In David Lynch's Dune movie (1984), words are used as weapons and, with the aid of the "weirding module," are capable of destroying enemies and starting fires. In the 2021 Dune movie, tone of voice is used to hypnotize enemies. How does this reflect hypnotic practices today?

Searches for self-soothing techniques have seen a 3X increase and searches for anti-anxiety searches have increased 4X on one popular social media site. Find out why.

The way we think (and speak) about "weight loss" is changing. We're shifting away from simply losing weight (even on an unhealthy diet) to a more holistic approach rooted in the idea of getting "healthy." See how the social landscape is changing.

Although it has been downplayed or forgotten, some of the most important spiritual teachers of the last few hundreds years have been hypnotists. (Christian mystic Saint-Martin and G. I. Gurdjieff among them.) We look at the influence of hypnotism on the West's spiritual tradition.