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Open Loops with Greg Bornstein: Conversations That Bend
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Are you ready to embark on an intellectual adventure? Look no further than Open Loops, the podcast that will take you on a journey of the mind. Join host Greg Bornstein and a variety of expert guests as they explore a wide range of thought-provoking topics such as magic, art, hypnosis, secrets, psychology, spirituality, conspiracy theories, the supernatural, and our true selves. Each episode is a destination that will challenge and expand your mind. But be warned, the journey does not end here, the truth is yet to be uncovered, the secrets yet to be revealed, and the mysteries yet to be unraveled. Tune in to Open Loops and discover the unlimited possibilities of the human mind.
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No More Therapists: Your Brain Knows The Answer with Global NLP Guru, Hypnotist Master Trainer, and Greg's Hypnosis Teacher Dr. Yvonne Oswald
May 701:32:45Tap to summarizeA Mesmer Mother’s Day Special Episode of Open Loops with Greg’s Hypnosis/NLP Trainer, Dr. Yvonne Oswald! And since BetterHelp and Talkspace probably aren’t sliding into Greg’s inbox for a sponsorship anytime soon: “No More Therapists!” indeed. Let’s be precise here: this is a pro-mental-health conversation that moves far beyond conventional ideas of psychotherapy. Dr. Yvonne Oswald has spent over 30 years in clinical sessions, trainings, and live demonstrations helping people move through deep trauma, emotional chaos, limiting beliefs, and inner disarray toward peace, power, and freedom in their own minds. She just knows how to do it fast. After a lifetime of teaching hypnosis, NLP, language mastery, emotional release, and mind technology, while continuing to refine and create new methods, Dr. Yvonne has put her work into her new book, No More Therapists: Your Brain Has The Answer, where she teaches readers how to clear negative emotions in minutes, rather than spend years circling the same pain. Greg had the chance to study with her in Niagara Falls, Canada, inside her healing house during her Hypnosis Master Training and Every Word Has Power live coaching experience. Years later, he still considers her breakdown of Mind Magic, emotional release, submodalities, high-vibration language, and unconscious reprogramming some of the clearest, most lucid, and most practical material ever explored on Open Loops. Which says a lot, considering this show has also covered how to have a five-minute conversation with Bigfoot that borders on flirtatious. This episode is different. You will learn. You will shift. You may even experience one of the techniques working on you while you listen. In this unique episode, you’ll discover: -Why your brain may already have the answer before your conscious mind knows how to ask the question. -How Dr. Yvonne’s Mind Magic process uses breath, gaze, anchoring, and language to interrupt emotional patterns rapidly. -Why “negative emotions” may be less like permanent wounds and more like mislabeled files waiting to be cleared. -How low-energy words can quietly program stress, limitation, and emotional contraction into the nervous system. -Why changing one word can alter the direction of your unconscious “GPS.” -What most hypnotists miss about emotional neutrality, and why neutral may be the real doorway before joy, peace, or manifestation. -How Dr. Yvonne blends grounded NLP structure with spiritual healing, source connection, and higher-consciousness work without losing practical precision. Listen if you’re interested in hypnosis, NLP, trauma healing, manifestation, emotional release, language patterns, mind technology, or the strange possibility that your brain has been waiting for better instruction (ie. "Can you use me instead of ChatGPT for once?") Dr. Yvonne’s Links Get Dr. Yvonne Oswald’s Safety Box:https://globalwelcome.com/safety-box Sign up now to receive Dr. Yvonne’s Safety Box, a free collection of rapid emotional-release techniques designed to help you calm emotional “tsunamis” and return to neutral fast. You’ll also be notified when her new book, No More Therapists: Your Brain Has The Answer, comes out next week on May 16th. Dr. Yvonne Oswald’s Website:https://globalwelcome.com New Book:No More Therapists: Your Brain Has The Answer Clear negative emotions in minutes, not years. Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops
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Mothman in the Mirror: The King of P.O.P. (Paranormal Observable Phenomena) Returns with George Mitrovic
Apr 2302:30:58Tap to summarize"Hee hee. Ow!" Those are the noises you make when a laser from an alien spacecraft shoots you in 1967 Manitoba. Or when a diamond-shaped craft in rural Texas bathes you in radiation on a cold December night in 1980. Or when you're just trying to sleep on a Brazilian island and something called "Chupa Chupa" decides to use you as a snack. Those incidents -and hundreds like them = add up to something even stranger than the aliens, cryptids, or apparitions themselves. A pattern. A map. A theory that explains all of it. You're going to find out what that is in this episode. By the time you finish listening to this episode, perhaps by the time you've finished reading this sentence, this week's guest will have finished writing yet another fact-supported, heavily detailed, richly sourced book about ancient archaeology. Or alien sightings. Or religious apparitions. Or cryptids. Or climate shifts across the millennia. Yes, any of those topics. And yes, a full book. If Substack tried to contain the output of George Mitrovic, returning champion, it would crash like a saucer in '47. (Seriously, the Greys don't use Waymo?!) He's the HARDEST WORKING MAN IN FRINGE RESEARCH. Prolific, wise, witty, honest, and the unquestionable KING OF P.O.P. (Paranormal Observable Phenomena, i.e., a bunch of people have seen it and it's left physical traces. Saucers with souvenirs, Bigfoot leaving skidmarks, you get the picture). With over 150 books, one of the highest measured IQs on his side of the world, and a lifetime of research, scholarship, data mapping, pattern recognition, and scientific analysis, George brings something unique to the world of paranormal research: a grand unifying framework for where and why paranormal events happen. Fully mapped, explained, and unlimited in its potential. In this episode, Greg sits down with George to get to the bottom of why this may be the most important scholarship on the unexplained that nobody is talking about. If you've ever wanted to traverse the multiverse, George's Sine Wave Theory is your ticket to other dimensions. You ARE the cryptid. We all are. George's Links: 📚 Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/George-Mitrovic/author/B0BWPN1TD4 📘 Facebook (Personal): https://www.facebook.com/george.mitrovic.5/ 📖 Facebook (Author Page): https://www.facebook.com/GeorgeMitrovicAuthor/ 🎧 Audiobooks on Audible: https://www.audible.com/search?searchAuthor=George+Mitrovic 🗺️ Sine Wave Map: https://georgemitrovicauthor.yolasite.com/the-gateways-to-the-gods.php Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops
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Orion Gosling, La La Labyrinths & Pyramid Pogo-Sticks: Shattering the Spectacle of Egyptology with Steven Myers
Mar 2601:39:46Tap to summarizeReady to go inside the Manethosphere? Ancient Egypt. The Promise of Brilliance, Spiritual Truths, the birthplace of Hermetic Magic, Mythology, and Cat Allergies. One of the themes this show never ceases to deconstruct, reconstruct, and loop about on and on again, is our human capacity to great grand illusions for ourselves. The ability to witness a full-length feature film slice by slice—with real people performing scripted actions, speaking pre-written words, and imitating genuine emotions, all in two dimensions—yet still construct a visual narrative that absorbs you completely... that’s uniquely human. That’s uniquely Hollywood. And that might be the exact same illusory BS way of thinking that Egyptologists have used to delude themselves for decades... Steven Myers is a documentarian, researcher, founder, nonprofit director, author, antiquities scholar, Great Pyramid technologist, water‑pump theorist, lecturer, media guest, humanitarian advocate, and perhaps most importantly for this conversation...a critic of mainstream Egyptology. You'll learn TRUTHS about: • How the Great Pyramid of Giza may have actually been built! • Why "Royal Tomb" theories of pyramids royally suck... • A sharp teardown of the Orion Correlation Theory (and the thousands of original memes that support it) • Where thinkers like Graham Hancock and other alternative historians may still be missing the engineering reality hiding in plain sight. • Sacred geometry, star alignments, and pyramid mysticism and other things you wished Gwyneth Paltrow didn't speak about at parties The conversation with Steven takes you to an incredible place in his assessment of the Great Pyramid as an open-source industrial prosperity machine, a place where pipe dreams meet pump realities. And the occasional hairball. Your understanding of Ancient Egypt will never be the same again.... Steven's Links: Website (Pharaoh’s Pump Foundation):https://www.thepump.org YouTube channel (Great Pyramid Pump):https://www.youtube.com/user/GreatPyramidPump/videos Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops
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Breaking The Human's Code: Your Mind's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed with "NYC's Favorite Mind Reader" Mentalist Tommy Burnett
Mar 1201:35:50Tap to summarize🚨 The reveal nobody in mentalism wants to say out loud: ....They're not reading your mind. And somehow -knowing that -it's even more fascinating... Tommy Burnett has been bending reality for over 50 years. Cerebral palsy, a speech impediment, a world that wasn't built for him. None of it stopped him. Magic did the opposite - it gave him a reason to keep going. What's his secret? In this episode, Tommy joins Greg to pull back the curtain on what mentalism actually is, why connection matters more than the trick, and the psychological sleight of hand happening in your brain before you even realize you've made a "choice." You'll even learn what mind reading Tommy considers IS real. Oh, and he performs live. On the podcast. And it works.* *ie. Someone else besides Greg could get inside Greg's head. Tommy's like a reverse-mental Houdini. Everyone here's still applauding.... This one's going to mess with you a little. In the best (im)possible way. Tommy's Links - Performing & booking: tommyburnett.com -Magic store: magictaboo.com -Magic book: Beneath the Surface: A Professional Guide to Mentalism — available at magictaboo.com Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops
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There's No Such Thing as the Haunted Mafia with Mob Mother of the Paranormal, Laurissa Rex
Feb 2601:06:42Tap to summarizeYou know the mob, right? Super organized. Super dangerous. Delicious pasta. And how about a different kinda mob? Perhaps an UNDEAD one? An organized ring of perpetrators initiating activities so bizarre, so twisted.....that the core of their mission is to create affordable, research-focused conventions to make paranormal education accessible and, dare we say, help offset the massive costs of equipment and travel for investigators??!?!? An organized paranormal family. You ever heard of that mob? …Fuhgeddaboutit. You know the mob, right? Super organized. Super dangerous. Delicious pasta. You ever heard of that mob? …Fuhgeddaboutit. In this episode of the Open Loops podcast, host Greg interviews Laurissa Mary Rex, a retired Army captain turned psychic medium, paranormal investigator, author, and CEO of Third Eye Events. The conversation explores Laurissa’s fascinating journey from her highly unconventional upbringing—growing up with innate abilities while her father was actually in the mafia—to building a thriving business in the paranormal space. One might say....an empire. The episode also dives deep into her work at the Waldorf Estate of Fear (the set of Hell House), a location she investigated for four years that led to her writing The Waldorf Effect, a Paranormal Research Theory. You really think Greg is gonna let this ghost researcher slip by without explaining her theory? Emotion, geology, history, and hauntings COLLIDE into a new understanding of paranormal phenomena so earth-shattering that listeners hanging with the fishes may even lose sleep... (We checked the analytics — dead bodies floating in water is a core demographic, so thank you, Tri-State area!) Laurissa Mary Rex delivers loops, she delivers spooks, and if you stay off our cursed burial ground, she'll stay off yours. Capisce? Laurissa's Links: Www.hauntedmafia.events www.gounderworld.com 📖 The Waldorf Effect: A Paranormal Research Theory — by Laurissa Mary Rexhttps://www.amazon.com/Waldorf-Effect-Paranormal-Research-Theory-ebook/dp/B0FS86FRGK Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops
Transcribe →That Interim Groove
Feb 500:20:37Tap to summarizeA new way of looking at things. See what you saw, hear what your heard, feel what you feel... Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops
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The Redhead Rasputin's Guide to Everyday Hypnosis with Master NLP and Hypnosis Trainer Farah Lutvica
Dec 1101:44:24Tap to summarizeYou thought a Rasputin reference meant the guest was a man? Wow. Your unconscious is sexist.Jk, jk.In this episode of Open Loops, Farah Lutvica—Master NLP & Hypnosis Trainer—joins Greg to unpack all the questionable things she experimented with using hypnosis as a teenager (Greg asked), whether she communes with some inner divine entity (Greg asked), and how she keeps that hair color so perfectly red (Greg didn’t ask, but now he’s wondering).You’ll hear how she stumbled into NLP as an actual teenager (!!), became internationally known as the world’s youngest Hypnosis and NLP trainer, and eventually built a global following through the 500+ guided hypnotic meditations she’s led every week since.You’ll learn how to get into instant rapport with someone across the room.You’ll learn how to start receiving “gifts” from your unconscious mind on command.You’ll even learn how to hypnotize your teacher into giving you better grades.**Open Loops does not condone this.We also don’t condone the education system, so… draw your own conclusions.This episode is loopy, mind-bendy, light, fun, and just the right amount of trancelicious. Expect to feel pleasantly saturated in your senses—exactly the way Farah intends as you learn powerful ways to use hypnosis in your everyday life! Farah's Links: https://linktr.ee/farahlutvica Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops
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Entering The Loop: The Art + Science of Conversational Destiny-Bending with Master Hypnotist/Coach Timothy September
Nov 1301:14:45Tap to summarizeTimothy’s full Enter The Loop Conversational Hypnosis Framework is available online, plus he’s running a live 6-week cohort starting November 17th.👉 Check it out here: https://entertheloop.com🎁 Use code OPENLOOPS at checkout for a special listener discount.─────────────────────────────────────Hello Looper.Now… pause for a moment. Who’s that addressing you?Is it Greg?Is it Joseph Gordon-Levitt?Is it yourself, looking back through the mirror as you pick up your headphones, press play, and suddenly realize…There are infinite Loopers out there besides the ones entangled with the audio filaments of this show. And this week’s guest, Timothy September, has built an entire universe of Loopers=practitioners who bend identities, rewrite stories, and trigger breakthroughs using nothing more than the raw material of conversation.Okay, not just any conversation.The kind of conversation that slips past your defenses.The kind of conversation that feels like waking up inside a dream you didn’t know you were having.The kind of conversation where the words change…but you do too.In this episode of Open Loops, Master Hypnotist Timothy September-Head of Coaching at Mike Mandel’s Hypnosis Academy and founder of Enter The Loop-joins Greg to escort you straight into the Las Vegas Sphere of your unconscious mind. A place where imagery erupts without permission, where possibilities appear like rogue sparks on the edge of a neural skyline, and where you leave feeling… well, let’s just say different. Neo-Ericksonian Hypnotists....here's your chance to meet Morpheus. Does Timothy unravel the entire purpose of the Open Loops podcast with one fell 1 hour and 12 minute conversation, exposing you to the most intricate secrets of the mind, the simulation, your life purpose, your fate, fortune, and how many times it's going to take Kim Kardashian before she passes the bar exam? We're all in the matrix but there is no script. ...."That's right."Timothy's Links: entertheloop.comMain Website: https://timothyseptember.com/ Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops
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"She's So (Other)worldly" Part Two: Proof Stranger Than Fiction with Forensic Paranormal Scientist Carol Malone
Oct 3001:00:15Tap to summarizeGhosts, ghouls, goblins, aliens, millennials-dressing-up-weird-because-they-can't-afford-homes-but-they-can-splurge-on-hair-dye, and candy corn...It’s that time of year again — October 2025, when brainrot meets toothrot on All Hallow’s Eve.And this week, we’re concluding our two-part special that’ll keep you shivering in your skivvies.Carol Malone, a forensic paranormal scientist, has been featured on the Travel Channel and consulted for television and film. Known as the godmother of forensic science in the paranormal world, Carol bridges the gap between laboratory precision and the unexplained.She’s spent three decades applying forensic methodologies - from blood-spatter analysis to environmental baselining - to haunted locations, turning ghost stories into data points and cold cases into energy maps. She's no run-of-the-mill "paranormal investigator" or "ghost hunter" or "Jack Osbourne." (RIP Ozzy btw. We love your stuff). No no...she is a seeker of proof! And since she was friends with Ed and Lorraine Warren (see: The Conjuring or The Demonologist or The Amityville Horror or....The Conjuring 2...) and they let you into the inner circle, she's gotta be doing something right! In Part Two, she speaks with Greg about: -Why paranormal apps are mostly junk science (and dangerously misleading).-How the Mind Machine triggered a glowing cross witnessed by 50 people.-The forensic evidence that consciousness interacts with physical matter.-Why mainstream science fears paranormal proof more than ghosts themselves.-The moment reality stopped behaving like… reality.And did we mention it's scary?!?!Happy Halloween, Loopers. This is the perfect spoooooky listen while you're stuck in the upside-down and your only two choices for podcasts are this or Joe Rogan....good luck. Find Carol on her Facebook page at FPI Unsolved: https://www.facebook.com/fpi.unsolved Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops
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"She's So (Other)worldly" Part One: The Science of Spirits with Forensic Paranormal Scientist Carol Malone
Oct 1600:49:33Tap to summarizeGhosts, ghouls, goblins, aliens, questionable Taylor Swift lyrics, and candy corn...It’s that time of year again — October 2025, when brainrot meets toothrot on All Hallow’s Eve.And this week, we’re kicking off a two-part special that’ll have you shivering in your skivvies.Carol Malone, a forensic paranormal scientist, has been featured on the Travel Channel and consulted for television and film. Known as the godmother of forensic science in the paranormal world, Carol bridges the gap between laboratory precision and the unexplained.She’s spent three decades applying forensic methodologies - from blood-spatter analysis to environmental baselining - to haunted locations, turning ghost stories into data points and cold cases into energy maps. She's no run-of-the-mill "paranormal investigator" or "ghost hunter" or "Jack Osbourne." (RIP Ozzy btw. We love your stuff). No no...she is a seeker of proof! And since she was friends with Ed and Lorraine Warren (see: The Conjuring or The Demonologist or The Amityville Horror or....The Conjuring 2...) and they let you into the inner circle, she's gotta be doing something right! In Part One, she speaks with Greg about: -The secret behind why energy and life after death are almost certainly real.-How brain trauma can open new channels of perception.-The science behind psychic ability and consciousness transfer.-What those TV ghost hunters keep getting wrong (and why Carol’s real fieldwork since the late ’90s is nothing like it).-One eerie detail about the human body that might just prove the soul IS REAL?!?And did we mention it's scary? Happy Halloween, Loopers. This is the perfect spoooooky listen while you're rush delivering that costume piece from Amazon....Find Carol on her Facebook page at FPI Unsolved: https://www.facebook.com/fpi.unsolved Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops
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