On the heels of the recent study that found a significant number of men who self-identified as straight and expressed extreme anti-gay opinions had sexual arousal responses to gay porn while straight men who did not express such opinions did not have arousal response to the same porn (while having arousal to hetero porn...
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From the moment he steps onscreen in the 1960 thriller Psycho, Norman Bates gives audiences the goosebumps. The hotel manager-turned-serial killer just seems, well, off, maybe because he’s trying so hard to appear normal. Now a new study suggests that people who fail to appropriately imitate the mannerisms of others during social interactions can...
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A lot of people have a hard time trusting lawyers as it is, but what about one who claims he was part of a secret government time travel program when he was a kid? Since 2004, Seattle attorney Andrew Basiago has been publicly claiming that from the time he was 7 to when he...
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“Imagine the original job interview. The first one ever, back on the prehistoric savannahs of eastern Africa. It wouldn’t have been exactly like a modern job interview, because early humans had no resumes or Linked-In or letters of recommendation to guide them. There was very little in the way of personal or professional reputation...
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Some fascinating research into brain stimulation and problem-solving has found a significant increase in certain types of creative problem-solving when certain areas of the brain are stimulated via an electric circuit thingie. From a nine dot problem with no solutions to stimulation and forty percent solutions is a pretty damned big jump. See the...
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On 29 April 2012, Brian David Phillips conducted an online workshop on HYPNOTIC VENUS BUTTERFLY: eXperiential Eroticatrance and Intense Ecstatic Sexual Phenomena via online webinar chat. The HYPNOTIC VENUS BUTTERFLY online webinar session is an introduction to concepts related to taking on hypnotically simulating very intense sexual sensations via guided suggestion and intensified imaginative...
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Now, here’s a pleasant find . . . a bit dated now, but still well worth the read . . . a review of my original WALKABOUT TRANCE BEACH RESORT GETAWAY, the first one in Los Angeles way back when: I’m back from Hermosa Beach and the Walkabout Trance Beach Resort Getaway, where the...
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For those with an interest in eye movement patterns – that includes folks who’ve learned the patterns in their Neurolinguistic Programming training – here’s an abstract for a study on the subject: The saccadic eye movements that people make when thinking have been largely ignored in the eye-movement literature. Nevertheless, there is evidence that...
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People often describe creative thinking in the form of metaphors. We talk about "thinking outside the box," "putting two and two together," and "seeing both sides of the problem." But what if we could boost our creativity by taking these metaphors literally? We know our minds interact in all sorts of interesting ways with...
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Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk. The author of Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and...
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Yep, that animated gif is from a video in which I hypnotize that young woman to feel drunker and drunker and we had a blast! Welcome to the HYPNODRUNK video series. These videos contain instruction and demonstrations of various hypnotic drunkenness processes that engage the imagination and guide on into an altered state of...
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Smokers are more worried about the stigma of their habit than their health, with research showing they are increasingly likely to hide their addiction and feel guilty about it. This finding, after Cancer Council of WA research into the emotional and social aspects of smoking . . . "Smokers who are still at it...
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Martin Scorsese has confirmed his preference for shooting future films in 3D during a speech at the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas in which he spoke of the need to solve the ongoing problem of darkened screens. Scorsese, whose most recent film, Hugo, was shot in stereoscope, spoke after new laser-illuminated projection technology was...
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James Cameron’ 3-D team, behind the worldwide success of 2009 sci-fi blockbuster "Avatar", is being tapped to assist in shooting "The Art of War", a film about ancient Chinese strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu. The cooperation was revealed Saturday in Beijing by organizers of the 2nd Beijing International Film Festival. The agreement is expected...
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Please note, this is NOT hypnosis. Not at all. An Emirati boy was admitted to hospital with fatigue and momentarily memory loss after his friend tried to hypnotize him by using what he dubbed as “magic hand” involving stopping the boy’s breath. Some people see hyperventilation or sleeper methods online and assume they are...
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