This analysis of 10 Ways to make yourself a YouTube Star is both tongue in cheek and very accurate. Those are the characteristics of many of the most popular videos.
Monthly Archives: August 2006
*** Workshop Announcements
Taipei Hypnosis Workshop Meeting . . .
CREATIVE SWISHY REFRAME TRANCE PROCESSES
(Basic Operators, Metastructures, and Building Original Patterns for Creating Imaginative Involvement)
by Brian David Phillips •
On 17 September 2006, the Taipei Experimental Hypnosis Workshop will have a meeting. This month’s topic is CREATIVE SWISHY REFRAME TRANCE PROCESSES (Basic Operators, Metastructures, and Building Original Patterns for Creating Imaginative Involvement). If you live in these parts and would like to join us, contact me. The Taipei Experimental Hypnosis and Trancework Workshop is…
*** Workshop Announcements, Hypnosis Videos, Hypnosis: Entertainment, Stage, and Performance
Terrance B’s Hypnosis Show in Saskatoon
by Brian David Phillips •
Here’s a google video of Terrance B hypnotizing a group at the Saskatoon Exibition on August 8th. The video takes a while to load so you may want to pause it and let the buffer load up a bunch before viewing. It’s an hour long comedy hypnosis show. Folks who have taken my Introduction to…
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Big Tobacco Evil Moneygrubbing Parasites Manipulating and Preying Upon the Weak
by Brian David Phillips •
A federal judge has ruled in a landmark case that shows categorically that Big Tobacco Lied to Public . . . A federal judge ruled yesterday that tobacco companies have violated civil racketeering laws, concluding that cigarette makers conspired for decades to deceive the public about the dangers of their product and ordering the companies…
*** Workshop Announcements
Sign Up Now . . .
SPEED HYPNOSIS, Nov. 18-19, 2006
by Brian David Phillips •
SPEED HYPNOSISInstant and Rapid Hypnosis Inductions Secrets of Fast, Faster, Fastest Hypnotic Techniques Brian David Phillips, Ph.D., C.H. For correspondence, information in Chinese, or for questions regarding Chinese interpetation, please contact Lorraine Yuk-Lan Law Phillips here. DATES: November 18-19, 2006LOCATION: Taipei, Taiwan (Venue Announced After Accepted Registration)COURSE HOURS: 12 hours (two days)LIMITED SEATING: Positions in…
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Quote of the Season . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. — Aristotle (Politics) Snarfed from Karl at…
Influence
Programming the Nation
by Brian David Phillips •
Ignite Productions has a piece on Programming the Nation, a history and exploration of subliminal programming in media, particularly commercial advertising with propaganda and the works. The trailer is online so give it a view.
Hypnosis in the News
more on improper procedures . . .
. . . forensic hypnosis gone awry
by Brian David Phillips •
When you use hypnosis in a ciminal investigation, it is very very important to use proper forensic procedures . . . just because someone is a police officer, doesn’t mean they can perform forensic hypnosis . . . just because someone is any ol’ hypnotist doesn’t mean they can perform forensic hypnosis . . .…
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George Bush Outed?
. . . Bush’s Secret Gay Life
by Brian David Phillips •
First, he’s not actually outed if there’s no evidence to back up the innuendo and side-of-mouth comments . . . associating an issue to someone’s death without clear testimony is a little on the creepy side . . . George Bush Outed: Bush’s Secret Gay Life . . . it’s not the first place I’ve…
Influence
Thought Moments . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
This is interesting . . . Thought Moments . . . a short film by Michael Simon Toon that explores eye accessing cues. Basically, the filmmaker goes around and asks random folks a series of ten questions and then maps the eye movements to a grid. Unfortunately, the grid being used is applied to everyone…
Hypnosis in the News, Metaphysical Hypnosis
More Celebrity Reincarnation Hypnosis . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
More celebrity pastlife hypnosis in the news . . . this time a book has a whole slew of celebrities pegged for which of their pastlives they are resonant with now . . . Shah Rukh is a reincarnation of a Bengali dancer . . . like the Finklestein statements about the recent "unearthing" of…
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Chinese Adult Expo . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
We really need an adult expo like the one in Shanghai here in Taipei. The fleshbot links are here. Seriously, we need one . . . and when we get one . . . someone damned well better’d invite me and my camera.
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85% of Women Wear the Wrong Size Bra
by Brian David Phillips •
Okay, that just figures . . . most women wear the wrong bra . . . eighty-five percent of women are wearing the wrong size bra. If they wore the correct bra, they would actually look ten to fifteen pounds lighter. Go figure.
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gender-bending popular in video games
by Brian David Phillips •
Yep . . . gender-bending popular in video games . . . By day, Freeman Williams manages a small dental practice in suburban Houston. But on any given night, he’s prowling crime-ridden streets and battling ne’er-do-wells in the video game “City of Heroes” as his virtual alter-ego: a female superhero named Robotrixie. “I get in…
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Sex in the City is bad for you
by Brian David Phillips •
Hmmm . . . Sex in the City is bad for you . . . According to the New York City Health Department teen girls that watch Sex in the City are more likely to smoke than girls who don’t watch the program. The study found that these girls think that cigarettes make them look…
Influence
bad news for sex drive
by Brian David Phillips •
A recent bit of research shows that the longer a woman is in a secure relationship, the less she wants sex . . . bad news for sex drive. This could be because of supply and demand and influence (by holding off on sex, it increases the drive in the male) or because women tend…
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Science Project . . . gone awry
by Brian David Phillips •
Although it caught me by surprise at the time, I can now understand why my senior science project went over so badly. Enjoy. .
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Carving Up the UEP . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
A juged is pushing to take the relgion out of the UEP Trust . . . judge may decide fate of the FLDS trust today . . . this is ostensibly to remove the advocation of polygamy from the trust which was founded by the church as a means to manage community property and the…
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Of murder and polygamy . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
John Hollenhorst writes about the recent addition of Jacqueline Tarsa LeBaron to the FBI’s most wanted list . . . Member of Polygamist Cult Added to Most Wanted List. Note that he makes a point to mention the Warren Jeffs community as being linked to the LeBaron group. However, the disclaimer that the Jeffs group…
Magic
Bump Keying
by Brian David Phillips •
See here.
Hypnosis in the News
Forensic Hypnosis takes a sucker punch . . .
. . . New Jersey testimony induced by hypnosis rejected
by Brian David Phillips •
Bath water . . . baby . . . throwin’ it all out . . . New Jersey makes all hypnotic testimony unacceptable except for defendants because one case had problems with disclosure . . . testimony induced by hypnosis rejected . . . The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday barred witness testimony stemming…
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The Hunt for Warren Jeffs
by Brian David Phillips •
Lorraine and I have been watching the television show Big Love lately . . . so-far it isn’t living up to the critical raves but is just starting to pick up . . . so the piece by Sanjiv Bhattacharya about real life polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs is timely . . . The Hunt for…
Tarot
TarotL . . . ownership . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
Things have gotten pretty strange at TarotL, the email discussion list on Tarot that I have been co-moderating for some time. We’ve just had a few upsets and unsettlings and the like as well as controversies galore . . . all of which has been under the onus that the list owner has been missing…
Hypnosis in the News
Candace Pert and the MindBody . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
An intriguing discussion of the work of Dr. Candacer Pert and the mindbody connection . . . Candace Pert . . . “I am alarmed at the monster that Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon Snyder and I created when we discovered the simple binding assay for drug receptors 25 years ago. Prozac and other antidepressant serotonin-receptor-active…
Magic
Ursula . . .
. . . the ol’ disappearing handkerchief . . .
. . . . . with a twist
by Brian David Phillips •
NSFW . . . really, this may be a classic magic trick but it is most definately NSFW . . . you have been warned . . . Gala 2006 Ursula . . . variation on the ol’ disappearing handerchief with a real twist. Note the audience did not seem to expect that.
