Bad Poetry series by Brian David Phillips This episode: Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, published 1872. Please note, not really bad poetry, actually pretty damned awesome poetry, included here for the fun of it. Not really bad poetry . . . quite the opposite as this is my favorite poem in the English language . .…
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Bad Poetry: A Tragedy by Theophilus Marzials
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Bad Poetry series by Brian David Phillips This episode: A Tragedy by Theophilus Marzials, published 1874 This example of bad poetry is often ranked number one in bad poetry collections as the worst poem ever written in the English language . . . and yet it feels as if it would be very much at…
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Bad Poetry: Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over Seven Thousand Pounds by James McIntyre
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Bad Poetry series by Brian David Phillips This episode: Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over Seven Thousand Pounds by James McIntrye, published 1866. This week, I am covering an introduction to poetry in my creative writing course at the university. Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I will be asking the…
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Selective Attention and Why Most Radiologists Don’t Notice A Gorilla in a CT Scan
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Yep, you read that headline right . . . most radiologists don’t notice a gorilla in a CT scan. Now, since I’ve had a partially collapsed lung for quite some time, I’ve seen more than my share of CT scans of the lung and it’s absolutely fascinating to watch my specialist doctor go through the…
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Perception, Perspective, and a Galaxy Far Far Away
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How your perspective influences your perception and more. Make a fist and put it in the center, the dots go faster! If you twist your fist, they go EVEN FASTER. And if you cover the outer edges, it goes slower. Dude, I’ve been sitting here playing with this and laughing like an idiot for like…
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Ten Bets You’ll Probably Maybe Almost Never Lose
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We say “almost,” because like many of the bets in Richard Wiseman’s earlier bar-trick videos, a few of these are liable to get you punched in the face. (I’m looking at you, #4. Ten to ten? Really?) That being said, some of these are actually pretty clever. Flipping your friend’s glass over so she can’t…
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Reciprocity and the Give and Take of All of Us
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In 1974, Phillip Kunz and his family got a record number of Christmas cards. In the weeks before Christmas they came daily, sometimes by the dozen. Kunz still has them in his home, collected in an old photo album. “Dear Phil, Joyce and family,” a typical card reads, “we received your holiday greeting with much…
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Pretending to be a Superhero could make You more Altruistic in Real Life
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Can pretending to fly around like Superman inspire you to save the day? Does great power truly encourage great responsibility? A new study suggests that stepping into the role of a superhero in the virtual world could spark more helpful behavior in reality, at least briefly. The study, conducted at Stanford University and published this…
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Puppies on Fire when Guided Imagery goes Wrong
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When I teach experiential hypnosis with guided imagery, I stress an approach that is based upon consensual imagery and positive rider suggestions with an aim toward keeping the trance partner in a positive frame and emotional state. Some folks don’t think things through and cause all sorts of cognitive dissonance and worse. I would say…
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“Street Hypnotists” in Hawaii conning Elderly out of Life Savings
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Evidently, a gang of female street hypnotists are roaming Chinatown in Honolulu and bilking elderly women out of their life savings . . . or at least that’s how some of their victims are describing it. I’m going to go ahead and call BS on this one right off the bat. While the crimes are…
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Trance-Acting Webinar Audio Recording
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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…
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Psychedelic Cat says Hello
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Psychedelic Cat says “ni hao.”
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Hypnotic Roleplaying Webinar Audio Recording
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On 23 September 2012, Brian David Phillips conducted an online guided meditation on HYPNOROLEPLAY: eXperiential Hypnosis and LARP/RPG Play via online webinar chat. The HYPNOROLEPLAY online webinar is an introduction to concepts related to hypnotically enhancing character identification and the experience of roleplaying games, live and table top. Of particular interest is the use of…
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Reality Rendering RPG Hypnosis
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Reality Rendering David Brager This piece was originally written and posted to his Srypnosis site by David Brager many years ago. It is reproduced here by permission. His roleplay related pieces were formerly archived on my old related site and since that site is now defunct, I have moved them here for obvious reasons. I…
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Hypnotic Roleplaying with Hypno-RPG Adventuring
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Hypno-Adventuring:Role Playing Games in Trance David Brager This piece was originally written and posted to his Srypnosis site by David Brager many years ago. It is reproduced here by permission. His roleplay related pieces were formerly archived on my old related site and since that site is now defunct, I have moved them here for…
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Words Change Your Brain
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Recent fMRI studies verify that words not only affect one’s emotions they have a genuine effect upon the very structure of the brain, in many cases causing one’s emotional responses to situations to create shortcuts to negative (or, positive) emotional states. Negative words and negative thoughts can and do fuck you up. See an excellent…
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Video to Learn Chinese By from Joss Whedon’s FIREFLY . . . or not
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In honor of the Firefly Ten Year Reuninon at Comicon, let’s take a look at show in terms of the Chinese used with video to boot. Now, I’ve seen really crappy Chinese in movies but this show is in a class all unto itself. The first time I watched it with Lorraine (my wife) and…
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Fake Love Real Love . . . Acting as if You’re in Love leads to Actual Love
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How’s this for a bit of fascinating research? If you pretend to be in love, you can actually fall in love for real! In Neurolinguistic Programming and Hypnosis training circles there’s an adage that is often used, “fake it ’til you make it” which is essentially based upon the idea that if you are unable…
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Marina Abramović – The Artist Is Present
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During the Soul Gazing webinar on Seeing into the Eyes of the Spirit (eXperiential Soul Gazing for Lovers and Beyond) (see here), part of the discussion came around to whether or not one needed to signpost the act of soul gazing or if the methods could be used without overt suggestion. In that discussion, I…
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Culturally Based Psychological Optical Illusions
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The following Psychological Optical Illusion is a neat optical illusion, that will be seen differently by different cultures. The perception of the scene in the photo is largely determined by your culture and what part of the world you live in. So what did you see happening in the above picture? Tests were done with…
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Cat Hypnosis
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Look Into Meow Eyes
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Creative Problem Solving
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Using transcranial magnetic stimulation to stimulate certain areas of the brain and suppress others, researcher claims to temporarily turns one into a savant. Test subjects score three times better on math and problem solving tests. They also have greater artistic ability. Note that the judgement on some of these characteristics are obviously highly subjective. I…
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Mr. Burns, Bart Simpson, and Post-Apocalyptic Awesome
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If you like, you can say this is not awesome . . . if you like . . . you’d be absofuckinloutely wrong but you can still say it. Yes, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play is a stage drama that takes place just after the apocalypse with a group of survivors who amuse themselves by…
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World’s Quickest Personality Test
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Now, here’s something fun. Richard Wiseman, of Quirkology fame conducts the world’s quickest personality test. Follow Wiseman’s directions to discover what sort of person you are . . . personality wise, that is. Yes, it works; yes, it has genuine results; no, some few folks may have contrary results so it’s not one hundred percent…
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Exposure Therapy Makes Things Less Scary — by altering your brain
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Tim Barribeau takes a look at exposure therapy. Exposure therapy is the practice of exposing people to things they fear in small doses, and it has helped vast numbers of people get over their phobias. But why? Now, a new study has shown that as little as a single session with a tarantula permanently alters…
