Ronning Guide to Modern Stage Hypnosis by Geoffrey Ronning, Wendy Ronning, David Botsford, Chris Frolic, Blaze Driscoll, Richard Cole, Terry Davolt, Chris Morrison, Michael Thomas, Clarke Tuitele
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Book Reviews of Ronning Guide to Modern Stage Hypnosis
Book Review: Give me a break
Summary: 1 Stars
This book is a vanity book. It is a self published compendium of the authors adventures as a stage hypnotist "somewhere in the United States". There are lots of pictures of happy smiling faces, but none of them help me to learn much about stage hypnosis. There are shots of Geoff on a cell phone, Geoff carrying a brief case, his wife sitting somewhere, etc. etc. There are dim and fuzzy shots that look like stock footage from a Billy Graham crusade... only you can't see Billy. There are references to a Mister Hypnosis. But Mr, Hypnosis is a guy named Richard Rumble who really is a stage hypnotist and who is all over youtube actually being one.
The book is very very basic, there is little technical "meat". The language or NLP section reminds one of those free ebooks you get when you give some guy your email address to get free stuff over the internet. The ebook is usually worth what you paid for it of course. There is a brief discussion of something called an EKG induction. Trust me it has nothing to do with the EKG depth of trance measurements guys like Tom Silver are known for. It is apparently a reworking of the concepts of famous Hypnotists (such as Erickson/Elman, etc.} that never did do stage hypnosis themselves. I'll leave you to figure out who the G stood for.
Sixty percent of the book is "by" the author. The other forty percent is by guest authors who recount different but similar adventures as stage hypnotists. It is somewhat entertaining if you don't mind wading through copies of page-count bulking email transcripts and such.
If this is Modern Stage Hypnosis, give me the old time stuff. To those interested in real stage hypnosis, I would recommend a book like "Sleep you Bastard" by Martin St. James. Martin is a true legend and his real adventures as a stage hypnotist make exciting and educational reading for laymen and hypnotist alike. Perhaps the Perennial "Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnosis" by Ormond McGill might be interesting to the more technically minded.. But please, spare me the marketing hype on Ronnings Guide to Modern Stage Hypnosis. Is it a surprise that the coauthors are also five-star giving reviewers... Give me a break.