Monthly Archives: May 2005

Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest

Finessing Suggestibility Testing

by Brian David Phillips • May 31, 2005

A few more comments on Leveraging Suggestibility Tests into Hypnosis from the Hypnosis Technique Exchange. A correspondent hypnotist in Africa asks how I handle things if I use the "finger magnet" suggestibility test which relies more on a physiological response than on pure suggestion, especially if a client notices the effect and says so, as…

Leveraging Suggestibility Tests into Hypnosis

by Brian David Phillips • May 30, 2005

A quick response to a query in the Hypnosis Technique Exchange where a gentleman asked me about a client he had for hypnosis with whom he had a pretalk and then went on with a suggestibility test with a pendulum in which the pendulum did not move at all . . . , so our…

Butoh Bunny Butchery . . .
. . . file this in the WTF category

by Brian David Phillips • May 29, 2005

Whoa . . . Butoh Bunny Butchery . . . really, this belongs in the WTF category. Lorraine has a friend who does Butoh so I know what it is and I am a bit on the experienced side when it comes to experimental theatre what with my background and all . . . but…

3D Cinema . . .
. . . Viewing the Future

by Brian David Phillips • May 29, 2005

Joseph L. Kleiman discusses the new 3D Cinema: Viewing the Future and notes that Ray Zone is impressed with the new 3D conversions being showcased as part of the prep for the upcoming wave of 3D . . . and Ray Zone is one of the most knowledgeable folks there is about 3D film .…

Depth Charge . . .
. . . Audience-hungry movie studios turn to 3-D

by Brian David Phillips • May 29, 2005

A nice overview of 3D and the relationship of movie studios to stereoscopic film for the masses . . . Depth charge: Audience-hungry movie studios turn to 3-D. Some excellent points about how film studios have created a cycle of turning to 3D film whenever they find home media cutting into their box office in…

Notepad Invaders

by Brian David Phillips • May 28, 2005

This is nicely done . . . Notepad Invaders . . . a nice version of space invaders done a la notebook paper.

Photoblogging Tom Cruise On Oprah

by Brian David Phillips • May 26, 2005

Wow . . . almost makes me wish I had cable . . . Photoblogging Tom Cruise On Oprah . . . just, wow. Okay, I do wish I had cable but this isn’t why. The comments all over the place are great here, here, and here . . . he’s on Ophra, jumping around…

Hypnosis and Imagery for Hot Flashes

by Brian David Phillips • May 26, 2005

Hot flashes from menopause, cancer or operation difficulties, drug side effects, and other sources have been shown to respond well to hypnosis and focused trance style imagery . . . Many Using Hypnosis to Treat Hot Flashes: Kay Dolzel, hypnosis patient: “The hot flashes just come in wave after wave after wave, just usually from…

Got Five Minutes?
. . . now, is that with or without foreplay?

by Brian David Phillips • May 24, 2005

Well, stopwatches in . . . er . . . hand Watch the clock, darling – Brits last longest at sex . . . now, I’m not clear if it’s with or without foreplay but evidently five minutes is plenty: “While British men took on average 7.6 minutes, the typical American took 7 minutes, while…

Hypnosis Helps Healing . . . Harvard study

by Brian David Phillips • May 23, 2005

A study out of Harvard University confirms that hypnosis helps healing . . . not just relaxation and stress reduction but actually accellerates the rate for physical mending. All these functional uses may help a person feel better,” Ginandes continues. “I am also interested in using hypnosis to help people get better physically. That means…

ASU’s decision theater ushers in new age in public policy . . .
. . . stereoscopic projection as part of policy decision

by Brian David Phillips • May 23, 2005

ASU’s decision theater ushers in new age in public policy . . . incorporating a real 3D stereoscopic theatre that projects the simulated results of public policy decisions, the Decision Theatre is supposed to let policy makers experience the results of various decisions so they can then make the right choice . . . kind…

Revenge of the Sith . . .
. . . I so wanted to hate this movie . . .
. . . . . . but I couldn’t . . . wow!

by Brian David Phillips • May 22, 2005

Okay . . . we went yesterday . . . went with three kids and five adults . . . I so expected to hate it . . . I told Lorraine to wake me if I fell asleep . . . I fell asleep during Episode Two at a digital theatre in Los Angeles…

Playing with Images . . .
. . . Bush Issues Call to Service . . .
. . . . . . but serving what?

by Brian David Phillips • May 22, 2005

That was quick. Obviously, someone has seen the irony of President Bush’s pose and played around with the image. The coverage is obviously from the media shots of his commencement address to the graduates at Calvin College, during which he struck what his advisors no doubt are thinking is an unfortunate pose . . .…

Star Trek Enterprise . . .
. . . out with a whimper

by Brian David Phillips • May 22, 2005

Well . . . as the man says . . . it is done . . . Lorraine and I finally got to see the final episode of Star Trek Enterprise . . . actually, we watched the final three episodes back to back into the wee hours of the morning. If only . .…

Child Hypnosis cited as New Kidney Disease Treatment

by Brian David Phillips • May 22, 2005

It’s not really new to those of us who are familiar with it, but it is very definately growing as an accepted and effective treatment modality . . . child hypnosis cited as new kidney disease treatment: For children who suffer from kidney disease and have to face the painful prospect of blood tests and…

Speaking of Star Wars . . .
. . . Ascimation

by Brian David Phillips • May 22, 2005

STAR WARS ASCIIMATION . . . nice one. 🙂

Luc Besson is making Arthur a 3D and live action feature!

by Brian David Phillips • May 22, 2005

More fuel for the 3D film fire . . . or, more for the bandwagon . . . Luc Besson is turning his children’s book into a live action 3D movie . . . good stuff on the way . . . Luc Besson is making Arthur a 3D and live action feature: Luc Besson…

Star Wars . . . 3D

by Brian David Phillips • May 21, 2005

George Lucas still pushing the news of his 3D plans for Star Wars . . . Lucas Plans Star Wars in 3D: “I’ve seen a 3D process that’s quite amazing. It really makes Star Wars look good — it’s a three dimensionalisation of the film and it’s not like a 3D movie where things are…

Blu-ray Discs go to the next level . . . 100Gig recordable

by Brian David Phillips • May 20, 2005

That’s a huuuuuuggggge breakthrough and nudge to the lead in technology TDK shows 100GB! Blu-ray Disc . . . that’s 100Gig recordable while HD DVDs are up to 45 gigs read-only at the same point: The Japanese Newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun Thursday morning edition reports that TDK pushes Sony’s Blu-ray format forward by announcing a…

Sly Cooper sneaks in 3D on the PS2

by Brian David Phillips • May 20, 2005

Great news . . . Sony’s gone and slipped in an anaglyphic game for the PS2, beating out the competitors for a stereoscopic console game with an innovative twist on old technologies and new . . . Sony’s new Sly Cooper sneaks in 3D – PS2: Turning heads and crossing eyes at this year’s E3,…

Simultaneous 2D and 3D

by Brian David Phillips • May 20, 2005

SeeReal has announced their Simultaneous 2D and 3D: an Optical Quantum Leap for the Flat Display Industry: SeeReal Technologies (www.seereal.com) today announced the next generation of 3D enabling display technologies. SeeReal has developed a new display capable of delivering both 2D and 3D pictures to several viewers simultaneously. SeeReal’s cutting-edge technology transforms a desktop display…

S&M Hypnotherapy . . .
. . . soothing therapy?
. . . . . . for some, vanilla isn’t the only flavor

by Brian David Phillips • May 20, 2005

Spa Magazine has a report on the business management style used by Ai Aoyama, Japan’s premiere SM Hypnotherapist . . . S&M hypnosis therapy serves up soothing sadism . . . paranoid, much . . . "soothing" hypnotherapy, not from the sound of it . . . but . . . to each their own:…

Epistemology of the Closet

by Brian David Phillips • May 20, 2005

Martha Nussbaum’s entertaining Epistemology of the Closet explores the three great British Utilitarians . . . Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) . . . making them much much more interesting than I would have thought. Far from being political and social conservatives as their philosophical descendants often are, these…

Embarrasing Orgasms . . .

by Brian David Phillips • May 19, 2005

Talk about a predicament one wouldn’t wish on anyone . . . a woman passed out from the pleasure of a pair of vibrating panties while shopping . . . kinky shopper KOed by vibrating knickers: The following cautionary tale must surely rate in the top five of "most embarrassing things that can happen to…

Scary Times . . .

by Brian David Phillips • May 19, 2005

The last few weeks in the life of Brian, your faithful author slash blogger of Life of Brian have sucked a bit on the much side . . . but at least the big worry is out of the way. I have been under the weather lately, with a bit of a pain in the…