58 - Aidan Beshoff: Below the Surface of the Mind

58 - Aidan Beshoff: Below the Surface of the Mind

From Hacking State by Alex Murshak

March 24, 2026 · 1h 0m · Episode 58

About this episode

Aidan Beshoff discusses the subconscious mind and the mechanics of hypnosis, sharing his journey and insights on mental health.

I sit down with Aidan Beshoff, a qualified hypnotist, certified practitioner of clinical hypnotherapy, past life regression, QHHT, and ceremonial magick, and the founder of Higher Self Hypnosis. For the past five years, Aidan has helped others overcome deep subconscious patterns through an unconventional path that bridges ancient wisdom and modern science. Our conversation begins with Aidan's own story — hitting a breaking point during COVID after years of anxiety and depression, and discovering meditation as a gateway into the subconscious mind. He describes the subconscious as a dimension of ourselves that extends beyond what we can directly perceive, using the iceberg model and a VR simulation analogy to illustrate the relationship between conscious awareness and the deeper layers beneath it. We discuss why the subconscious is so difficult to study empirically, and why that difficulty has kept practices like hypnosis in the same category as witchcraft until relatively recently. We then turn to the mechanics of hypnosis itself — what differentiates it from meditation, how it employs imagery, symbolism, and emotion to bypass the conscious mind's filtering layer, and why…

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Host: Alex Murshak

Guest: Aidan Beshoff

Topics covered

  • hypnosis
  • subconscious mind
  • mental health
  • meditation
  • clinical hypnotherapy

Keywords

  • hypnosis
  • subconscious
  • meditation
  • clinical hypnotherapy
  • mental health
  • addiction
  • pain management

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