Daily Archives: August 25, 2013

The Lemon (Mindgames Episode 4)

MINDGAMES THE LEMON Episode Four Welcome to MINDGAMES . . . our video series of Experiential Imagination Games and Suggestibility Effects showcased in a fun interactive video series. Each video showcases a particular Mindgame . . . I present the instructions for you to follow and you can follow along to see how experiential you…

Stimulus-Response Hypnotic Video Challenge Entry

Those of you familiar with the HYPNOTIC VIDEO CHALLENGE know that this month’s challege is a twofer theme . . . Stimulus-Response and Underlying Drivers . . . I have three submissions to this month’s challenge already online. Brian David PhillipsCHANGE HANDS RESOLUTION PROCESS,BRIEF PROCESS VERSION If you haven’t submitted your entry yet, see "Challenge"…

The Bullshit that is Prosperity Gospel

Prosperity Gospel is a movement within the Evangelical side of the Christian church that has a long standing tradition . . . that tradition is rooted firmly in hucksterism, conmen, sleight of faith, and out and out fraud. It feeds upon the desperation and fears of a population and essentially preys upon those who can’t…

The Power of Empathy

Jeremy Dean at PsyBlog discusses empathy . . . Without empathy, human beings are lonely, disconnected creatures. An old philosophical question asks: is there any such thing as a selfless act? Cynics answer no, because any apparently selfless act is always tacitly showing off what ‘good’ people we are. Even if no one else knows…