Media & podcasts
John is available for podcast interviews, panels, speaking engagements, and long-form conversations about consciousness, change, hypnotherapy, and the forthcoming book.
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The Unified Absorption Model
How hypnosis, meditation, flow, and trauma share the underlying processes of attention, dissociation, and automaticity—and why their differences still matter.
Why Willpower Is Not Enough
What more than twenty years of clinical work reveal about why conscious intention is insufficient when automatic patterns remain unchanged—and how absorbed experience reshapes those patterns and identity.
What Clinical Hypnosis Actually Does
How clinical hypnosis works through structured absorption and how it is used ethically to reshape entrenched patterns.
The Ethics of an Absorbed Life
How algorithms, notifications, groups, and persuasive systems compete to organize attention—and what it means to reclaim greater agency over what shapes us.
Short bio
John O. Wylie, CHt, is a clinical hypnotherapist, author, and originator and developer of the Unified Absorption Model. Drawing on more than two decades of clinical practice, his work examines how attention, dissociation, and automaticity organize experience—and how emotion steers the patterns that shape behavior, identity, and change. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Absorbed Mind: The Unified Absorption Model—A Framework for Consciousness and Change.
Ready-to-use questions
- →What is the Unified Absorption Model—in one sentence?
- →How is what you are describing different from meditation or self-help?
- →What does hypnosis actually do, clinically?
- →How do phones, algorithms, and repeated patterns of attention influence identity and behavior?
- →What's one practical way a listener can begin directing absorption today?
- →How does the Unified Absorption Model explain why people can consciously reject a pattern and still keep repeating it?