Early birthday on the mountain. Tomorrow is Lorraine’s birthday and we decided to celebrate early as today is the 2-28 holiday here in Taiwan while tomorrow is a workday. So we went to Tienmou to pick up a friend then to a nearby mountain restaurant.
Monthly Archives: February 2011
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Murmurs Of Middle-Earth
by Brian David Phillips •
Pogo’s adaptation of Lord of the Rings into one of his catchy – and odd – music pieces. Enjoy. – Brian
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Presuppositions of NLP Webinar Audio Recording
by Brian David Phillips •
This is the audio recording of a webinar (web-based seminar) presented by Dr. Joseph (Deepak) Vidmar on the PRESUPPOSITIONS OF NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING presented in the community webinar series as a guest of Rev. Dr. Brian David Phillips. The discussion centered upon the foundation principles and underlying principles of NLP and how they can be used…
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Vampire Forecloses on Bank . . . interview on Fox News
by Brian David Phillips •
Check out the fangs on the guest and how the host does not react at all . . . – Brian
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Bowling
by Brian David Phillips •
Traffic was bad so we stopped off for bowling in Tamshui. Here we see Kaye and Lorraine have very different styles.
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Mmmmmmm Strawberries
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Kaye enjoying a tasty treat.
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At the Beach
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Great weather today so we headed to a surfer beach for lunch.
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Imagine What I Could Have Done with My Fire Breathing Fists
by Brian David Phillips •
Yes, indeed . . . finally . . . “I fire back once and this contaminated little maggot can’t handle my power and can’t handle the truth. I wish him nothing but pain in his silly travels especially if they wind up in my octagon. Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words—imagine what…
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Pardon our dust . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
Okay, this may seem annoying but that’s ONLY because it IS very very ANNOYING. I upgraded my wordpress install as they just came out with an important new version with a lot of security fixes and it broken my theme big time (we’re talkin’ nothing works). So, I found a premium theme that has already…
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Shhhhhh . . . special specialness coming soon! Super secret not-really-so-secret US schedule for this Summer.
by Brian David Phillips •
Shhhhhhhh . . . can you keep a secret? Okay, maybe not so much a secret as something we’re in the planning stages of and likely to be posting a full announcement complete with links for registration . . . but . . . we’ve got some very special events coming up . . .…
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UK NHS Trial on Hypnobirthing Underway
by Brian David Phillips •
The NHS in the UK is conducting trials on the efficacy of hypnobirthing, the use of hypnosis to control pain for mothers delivering children. This is a very very very very good thing. We’ve known for some time about the benefits of hypnosis in fertility issues and the benefits in reducing labor pains. I know,…
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Revolutionary Reruns? Not quite, but lessons to be learned.
by Brian David Phillips •
I was wondering when the comparisons would begin . . . that is a wave of discussion of the current wave of revolutions rocking the Middle East comparing them to the French Revolution. It’s an easy comparision but not quite full enough. The more worthwhile critical essays are also pulling in the American Revolution (it…
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United Breaks Guitars
by Brian David Phillips •
The saga of Dave Carroll and his guitar and the pain and suffering of flying United Airlines . . . the three song challenge . . . a musical tragedy of sorts . . . United Breaks Guitars So, what is that about? From Dave’s blog back when this all happened: In the spring of…
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Hypnosleep Webinar Audio Recording
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Can a person really be hypnotized while they are asleep? Yes. Can a person who is awake be hypnotized into a near sleeping state so that suggestions become powerfully accepted? Yes. Listen to this recording and learn how. This is indeed it! Here it is! This is the audio recording of a webinar (web-based seminar)…
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Get the HYP-NO-SLEEP Experiential Waking Hypnosis DVD set for a fraction of the release price!
by Brian David Phillips •
A LOT of folks have been asking for this and we’re ready to invite you to see what’s behind the curtain, the hidden workings of the waking trance . . . HYP-NO-SLEEP is here and it’s a very special product . . . this goes beyond hypnosis and beyond NLP . . . this is…
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Airship Pirates . . . Abney Park getting a tabletop RPG based upon the steampunk band’s music and backstory
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I know . . . I’ve been posting a LOT on Steampunk music and culture of late, well, much more than on hypnosis and trance which really is what this blog normally focuses on . . . but when I explore things or find them of interest they often go here as this blog isn’t…
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Steampunk Culture and Music
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MTV Shows This is a video from MTV on Steampunk with a glance at the music of the culture. Found it because I’ve been devouring Abney Park (http://www.abneypark.com) of late. Methinks we’ve found a wonderful musical subculture resonant with some – but not all – of Kaye’s own interests in tersm of musical complexity in…
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End of Days by Abney Park . . . steampunk musique
by Brian David Phillips •
I quite enjoy bands that play with fantasy, science fiction, and magickal themes. Abney Park started out labeled as gothic and then through the years as folks came and went, they reinvented themselves as a steampunk band complete with airship narrative and band member alter-personae as airship pirates and they seem to have really hit…
Influence
Trick Your Brain into Feeling like it’s in LOVE
by Brian David Phillips •
The good folks at Io9 decided to celebrate the recent Valentine’s Day by providing us with a useful list of TEN WAYS YOU CAN TRICK YOUR BRAIN INTO FEELING LIKE IT’S IN LOVE . . . creepy? Yes. Interesting, more yes. See the full list at http://io9.com/#!5759511/10-ways-to-trick-your-brain-into-feeling-like-youre-in-love for your neuroloving trickery. – Brian
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Trail of Tears read by Johnny Cash
by Brian David Phillips •
The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation and movement of Native Americans from the then present-day United States. It has rightly been described by many social historians as an act of genocide. The image above is the painting Trail of Tears by Max D. Standley commemorating the event. The removal included many members of…
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Headin’ Home . . . Passion Speed Hypnosis was WONDERFUL!
by Brian David Phillips •
As I write this we’re running around the Hong Kong apartment grabbing things and throwing them into luggage as we ready to head to the airport and then HOME . . . back to Keelung . . . back to Taiwan . . . back to familiar beds. The Hong Kong trip was wonderful (okay,…
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Hong Kong Seminar Day One Wowza
by Brian David Phillips •
So, we have officially finished the first day of the SPEED ENTERTAINMENT HYPNOSIS seminar (http://www.briandavidphillips.com/training/hkspeedstage.html) in Hong Kong and we had an absolute blast! We’ve got about half the students coming in from various countries overseas and the other half are local to Hong Kong. About half are hypno-newbies and the other half are experienced.…
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Andrew Salter on Problem Solving
by Brian David Phillips •
I have just finished reading one of famed hypnotist, psychologist, and behaviorist Andrew Salter‘s papers from The Conditioning Therapies: the Challenge of Psychotherapy (Leo J. Reyna, Andrew Salter & Joseph Walpe, 1964) and he has a beautiful comment that serves almost as an epiphany of sorts: “I mention my interest in ‘problem-solving’ because years ago…
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Zombie Love Song
by Brian David Phillips •
Zombie Love Song from Your Favorite Martian. Valentine’s Day is around the corner. – Brian
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Got the Headers Back . . . whew
by Brian David Phillips •
I’m still in Hong Kong but discovered I do have my header stuff with me so I was able to correct the mess I made of things in upgrading my wordpress system. So, I don’t have to wait to return to Taipei to fix it. Done. – Brian