So a recent study that compared education systems around the world reccommends that the United States do more to increase teacher status, pay, mentoring and more (see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/education/16teachers.html for details) while we’re seeing teachers losing status in a number of states. Understatement to say it’s a mess. – Brian
Monthly Archives: March 2011
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Last Day for HYP-NO-SLEEP Waking Hypnosis DVD set Pre-Release Sale! Act NOW or miss out!
by Brian David Phillips •
THIS IS THE LAST DAY . . . ONLY ONE DAY LEFT! TOMORROW THE WEBPAGE GETS CHANGED AND THE SALE BECOMES A THING OF THE PAST! SO, ACT NOW OR MISS OUT! You still have a little time but if you don’t act NOW, you will MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! Right now you can get the…
Influence, Special Features
Study proves the obvious . . . men are more likely to say yes to sex with a random stranger than women are.
by Brian David Phillips •
It’s official! Men are more likely to have sex with random strangers than women. There’s an old study done in the United States on sexual attraction that I discuss in my various Seduction Mindtricks 情場高手速成班 seminars and workshops as well as in a few of my university courses on communication. In the study, students (male…
automatisms and ideomotor effect
Automatic Drawing: Lorraine Away
by Brian David Phillips •
It’s been awhile since I’ve put a new automatic drawing into the gallery . . . not awhile since I’ve done any, either recreationally or therapeutically, just a very long while since I’ve added to the gallery here. Since Lorraine is away on a trip to Thailand with folks from her company, I decided to…
Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest
US Trip and Los Angeles Hypnosis Seminars Delayed
by Brian David Phillips •
Sorry, folks, but some major commitments have come up that just can’t be rearranged so . . . the Los Angeles hypnosis seminars we had planned for this Summer will be delayed to some time in February 2012. The extra wait will be worth it. – Brian
Hypnosis in the News, Influence, Special Features
No, they did NOT use hypnosis to rob people despite all the reports otherwise.
by Brian David Phillips •
A whole slew of reports are coming out now that Sartaz Ali and Sheru Hussain have been arrested for using hypnosis to rob people. Uh, no, at least not from the descriptions of their activities. These folks were conmen, pure and simple. They would pose as police officers and get elderly folks to put their…
Hypnosis in the News
Tinnitus treatment via Hypnosis
by Brian David Phillips •
Tinnitus is a condition in which a person hears ringing or other persistent sounds within their ears without outside stimuli. It can be very frustrating for longterm sufferers and even painful. There are few treatments that work well, although hypnosis has been found to help many folks. Timothy Tyler’s procedure is discussed at http://www.updateddailey.com/procedural-method-of-the-tinnitus-hypnosis-treatment/ and…
Hypnosis in the News
Train Your Neurons to Ease Pain
by Brian David Phillips •
Michael Sullivan discusses the relationship of neurons and the experience of pain as well as one possible protocol for re-training neurons to experience pain differently via visualization and suggestion at http://mg.co.za/article/2011-03-11-train-your-neurons-to-ease-the-pain/. I use a different protocol but regardless of the approach, suggestion has been shown to be very effective in alleviating the experience of pain…
Special Features, Uncategorized
Goodbye, Ra
by Brian David Phillips •
Ra Uru Hu has passed. Goodbye, Ra . . . fair journey. The following notice was posted on the Jovian Archive: Some of my dearest friends (Deepak and Ming-yng) are advocates and practitioners of Human Design and I have taken an introductory course with them along with other programs so I have built a bit…
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Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami
by Brian David Phillips •
See http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html for an interactive feature that shows just how devastating the damage from the earthquake and tsunami is . . . move the sliders on the images left and right to see the before and after perspectives from the satellite photos of the areas affected . . . now, as you see all those…
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A Brief History of Actors Kicked OFF Their TV Shows
by Brian David Phillips •
In light of recent events with Charlie Sheen, Movie Line has an illustrated piece that gives an overview of actors who have been fired from their own television shows. See http://www.movieline.com/2011/03/a-brief-history-of-actors-being-fired-from-their-television-shows.php for a trip through television history. Some of the firings were obviously justified – drug abuse and unreasonable demands – and some make you…
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Into the Nexus Erotic Experience Webinar Audio Recording
by Brian David Phillips •
Take a journey into the heart of the universe, where you will become with everything and everything is erotic! This is the audio recording of a room trance demonstration in eroticatrance presented by Rev. Dr. Brian David Phillips entitled INTO THE EROTIC NEXUS. Yes, this recording includes a complete hypnotic process that guides a person…
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HYP-NO-SLEEP Waking Hypnosis DVD set pre-release special expires March 15!
by Brian David Phillips •
You still have time but if you don’t act NOW, you will MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! Right now you can get the HYP-NO-SLEEP program at a very special pre-release deal but after March 15, the price goes WAYYYYYY UPPPPP! A LOT of folks have been asking for this and we’re ready to invite you to see…
Hypnosis: Entertainment, Stage, and Performance
Spring Scream Hypnosis Show!
by Brian David Phillips •
Yes, we will be performing at Spring Scream! The Brian David Phillips Comedy Hypnosis Show will be part of the festivities at Spring Scream this year! The festival is April 1-4 in Kenting. Sorry, we don’t yet know which date and time and stage we will be performing at as the schedule is not yet…
Hypnosis: Entertainment, Stage, and Performance, 中文 Posts, 舞台催眠秀 Shows
Funny Hypnosis Show set for April 8 at the Live Comedy Club Taipei
by Brian David Phillips •
樂 在 催 眠 FUNNY HYPNOSIS 用催眠打開內心的快樂製造機 Taiwan’s Premiere Comedy Hypnosis Show http://www.comedy.com.tw 中文: http://www.briandavidphillips.com/chinese/c_stageshow.html English: http://www.briandavidphillips.com/stageshow.html 4月8日 地點：Live COMEDY CLUB Taipei (http://www.comedy.com.tw) 時間：8:00pm 地址：北市忠孝東路4段553巷20號 (近市政府捷運站) 訂位電話：02-2764-5529 口譯：羅玉蘭 (https://briandavidphillips.net/author/lorraine-phillips/) 300元 • 8 April 2011: Live COMEDY CLUB Taipei (http://www.comedy.com.tw) Bilingual Performance (English with Chinese interpretation) 8:00pm No.20, Ln.553, Sec.4, ZhongXiao E. Rd; Da-an District, Taipei…
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Tsunami
by Brian David Phillips •
As you probably know a tsunami has hit Japan . . . the 8.9 earthquake has caused extensive damage in Northern Japan and aftershocks still coming. A number of countries in the region are preparing for the waves (http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=211720 and http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/tsunami.hawaii.japan.warning/) including Taiwan which is on the tsunami watch list now (http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201103110011). Taiwan is likely…
Eroticatrance, Hypnosis Q&A, Special Features
Does Erotic Hypnosis need to be consensual?
by Brian David Phillips •
Recently, on the Hypnosis Technique Exchange (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HypnosisTechniqueExchange), we received a query on the nature of consent and hypnosis and why I often say that it is very important for erotic hypnosis to be built upon a consensual model. The querant has read a number of articles in which I have repeatedly emphasized the importance of…
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Me and Bobby McGee
by Brian David Phillips •
“Me and Bobby McGee“ is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, originally performed by Roger Miller, and later by others including Kristofferson himself, and also Janis Joplin, who topped the U.S. singles chart with the song in 1971, after her death, making the song the second posthumous number-one single in U.S. chart…
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She don’t like Firefly and she’s gone gone gone . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
Seriously, she didn’t even cry when Wash died? That’s just wrong wrong wrong. – Brian
Influence
Is McCarthyism Alive and Well? Maybe
by Brian David Phillips •
Hmmmmmmm. For those who don’t remember who Joseph McCarthy was – and for those who’d like a quick refresher – take a quick look at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthy.htm. Now, with McCarthy’s tactics in mind, go read these features on Peter King (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/opinion/08tue1.html) and Brigitte Gabriel (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/us/08gabriel.html) but while reading mentally replace the word “Islam” with “Communism” and…
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San Ba . . . Happy Women’s Day!
by Brian David Phillips •
Today is International Women’s Day . . . or . . . San Ba . . . the international event was first celebrated in 1909 in the United States and spread worldwide soon after. Coincidentally, the date March 8 is also a slang expression in Chinese for a gossip or sometimes “crazy” woman. It’s kind…
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No Excuse for Gang Rape of Eleven-Year-Old Girl
by Brian David Phillips •
So far, seventeen men and boys have been charged with the gang rape of an eleven year old girl. That number is very likely to go up to twenty-eight. The assailants range in age from a junior high school boy to a twenty-seven-year-old man. A number of the rapists are members of the championship high…
Hypnosis in the News
The Brave New World is Here and it Sucks . . . Psychiatry Abandoning Human Connection and Moving to Instant Drug Prescriptions
by Brian David Phillips •
This is scary stuff . . . I mean really scary . . . Brave New World scary . . . the New York Times has a feature on the current trend in psychiatrists abandoning all variations of talk therapy completely and moving into very brief sessions with patients with absolutely no human connection, you…
3D/VR/AR/360°
3D Movies are Here to Stay
by Brian David Phillips •
Dorothy Pomerantz has a piece at Forbes which goes into a number of reasons why 3D movies are here to stay and not the passing fad some critics had hoped. See http://blogs.forbes.com/dorothypomerantz/2011/03/04/3-d-is-here-to-stay/ for more. – Brian
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Rob Bell . . . going to hell or surrounded in love?
by Brian David Phillips •
The New York Times has an intriguing piece on the recent controversy brought about by Rob Bell with the promotional materials for his new book . . . http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/us/05bell.html . . . Bell has really pissed off a whole slew of folks with intimation that perhaps good loving folks like Gandhi aren’t actually burning in…
