This is worthy of a whole spiel as it is offensive in each and every way I can imagine. This is beyond disgusting . . . Judge: Parents can’t teach pagan beliefs . . . a judge has interfered with the rights of a couple to teach their child their religious beliefs. No, these people…
Monthly Archives: September 2005
judge oversteps authority . . .
Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest
HypnoDocumentary . . . online video
by Brian David Phillips •
An online video of an Australian documentary on hypnosis. Some very good points and a few misconceptions and myths being pushed as well so view with a critical mind. The phobia stuff is a little old fashioned (gradual desensitization therapy is so ’80s when there are much more powerful hypnotic processes available today). The bits…
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Firefly & Serenity Cast Interview: A Special Video Feature Online
by Brian David Phillips •
This is a nice little find . . . Firefly & Serenity Cast Interview: A Special Video Feature . . . I love the television series and have been mega waiting for the film . . . unfortunately, the powers that be evilness incarnate don’t seem to care as there is nary as single peep…
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Polygamy Civil Unions
by Brian David Phillips •
Link: Spero Forum Weblog | Netherlands Gives Nod To Polygamy: Trio "Weds".A trio had their "civil union" legally recognized in the Netherlands. While legal marriage is not possible for those who practice polyamory or polygamy, civil unions are: The Netherlands gave an approving nod toward polygamy last Friday when "the first civil union of three…
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Coco Lee and Asian Facial Surgery
by Brian David Phillips •
Asian Sirens discusses the evolution of Coco Lee’s face in Coco Lee and Asian Facial Surgery.
Hypnosis in the News
Hypnotherapy for IBS . . .
. . . real relief that lasts
by Brian David Phillips •
Just in . . . hypnotherapy an effective treatment for IBS. Some of the quotes are a little off, such as "medics at The University of Manchester have discovered a way to treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) using hypnotherapy" . . . they haven’t discovered anything, they’re reaffirming something that has been known for sometime.…
Magic
some interesting magic bits
by Brian David Phillips •
Here are some interesting magic bits that are worth seeing . . . Four Card Magic Crazy Tricks with Cards Gross Coin Magic Chicken Head Some of these, I’ve posted about before but others are new. For even more magical goodness, see the magic category here at Life of Brian. Thanks, toshi.tea-nifty, for the heads…
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signmyboobs . . .
when art and fandom and autographerie collide
by Brian David Phillips •
What a wonderful idea for a weblog . . . signmyboobs . . . I believe I have a pen around here somewhere.
*** Workshop Announcements, Hypnosis: Entertainment, Stage, and Performance
Taipei Hypnosis Workshop Meeting . . .
STAGE HYPNOSIS
( Performance Hypnosis for Entertainment, Stage, Street, and More)
by Brian David Phillips •
On 23 October 2005, the Taipei Experimental Hypnosis Workshop will have a meeting. This month’s topic is STAGE HYPNOSIS (Performance Hypnosis for Entertainment, Stage, Street, and More). If you live in these parts and would like to join us, contact me. The Taipei Experimental Hypnosis and Trancework Workshop is the largest English-language free hypnosis practice…
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Batman!
. . . aliens, predators, what more could you ask for?
by Brian David Phillips •
This is a movie that has been begging to be made . . . Batman Gets Surreal . . . the Dark Horse comics finally come to life . . . Batman faces off the Joker, aliens, and predators . . . many cans of whoopass get opened.
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Happy Fun Time! . . . Oct. 21 . . .
. . . Doom
by Brian David Phillips •
Oct. 21 . . . Doom . . . “if it breathes, kill it” . . . oh, yes.
Magic
Chris Angel’s ButterFly Trick
by Brian David Phillips •
Nice one . . . Chris Angel’s ButterFly Trick.
Magic
Flexible Girl
by Brian David Phillips •
Humans do NOT do this . . . this is just about very much on the almost more than incredibly side of things . . . Flexible Girl . . . just how does one discover you can do that? Sitting around, nothing to do, so you ask yourself, gee, I wonder if I could?…
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An English Test Is Changed, and Some Foreign Students Worry
by Brian David Phillips •
Big news . . . An English Test Is Changed, and Some Foreign Students Worry. Of course, the headline is wrong . . . a lot of foreign students in Asia as well as their parents, teachers and the administrators of programs specifically geared towards teaching students strategies for passing the TOEFL are worried. The…
Cosplay
Game Show and Cosplay Convention Cuties . . .
. . . fleshbot discovers
by Brian David Phillips •
Looks like fleshbot has discovered cosplay . . . Game Show and Cosplay Convention Cuties . . . lots of photos in the links. Speaking of cosplay, there will be a big one in Taipei this weekend at National Taiwan University . . . hopefully it won’t be too rainy so we can get some…
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Hypnocast Episode Four . . .
. . . Anchors Away
by Brian David Phillips •
Anchors Away: Anchoring and Trigger Response Conditioning (22:41, 8 megs.). In the fourth episode of the Brian David Phillips Hypnocast, we look at the NLP (neurolinguistic programming) process of Anchoring and see how it is different in some ways and similar in others to Hypnotic Trigger Response Conditioning with a peek at where the concepts…
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‘Miracle mouse’ can grow back lost limbs
by Brian David Phillips •
Okay, I know this is very important as a breakthrough and the idea of being able to one day allow humans the capacity to regenerate lost limbs or diseased organs and tissues is huge, really huge, but really . . . basically, a bunch of guys got together and they created a mouse that they…
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Cultural Learning among Orca
by Brian David Phillips •
More proof that orca (killer whales, a species of dolphin) have cultural learning behaviors . . . killer whale learns to bait traps and teaches others: An enterprising young killer whale at Marineland has figured out how to use fish as bait to catch seagulls — and shared his strategy with his fellow whales. Michael…
Cosplay
Cospho Up Commission . . . back online!
by Brian David Phillips •
Good news for folks in Taiwan who are interested in the joys of cosplay! Zordius and his wonderful Cospho Up Commission is back online! He’s using a dynamic page set at http://cospho.dyndns.ws/~zordius which will get you to the site. Hopefully, if enough of us bug him about it, he’ll bring back his English calendar pages…
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Gilligan gone to the island in the sky
by Brian David Phillips •
I only just saw this bit of news . . . Bob Denver has passed on. Sadness. I loved Gilligan’s Island and think The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was brilliant stuff. Another great American Icon has passed. The reruns will continue.
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Klingons for Christ . . .
. . . makes sense when you really think about it
by Brian David Phillips •
It just makes sense . . . the single most violent, warlike, and just damned aggressive race in the federation adopts one of the religions most responsible for war and violence in Terran history . . . Klingons for Christ . . . since the Klingon Empire nearly collapsed and found itself subordinate and holding…
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Rob Pongi . . .
. . . you just can’t stop watching
by Brian David Phillips •
This is just compelling videomaking . . . Rob Pongi . . . video guy in Roppongi . . . a bit on the wild and weird and sexy side but incredibly entertaining.
Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest
Optical Illusions to Melt Your Mind
by Brian David Phillips •
Whoa . . . here is a very nice series of optical illusions and visual phenomena . . . most kool.
Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest
Eyes Wide Open and . . . Sleep!
. . . How to Do Walking Somnambulism
by Brian David Phillips •
At the Hypnosis Technique Exchange, Wilma Keppel posts about her process on How to do Walking Somnambulism . . . that is, full on eyes wide open deep trance effects. You know . . . breathe in, breathe out, sleep and eyes wide open walkin’ around deeply hypnotized but completely awake. This is actually fairly…
3D/VR/AR/360°
PSP gets full-on Stereoscope for real 3D
by Brian David Phillips •
You can pretend you don’t care . . . and if you don’t . . . fine, ya big doofus . . . but this is niftiness incarnate . . . well, at least it is to me and other like-minded souls. While I wanted my grubbies to get a hold of a PSP when…