As many of you know, I am a HUGE fan of Joseph Campbell‘s monomyth concept of the HERO’S JOURNEY, especially as applied to visionary psychology and critical thought. Tactics from successful storytelling can be leveraged in order to communicate any idea, from business to politics, says filmmaker Barry Ptolemy. For me I like to provide…
Monthly Archives: August 2011
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Grrr . . . things are slow right now
by Brian David Phillips •
We have experienced the joy of computer failure yet again so until I get my main machine back, responses to queries will be slowed down. I apologize for any inconvenience. C’est la vie. – Brian
Hypnosis in the News
Royal Society of Medicine has called for the NHS to use Clinical Hypnosis
by Brian David Phillips •
The Royal Society of Medicine has called on the NHS to use Clinical Hypnosis in order to to save costs and improve treatment of conditions such as stress and depression. This tidbit is included in an article discussing the first legitimate university diploma program in hypnosis granted in the UK at http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/9206623.Britain_s_first_degree_in_hypnosis_awarded/. All the best,…
** Special Student Series, Influence, Special Features
Wag the Alien and Save the Economy
by Brian David Phillips •
Want to save the economy? Stage a fake alien invasion. A few of the conspiracy-friendly websites are touting that CNN is advocating or pushing this but actually, the comment comes from an interview with non other than Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman who merely points out that a period of national priority and manufacturing…
Eroticatrance, Hypnosis Videos, Psychecstatic Engineering Psychological Psychedelic eXperiential Ecstasy, Special Features
Super Orgasm lasts Five Solid Minutes
by Brian David Phillips •
Five minutes may not sound like much time at all but it is if those five minutes are in the throws of orgasm floods, that is climax after climax followed by climax after orgasm after orgasm after climax after orgasm and so on and so on through the entire five minutes . . . and…
Influence
Christianity and Islam and the Founding Sensibilities of the United States of America
by Brian David Phillips •
As the Government ofthe United States of America is not,in any sense,founded onthe Christian religion – Treaty of Tripoli,Unanimously Rattified by Congress,7 June 1797 As regular readers here know, one of my ancestors was John Adams, second president of the United States. Adams signed and congress passed the Treaty of Tripoli in 1797 which in…
** Special Student Series, Interactive Drama, Special Features, Trance-Acting: Actors, Directors, Dancers, and Musical Performers
One Word at a Time Improvisational Language Structure with Roddy McDowall and Carol Burnett
by Brian David Phillips •
As many readers here know, I teach Communication as well as Acting at the university. One of the innovations I use in my English as a Foreign Language courses is a set of interactive games known as Improvisational Language Structures (ILS) which are a series of activities I have adapted from theatre games and improvisational…
** Special Student Series, Influence
Influence through Graphs
by Brian David Phillips •
Statistics and graphs and the like are powerful tools . . . they are also powerful tools of influence and even propaganda. The information presented can be completely accurate and yet the impression given can be skewed one way or another, depending upon presentation. Data does not lie . . . but people do. In…
Hypnosis: Entertainment, Stage, and Performance, Special Features, 中文 Posts, 舞台催眠秀 Shows
Funny Hypnosis Show 樂在催眠 set for Sept 10 at the Live Comedy Club Taipei 9月10日
by Brian David Phillips •
樂 在 催 眠 FUNNY HYPNOSIS 用催眠打開內心的快樂製造機 Taiwan’s Premiere Comedy Hypnosis Show http://www.comedy.com.tw 中文: http://www.briandavidphillips.com/chinese/c_stageshow.html English: http://www.briandavidphillips.com/stageshow.html 9月10日 地點:Live COMEDY CLUB Taipei (http://www.comedy.com.tw) 時間:9:30pm 地址:北市忠孝東路4段553巷20號 (近市政府捷運站) 訂位電話:02-2764-5529 口譯:羅玉蘭 (https://briandavidphillips.net/author/lorraine-phillips/) 300元 • 10 September 2011: Live COMEDY CLUB Taipei (http://www.comedy.com.tw) Bilingual Performance (English with Chinese interpretation) 9:30pm No.20, Ln.553, Sec.4, ZhongXiao E. Rd; Da-an District, Taipei…
Music
My Life music video from Abney Park
by Brian David Phillips •
The very good folks in the steampunk band Abney Park have released a new music video . . . this one for the song “My Life” from their Æther Shanties album. You may notice a very strong visual look and feel resemblance to their previous video for another song which is very different aesthetically, the…
Eroticatrance, Hypnosis Q&A, Hypnosis Videos, Influence, Special Features
Train Your Husband Like a Dog?
by Brian David Phillips •
This past weekend, I taught a full seminar on HYPNOTIC SOCIAL INFLUENCE – which was LOADS OF FUN – and when we arrived at the discussion on core response conditioning as a method for influencing an audience, I demonstrated with the use of a clicker and an anchoring process. In the discussion that followed, I…
Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest, Uncategorized
Hypnotic Social Influence TODAY!
by Brian David Phillips •
Our HYPNOTIC SOCIAL INFLUENCE seminar is today! HYPNOTIC SOCIAL INFLUENCE NLP, Influence, Suggestion, and Persuasion English Information: http://www.briandavidphillips.com/training/powerinfluence.html Chinese Information: http://www.briandavidphillips.com/chinese/c_training.html 6-7 August 2011 in Taipei We are looking forward to two days of waking suggestion, social influence, NLPishness and MORE! See https://briandavidphillips.net/2011/07/10/hypnotic-social-influence-67-august-taipei/ for details on the beastie. – Brian
Celebrity Hypnosis, Hypnosis in the News, Special Features
Kirsten Dunst undergoes Hypnosis to Kick the Smoking Habit
by Brian David Phillips •
Actress Kirsten Dunst has revealed that she had hypnotherapy to help her kick her smoking habit. The 29-year-old Melancholia star said she has successfully undergone hypnosis in the past to conquer her addiction to nicotine. In an interview with UK Elle magazine, she said: “I did it once and it worked. Then I started [smoking]…
Hypnosis in the News
Hypnotism and Health Care
by Brian David Phillips •
More in the news regarding hypnosis in health care . . . Hypnotism is a powerful tool in health care, says Toronto psychologist Dr. Judy Coldoff, president of the Canadian Federation of Clinical Hypnosis. “People think of situations where a hypnotist has made someone quack like a duck or bark like a dog. We who…
Hypnosis in the News
Hypnosis and the Zone
by Brian David Phillips •
My Suburban Life has a profile of hypnotist Wendy Kerr which is mostly a worthwhile read. However, one section might do best to have some clarification. In the piece Kerr is quoted as saying that hypnosis is basically just focused concentration that we go into all the time. Well, focused concentration is certainly a form…
Hypnosis in the News
Hypnosis becoming the New Anesthetic
by Brian David Phillips •
As regular readers here know, I have long advocated the use of hypnosis as a supplement to medical care and on a number of occasions have pointed to clinical studies that have clearly demonstrated that hypnosis can be very beneficial for surgery. Recently, various stories have been coming out in mass media news outlets on…
** Special Student Series, Eroticatrance, Influence
How Advertising Manipulates You
by Brian David Phillips •
You know it and I know it . . . advertising can be very entertaining . . . well, sometimes . . . but . . . no matter how special a commercial may seem, there is always a persuasive agenda at work, a goal of influence. New trends in advertising have taken a turn…