Monthly Archives: February 2008

Hypnosis in the News

Holy Shatner? Agnes of God, Hypnosis and well nothing really, that’s about it . . .

by Brian David Phillips • February 29, 2008

This review of a local production of Agnes of God showed up in my email today as an example of hypnosis in the news . . . Holy Shatner! . . . other than an entertaining description of a REALLY BAD hypnosis scene in what the reviewer considers an awful play and a worse production,…

You won’t feel a thing…

by Brian David Phillips • February 29, 2008

The Yorkshire Evening Post has a profile on Graham Temple, a dentist who uses hypnosis in his practice . . . you won’t feel a thing… . . . Temple first became interested in hypnosis after seeing a stage performance. He fournd a book that had a script which he read aloud while his kids…

When is a Walkabout Trance just a Trance?

by Brian David Phillips • February 28, 2008

I saw a couple discussions on street hypnosis and walkabouts and the like and the got me thinking . . . When is a Walkabout Trance just a trance? It isn’t. There are just different experiences of context. As most of you know, we had an absolutely wonderful time at the WALKABOUT TRANCE BEACH RESORT…

Sex after Prostate Cancer Surgery – What Can You Expect?

by Brian David Phillips • February 28, 2008

This is an issue I’ve been asked for advice on a number of times and it is one that many men are quite frankly frightened of . . . however, there are options and prostate cancer does NOT have to mean an end of happy sexual life . . . here’s a very positive example…

Hypno Hot and Hypno Kool show photos from last weekend!

by Brian David Phillips • February 26, 2008

Well, here are a few snippets from our last two shows . . . HYPNO HOT on Friday, Feb. 22 (full gallery here), and HYPNO KOOL on Sunday, Feb. 24 (full gallery here). See the rest of the photos in their respective web galleries on my fotki – HYPNO HOT gallery here and HYPNO KOOL…

Frozen Grand Central

by Brian David Phillips • February 25, 2008

Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D Gives Good Monster

by Brian David Phillips • February 25, 2008

We saw a preview for this while we were in the US on our mini-tour and it just made me want to see it . . . Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D Gives Good Monster . . . Journey sucks you deep into its zooming roller-coaster sequences (3D allows depth as well…

Hotels introduce big fines for smoking

by Brian David Phillips • February 25, 2008

WalletPop notes a trend in which hotels introduce big fines for smoking – WalletPop. A number of hotel chains will be completely smoke-free by the end of 2008 and many are starting to introduce large fines for guests who smoke in their rooms . . . Sheraton and Four Points by Sheraton will be charging…

HYPNOTIC VIDEO CHALLENGE . . .
. . . changes and updates

by Brian David Phillips • February 24, 2008

Folks . . . make a note that I have made some changes to the HYPNOTIC VIDEO CHALLENGE . . . I wanted to make it more interactive and less dependant upon me archiving materials . . . so, from now on there is no need to email your URL to me. Instead you can…

SPEED HYPNOSIS COURSE: Date Changed to April 12-13

by Brian David Phillips • February 22, 2008

Folks, we have talked to every person who has registered and have moved the SPEED HYPNOSIS course to April 12-13. This means the course will now be on the weekend rather than spread out over five days. The new schedule makes it a lot easier on me to shift some other events around so we…

Zombie Plagues and Worse . . .
. . . guess where the next real killer plague is coming from?

by Brian David Phillips • February 22, 2008

Okay, this kind of definately sucks . . . but . . . all those new movies and novels pretending to be science fiction that are about killer plagues wiping out humanity and worse . . . well, over the past fourty years, the number of new diseases and plague potentials have quadrupeled and it…

Riding Brain Waves in Gaming

by Brian David Phillips • February 22, 2008

I am pretty sure I want one of these . . . Riding Brain Waves At a Game Expo.

Can You Will Your Weight Off?

by Brian David Phillips • February 21, 2008

Gayle Guyardo writes an interesting followup piece on hypnosis and weight loss . . . Can You Will Your Weight Off? . . . in which she followed the progress of participants in a “group” hypnosis program for weight losss and discovered that many of them were indeed having very positive results. All the best,…

Walkabout Trance Videos from Hermosa Beach!

by Brian David Phillips • February 19, 2008

As most of my readers know, last weekend was my Walkabout Trance Street Hypnosis Beach Resort Getaway seminar in Los Angeles wherein I taught a course to fifty+plus eager hypnotists on speed hypnosis techniques for going out into the world and playing playing playing. A number of folks have posted very positive reviews of their…

Walkabout Trance . . . wow wow wow wow wow!

by Brian David Phillips • February 13, 2008

Well, the Walkabout Trance Beach Resort Getaway Speed Hypnosis training at Hermosa Beach is done and we had an outstanding time! Over fifty folks (yes, it was sold out) joined us at a deluxe resort for an amazing weekend. There were world class and world reknown hypnotists among the participants as well as folks who’ve…

Hypnosis Shows in February . . . change of schedule

by Brian David Phillips • February 13, 2008

For the folks who have been waiting for the triple trance treat at the end of February (see here), there has been a change in schedule. Aaron Glotfelter has cancelled his Taiwan trip and will not be performing in Taipei. However, my shows on Feb. 22 and 24 are still on schedule and are certainly…

Hypnoticon . . . wow!

by Brian David Phillips • February 5, 2008

Thank you to everyone who attended HYPNOTICON and helped make it a wonderful experience. I would like to thank all the presenters and staff for putting together what was a very positive experience for so many people. A great many folks told me that they had "life changing" experiences of the very positive type. On…

Hypnoticon

by Brian David Phillips • February 3, 2008

Hypnoticon – http://www.hypnoticon.org – is going great! I mean really great. I’ve been running on adrenalin as best I can as I managed to catch a bit of a bug right before the con and then pushed myself hard during my presentation on Friday. Folks know I tend to go all out in that respect…