“Finding True Magic . . . provides a great amount of
practical information and creative guidance on the knowledge of mind/body
derived from various disciplines of the Eastern and Western world. It is a great
pleasure to have your book.” —Tulku Thondup, Tibetan Meditation
Master, Author of Quiet
Mind and The Healing
Power of Mind
“A rare blend of sacred wisdom and
practical tools to find your most loving and successful self.” —Dr. John Gray, Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from
Venus
“East meets West in TRUE MAGIC. Finding True Magic is a
remarkable textbook on Transpersonal Hypnotherapy. Recommended for deep
study.” —Ormand McGill, PhD,
“Dean of American Hypnotists,” Author of Hypnotism and Mysticism of
India
“Finding True Magic is a superb book . . . truly
comprehensive and eclectic in its intelligent presentation of transpersonal
work. It explores philosophy, metaphysics, Eastern wisdom and their
relationships to hypnotherapeutic healing. If you do healing work, you must have
this book. If you teach, you and your students must have this book!” —Marilyn Gordon, CHT, Author of Transformational Healing and
Hypnotherapy and Extraordinary
Healing
“This uncommonly wise book raises the whole
idea of therapy to new levels of application and consideration. Jack Elias knows
and understands the realm of the Transpersonal. No mere “bag of tools” for the
therapeutic technician, Finding True Magic is a palette for the therapeutic
artist, and like all genuinely elegant things, it is simple to comprehend and
yet full of real information and eminently practical direction.” —Alexander M. Docker, DCH,
PhD Dean of Academic Studies, American
Pacific University President, American Board of
Hypnotherapy
“Jack Elias' perspectives on hypnotherapy and
neuro-linguistic processing transformed my understanding of their usefulness in
my personal life and in my clinical counseling practice.” —Robert A. Carlson, MDiv,
MSW Cofounder Seattle MEN & Seattle
Men's Wisdom Council
“Finding True Magic is my staff's
bible!As for how I heard about you?
You're pretty well known here in the psychological community throughout
Ireland!” —Paul Goldin, MD,
Goldin Clinic, Dublin, IRELAND
“I have just completed your book, Finding True
Magic, which I magically found by chance in a bookshop in Cambridge, England
where we were on sabbatical ... Many thanks and my compliments on a wonderful,
profound and insightful book which truly bridges the depths of the Eastern and
Western minds in ways I hardly dared hope for.” —Y. Haran ,
ISRAEL
“No other author that I have read or studied in this
field brings such passion and consciousness to the ‘how to’ of hypnotherapy as
Jack Elias. When I first started reading [Finding True Magic] I soon realized
that he was literally attempting to move me to an altered state while writing of
his purposes and concepts... I found myself celebrating “eurekas” often. One of
the best things about Elias’ audios is getting to know him and his great sense
of humor, and then getting inspired to go back to read the book
again.” —G.M., CHT, Gestalt
Therapist
“The depth of Finding True Magic grows on one, and
can be used constantly as a reference for the therapist - so clear, so vivid,
and effective. I am on the path to get my Ph.D. ... and am basing my
dissertation on your work. It is vast and immense/ insightful and speaks to me
now more than ever on how to really have mastery with clients.” —Sophia M., PhD
Candidate
“Finding True Magic is a unique and thorough text.
However, it is much more than a book of techniques. Jack Elias integrates
hypnosis and NLP with spiritual perspectives and principles from Eastern
thought, and forms an approach which transcends both, and can take you to the
core of your identity: you can find your True Self, and the magic that this
brings.This book can be used for personal development and also by therapists and
healers in their work with individuals and groups.
Anyone who works systematically through the book will
find that any concerns over the ethics and morality of hypnosis or NLP vanish.
As NLP practitioners, we especially value Jack's transpersonal insights into
making the healing process a deep and far reaching one. His processes not only
lead to healing, but also growth; verdant and lush growth, far beyond our own
limiting beliefs about ourselves. His work is challenging, without a doubt.
Allow yourself to wonder just how many of your beliefs about yourself and the
world are truly limiting your potential and you will be sure to get the most
from this magical book.
We
will use this book and Jack Elias' Finding True Magic course to
enrich our NLP practice with the high level of transpersonal hypnotherapy skills
we are sure he will offer.” —Linda & George, NLP
Practitioners, Gloucester, UK
“We found this a delightful book for several reasons.
First, the text is very succinctly written, with almost an outline format in
many sections to aid the reader's comprehension. Secondly, the author blends a
mixture of Eastern and Western philosophical perspectives that promote a growing
realization that healing can be quicker, less expensive, and more personal than
a more traditional medical system has projected. Thirdly, we also feel that
reading Jack's book makes us better prepared to work with a wider variety of
clientele, which certainly will be to their and our benefit. In addition, a wide
breadth of topics are covered here — lots of information requiring more than one
reading, leading to the desire to discuss same with others in discussion groups
if not attend a formal training program with Mr. Elias. Finding True Magic
brings together many perspectives into a coherent and usable approach. It aims
to find a person's healing, not just fix one's symptoms.” —Steven Dykstra, Palmer,
MA
About
Finding True Magic TRAININGS . . .
“I
will continue to wholeheartedly recommend Jack's course to colleagues, to anyone
in the helping and health professions, and to anyone interested in deep healing,
growth, or personal transformation for self and others. This is work that can
change the world — both inner and outer.” —Julie Hurlocker, MD, Diplomate
American Board of Family Practice
“Since 1979 I have worked in
residential treatment centers, mental health centers, and private practice with
individuals, couples, groups and families. In all my experience, nothing has
been as effective in promoting change in people’s lives as the hypnotherapy
techniques I learned in [Jack Elias’ Finding True Magic]
course.” —Patricia Ann
Williams, MD, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist
“Six years of
university training in psychology, twenty years as a counselor, and countless
years of spiritual quest, culminating in the discovery of this course: a
psychology firmly rooted in profound spiritual wisdom.” —Jeannie M., MA,
Psychologist
“This course helped me connect more deeply with
my inner wisdom and compassion. It gave me easy to use techniques to assist
patients and their families to draw on their own powerful inner resources to
deal with illness and loss. It's been 10 years since I took the course for the
first time. What I learned continues to enrich all aspects of my
life.” —Carol M., RN,
CHT
“I
came to Jack's Level One 150-hour training in Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP
with over 500 hours of hypnosis training and with a Practitioner-level
certification in NLP. Plus, I learned lots of techniques in other hypnotherapy
and NLP training. But I didn't know what to do when my techniques “didn't work”
with one particular client or another. After reading Jack's book and taking
Jack's course, I no longer have to rely on techniques. I can simply deal with
whatever emerges.
What I learned from Jack went beyond techniques. I now
understand why all the techniques I learned work in the first place. The
greatest gift was discovering that being bound to “techniques” is the biggest
TRANCE of all. Taking Jack's course is like the opportunity to learn Kung Fu
from Bruce Lee. Get Jack's book. Read it several times. Take a training with
Jack Elias. It doesn't matter how experienced you are or what you think you
know.” —Paul Skavland, CHT
“It seems like I can’t find any boundaries to the
application of this material in my work with other people to assist their
healing, as well as in my own personal and spiritual growth. I’m near bursting
with enthusiasm and ideas around the medical practice as well as the bodywork I
do, and with variations on group meditations for working with medical problems.
All in all, a pretty good deal, Jack!” —Julie H., MD, Physician in Private
Practice
“Jack Elias is a born teacher with a natural approach
to class teaching. He is as much at home with Socratic dialogue and analysis as
with a Zen paradoxical approach and intuitive approach. Jack is contributing to
the further establishment of hypnotherapy as a total approach to healing rather
than simply as a technique that may be applied in the context of
psychotherapy.” —Ivor
Morrish, DEd, Authorof
Disciplines of
Education and
The
Dark Twin: A Study of Good and Evil
“I highly recommend Jack's
[Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP] course to ALL my former students, and anyone
else who wants to become a better therapist. I took Jack's course in 1993 and
found that it transformed both my life and my career. I started doing hypnosis
as a teenager. When I started his course (at 34 years old, and just out of
Marine Corp Avionics) I was an unhappy part-time hypnotist who knew how to do a
lot of techniques.
One of the most important things I learned from Jack
is that techniques alone don't make someone a therapist. After his course, I was
a hypnoTHERAPIST, who within a year left an unhappy marriage, finished my RN
degree, became a full-time hypnotherapist and started teaching.
If I am
a good therapist today, it's a direct result of my having taken Jack's course.
Every week, for one reason or another, I refer back to his textbook, Finding
True Magic. I'm still amazed at how much is in there and how valuable it has
been to me. Thank you, Jack!” —Michael Gershman RN, BCH, Former
President, WA State Chapter, National Guild of Hypnotists, Certified NGH
Hypnotherapy Instructor
“Of the five nationally recognized
hypnotherapy training programs I have been certified in, my time with Jack Elias
has been the most valuable. His gift to you is so much more than just
hypnotherapy, NLP, or psychoanalysis. You are exposed to just about everything
in hypnotherapy that is known to work with great heart, spirit, and
humor.” —Putnam MacDaniel,
Transpersonal Clinical Hypnotherapist, Former President, WA State Chapter,
National Guild of Hypnotists
“I have just completed the book
and the entire hypnosis training and hypnotherapy certification course in Finding True Magic. I have
found it one of the most, if not the most, inspirational and enlightened
learning processes in my life to date.As
a hypnotherapist with a strong interest in the spiritual aspect of life and the
combination of both, it was important that I find a course that could offer me
in-depth learnings in spiritual philosophy coupled with sound common sense and
practical application of psychotherapeutic practices. This I found with Jack
Elias's profound intelligence in the subjects of both Eastern and Western
philosophy and hypnosis.
The book [Finding True
Magic] is fascinating, inspiring, inspirational and informative from the
Preface right up until the very end. Quite simply, it makes you stop and really
think about how you live your life, how you process your thoughts, how you do
whatever you do in everyday life. Not only do you learn as a hypnotherapist new
approaches, and new perspectives, you fully take part in the process of
spiritual enlightenment and development as you progress with the book and the
course. It is impossible not to. It explores the ego in great depth and Jack's
style, from the excellent certification course which accompanies this book, is
entertaining, gripping, jaw-dropping and highly knowledgeable.
For the
new hypnotherapist, there are some excellent scripts as guidelines which
incorporate the transpersonal side of hypnosis, and for the experienced
hypnotherapist, it is a chance to really enhance the transpersonal knowledge and
improve your current practices by understanding more thoroughly the power of the
egoic mind.
Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous and a real life-changer!!
10 out of 5!! For anyone reading this -- go do the [Finding True Magic] course.
The book is brilliant but it is a fraction of what the rest of the course can
really guide you to discover.” —Caroline Cousins, CHT,
UK
“I
graduated from your course in 2002. It's now 2008 and I still find your hypnosis
training and hypnotherapy training to be the most comprehensive and stable
system I have seen. I fall back on your book time and time again.” —S. Rayback,
CHT
“The course is excellent. It contains a degree of depth
and substance I could never have imagined when I first read about it. The time
I've spent on this work has truly been transformative, and I feel very confident
in my resulting ability to assist others in the healing process. I can't say
enough about this course and the quality of the teaching — I would recommend it
to anyone who wants to change his/her own life and help others do the
same.” —D. Hess, CHT,
Graduate of the Finding True
Magic Distance Learning Certification Course
“I've been loving my work as a hypnotherapist... when I
took your Summer Intensive, I wasn't sure if I'd apply it in a professional
practice, but I opened my office in '03 and with just a yellow page listing the
clients keep coming! It's been a fun, interesting, challenging journey. I
recently received a call from an older gentleman, a retired hypnotherapist. He
was preparing for a double knee surgery and wanted to minimize blood flow at the
points of incision during surgery. He also wanted to prepare his body to accept
the anesthesia (he has allergies) and to minimize swelling and control pain
while resisting infection during his recovery.
I
told him that I wasn't experienced in pre-surgery hypnosis, that I'd never done
that before. I felt a little intimidated... here he was, an older, experienced
hypnotherapist and professor, coming to me, a newbie, for something so
"serious." But he decided he wanted to work with me anyway. His doctor and
nurses kind of rolled their eyes when he told them he was preparing with
hypnosis but they were totally amazed by his results! He used 85% less blood
than the average patient during his surgery and he used about half the usual
amount of pain medication during his recovery.
This man is healing faster and easier than most patients
and doing much better than expected, and his doctors and nurses are believers
now. They want me to give talks at the hospital and they're thinking about
opening a hypnosis unit there. They said, "We should be doing this for every
patient." And the new patient referrals have already started coming in. This
client was such a delight, and I learned so much through the experience. I
thought of you while I was preparing to work with him . . . how you always
encouraged us to be spontaneous and imaginative and to allow ourselves to be
surprised. So I just rolled with it, remembering it's not really "me" doing any
of this after all. I feel really blessed.” —M. Miles, CHT, Summer 2003
“The
class atmosphere is ideal for learning: relaxed, informal, yet rigorous. The
course material was presented lucidly and unfolded naturally. The text will
continue to be a resource for me for a long time. Jack, you are a teacher in the
truest sense of the word. The passion, integrity, and depth you bring to these
teachings has moved me deeply.” —Jake L.,
CHT, Designer, Builder
“I received knowledge from the book,
Finding True Magic, and understanding from listening to the audios. Thank
you.” —Tim B., ND, Naturopathic Physician
“A really valuable thing about the audios is their process
flow... your voice and presence have an energizing and healing effect. Hearing
the conviction in your affirmations... has helped me move through a lot of
'hallucinatory' fears.” —Lee H., MSW, Social
Worker
“Jack's approach steps out beyond formula and
limitation. Knocks down boundaries and provides the ground for moments of true
insight, self-discovery, and awakeness. The first night, it became obvious that
we were going to experience Hypnotherapy at its core. I've never been through
something like this with a group of people... real change occurred in everyone
from the processes, group dynamic, and Jack's delightfully open and humorous
approach.” —Peter R., Black Belt Martial
Artist, Musician
“The material and spiritual approach are very
appropriate for the work I do with Native Peoples. But more importantly, the
course has changed the way I interact within all relationships. Finally, tools
to heal spiritually! This is the most CREATIVE thing I've ever learned or done.
It blows traditional psychotherapy out of the water. I appreciate the
camaraderie that seemed to ripple out from Day 1.” —Jean Paul, MA, Mental Health Counselor
“What a great investment I have made, and what a wonderful
gift you have to offer! As I have listened to the audios I have laughed, cried,
become angry and experienced every possible emotion. I have learned more in
these past seven months than I have learned in my entire lifetime. Your
no-nonsense heartfelt approach is wonderful. I am looking forward to taking the
live [Finding True Magic Hypnotherapy/NLP Training] to learn to apply these
simple, delicate techniques and skills more intently.” —Lorraine D., Transpersonal
Hypnotherapist
“Course contents were excellent. My interest
stayed high throughout. The format was also very good; I never was taken to a
place of not understanding due to incomplete foundation work. It was important
to me that the [Finding True Magic] course covered a broad scope of what it
means to be human, and approached the human condition not as a pathological
state (as so many healing modalities do) but as a movement in ongoing unfoldment
of the purity lost along the way of life. I appreciate the love with which the
course was prepared and offered.” —Billie Jo
S., Hypnotherapist
“I have made important and necessary
changes in my life as a result of your course—in my relationships, diet, daily
schedule, therapeutic skill, and self esteem. I feel like I'm coming alive to my
life in a way not experienced before.” —Adrian B., Addictions Counselor
“When I took Jack Elias’ [distance learning Hypnotherapy/NLP
course] I was not really expecting all that I received. I assumed I would learn
some techniques and could utilize them in a way that would suit my needs at the
time. It was through Jack’s knowledge and method of teaching that I learned not
only the basics of hypnotherapy, but a whole new way of thinking.
In a
few years I have become a successful and sought-after therapist in my part of
town. When I say ‘sought-after,’ I mean that I do literally no advertising and
still keep busy most of the time. Jack’s strengths are his ability to explain
complex concepts without getting caught up in technical lingo. He works through
the material in a way that is easy to digest. If you are planning on taking
Jack’s class, I recommend him highly. When you leave, you will have a complete
set of tools and techniques that will guide you through even the most
complicated cases.” —Scott S., Transpersonal
Hypnotherapist
“I'm learning more about my trances and more
about staying present than I ever imagined I would from a course about hypnosis.
This stuff blows my mind. You were right when you said that this course has a
transformative power. This is what I was looking for.” —James S., Student of Finding True Magic Distance Learning
Training
“Listening to the audios [since taking the live
Finding True Magic training] has been wonderful. Everything makes so much more
sense now, and it seems so much more connected and simple—not the struggle I
once imagined. Now I’m going to start listening to them all again! There are so
many things I really want to incorporate into my way of thinking, my way of
being. It’s like being in class again—crying, laughing, working through “stuff.”
I even had a series of dreams where you invited Milton Erickson to be a guest
speaker! I would highly recommend that everyone taking your class buys the
audios as well.” —Carol D., CHT, Graduate of
Finding True Magic training
“I recommend the audios without
reservation to both graduates and new students of the [Finding True Magic
course]. Listening to the audios has deepened my personal understanding of self
as well as my knowledge of the techniques of hypnotherapy. The audios offer an
ongoing opportunity to reevaluate ourselves to awaken to the richness and power
of who we are, and to share that richness with others.” —Christine M., CHT, Graduate of Finding True Magic
Hypnotherapy/NLP and hypnosis training
“I have worked my way
through the [Finding True Magic Hypnotherapy/NLP and hypnosis training] audios
yet again—that’s up to five times now for some of them—and I still find things
that mean something more to me than on earlier passes. As my learning advances,
concepts that were vague before become meaningful, so the audios still seem
relevant. I would consider buying a new batch if you did another group of them!
I’m definitely a fan of the spiritual approach. It is so much more powerful for
people than mere clinical scripts. I have found it easy to work inside the
person’s spiritual model [whatever it may be] and help the client ignite that
appreciation for their living humanity and presence. People are stunned! It’s so
incredible to be a part of it. Sometimes I get a lump in my throat because I see
it is happening for them and I am so glad.” —Marie Rhodes, RN, Registered
Nurse
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“I
would have paid $10,000 for what I got from [Jack Elias] in just one 90-minute
session!” —David R., Corporate
Executive
“I can recommend Jack Elias as an excellent
therapist. Jack’s work is not only efficient but full of heart. With his
outstanding clarity, he has helped me correct fundamental flaws in my thinking
process, resulting in an increase in overall energy and awareness. His effect on
many patients I know has empowered them to change limiting beliefs that had
handicapped them in their growth and expression.” —Daniel Lewis, D.C.,
Chiropractor
“Jack, thank you. Our marriage has been such a
beautiful gift. Your sharing in the opening of our hearts began such great road
to healing, happiness and new understandings! Thank you so much.” —Cyndie M. and Jeff K., Seattle,
WA
“I
got immediate results with my eating disorder from my first session [with Jack
Elias]. In later sessions, Jack reached issues from my childhood that no other
therapy had been able to touch. He is clearly gifted, and the doors he opened
for me will change my life forever, leading me to a new self.” —Sally L., Mother, Householder
“Jack Elias is an outstanding teacher and
practitioner of “leading edge” therapies. He draws upon a wide range of
therapeutic modalities including Ericksonian and Transpersonal Hypnotherapy and
Neuro-linguistic Programming. I have seen him to be a very warm, compassionate
and resourceful therapist and recommend him most highly.” —James Maynard, Founder, Transpersonal Hypnotherapy
Institute
“PMS took up 1/3 of my life. It grew from cramps to
[causing my husband to] threaten divorce if I didn’t do something. I’ve done
everything! Doing hypnotherapy with Jack has not taken away PMS—I still have
hormones that go up and down—but it has taken away the rage, so that I am now
able to cope and function.” —Linda J., RN,
Registered Nurse
