Ormond McGill & Tom Silver – Live Sessions In Bath England

About the Actor

Ormond McGill was born in Palo Alto, California, in1913, the son of the city’s telephone manager. At a young age, McGill became interested in magic, and eventually took a correspondence course through the Tarbell Music School in Chicago while still in high school. After graduating from high school in 1931, he attended San Jose State, studying psychology, commercial art and advertising. He relates how his love affair with hypnosis was triggered as a university student when he saw a performance of a stage hypnotist named De Walzoa. Fascinated, McGill began reading books on the subject, and gradually started to incorporate a little bit of hypnosis into his magic shows. Eventually he began performing hypnosis shows as well. In the early days, he recalls, Palo Alto had a clause in its laws that prohibited gypsies from coming to Palo Alto, along with fortune tellers and hypnotists. He remained interested in magic, and soon began traveling as an assistant to Mandu the Magician. Continuing his interest in stage hypnotism, in which volunteers from the audience are willingly hypnotized in the course of the performance, he continued to travel to wherever his jobs would take him. After one Canadian performance, McGill was awakened late at night by an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at his door. He explained that a woman at his performance had failed to come out of her hypnotic trance for nearly three days, was at a local hospital and could he please come to help. By the time McGill showed up, she was out of the trance. The incident was picked up by news radio commentator Paul Harvey. From 1947 to 1954, McGill performed hypnotism and magic under the stage name of Dr. Zomb. His Séance of Wonders show featured horror-themed routines and costumed assistants typical of the midnight Spook Shows which were popular during that era. In addition to his career as a world-traveling magician and stage hypnotist, McGill was also a skilled hypnotherapist and a student of Eastern mysticism. He wrote somewhere between twenty-five and forty books (sources disagree on the total), including such titles as Grieve No More Beloved (about his afterlife contact with his deceased wife), Hypnotism and Mysticism in India , and his autobiography, The Amazing Life of Ormond McGill , The Encyclopedia of Genuine Stage Hypnotism and a number of books with Hypnotist Tom Silver, two of which are The How To Book of Hypnotism and Hypnotism Training & Techniques Manual.

About the Director

As founder and creator of the Tom Silver Institute of Hypnosis, Tom Silver is dedicated to teaching more advanced, more accurate and more scientific methods of hypnotism. He has a private hypnotherapy practice in Westlake Village, California, where he helps clients to change their lives. For many years Tom has successfully trained and helped thousands of students of hypnotism and other therapists, and is currently teaching advanced courses in Scientific Hypnotherapy in America and in England. Tom is considered to be one of the leading experts in group-hypnosis, physical & shock hypnosis induction methods, fears & phobia removal, Emotion Replacement Therapy (ERT), and EEG Scientific Hypnotism. Tom Silver has toured the world conducting seminars, lectures, and live demonstrations on hypnosis, and was one of the first hypnotists in the world to create a procedure for mass-hypnotizing subjects in a foreign language – through an interpreter. Together with Dr. Ormond McGill, the ‘Dean of American Hypnotists’, Tom has co-authored two books, The How-To Book of Hypnotism and Hypnotism – A Hypnosis Training & Techniques Manual – The Real Questions & Answers. As a Scientific Hypnotherapist, Tom Silver is constantly perfecting methods to achieve more accurate and deeper levels of hypnosis by creating a variety of physical and rapid induction techniques that produce theta and delta states of brain wave activity. And Tom can teach you Scientific Hypnotism. I can help you gain a better understanding of hypnosis as well as increase your confidence. By teaching you methods that really work that will develop and expand your tool box of hypnosis techniques, you will be equipped to choose, depending on your subject’s background and problem, whichever induction technique, deepening method and treatment that most suits the situation. My hypnosis training lectures and seminars will elevate your knowledge to become a scientific hypnotherapist. Scientific & Clinical Hypnotherapist 1 888 MIND PWR or 805-384-1040 Email: [email protected]