Kristanna Loken Comes Out . . . fleshbot reports the story as if she has said she is an exclusive lesbian but that’s not what the story says. She clearly says that she has had sexual experiences both ways and that she finds experiences with women to be more powerful but that she still has…
Monthly Archives: January 2006
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circles and circles and communities
by Brian David Phillips •
T h e T a i p e i K i d talks about Mr. WOSBTSU and notes that the guy is either just really lame or is having a senior episode and that he’s very likely to find out very soon that the expat community in Taipei is like a small town so folks…
Hypnosis Videos, Walkabout Trance Street Hypnosis
Walkabout Trance . . . Eye in the Triangle effect
by Brian David Phillips •
Another of our Walkabout Trance event sets. I am running a classic bit of nonverbal persuasion and influence as part of a classic mentalism effect of having a person imagine and draw two shapes, one in the other, and then telling them what they’ve drawn. Note that I am using nonverbal movements to influence the…
3D/VR/AR/360°
Jim Norman 3D Photography, Imaging
by Brian David Phillips •
Take a look at Jim Norman’s 3D images at Jim Norman 3D Photography, Imaging. He has done some very striking work.
Hypnosis Videos
Hypnosis Videos . . .
. . . new category for the mix
by Brian David Phillips •
We’ve added a new category to the Life of Brian mix . . . look to the category in the permalink for this post as well as in the category listing in the lefthand sidebar and in the professional resources list at the top of the righthand sidebar . . . and you will see…
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Baha’u’llah . . .
. . . The Religion Founder You Resemble Test
by Brian David Phillips •
Baha’u’llahYou two would probably really get along! Founder of Baha’i Out of respect to Baha’i worshippers, there is no image of Baha’u’llah on this page. “So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.” My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You…
Hypnosis Videos, Walkabout Trance Street Hypnosis
Walkabout Trance . . . arm catalepsy
by Brian David Phillips •
This is me running a straightforward waking hypnosis arm catalepsy process during a Walkabout Trance event (see the workshops section of this site for information on the event). This effect also known as the "unbendable arm" test. The guy doing interpretation in the background is Martin Chen, an extremely skilled hypnosit from Taiwan (see his…
Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest, Metaphysical Hypnosis
Hypnotic Talismans . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
A bit of discussion on the nature of belief and the use of magickal talismans, amulets, and sigils and the like on one of my discussion lists. One fellow wrote about how amulets and talismans have real power to which another fellow made a very reasonable response that such devices are simply anchors (a neurolinguistic…
Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest
Hypnoanalysis . . .
. . . a query with some thoughts
by Brian David Phillips •
On one of my asundry email lists regarding the mind, hypnosis, neurolinguistic programming, and the like, there was a query regarding hypnoanalysis. Here are my replies sandwiched together for those with similar questions. Can anybody recommend hypnoanalysis books/whatever from where a newbie in the area can start? This will partly depend upon what you mean…
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Medical Establishment Makes Money Treating Disease Not Through Prevention
by Brian David Phillips •
The New York Times discovers a hard truth of American medical institutions . . . In the Treatment of Diabetes, Success Often Does Not Pay . . . diabetes centers at hospitals are closing because they can’t make money even though the number of people with diabetes in the city is at epidemic levels (one…
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Kintaro Walks Japan . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
If you give yourself to the journey, the journey gives itself to you. If the video doesn’t play, click here. Official film site here. Intriguing concept, good execution. Long walk. I enjoyed seeing Tyler “Kintaro” MacNiven’s adventure but I wouldn’t want to do it myself.
Influence
The First Three Minutes
by Brian David Phillips •
A reality show that sounds very interesting . . . First Three Minutes . . . three PUAs (pick up artists) in their reality. A reality show with no actors that explores the underground world of a secret community of guys who learn the influence skills to pick up women. Each episode will follow PUAs…
Hypnosis Videos, Hypnosis: Entertainment, Stage, and Performance
Hypnosis Driving and the Like . . .
. . . Top Gear . . .
. . . Richard Hammond gets hypnotized . . .
. . . Paul McKenna and more
by Brian David Phillips •
If the video doesn’t play, click here.
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Just Glad It Wasn’t My Flight
by Brian David Phillips •
This sucks and Jeremy Hermanns tells his side of things Alaska Flight #536 – Rapid De-Pressurization and Panic at 30K Feet . . . some of the folks making comments act like it was no big deal and that Jeremy is a bit of a pussy for being concerned let alone fucking scared beyond all…
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Do publishers suck?
. . . or is it the guys who “experiment” on them
by Brian David Phillips •
Neil Gaiman has an interesting post on balderdash worth reading. He looks into yet another newspaper ploy of typing in a literary award winner and then submitting it under another name to see how many publishers reject it. Gaiman notes the experiment is inherently skewed. Be sure to read the pieces he links to for…
*** Workshop Announcements, Eroticatrance, Experiential Trance, Influence, Walkabout Trance Street Hypnosis
Instant Seduction . . .
. . . . . . Happy New Year. . .
. . . . . . and Stuff . . .
. . . hypno odds and ends
by Brian David Phillips •
In his comment to the Happy New Year! post, Ron writes: And a Happy New Year from my family to yours and to everyone reading this. Have a nice one, and keep the hypnotic lessons coming. I am especially interested in spot-hypnotizing a young woman on the street (so that she instantly falls in love…
*** Workshop Announcements, Eroticatrance, Experiential Trance, Influence, Metaphysical Hypnosis, Psychecstatic Engineering Psychological Psychedelic eXperiential Ecstasy, Walkabout Trance Street Hypnosis
Of Energizers and Contexts . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
As previously announced, the Hypnocast Episode Eleven: The Energizer, is now online. For those with an interest, this new video episode of the free hypnocast is up (see http://briandavidphillips.libsyn.com for Episode Eleven: Engergizer). This is a short clip from the Walkabout Trance (street hypnosis) event we ran with the Taipei Experimental Hypnosis Workshop (see https://briandavidphillips.net/…
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Game Room in Your Garage
by Brian David Phillips •
I was looking around the webpages by Alan Lewis as he has some wonderful 3D stereophotography projects (I still use his incredible Alan Lewis Freeviewer’s Assistant and think it is an awful shame that he doesn’t manufacture them anymore as it is the best device of its type) . . . anyway . . .…
Hypnosis Videos, Walkabout Trance Street Hypnosis
Hypnocast Episode Eleven . . .
. . . The Energizer
by Brian David Phillips •
Energizer (3:05, 31.6 megs.). In this episode of the Brian David Phillips Hypnocast (audioblog and videoblog podcast) we demonstate a simple walkabout trance process. This week, the Hypnocast is a video episode recorded during our recent Walkabout Trance event in Taipei (see my workshop posts at Life of Brian where a group of hypnotists got…
Hypnosis in the News
Hypnosis aids the Medical World . . .
. . . relaxation, stress relief, pain control, accellerated healing
by Brian David Phillips •
The Norwich Bulletin discovers that hypnosis aids the medical world for relaxation, accellerating healing, and pain relief . . . Hypnosis aids the medical world Practitioners and their patients say the suggestion of relaxation speeds the process of healing and can deflect pain. Andrea Dameron is a mother of three. For the birth of her…
Hypnosis in the News
Hypnosis and the Martial Arts . . .
. . . some points in common
by Brian David Phillips •
Mark Hoult discovers that you’re getting sleepy is a myth when considering hypnosis and goes further to discover that some practitioners of hypnosis find parallels with their work and practice of martial arts . . . We’ve all heard the stories about stage hypnotists who put people into deep trances and have them clucking like…
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Is it real? . . .
. . . yes!
by Brian David Phillips •
I’ve received a couple questions about the upcoming Romance and Sensuality Hypnosis Course in February (sign up now, the deadline for the Early Bird Registration special is almost upon us) . . . such as, is this stuff real? Yes, it is very real. Yes, students do learn a number of techniques appropriate for consenting…
Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest
Building Your Hypnosis Business . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
Continuing my discussion of Building Your Hypnosis Business from the Hypnosis Technique Exchange. In another list, a member says he’s a newly certified hypnotherapist with a burning desire to build his practice. However, like so many other folks who take a certification course, he needs guidance on kickstarting his business. Here we go again. I…
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Mandarin Makes Inroads in U.S. Schools
by Brian David Phillips •
According to a piece in the New York Times Mandarin Makes Inroads in U.S. Schools. The demand for new programs in Mandarin Chinese is ten times higher than the demand for other languages on the new advanced placement list and it looks like even more programs will be started. This is a nod to the…
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Taipei 101 . . .
. . . fireworks from above . . .
. . . . happy new year!
by Brian David Phillips •
Here it is . . . fireworks from the tallest building on the planet . . . Taipei 101 New Year’s Fireworks . . . We didn’t go as we were having our annual potluck get-together but a few friends did go. Instead of the estimated 200,000 people (more than capacity), there were over 400,000…
