Monthly Archives: February 2011

Presuppositions of NLP Webinar Audio Recording

This is the audio recording of a webinar (web-based seminar) presented by Dr. Joseph (Deepak) Vidmar on the PRESUPPOSITIONS OF NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING presented in the community webinar series as a guest of Rev. Dr. Brian David Phillips. The discussion centered upon the foundation principles and underlying principles of NLP and how they can be used…

Pardon our dust . . .

Okay, this may seem annoying but that’s ONLY because it IS very very ANNOYING. I upgraded my wordpress install as they just came out with an important new version with a lot of security fixes and it broken my theme big time (we’re talkin’ nothing works). So, I found a premium theme that has already…

United Breaks Guitars

The saga of Dave Carroll and his guitar and the pain and suffering of flying United Airlines . . . the three song challenge . . . a musical tragedy of sorts . . . United Breaks Guitars So, what is that about? From Dave’s blog back when this all happened: In the spring of…

Hypnosleep Webinar Audio Recording

Can a person really be hypnotized while they are asleep? Yes. Can a person who is awake be hypnotized into a near sleeping state so that suggestions become powerfully accepted? Yes. Listen to this recording and learn how. This is indeed it! Here it is! This is the audio recording of a webinar (web-based seminar)…

Steampunk Culture and Music

MTV Shows This is a video from MTV on Steampunk with a glance at the music of the culture. Found it because I’ve been devouring Abney Park (http://www.abneypark.com) of late. Methinks we’ve found a wonderful musical subculture resonant with some – but not all – of Kaye’s own interests in tersm of musical complexity in…

Trick Your Brain into Feeling like it’s in LOVE

The good folks at Io9 decided to celebrate the recent Valentine’s Day by providing us with a useful list of TEN WAYS YOU CAN TRICK YOUR BRAIN INTO FEELING LIKE IT’S IN LOVE . . . creepy? Yes. Interesting, more yes. See the full list at http://io9.com/#!5759511/10-ways-to-trick-your-brain-into-feeling-like-youre-in-love for your neuroloving trickery. – Brian

Trail of Tears read by Johnny Cash

The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation and movement of Native Americans from the then present-day United States. It has rightly been described by many social historians as an act of genocide. The image above is the painting Trail of Tears by Max D. Standley commemorating the event. The removal included many members of…

Hong Kong Seminar Day One Wowza

So, we have officially finished the first day of the SPEED ENTERTAINMENT HYPNOSIS seminar (http://www.briandavidphillips.com/training/hkspeedstage.html) in Hong Kong and we had an absolute blast! We’ve got about half the students coming in from various countries overseas and the other half are local to Hong Kong. About half are hypno-newbies and the other half are experienced.…

Andrew Salter on Problem Solving

I have just finished reading one of famed hypnotist, psychologist, and behaviorist Andrew Salter‘s papers from The Conditioning Therapies: the Challenge of Psychotherapy (Leo J. Reyna, Andrew Salter & Joseph Walpe, 1964) and he has a beautiful comment that serves almost as an epiphany of sorts: “I mention my interest in ‘problem-solving’ because years ago…