Open Loops with Greg Bornstein: Conversations That Bend

September 29, 2026: a strangely big day for hypnosis. The New York Times published “Why Are We Becoming So Entranced by Hypnotherapy?” —a look at hypnosis moving further into mainstream culture, featuring practitioners including Melissa Tiers.  Get ready for a "coincidence" which brings us to today’s guest.... Shauna Cummins is a hypnotist, artist, author of Wishcraft , and founder of the Div...

This is probably the episode of the show Greg thinks of first when people ask, "Which interview was your favorite?"....   In Tribute to Dr. Richard Alan Miller (1944-2026)   Earlier this week, we learned that Dr. Richard Alan Miller - who appeared on Open Loops twice, became a friend of the show, and someone Greg was fortunate to know personally - had passed away suddenly. In tribute, an...

Jensen Huang. Steve Jobs. The other guy responsible for those aggressively ugly cars/the rebirth of conspiracy theory internet free speech. (Thanks Elon?) What do people like this see around the corner that the rest of us don’t? Why do certain leaders recognize an emerging possibility years before everyone else catches up? Are they geniuses? Pattern-recognition freaks? Secret remote viewers? This...

Imagine someone places their hands on your shoulders, says, “Enjoy the trip,” and you enter a profound altered state. Completely sober. No expectation. No hypnotic induction. Yet suddenly, you’re buzzing.   Nearly thirty years ago, NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer Hugh Comerford encountered an enigmatic French-Canadian energy healer who could produce experiences Hugh couldn’t explain=and couldn...

Subscribe to the Open Loops Podcast on Substack!   https://openloopswithgreg.substack.com Are you tired of feeling stuck in the loop of scarcity—scarcity of time, scarcity of energy, and especially scarcity of money?   Oh, you're actually just literally tired? You're hungover from watching the World Cup? Don't mess with us....we know our listeners.   In this powerhouse episode, we’re joined by neu...

A 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...

"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 somethin...

Ready 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...

🚨 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,...

You 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 equip...

A 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

You 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 perfectl...

Timothy’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-Le...

Ghosts, 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 feat...

Ghosts, 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 fil...

Greg took a magical road-trip* (he was interviewed) on the psychedelic Superhighway (on another podcast)..... Hypno-Travelers on the Magical Psyche Highway!!! Show Description: "Jason Gobeli and Xcott Privette have created this podcast in order to develop a community of like minded individuals with interest in the mysteries of the mind, the secrets of magic and the metaphysical nature of our spiri...

A tragic tale of karaoke, a meditation on failure as social connection, and other ways you can brainwash yourself into having positive experiences on the reg.  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

Greg calls this podcast, "a late-nite talk show for the shamelessly fringe." But for Episode 300, he's waited to bring on one guest.   Just one.   And it might be his weirdest episode yet.  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

Hey, it's up to you. Throw that lucky pair of decibel dice and listen in.  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

Stewart Home, writer, artist, man who can literally stand on his head and recite hia work (which includes cultural commentaries, poems, short stories, essays, and well, if it involves the written word and a radically political bent...Stewart's done it). He's been at it since the early 1980s, born and raised in London, and.... Let's cut to the chase. His book is called "Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occu...

More words, less meaning, less doing, more being. How to become an infinite bounty of ideas! 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

Part one of a series of words that add up to sentences which terraform into ideas which may or may not be coherently chaotic.  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

Stars, Stripes, and Undisclosed Classified Projects Too Compartmentalized To Understand Yet Somehow Always Connected to Private Defense Contracting...4ever!   It's.....🎆 THE OPEN LOOPS RED, WHITE, BLUE & BLACK OPS EXTRAVAGANZA 🎆 LIVE FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION NEAR A MILITARY INSTALLATION! 🎺 MARCHING DOWN MAIN STREET, RIGHT THROUGH YOUR MIND: 🎺 👨‍🔬 DR. RICHARD ALAN MILLER Physicist. Farmer...

In this must-listen paranormal podcast episode of Open Loops, Greg interviews John Fraser—Council Member of the Society for Psychical Research and author of Paranormal Perspectives: One Big Box of Paranormal Tricks. Together they explore the groundbreaking idea that all paranormal events—from ghosts to poltergeists to UFOs—might stem from a single psychic force within us.   That’s right. No polyam...

“A lighthouse doesn’t jump in the sea to save ships. It stays lit. Those ready will find it.” —Michael Feeley, this episode As if quoting your guest in the show notes before saying anything else about him isn’t weird enough… brace yourself. Michael Feeley—master of mystic knowledge, symbolic decoder, esoteric researcher, and paranormal/UFO experiencer—joins Greg to discuss his latest book, The Mov...