INFORMAZIONI SU QUESTO EPISODIO
September 29, 2026: a strangely big day for hypnosis.
The New York Times published “Why Are We Becoming So Entranced by Hypnotherapy?”—a look at hypnosis moving further into mainstream culture, featuring practitioners including Melissa Tiers.
Get ready for a "coincidence" which brings us to today’s guest....
Shauna Cummins is a hypnotist, artist, author of Wishcraft, and founder of the Divine Feminine School of Hypnosis. Melissa has been a formative influence on Shauna’s work; Shauna says she probably wouldn’t be doing this at all without her, while also taking hypnosis into distinctly artistic, spiritual, and experimental territory of that's radically hers.
And yes: apparently all Greg has to hear is the phrase “Divine Feminine School of Hypnosis” and his attention is secured.
His Facebook algorithm is special. Trust us, we've seen it.
However, this episode goes somewhere the newspaper story doesn’t quite reach.
What if our renewed fascination with hypnosis has less to do with celebrity wellness trends—and more to do with the fact that we’re living in an environment increasingly designed to capture our attention, shape our desires, and tell us what to imagine?
What if hypnosis can also be a way of taking some of that territory back?
In this conversation:
- Why wishing may deserve a serious second look—and what wishing wells were actually for.
- The difference between imagination and fantasy, and why one can move you while the other can keep you circling.
- How hypnosis can become an art form, not merely a clinical technique.
- Why artists may already be working with trance without calling it hypnosis.
- The strange relationship between algorithms, attention, suggestibility, and identity.
- Why Shauna thinks the imagination deserves something approaching reverence.
- And whether reclaiming your ability to imagine your own future might now qualify as a small act of rebellion. Pasted text Pasted text Pasted text
Shauna’s work sits right at that intersection: hypnosis as artistry, hypnosis as agency, and hypnosis as what she beautifully calls “practical divine magic.”
Greg swooned again.
Dreams are coming true already....it's Open Loops.
Shauna’s Links:
Shauna Cummins — Official Website
Divine Feminine School of Hypnosis
Wishcraft: A Guide to Manifesting a Positive Future
The Wishing Well — Kripalu Retreat, December 4–6
The Future of Hypnosis Conference Replay
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