AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe

Pablo Amira: Mentalism, Alchemy, and the Mystery Inside Every Moment

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Pablo Amira — psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, mentalist, musician, and the mind behind Metanoia — for one of the most philosophically layered conversations the show has produced. Pablo joins from Chile, surrounded by at least five guitars, a shelf of books, pendulums made from amethyst and quartz, and what may or may not be coffee in an old bottle. The vibe is immediately clear: this is someone who lives what he teaches. Pablo moves through the world guided by two Greek axioms he keeps close — know yourself, and everything in moderation. He works with clients not by chasing more of them, but by trusting that the relationships he cultivates naturally draw the right people. His intention isn't more business. It's deeper presence with the people already in his life — his wife, his three-year-old son Gael, his friends. Everything else, he says, follows from that. The conversation opens with pendulums and the ideomotor response, winds through Jungian alchemy, Greek philosophy, Ericksonian utilization, the spiritualist roots of mentalism, Chile's unresolved grief from dictatorship-era disappearances, and why the three stages of alchemical transformation — nigredo, albedo, rubedo — matter more to him than "mental health" as a concept. Pablo's framework isn't about removing what's dark. It's about transmuting it. Fear becomes courage. Grief becomes meaning. The symptom becomes the doorway. Then he performs a card effect live — the Ace of Diamonds, predicted in Spanish before the session even began — and uses it not to impress, but to connect. He follows it with a pendulum demonstration using Ryan's sock and a pen. Then he closes the episode with a spontaneous induction so quiet and clean that Ryan admits he was gone before he noticed. This one is for anyone who thinks therapy and mysticism are opposites. Pablo makes the case they are the same thing, in different costumes. Three quotes from Pablo worth writing down: "That person already knows. But they don't know that they know. I am the one that shows — look, something is happening. I am the one that points." "Courage is not a feeling. Courage is the trust that I have the seal of the future me — I can do this." "Life is not just about being mentally stable. Life is to be full, to be crazy, to be fun, to enjoy, to serve others, to love others. Let's inject life." Connect with Pablo Amira: Blog & writing: metanoiapabloamira.blogspot.com Full site & services: pabloamira.com Email: contacto@pabloamira.com [contacto@pabloamira.com] Pablo works in Spanish and English, offering psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, and mentalism — and is an excellent referral for Spanish-speaking clients seeking deep transformation work Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: ryan@trancewell.help [ryan@trancewell.help]

Allan Hassoun: Dowsing Rods, Energy Alchemy, and the Mind's Ability to Bend Reality

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Allan Hassoun — hypnotist, Reiki master, energy worker, and the Mind Alchemist himself — for one of the most wide-open, down-the-rabbit-hole conversations the show has ever had. And that is saying something. Allan came into Ryan's orbit the way the best connections do: Ryan posted a video on Facebook playing with dowsing rods made from coat hangers, and Allan messaged him immediately. Turns out Allan has been working with dowsing rods and pendulums for decades — using them to measure belief, track resistance, clear energy fields, and even attempt to alter the frequency of water. And yes, he has stories. In this conversation they cover a lot of ground: a man named Raymond Grace who reportedly purified a cyanide-contaminated well using nothing but his mind, children bending spoons at a picnic while adults stood there baffled, a spoon that cracked in half on the highway because Allan finally stopped trying, the Abraham Hicks Money Game, inherited trauma encoded in DNA, a mass on an x-ray that disappeared before surgery, using Pac-Man to visualize healing, time distortion for a client in an MRI machine, and why Allan quietly raises the energetic frequency of his entire neighborhood without telling anyone. Oh, and they do a live pendulum demonstration — including a silent yes/no test that Ryan couldn't have influenced even if he wanted to. This one is firmly in woo territory and neither of them apologizes for it. Come curious. Three quotes from Allan worth writing down: "The resistance is the stuff that pulls the cork down. Every time you do some hypnosis and you feel better, you let go of some of that programming, and you start moving up. The higher you move, the more effortless life becomes." "Whether I actually did something or not — there's no way of telling. But I know the power of the mind." "Things are okay. When you look from a bigger perspective, everything is working out, and everything will come back to balance. Don't worry so much." Connect with Allan Hassoun: Website: mindalchemist.ca YouTube: youtube.com/@mindalchemists Phone: (647) 699-2204 Free 5-minute anxiety audio: available on his website Free complimentary session: Allan is offering a free hour to anyone who reaches out before July 10th — link in the show notes Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: ryan@trancewell.help [ryan@trancewell.help]

Lori Hammond: Group Hypnosis, Somatic Intention Setting, and the Art of Getting Out of Your Own Way

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Lori Hammond — hypnotist, group work pioneer, and the woman behind trancypants.com — for one of the most joyful, honest, and surprisingly deep conversations the show has produced. Lori came to hypnosis the way a lot of people do: skeptical, a little scared, and quietly desperate for something to actually work. What she didn't expect was that learning hypnosis to lose weight would quietly eradicate decades of clinical depression along the way. Since 2018, Lori has run Trancy Tuesdays — a weekly group hypnosis session that's become something of a sacred container for hypnosis professionals. She's done approximately 500 of them. In this conversation she and Ryan dig into why group hypnosis often works better than one-on-one, why the witnessing field created by a group has more in common with prayer than most people are comfortable admitting, and why getting a person out of their story and into their body is the move that changes everything. They also get into marketing (it's just hypnosis with a different name), niching (your ideal client is usually a mirror of yourself), the surprising overlap between Abraham Hicks and somatic hypnosis, what Bingo and brain surgery have in common, and why the word "try" already has failure baked into it. Lori closes the episode by walking Ryan — and everyone listening — through a live somatic intention setting demo that is worth the price of admission alone. This one goes places. Come ready. Three quotes from Lori worth writing down: "Marketing and hypnosis are pretty much the same thing. When you're good at one, you're a lot better at the other." "What you resist persists. When we stop trying to fix grief and just witness it — from a place of neutrality — things start to shift within 90 seconds without a single suggestion." "It is all about the is-ness of this present moment. That is all. Right here." Connect with Lori Hammond:  Website & free hypnosis audio: trancypants.com  Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell:  Website: trancewell.help  Email: ryan@trancewell.help [ryan@trancewell.help]

James Harrison: Mental Foraging and the Neuroscience Behind Why Hypnosis Works

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with James Harrison, a clinical hypnotist from Portland, Oregon, and the author of the just-released Mental Foraging and the Evolution of Memory: An Updated Model of Clinical Hypnosis. The book is six years in the making — and it started with three words from a double board-certified psychiatrist: show me the evidence. James and Ryan dig into what that six-year journey uncovered: that hypnosis isn't mysticism, it's biology. The brain is a prediction machine built for survival, and a skilled hypnotist is someone who knows how to help a client's nervous system update predictions it couldn't update on its own. James walks through the core framework of the book — state change, interoception, exteroception, and predictive processing — and explains why these four domains give hypnosis a scientific foundation that can finally hold up in a medical setting. The conversation goes deep on why insight alone rarely produces lasting change, how the placebo effect and hypnosis share the same underlying mechanism, and what Bingo in a dementia ward taught James about the most ancient learning system in the human brain. They also get into the ethics of guide work, the difference between a therapist and a hypnotist, and why James calls the book a love letter to the hypnosis community. Three quotes from James worth writing down: "You're helping somebody update their neurology. I wanted to know why — and the book really came out of that." "Our ability to imagine is taking memory, putting it into the future, and removing the timestamp. That's what the imagination is." "A good hypnotist reawakens that mental foraging capacity that every creature has — that's what we do." Connect with James Harrison: Book & newsletter: mentalforaging.com Email: james@mentalforaging.com [james@mentalforaging.com] James will also be presenting at HypnoThoughts in July — come find him there. Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: ryan@trancewell.help [ryan@trancewell.help] catch Ryan's review of Mental Foraging (non-paywall link) here: https://medium.com/trancewell/book-review-mental-foraging-and-the-evolution-of-memory-868d74488913

Jason Gobeli: Neurocommunications, Faith, and the FFL Modality

In this episode of AWAKEN with Ryan DeJonghe, Ryan sits down with Jason Gobeli, a high-energy author and expert who refers to himself not just as a hypnotist, but as a "neurocommunications expert". Drawing from a lifelong background in sales, Jason views all communication as an advanced form of suggestion and sales pitch, starting from the moment a newborn baby cries for milk. The core of the conversation revolves around Jason’s proprietary FFL Modality (Faith, Forgiveness, and Love), a framework designed to release individuals from self-sabotage and the "past muck" that holds them back. Jason breaks down his unique philosophy on prosperity, redefining money as a fluid energy that functions simply as an expression of gratitude. He challenges traditional therapeutic ideas around "boundaries"—which he argues often turn into isolating walls—and instead advocates for radical authenticity, aligned identity, and vulnerability. The episode concludes with a live demonstration as Jason guides Ryan through a powerful, rapid "holy water" shower visualization designed to wash away limiting beliefs and install a protective shield of positive energy. Key Takeaways & Meaningful Quotes * "All communication is sales. We sell ourselves to everybody, whether it's a job interview, going on a date, or expressing our ideas back and forth to another person. Just communicate better, everything's gonna be okay."  * "Money is nothing but an expression of gratitude. It's not solid. Money is like water—it's fluid, it flows. When you look at it as an expression of gratitude, it's a mindset. It's energy."  * "You are not a victim of your past. Your past does not have to define you. Yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow is a promissory note, but today is cash in hand. Today you can be whoever you want to be."  How to Connect and Work with Us Connect with Jason Gobeli:Jason is the author of several books, including Infused Hypnosis, Beyond Sales, and Real Estate Neuroscience. You can connect with him online and catch his presentations at major hypnosis events like HypnoThoughts Live. * Home | Go Under Hypnosis – Jason Gobeli [https://go-under.com/] * https://www.youtube.com/@JasonGobeliHypnotist/ Work with Ryan DeJonghe: Ready to explore your own transformation through hypnosis? * Website: trancewell.help [https://www.trancewell.help/] * Email: ryan@trancewell.help [https://gemini.google.com/u/2/app/d36aec9645004e8c?pageId=none]