Hypnosis: Entertainment, Stage, and Performance

HYPNODUEL VOODOO MAGICK HYPNOSIS . . .
. . . hypnotic video challenge

HYPNODUEL VOODOO MAGICK HYPNOSIS CHALLENGE December 2014 – January 2015 Hypnotic Video Challenge www.HypnoDuel.com     And the WINNER is . . . hypnosister . . . you will be contacted via email. If you didn’t win, remember, it’s the participation and fun that counts!     The December-January HYPNODUEL: Hypnotic Video Challenge at the Society of…

Stimulus-Response Loops . . . hypnotic video challenge . . .
. . . Playing with Underlying Drivers and Change Potential

The sky’s the limit for the month of August’s Hypnotic Video Challenge at the Society of Experiential Trance as we are exploring processes to move or change underlying drivers or response sets in a stimulus-response loop.  This can be anything from shifting submodalities around or changing driver ingredients (such as in the 3D Mind process)…

Hypnotic SpeechJammer Challenge

HYPNOTIC SPEECHJAMMER CHALLENGE Hypnotists often use their words to ply their craft. What happens when we use a speech jammer to interfere with a hypnotist’s ability to speak? Brian David Phillips plays with a speechjammer app and issues the HYPNOTIC SPEECHJAMMER CHALLENGE to fellow hypnotists to perform a hypnotic induction while using a similar app.…

ANCHORING and HYPNOTIC TRIGGERS . . .
. . . hypnotic video challenge

The September Hypnotic Video Challenge at the Society of Experiential Trance is for the theme of ANCHORING and HYPNOTIC TRIGGERS which continues to explore stimulus-response loops. This month’s challenge for participants to perform a variation of the NLP Anchoring process or make use of Hypnotic Triggers. This may be overt anchoring, covert anchoring, or some…

How to Play with Improvisational Hypnosis

As regular readers here know, I absolutely love spontaneous and creative approaches to hypnosis. Sure, I can recite a ton of learned patterns, processes, and techniques like the next guy, well maybe a bit more than the next guy . . . but . . . I really love to be in a situation where…

Psychic Hypnosis Fun

Here’s a new entry into the Hypnotic Video Challenge . . . a short clip taken at my comedy hypnosis show performance last weekend. Yes, we are booking for a return engagement at the Live Comedy Club Taipei set for Dec. 7 and 8.  We will be doing a hypnoHOT hypnoKOOL double bill with our…

No Matter How Long You’ve been Doing this Stuff, You Never Know What Will Happen in a Stage Hypnosis Show!

Yes, it’s true! You really can’t know what’s going to happen in a hypnosis show . . . even when you’re the hypnotist and you’ve been doing this stuff for years. Look closely at the picture above. The hypnotist who looks like he’s been struck for a micromoment by lightening is my friend Sean Michael…

Now You See Me Street Hypnotist Woody Harrelson is a Mentalist and Then Some

The first four minutes of the new movie Now You See Me is out and in it we get to see Woody Harrelson playing a mentalist slash street hypnotist who takes his act a bit beyond the typical. He uses a classic speed induction – yep, one that I teach – to hypnotize a woman…

Entertainment Hypnosis Lecture Video

Every once in awhile someone asks me about doing a short entertaining lecture on hypnosis for members of the public. Well, here’s an example of a classroom lecture I did a number of years ago as a guest speaker in a university classroom that had been exploring basic psychology and social psychology. Since the students…

Twenty Ladies Have Simultaneous Orgasms on Stage in Front of Nine Thousand People

Sometimes it’s pretty damned awesome to be the hypnotist. 🙂 Here’s a clip from a show performed by Lenny Moore in which he has a pretty good sized group on stage with some pretty off the wall gags and he’s set everyone up so when he says “bam” the ladies on stage, over twenty of…

Trance-Acting Webinar Audio Recording

On 14 October 2012, Brian David Phillips conducted an online webinar on TRANCE-ACTING: Hypnosis and Acting via online webinar chat. The TRANCE-ACTING online webinar is an introduction to concepts related to hypnotically enhancing the actor’s experience via trance-based exercises for deep trance character identification, sense memory, and performance enhancement. This downloadable recording is the complete…

Comedy Hypnotist J Medicine Hat has Passed

Comedy stage hypnotist J. Medicine Hat has passed away. See notice from his family on his webpages at http://www.jmedicinehat.com. In late 1982, J. Medicine Hat attended his first live comedy show in Sioux City, Iowa. Half way through that show, he knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life. While he continued to…

Psychedelic Trance, Psychedelic Hypnosis

Recently, I was having a conversation with a very very good friend about the mechanics behind the famous Drug of Choice Induction/Pattern used by NLP practitioners first developed by Bandler and often used with drug addicts as a way to demonstrate that they can recreate the benefits or positive aspects of a drug high without…

Mr P does Walkabout Trance at the Edge

Street Hypnotist Mr. P demonstrates some Walkabout Trance style hypnosis at The Edge by hypnotizing a young woman in the shop. He’s got some skills. One thing I like about the video is that he shows a genuine engagement and fun with the process. When Meg shows that she is an obvious high responder during…

Funny Hypnosis Show 樂在催眠 set for Sept 10 at the Live Comedy Club Taipei 9月10日

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…

Vocalgasms

If you are performing eroticatrance (erotic hypnosis) in a stage show, it is important to note that it’s not just about the erotic experience – although that is certainly important – but it’s also about the performance and showmanship. If your trance partner volunteers are sitting like oozie lumps in their chairs having wonderful quiet…

Nonconsensual Hypnotic Seduction and the CIA

According to a number of sources, in declassified documents from the era of the CIA’s various MKULTRA projects, at least one CIA hypnosis instructor routinely bragged of his ability to use hypnosis in order to take advantage of girls, tricking them into having sex with him. One of his reports includes the following: “On 2…

The O Files . . . a plethora of hypnotically induced orgasms

Well, you’ve seen my demonstrational and educational videos on the subject and you’ve read my essays and scripts and tutorials and more on the subject in the blog here and you may have even purchased my highly sought after DVD distance learning programs, especially the premiere program on erotic hypnosis available anywhere, the Eroticatrance program…

Spring Scream Hypnosis Show! April 3 on the White Stage . . . be there!

Spring Scream has posted the “official schedule” and the BRIAN DAVID PHILLIPS HYPNOSIS SHOW is set for Day Three on the White Stage! That’s April 3, Sunday, in the evening. There are no times listed but we’re likely the late night show. See http://www.springscream.com for information on Taiwan’s premiere international alternative music festival and the…