

Kenton's new Ultimately Under does for hypnosis what
Completely Cold has done for telephone psychics.

Literally overnight you will get spectators to close their
eyes, levitate their arm, see imaginary balloons and all
manner of things - without stooges, hypnosis, or tons of
practice.

Spectator's hands get stuck to a table, they cannot move
from a spot on the floor, their fingers seem glued together
and more.

No memorizing special hypnotic scripts or fancy words.

No funny props required, though you may want to use your
cell phone or make up a thing or two.

Most of the effects can be performed up close, in a living
room or on stage.

Unlike what all the others teach you, Kenton tips how
mentalists and magicians can use trance work TODAY without
worry or failure.

Forget being taught how to be a clinical therapist or stage
hypnotist when all you really want to do is apparently put
people under INSTANTLY while doing your usual effects.

You learn how to do all of this and more right away. This
work is for MAGICIANS AND MENTALISTS BY a renown MAGICIAN
and MENTALIST. You don't need to be an expert in hypnosis
when all you really want to do is show how you put people
into a trance instantly.

No dangerous methods, no difficult work.

Read it today, perform trance effects with ease and complete
confidence tomorrow!

No worries, and no fear required.

Pages 94 - Tape Bound

MY COMMENTS:
Oh, you can bet this book will be incredibly controversial.
There will be hypnotists and hypnotherapists who will
criticize this work for trying to teach hypnosis in less
than one hundred pages and without extensive training and
education. Not only that, but Kenton and friends explain
that there are certain things that can be said and certain
actions that will turn any confident performer into an
entertaining stage hypnotist simply after reading this book.

I certainly am not going to debate the issue, but I'll
briefly say that I agree that stage hypnosis is merely
suggestion. Kenton Knepper certainly explains this
viewpoint right up front in the book and, since he's famous
for his Wonder Words and NLP use in performing, he is quite
knowledgeable about just what to say to audience members to
get them to do things, like being put under hypnosis. This
book details just what to say, and why, in order to be able
to to hypnotize people in the name of entertainment. It
also includes many different exercises you can use during
the performance, many of which are unique to the
contributors.

As with many of Kenton's manuscripts, I'll grip about the
lack of a contents page, but that's a minor gripe and
certainly doesn't detract from the quality of the material
within. Besides Kenton, contributers include Neo Lama, Ray
Thompson, Ben Highway, and Mark Townsend. If you're already
doing a hynosis show, this book may provide a refreshingly
alternative perspective and some new exercises to
incorporate. If you're not doing a hypnosis show, and are
interested in doing them, this is highly recommended
(although I wouldn't use this as your single source of
information on stage hypnosis; you'd need to get Ormond
McGill's material, plus Geoffrey Ronning has great stuff,
too).