Monthly Archives: July 2006

Eroticatrance, Experiential Trance

Bellydance Superstars on KTLA

by Brian David Phillips • July 17, 2006

Watching this clips, got me thinking . . . I really need a volunteer to watch this and some others in Experiential Trance . . . obviously, someone learning bellydance would get a wonderful skillset boost . . . but, it’s so sensual that someone who doesn’t have the skillsets or background might still have…

Bellydance Superstars . . . wow

by Brian David Phillips • July 17, 2006

Wondeful. Wow. The world needs more of this. Amazing skillsets.

Macking in Taipei . . .
. . . missed this, anyone have it?

by Brian David Phillips • July 17, 2006

Just goes to show you . . . I stop reading the local news for a bit in order to get caught up with other more pressing things and suddenly kool stuff hits and I’ve no clue until well after the fact. This is something I would have wanted to read . . . So…

Smoking Accounts for Health Gap . . .
. . . Smoke and Die Early

by Brian David Phillips • July 16, 2006

We’ve noted articles on this in the past but here it is from the BBC in a new guise in a new study that once again that . . . smoking accounts for health gap . . . studies have shown that smoking accounts for half of the health problems and, most significantly, lower life…

Of Dark Secrets and Clean Cities . . .

by Brian David Phillips • July 16, 2006

This is both sad and predictable . . . ‘Clean’ Nagano’s dark, dirty secret: AIDS . . . what do you get when you make certain your city is the cleanest in the country with no sex business or public indecency or the like in a nation where sex businesses are often legal and regulated? …

Freak

by Brian David Phillips • July 16, 2006

Okay, that’s just creepy . . . Freak.

The Science Fiction Files

by Brian David Phillips • July 15, 2006

David Gerrold, author of The Trouble with Tribbles (the extremely popular Star Trek episode . . . which I also happen to teach in a few of my classes, usually with my pet tribble at hand) . . . has an awesome article at ABC News . . . The Science Fiction Files . .…

Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Hypnosis

by Brian David Phillips • July 15, 2006

More coverage on the benefits of Hypnosis and Pregnancy and Childbirth . . . more and more is coming out about the benefits of hypnosis for 1. getting pregnant, 2. being pregnant, and 3. having a baby. Hypnosis has been shown to be highly beneficial for the whole kit’n’kaboodle. See this article and others in…

Stage Hypnosis Show . . . 29 July 2006 . . . The Farmhouse, Taipei . . . 8:30-10:00pm, be there!

by Brian David Phillips • July 14, 2006

BRIAN DAVID PHILLIPS WAKING DREAMS HYPNOSIS SHOW, Saturday, July 29, 2006 . . . at The Farmhouse in Taipei . . . 8:30-10:00pm. See here for details. All the best,Brianhttp://www.briandavidphillips.com

Rachel Kramer Bussel . . .
. . . Fucking and Feminism . . .
. . . blowjobs, casual sex, and rape fantasies are under attack

by Brian David Phillips • July 14, 2006

Rachel Kramer Bussel has an essay worth reading on

McKenna ‘ridiculed’ by PhD claim

by Brian David Phillips • July 14, 2006

So . . . Paul McKenna has sued the Mirror because he felt ridiculed when the paper called him a fraud for claiming to have a PhD when his degree comes from a diploma mill . . . McKenna ‘ridiculed’ by PhD claim . . . the university he "didn’t attend" is a well known…

Stage Hypnosis Show . . . 29 July 2006 . . .
. . . The Farmhouse, Taipei . . .
. . . time set, 8:30-10:00pm, be there!

by Brian David Phillips • July 13, 2006

I have updated the information from this post and reposting it here as a reminder for folks. The date is set and it’s official so I can go ahead and let it leak . . . I will be presenting a special encore performance of my Brian David Phillips Waking Dreams Hypnosis Show, Saturday, July…

Brian David Phillips Waking Dreams Hypnosis . . .
. . . Walkabout Trance Street Hypnosis Highlights

by Brian David Phillips • July 13, 2006

Selected highlights of Brian David Phillips performing Walkabout Trance Street Hypnosis. The Waking Dreams Hypnosis Show is presented in the street as well as on stage. Clips are taken from a Walkabout Trance style performance at the Taipei Zoo in Taipei, Taiwan, on December 28, 2005. For more videos, photos, mp3s, as well as information…

Missing in Action . . . recovery . . .

by Brian David Phillips • July 13, 2006

Typepad has a crash and a lot of folks had posts lost . . . I lost this post which suddenly seemed to cease to exist . . . took a while to recover it but I have re-edited, re-framed, and re-published with the old time and date so, except for this notice, it seems…

Black Eyed Peas . . .
. . . Fergie stays straight and hypnotic

by Brian David Phillips • July 13, 2006

Here we go again . . . Chronicmagazine… Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie is on the cover of the August issue of Cosmopolitan and gets personal in an interview with the mag. She explains why she dropped the name Stacy, reveals what being in a group with three men has taught her about guys and…

Brian David Phillips . . .
. . . Waking Dreams Hypnosis Show Highlights

by Brian David Phillips • July 12, 2006

Selected highlights of the Waking Dreams Hypnosis Show presented by Brian David Phillips. Clips are taken from a performance in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 22, 2002. For more videos, photos, mp3s, as well as information about shows, services, products, classes, and resources for the working hypnotist, see http://www.briandavidphillips.com (with links to active resource email lists,…

Core Tarot Decks . . .
. . . is there such a monkey?

by Brian David Phillips • July 12, 2006

On Tarot L, as part of another thread, a member posts about a recent survey on a Tarot forum that asks what are the most important Tarot decks for the serious student? See the full response at Back to Tarot – and back futher. Our poster notes that there was a consensus in the results…

Brian David Phillips . . .
. . . Waking Dreams Hypnosis Highlights

by Brian David Phillips • July 11, 2006

Selected highlights of Brian David Phillips experiential hypnosis presentations, performances, and techniques. Clips range from demonstrational educational hypnosis, entertainment hypnosis, recreational hypnosis, and street hypnosis. For more videos, photos, mp3s, as well as information about shows, services, products, classes, and resources for the working hypnotist, see http://www.briandavidphillips.com (with links to active resource email lists, blog,…

Pirates . . .

by Brian David Phillips • July 11, 2006

Lorraine, Kaye, and I went to see the new pirates and really enjoyed it. I can see why so many critics were panning it . . . they were looking for a different experience . . . and why audiences have flocked . . . think of it as a live action comedy cartoon. It…

Back in the Saddle Again . . .

by Brian David Phillips • July 11, 2006

Well, it was a week . . . that’s how long I was gone from Tarot L before enough folks convinced me that I really did make a mistake and that leaving the group because I was not happy with some folks wasn’t really helping me, them, or the list. So . . . I’m…

Of Films and Christianity . . .
. . . do Christians read the Bible?

by Brian David Phillips • July 10, 2006

Lorraine Yuk-Lan Law Phillips takes a look at controversy and Christianity . . . that is films that are considered controversial by Christians and then Christian films that are considered Christian which completely contradict the Bible. See her insightful and inciteful essay here (the thought-provoking essay is written in Chinese so if you can’t read…

Stage Hypnosis Show . . . 29 July 2006 . . .
. . . The Farmhouse, Taipei

by Brian David Phillips • July 9, 2006

The date is set and it’s official so I can go ahead and let it leak . . . I will be presenting a special encore performance of my Brian David Phillips Waking Dreams Hypnosis Show, Saturday, July 29, 2006 . . . at The Farmhouse in Taipei. Ths show is set for 8:30-10:00pm. We…

yo, what’s up with . . .
. . . alternatives

by Brian David Phillips • July 9, 2006

If information of a deeply personal or not so much personal but perhaps crossing into sexual or perhaps even creepy nature offends, confuses, or bugs you in any way then stop reading (of course, I now know that a whole slew of folks who wouldn’t normally read this post are going to read it anyway…

What’s Up Wit That?
. . . Hypnotists

by Brian David Phillips • July 9, 2006

The folks at Fired-Up Productions devoted an episode of their program to hypnosis, hypnotists, and hypnotherapists. They may not have great production values and they may be running on a shoe-string but it’s actually a pretty solid set which has two guest hypnotists with different takes on things . . . The description of the…

some photos to go along with a couple posts

by Brian David Phillips • July 9, 2006

A couple images to go along with some past posts . . . Here is Kaye getting ready for her Junior High School Non-Placement Test . . . no, Lorraine did not get to stay for the test, this is before the big deal. Lorraine had a PTA meeting that morning and so while Kaye…