‘My name is John Harmer, Esq. For 15 years I have served as Chairman of the Board for the Lighted Candle Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating pornography. During this time our organization has spent about half a million dollars studying how the human brain reacts to exposure to sexually explicit material. We were the first to show how exposure to such material creates an addictive pathway in the brain.

Our initial intent was to take the producers and distributors of pornography into civil court, much like the tobacco cases where the tobacco industry was successfully sued because the industry was causing lung cancer. We planned to sue the pornography industry because its material was also damaging a human organ – the brain.

After three years of preparation, our final step was to test the community. We wanted to make sure that we could impanel a jury who would recognize certain material as being pornographic. However, during the years of our preparation, a transition in attitude had taken place. The line between acceptable and unacceptable material had become blurred. Thus, it was that the Lighted Candle Society decided to change its priority from prosecuting the pornographers to healing their victims.

Several years after that decision was made, we were introduced to a most unlikely messenger of truth – a hypnotherapist by the name of W. Dennis Parker. Dennis told us that our problem was that we were overlooking an important fact: The brain and the mind are not the same thing. While the brain is a body organ that functions in a very predictable way, it takes its orders from the mind. The mind, he told us, is what we needed to work with.

Dennis immediately let me sit in on two or three hypnotherapy sessions with his clients. I was amazed at the way he was able to get each person to put their mind in control of their brain so that they could overcome this addiction. I have worked with a lot of therapists who were trying to heal people from addiction to pornography. Since people often ask me to recommend a therapist, for years I handed out a list of five therapists. I felt a little hypocritical because, although these people are well trained and mean well, they usually don't succeed.

Dennis accomplishes in weeks what other therapists cannot do in five or six months. So, for the first time in all the years that the Lighted Candle Society has been doing this work, I am endorsing a therapist. When people ask me now, I don’t give them a list of five. I give them Dennis Parker’s name.

Dennis has no academic credentials after his name, at least not any that the average person would recognize. After two years of intense study and instruction, Dennis became a Certified Clinical hypnotherapist. His certification was granted by one of the world’s leading and most respected organizations of hypnotherapy, The American Council of Hypnotist Examiners. Because of his love of horses, Dennis describes himself as "just an old cowboy in a suit.” He is a brilliant practitioner of the profession of hypnotherapy.

In a very straightforward way, he explains how hypnosis gives an individual access to “thinking errors” being held in the subconscious mind. These errors create opposing behavioral forces within the brain. Hypnotherapy assists individuals in ridding themselves of this incongruent, rationalized thinking. Then it aligns one's thought processes, returning control of thoughts and behaviors to the conscious mind’s direction and choice. The Lighted Candle Society has obtained testimonials from a variety of individuals whose lives have been blessed with these unique methods. I have personally confirmed with each of these testifiers the facts contained in their accounts of their healing experiences.

Dennis challenged me to experience a hypnotherapy session and learn for myself what was being done. I did so. No theatrics were involved. What I saw and learned in 90 minutes revealed an entirely new understanding to me about the human mind. After a decade of spending half a million dollars and gathering thousands of pages of learned tomes about the human brain, I never had anyone teach me as quickly and as insightfully about the human mind as did Dennis Parker.’

– John Harmer, Chairman

Lighten Candle Society

When John wanted to verify what I was doing he asked me to call 20 of my former clients some from years earlier that I had not seen in that time. He came and interviewed each one of them at length by himself without me in the room. When these interviews were completed and he had also experienced the chair time in session is when he finally made these statements above.