James M Harrison

James M. Harrison is a Portland-based clinical hypnotist whose work integrates neuroscience research, evolutionary cognition, and clinical practice. He is the incoming Northwest Area Steward for the ManKind Project. His mission is to aid in a world where healing is natural and abundant. 

Harrison spent his first career building large-scale public and private sculpture commissions. At fifty, he stepped away from that work to pursue something more personal: helping people heal. He became a certified clinical hypnotist in 2017 and spent six years as a Life Enrichment Coordinator on a medical team in elder dementia care—an experience that deepened his inquiry into the nature of memory and its role in human experience. A pointed question from his medical director—what is the current science behind hypnosis?—set him on the path to produce his first book, Mental Foraging and the Evolution of Memory. 

He is also a cat person who is learning guitar with unreasonable optimism. You can find him at mentalforaging dot com.