#Olavi Erkki Hakasalo

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Artist: O.E. Hakasalo (a.k.a. Olliver Hawk)

Title: Rentoutuminen ja tupakoinnin lopettaminen hypnoosin avulla (”Relaxation and how to quit smoking with the help of hypnosis”)

Format: 12″ vinyl LP

Record label: Rytmi (Helsinki, Finland)

Catalogue number: RILP 7078

Year: 1970

Genre: spoken word/therapy/education. Music: ‘Ständchen’ (Serenade) by Franz Schubert. 

Tracklist:

A1. Rentoutus ja ohjaaminen hypnoottiseen tilaan (”Relaxation and guidance to the hypnotic state”)

A2. Rentoutuksen jatkaminen ja tiedostaminen (”Continuing relaxation and awareness”)

B1. Tupakoinnista vieroittaminen (”Weaning from smoking”)

B2. Itsetunnon kohottaminen (”Boosting self-esteem”)

Discogs entry:

https://www.discogs.com/O-E-Hakasalo-Rentoutuminen-Ja-Tupakoinnin-Lopettaminen-Hypnoosin-Avulla/release/676206

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Olliver Hawk (The Hypnotist) - Trailer (2019)

In 1980, Finland’s most famous hypnotist Olavi Hakasalo, a.k.a Olliver Hawk, was put on trial. His mission in life had been to spread the gospel of the power of suggestion, and he was willing to risk everything to become a player of political influence on the big stage. But in the corridors of power, with a nation’s destiny at stake, an eccentric loudmouth sitting on too many secrets is considered a liability.

”To what extent did the arguments, behaviour and manners of this peculiar person consist of natural madness and how much of it was theatre? He was no ordinary man, in any case.”

Master hypnotist Olliver Hawk (8 May 1930–28 August 1988), or Olavi Erkki Hakasalo by his real name, was a superstar in his time. Having started his career in Australia, the hypnotist became famous in Finland in the 1960s when hundreds of thousands of people saw Hawk’s hypnosis show. In addition to his performances, Hawk accepted private customers with mental disorders, for example, which led to a conviction for fraud and illegal practice of medicine in the 1980s.

Director/screenwriter Arthur Franck’s The Hypnotist is proof of the high level of Finnish documentary film. It depicts not only a sensational hypnotist but also a change in the Finnish society. Was Olliver Hawk a fraud or a pioneer working for the inner circles of power and blacklisted for political reasons? The film does not offer readymade answers; it draws a picture of a man who remained a mystery even to his close ones.

A documentary film on Olliver Hawk, by Arthur Franck and producer/screenwriter Oskar Forstén, will have its world premiere at Docpoint 2019 festival and arrives to Finnish cinemas on 8 February 2019.

https://www.olliverhawk.com/

http://www.franckforsten.com/

https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2018/07/04/olliver-hawk-jallitti-suomalaisia-hypnotisoi-median-ja-suututti-psykiatrit

https://docpointfestival.fi/tapahtumat/elokuvat/olliver-hawk/

https://elokuvauutiset.fi/site/uutiset2/7413-1960-luvun-kohuhypnotisoija-olliver-hawkista-tehdaan-dokumenttielokuva

https://www.episodi.fi/uutiset/oliko-tama-mies-suomen-forrest-gump-legendaarinen-seikkailija-ja-hypnotisoija-sai-oman-elokuvan/

https://www.lapinkansa.fi/lounaislappi/hypnotisoija-kuoli-nenan-edessa-200512788/

https://purppurarinteidenratsastaja.blogspot.com/2011/03/olliver-hawk-hypnoosimestari.html

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An ad for Nyrkki 2/1968.

Olliver Hawk (born Olavi Erkki Hakasalo, 1930 - 1988) was a controversial Finnish show hypnotist.