Here we go! Be sure to join us this weekend for MULTIVERSAL TRANCE, the FREE Online Webinar! FREE ONLINE HYPNOSIS WEBINAR Hypnotic Parallel Lives and Beyond MULTIVERSALTRANCE Quantum Hypnosis Timeline Methods 18 September 2011 : Free Webinar free hypnosis webinar in MULTIVERSAL TRANCE Quantum Hypnosis Timeline Methods Hypnotic Parallel Lives and Beyond Rev. Dr. Brian…

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We have experienced the joy of computer failure yet again so until I get my main machine back, responses to queries will be slowed down. I apologize for any inconvenience. C’est la vie. – Brian

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Wired has an intriguing look at how the Khan Academy is changing how classroom education is approached . . . see http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/all/1 for a fascinating discussion. The future of education? Perhaps. However, it would require a LOT of changes in how funding bodies and education boards approach educational planning . . . and these sort…

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Brillian . . . Why Batman Is Secretly Terrible for Gotham — powered by Cracked.com Or not. – Brian

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Well, WordPress has a new version up and while my magazine template seems to be working fine there are evidently some plugin conflicts with one or more of my various apps that help make this blog site run the way I want it to. Rather than turn things off I will be putting up with…

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HYPNO HOLIDAY SALE! Go to the online store at https://briandavidphillips.net/chinesenewyearsale/ for massive savings! HAPPY HOLIDAY! All the best, Brian http://www.briandavidphillips.com

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Coolness and a half! We’ve updated the website store and added a whole slew of products, downloadable and otherwise. We have over one hundred hypnosis products online for you! And . . . more is on the way! Check out the store by clicking on the link in the left sidebar in the “Waking Dreams”…

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The Republican-controlled Senate of New York has passed a Gay Marriage law. See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/gay-marriage-legalized-new-york_n_884434.html for a whole lot of coverage. I particularly like Republican Senator Roy McDonald‘s defense of his own support for the new law: “You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t black and white, good and…

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Stephen Colbert presents a very special Northwestern University graduation commencement speech at Ryan Field, 25 years after his own graduation! All the best, Brian

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So, thanks to the suckage that is today’s economy and the mess it has made of what used to be a job market, newly graduated millennials can’t start their careers and baby boomers are forced to delay retirement and can’t end their careers . . . can you say Catch 22? Ronald Brownstein at the…

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Love him or hate him or have massive amounts of indifference toward him, no one, absolutely no one, sings like the great William Shatner. In honor of his receipt of the Lifetime Achievement Award from Canada’s Governor General, Shatner sings O Canada in a style uniquely his own! Congratulations, Mr. Shatner! All the best, Brian…

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The Daily Show – Canadian OilverlordsTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

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Most folks don’t think much about foreskins, in fact, most Americans are pretty much used to not seeing them in the wild . . . so when a proposed ban on circumcision in San Francisco made the news rounds, most folks dismissed it as odd. However, the ban – a universal ban on all circumcision,…

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The global war on drugs has failed and governments should explore legalizing marijuana and other controlled substances, according to a commission that includes former heads of state, a former U.N. secretary-general and a business mogul. A new report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy argues that the decades-old “global war on drugs has failed,…

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The TSA is in the news again . . . I realize that there are very good folks who work for the TSA in the US and that there are very publicity hungry folks who take advantage of the situation . . . but . . . in my experience, sometimes a bunch of smoke…

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Lorraine and I spent the day at Computex. Brian

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While I have lived in Taiwan for close to twenty-two years, I am still a small town Kansas boy at heart. I was raised in Abilene, Kansas, and still think of it as my “home” in many respects that count. While, Abilene will always be in my heart and I do find myself thinking of…

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One of my favorite tales from antiquity is the Epic of Gilgamesh (http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/), not least because it includes part of the saga of the goddess Inanna who became Ishtar who becomes the model for so many goddesses and saints after Her. I’ve long had a fascination for this versatile, powerful, and oft-misunderstood and misrepresented deity.…

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Make the Girl Dance . . . Baby Baby Baby . . . because sometimes you just have to rip your clothes off and walk down the street . . . Yes, it’s a bit on the oldish side now but . . . nekkid ladies walking down the street never really gets too old,…

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Okay, I will admit it . . . the absolutely only reason I even became aware of this music video, let alone watched it, was simply because Leonard Nimoy is in the beastie, doing a rather engaging self-parody of himself as a grouchy porn-lovin’ old man. Of course, I am not alone in this .…

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Uh, wow . . . see http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam for the story. – Brian

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In her regular column at the Huffington Post, Marlo Thomas writes of the free to be program and the long long road ahead as children in the US continue to opt for suicide as an escape from bullying. Thomas notes: According to current statistics, one out of every four teenagers across America is bullied in…

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What do you get when you mash John Lennon’s Instant Karma with the film version of The Shining? You get the willies, that’s what. Click the full screen button for playback and turbocharge that bout of uncanny. – Brian

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