Tonawanda News — Several years ago Chris Johnson was a magician who used hypnosis in his act. He would get people on stage to do funny things, such as forgetting the number six when they counted their fingers. “It works 99 percent of the time,” he said, smiling. 

He said he was also able to get his stage subjects to temporarily believe napkins were $100 bills or that people in the audience were cats.

The shows helped people to understand the art of hypnosis, he said. “I used it as a wonderful education for the fearful or the skeptical in the audience.”

But some members of his audiences were so impressed with his skills, they started asking him for help with life issues such as weight loss, phobias and stress….