Monthly Archives: April 2005

Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest

Unmotivated Hypnosis Clients . . .
. . . there is no magick wand

by Brian David Phillips • April 19, 2005

After trying every trick she can think of, Renée Stephens has found her answer to the question “How much we can help someone without motivation?.” Her answer . . . After trying my darndest, and pulling out all sorts of fancy techniques, I have concluded that there is a base level of motivation that the…

Hypnosis Works for Pain Control

by Brian David Phillips • April 19, 2005

Seth-Deborah Roth discusses a study that demonstrates Hypnosis Works for Pain Control. She included the attached table in her piece that clearly shows that the reduction in rating by patients when using hypnosis is far superior to the other compared methods of accupuncture, morphine, and pacebo. Actually, it is quite startling a difference to those…

Great Session Today!
. . .METAPHYSICAL HYPNOSIS

by Brian David Phillips • April 17, 2005

We had a very nice workshop today on METAPHYSICAL HYPNOSIS (Past Life Regression, Contacting the Higher Self, Astral Projection, Associative Hyperempiric Tarot Meditation, and Much More). Well, actually, as usual, we only covered part of what I had planned for but that just means we can do more later. I would like to thank everyone…

China vs. USA . . .
. . . wow

by Brian David Phillips • April 17, 2005

Okay . . . this is just . . . wow.

The “Make My Wife A Mindless Slut” Query . . .
. . . a favorite non-favorite . . .

by Brian David Phillips • April 17, 2005

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Hypnosis Training Courses and Competence

by Brian David Phillips • April 17, 2005

At the Hypnosis Technique Exchange, the issue of the relationship of hypnosis course length and competence has been raised. The original author voiced is concern that five day courses in hypnosis may not be enough to really prepare folks to face the public while those of seven years or more as in psychotherapy may be…

Filmmakers Lucas, Cameron tout new 3D films

by Brian David Phillips • April 16, 2005

While in essence, this piece about Filmmakers Lucas, Cameron tout new 3D films is true to the idea of the upcoming 3D film revolution . . . there are some inaccuracies . . . the original 3D film wave was NOT anaglyph (the red-blue glasses that have such intense problems with retinal rivalry, color loss,…

3D TV by 2010

by Brian David Phillips • April 16, 2005

Toshiba has a new flat screen 3D display system which they are pushing to enter the videogame arcade business and then on to 3D TV by 2010: Toshiba plans to bring colour 3D displays to video game arcades late next year — and there’ll be no need to don special goggles. The company will market…

Further Discussion of Compounding Suggestions . . .
. . . behind the curtain . . .

by Brian David Phillips • April 14, 2005

I’ve had a few more questions about my View on Compounding Suggestions thrown this eay and so I’d like to clarify and further muddle the waters a bit . . . these are more thoughts on compounding hypnotic suggestions. The quotes are from random discussion, sorry that the attributions have migrated. I’ve just checked and…

When I count to 10 . . .
. . . you will be enlightened

by Brian David Phillips • April 14, 2005

Alana D. Chips writes a favorable essay on hypnosis . . . when I count to 10, you will be enlightened . . . however, while informing and advocating for hypnosis, she includes a few misconceptions of her own. Hypnosis is not a state between awake and asleep, that would be the hypnoidal state which…

The Child Who Would Not Speak a Word . . .
. . . selective autism and therapeutic intervention

by Brian David Phillips • April 13, 2005

Harried Brown writes an interesting piece on the The Child Who Would Not Speak a Word . . . selective autism . . . at the New York Times. The background to how our view of the condition has changed is really quite fascinating . . . albeit, it is hopeful that non-drug interventions will…

Johnnie Cochran and Limiting Speech

by Brian David Phillips • April 13, 2005

Julie Hilden has an interesting essay on The Supreme Court Case Involving Johnnie Cochran which is a rather tangled web of a mess. Can the courts limit speech forever?

Redux. Dangerous Hypnosis? . . .
. . . of professional jealousy and stage gimmicks . . .
. . . . . . the mixed bag . . .

by Brian David Phillips • April 12, 2005

More discussion on responsibility, hypnosis performance, and just plain weirdness. My friend’s student went to a Marshall Silver workshop at a Learning Annex in New York. My friend’s student is a very deep trance subject. Marshall held a burning torch to her hand, and then created a full body catalepsy and stood on her for…

Dangerous Hypnosis?
. . . Dangerous Misconceptions about Hypnosis

by Brian David Phillips • April 9, 2005

Dangerous Hypnosis or Dangerous Misconceptions about Hypnosis? More afoot at the Hypnosis Technique Exchange. A bit of the one and less of the other but the damage gets done nonetheless. In HypnoMasterMind there was a recent post about an account of a woman who says as a child she witnessed a stage hypnosis show in…

Betelnut Beauties Revisited . . .
. . . driveby shooting, more blur, more beauties

by Brian David Phillips • April 8, 2005

Well, as you know, my family and I took a short Spring Break trip to Taichung the past couple days . . . and you all know what that means . . . more Betelnut Beauties . . . continuing Life of Brian‘s ongoing homage to the roadside seller of betelnuts, fashion sense, great costumes,…

Yo! Gah!

by Brian David Phillips • April 8, 2005

Jerry Bruntz . . . Yo! Gah! . . . my best friend does Yoga and watching this I just figured this is how he must do it. “I am a Tree!” and “Someday, buddy, it’s going to be a good day . . . it’s not gay because it’s my own mouth.” Yep, that’s…

Princeton PhD Student . . .
. . . of hair, urine, semen, and more

by Brian David Phillips • April 8, 2005

The New York Post manages to report the news in as biased and sensationalist a fashion as they can . . . but for this story, it’s difficult not to what with all the hair cutting, urinating, and semen mixing . . . a married doctoral student at Princetons has been preying on Asian women…

Can’t Find the Feelings . . .
. . . fear and regression hypnotic techniques . . .
. . . . . . and dealing with resistance . . .

by Brian David Phillips • April 8, 2005

I just got back to Taipei from a Spring Break trip with my family so I’ve a ton of email to get through but some thoughts on the Omnigrads post regarding can’t find the fear . . . take what you can and ditch the rest . . . this discussion is intended for experienced…

Life of Brian

by Brian David Phillips • April 5, 2005

Life of Brian may be silent a few days as the family and I are heading to Taichung for a few days. TTFN. All the best, Brian

A View on Compounding Suggestions

by Brian David Phillips • April 5, 2005

A discussion on the definition of compounding as related to hypnotic suggestion has me thinking a bit on how I approach the subject. Some folks who haven’t had direct instruction on the effect, think of it as repeating a suggestion in order to strengthen it (often in long monotonous fashion). Others will reference Gil Boyne…

Hypnosis Helps Habit Cough

by Brian David Phillips • April 3, 2005

This looks promising . . . hypnosis helps habit cough . . . Not all coughs are created equal. In children, there’s something called a habit cough. Drug therapies are typically not effective for this type of cough. An alternative treatment may help nix the nagging habit. It started as a bad cold and turned…

Erotic Hypnosis . . .
. . . what books will get you going’?
. . . . . . getting started . . .

by Brian David Phillips • April 3, 2005

Please Go to the Current Revision of This Information Getting Stated in Erotic Trance https://briandavidphillips.net/erospsymagickplus Please be forewarned that a number of the links in this entry are NSFW . . . a number are SFW . . . I’ll leave it to you to figure out which are which. When asked about what books…

Erotic Hypnosis Goes Mainstream . . .
. . . the Power of a Touch, the Surrender to a Word . . .
. . . Annie Cruz Goes “Boom” in Public

by Brian David Phillips • April 3, 2005

Annie Cruz appeared on hypnogirls (NSFW) and discovered that hypnosis is real and her husband, Jack Lawrence, discoverd it is very very real and that erotic hypnosis can be very very . . . interesting . . . Annie Cruz Cums in Public: Do you want to hear something funny? My wife, Annie Cruz did…

Want to see someting scary?
What happens when you watch The Ring?

by Brian David Phillips • April 3, 2005

In the graduate course in Gothic and Horror fiction that I am teaching this term, we’ve been doing a lot of looking into how language creates emotional states that the horror writer takes advantage of, the principles of creating psychological terror, so to speak . . . well, film is even easier to create emotional…

When the Therapist Over-Empathizes . . .
. . . of detachment in therapeutic relationships

by Brian David Phillips • April 3, 2005

In an interesting discussion on empathy, identification, and symptom transfer . . . one of the discussion participants made the statement that one of the challenges when hypnotizing others is for the hypnotist to make certain he doesn’t hypnotize himself into accepting the suggestions or transferring the client’s problems to himself. Thanks for posting this…