“The Evils of Hypnotism” [article], Insight #15, Kalamazoo MI, 1995.
“Look Into My Balls, Ross Jeffries and the Covert Seduction Movement,” Your Flesh Quarterly, Minneapolis MN #33, 1996.
“Bark Like a Dog, The Cutthroat World of Stage Hypnotism,” Your Flesh Quarterly, #42, Minneapolis MN, 1999.
“They Want The Kangaroo, Not You ” in Thus Spake The Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998, vol. 2, ed. by Andrei Codrescu & Laura Rosenthal, Black Sparrow Press, 2000.
“The Trance Pushers: A Century of Hypnotism How-To Books,” Book Happy, #7, 2002.
“John Pilcrow, Lounge Act Poet Blown Away,” Exquisite Corpse, A Journal of Letters and Life, cyber issue #14 (www.corpse.org/), summer, 2004.
“The Puppet Pushers, Reflections on Dictatorship, Terrorism, and the Spectacle of Stage Hypnotism” (essay), Nth Position, http://www.nthposition.com, August, 2006.
“General Semantics and the Chicken Suit Murders, The Hypnotic Realities of Dr. Ronald Dante and Dr. Michael Dean,” Nth Position, http://www.nthposition.com./generalsemanticsand.php March 2005.
“What Is Hypnosis?” [with visual and sound effects, plus voice over by author] in the “Strange Attractors” section of Sondra London’s Free Radical, June 2006.
“Rip off the Ears: Searching for Demosthenes’ Secret in Mexico,” Nth Position, January, 2008. http://www.nthposition.com/ripofftheearssearching.php
“Origins of Mesmeric Death” (article), Whistling Shade, Spring / Summer, 2009. Also in slightly abridged form at http://www.whistlingshade.com/0901/0901.html.
“Stage Hypnotism and the Annihilation of Rational Thought,” Guide to Kulchur Creative Journal, Issue 8, 2016. Available in print only. guidetokulchur.com/gtk-creative-journal, Issue 8.
“Magnetic Reality: Setting the Stage of Mass Murder in School,” Vector Magazine, 2017 (http://vctrmagazine.com/post/162283791744/magnetic-reality-setting-the-stage-for-mass). Included is the author’s encounter with Jeff Weise at Red Lake Indian Reservation High School. Eighteen months later Weise murdered nine people at the same school.
“Dragged Around by the Great Maurice,” Hypnopomp Literary Journal, Issue 4, 2018. A study in X-rated hypnotism. https://hypnopompblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/dragged-around-by-the-great-maurice-john-ivan-palmer-essay/