Monthly Archives: January 2005

Practice Makes Perfect . . .
. . . How to Master Hypnosis . . .
. . . . . . Do It!

I am a big time supporter of the ideas of practice groups or workshops intended for folks who’ve had some training at whatever level and share ideas and then get down and dirty and practice practice practice. So many folks go through a training and they feel they haven’t quite gotten enough skill levels to…

Porn Does Anything BUT Objectify Women

Well . . . pretty much most of the pro-porn and anti-contraporn blogs out there are going to be linking to Caitlin Hall’s commentary in the Arizona Daily Wildcat giving a fair criticism of the feminist or conservative anti-porn arguments that adult entertainment objectifies women . . . porn does anything but objectify women .…

AWOL . . .

I’ll be out of town with my family for a few days, leaving in ten minutes and will be back late Tuesday evening or early Wednesday morning my time. I won’t have reliable internet access where we’re going to be staying so posting will be slim to none. In the meantime, be patient. – Brian

Uh . . . okay . . .

Uh . . . okay . . . I heard a rumour that you people liked amateur pictures . . . enough said. Edit: NSFW . . . so, it wasn’t really enough said . . . I just forgot the NSFW tag . . . thanks for the gentle reminder, Karl. 🙂

Taiwan . . . a US territory?

Richard Hartzell is not the only one making this argument, US holds Taiwan’s sovereignty . . . he’s written about it elsewhere and here it is in the Taipei Times but the 51st State Association which advocates that Taiwan official become a US state uses similar reasoning, albeit they also throw in economic, political, and…

Hypnotic Memory Erasure . . .
. . . Artificial Repression
No Eternal Sunshine, No Spotless Mind

Interesting discussions on memory recently at the Hypnosis Technique Exchange as there was a query about erasing memories through hypnosis: An online friend said that its possible to use hyponosis for erasing traumatic memories. I would never try it on my own, id go see someone just wondering if its possible… it sounds kinda wacky.…

The Coming War . . . DVD

I have tons of DVDs, well maybe not tons . . . but pretty close to it. Lately, everytime I pick up a new one my wife will give me “that look” and remind me that 1. I ran out of shelf space for the beasties long ago and 2. they’re all going to be…

You’re Feeling Sleeeeepy . . .

Christine Parrish writes of her experience with a group hypnosis demonstration . . . you’re feeling sleepy . . . the article is clear and straightforward and from the sound of it, the hypnotist is competent and informed with a good presentation of clearing up myths and then rolling into suggestibility testing and then an…

Girlfriends Hired to Stop Nagging

This is so real, it hurts . . . girlfriends hired to stop nagging: Agencies in China’s Chengdu city are offering rented girlfriends to bachelors who need someone to show off to relatives during the coming Chinese Lunar New Year, state press reported today. “Love agencies are springing up in Chengdu offering an invaluable service…

Self-Hypnosis Study Shows Kids Helped . . . but study has some problems

Children’s and Teens’ Health: Self-hypnosis . . . a recent study of children with a certain congenital defect that requires yearly embarrasing and painful invasive procedures showed that children taught self-hypnosis were in less pain and their procedures went faster. Only one child had to be held down in the hypnosis group while five were…

Tranceplay . . . good times

The TRANCEPLAY workshop was a wonderful experience! On 16 January 2005, the Taipei Experimental Hypnosis Workshop met. This month’s original topic was to be TRANCEPLAY (Improvisational Creative Playfulness and Hypnotic Induction and Imagery) but as we has a very large group, much more than originally planned at twenty-plus participants shoved into our living room, I…

Does Marriage Suck . . . or, does Jake?

Replying to Jake’s incredibly insightful comments to Are "F Buddies" Better than Marriage?. Evidently being happily married is a crime as is being a gamer or having cats. Thanks for pointing these things out to me, Jake. Who woulda thunk it? Jake, I’ve been married eleven years and so far my opinions haven’t changed. I’ll…