My friend John Petrocelli was invited to participate in a recently aired podcast called “Mental Health and Hypnotism: Can Hypnosis Really Help?”

You see Petrocelli is not just any other random guy, although he looks like one, Petrocelli used to be one of the shakers and movers in the nation’s hypnosis community. Plus he was an instructor with the “Silva Method” aka “Silva Mind Control,” Petrocelli is also the founder of the largest hypnosis community called the “Somnambulic Sleep Walkers hypnosis group,” and a business man who operated his own hypnosis business.

Not to mention that he was a life long New York City resident, but recently moved out of the city to live upstate. Wonder what processed him to do that?

Leaving the concrete jungle, where the native animals are rats, the four-legged ones with a tail and the two-legged ones who likes to be called humans. Two legged snakes, who also like to be called humans, stray cats and pit bull dogs. Trading all that for the green grass, living in the woods, complete with real snakes, and instead of stray cats and dogs, wolves, bobcats. Go figure.

Otherwise, he sounds like quite a fellow, among others who I met while I was an active member of the hypnosis community. We used to meet for weekly practice on Wednesday and Thursdays.

On Wednesday we had a 7^th Path hypnosis practice group at Maya’s apartment, that was located on the East side of midtown Manhattan. An area where at any given moment you’d see some celebrity walking around, not to mention that many diplomats living in the area.

Can you imagine, how high the rent for apartments in that area. Maya’s apartment was a cozy one bedroom, with spacious living room, in a secured building, I guess all the buildings in that area is secured, an amenity for the high rent the tenants are paying.

 Maya a very gorgeous woman didn’t have a traditional job, in fact she was a Stripper, dancing at that infamous mobbed up gentleman club called “Scores.”   Right now, the last I heard, Maya established a retreat in the rain forests of South America.

Anyway, a group of us would meet on Wednesdays and practice 7^th Path hypnosis, sometimes we’d practice astral projection technics, among other mental and mind control.

Then on Thursdays it was the seduction group practice. You see the founder of “Speed Seduction, “created practice groups in various cities called “Seduction roundtables,” where guys used to meet and sit in a circle to discuss the technics of speed seduction. What worked, what didn’t work, and how to tweak the techniques making the technique practicable. Then we would go out into the area and practice (click here to get a glimpse of this world).

When Petrocelli established the Somnambulic Sleep Walker group he rented office space at the TRS suites on Park ave South, where he had seminars, then when the practice group at Maya’s stopped meeting. We replaced Wednesdays with the sleepwalker’s hypnosis practice.  Announcements used to be made on Craig List and other media outlets announcing the open invitations.

This time around, the meetings used to be held at Bill’s apartment. Also, on the East side of midtown Manhattan. Bill, a retired New York Police Officer, and was recently divorced pioneered an approach to mental therapy called “Spirit Releasement,” (click here to see what spirit releasement is all about) we nicked named him “Soul Clearer.”

It was a pretty good time of my life, discovering new things and learning now things. But then the World Trade Center got attacked, and that was the start of putting civilian life on hold when I got called too active duty and now my mind was on military mode.

Listen to my man Petrocelli what he said on the pod caste was very intriguing.