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Polar Bear Rain or WTF Seriously?

No explanations or discussions can do this video justice . . .

Seriously, WTF?

All the best,
Brian

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New Affiliate Program now online for our Hypnosis Training DVDs

 We've had a number of requests for this and so we've decided to make our AFFILIATE PROGRAM public for those who wish to earn with our Hypnosis Training DVD products.

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All the best,
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Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan

Things You Didn't Know About Orgasms

In her TED Talk, Mary Roach (http://www.maryroach.net) gives a delightful presentation of Ten Things You Didn't Know About Orgasms (http://www.ted.com/talks/mary_roach_10_things_you_didn_t_know_about_orgasm.html) which is a delightful run down on a whole bunch of things that I did indeed already know but also know that most people don't know (let's face it, regular readers of the Life of Brian blog are well aware of my academic and otherwise interest in this area - a good place to start is my Erotic and Sexual Hypnosis category on the blog as well as the numerous discussions at the Hypnosis Technique Exchange).

For those of you reading this on the blog with embedded files intact, here's the video of the talk . . .

Ten Things You Didn't Know About Orgasms

Most of that material is fairly straightforward, but Roach mentions a few things, one in particular, that have everything to do with some things we've been exploring here for years and years . . .

Roach discusses having met a woman who told her that she had learned how to have an orgasm using her mind alone. In her reaction, Roach seemed genuinely delighted and puzzled by this.

Regular readers and folks who are familiar with my work know that I've been doing this sort of thing for years and years and years and actually teach folks how to do it. In fact, that's pretty much one of the main skillsets folks learn through our EROTICATRANCE program at http://www.eroticatrance.com and is included on the DVD set.

Actually, mere orgasms - while incredibly delightful in their own right - are not even the most powerful response one can learn to have via mind-only focused intensified imaginative involvement. This is why we created the Pleasure Hypnosis or Ecstasy specialization programs - with details also at the http://www.eroticatrance.com site for those with an interest in a package that includes instruction and certification via all of our various programs aimed at enhancing pleasure response. The Ultimate Ecstasy Pleasure Hypnosis Specialist package at http://www.eroticatrance.com/package.html is one of the most comprehensive programs of its kind, certainly it's one of the most comprehensive video courses you will find on the subject which makes it pretty desirable even without the rather advantageous pricing.

In any case, here are some folks experience all sorts of pleasure via their minds . . . the pleasure itself is physical and mental and spiritual . . . but it's induced solely through mental concentration and the intensification of active imaginative involvement or eXperiential Hypnosis . . .

eXperiential Ecstasy Playlist Player

Player Contains a Selection of Videos on
Engineering eXperiential Ecstasy
Through Psychological Processes

While one video appears at a time, click on the little file drive icon next to the play button to activate the file list thingie and just click left or right to get to the series of videos you wish to choose from (may sound complicated but it's not).

Most folks can indeed learn to do this sort of stuff . . . either as a guide who helps others into amazing mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual eXperiences or as a trance partner who engages within the eXperiences themselves.

Naturally, I encourage folks to purchase my video training materials on this subject, but I've got enough free material out there to get most reasonably intelligent folks started on the path . . . see the links I've posted above.

Folks who sign up for the EROTICATRANCE NEWSLETTER via the signup form either here:

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Or via the box forms at http://www.eroticatrance.com receive weekly essays on the subject of eXperiential Erotic Hypnosis as well as technique descriptions and even free scripts.  There's no requirement to purchase, just hang around and enjoy the material.  Of course, when you're ready to supercharge your skillsets, we will be there and you can purchase the EROTICATRANCE or if you want to go beyond Eroticatrance, you can order the ULTIMATE ECSTASY PLEASURE HYPNOSIS SPECIALIST program via the appropriate links at http://www.eroticatrance.com . . . until then, enjoy the newsletter and the other resources with our compliments.

All the best,
Brian

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Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan

Shouting is the New Spanking? Ugh.

Evidently For Some Parents Shouting is the New Spanking (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/fashion/22yell.html).  We're a positive discipline household and don't spank our child.  I had my fill of the whole throw-'em-down-and-spank-'em culture as a child and so have chosen a different sort of relationship to have with my own child.  Yelling though may seem better than spanking to some but it's simply emotional spanking and can even leave a longer negative imprint.

All the best,
Brian

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Of Bliss, Thunderbolts, and Positive Emotional Flood States

I received my copy of the Tantric News today and since I usually enjoy reading the essays by Moses Ma, I immediately dove into a story about Diving into Kunlun Bliss which I found interesting and entertaining. However, I do come from a very very different perspective as I actually do and teach others to do many of the things that are discussed as mystical advanced practices in the piece.

For the most part, the essay is a profile of Kunlun Bliss with nods toward Max Christensen, the sifu who is at the heart of the Lama Thunderbolt film . . . the trailer for which blows one away . . .

Lama Thunderbolt

Now, I can and have done everything in that video and I have taught everything demonstrated in that video at one time or another.  Heck, I've even performed shows related to my Hypnosupernatural (the show I will be presenting TONIGHT at the Live Comedy Club in Taipei - see http://www.comedy.com.tw/node/346 for show and venue information and be sure to come), Trance Wizard, and Seance Hypnotic work. However, I come from a very very different modality.

I don't practice neigong, qigong, mesmerism, magnetic energy manipulation, or jedi mindtricks involving the force.  Instead, I work within the model of hypnosis to achieve the same results, employing consensual suggestion to achieve wonderful results that may appear magical or supernatural but that are well anchored in an understanding of the mind and how it works. In fact, if you were to pick up my Eroticatrance (Erotic Hypnosis), Engineering eXperiential Ecstasy, Exotic Inductions, and Core Skills DVD sets, you would have most of this sort of material pretty much explained and if you were to genuinely practice the skills in those sets, you would become a master of the processes and much more, including having a very firm footing on creating new effects of this sort.  No, you won't have supernatural powers . . . but you will be able to achieve the same effects.

Coincidentally - yes, it really is a coincidence that this has come up at this time - there is actually a MegaUberBigWow special package on the Eroticatrance pre-release special page that has all of those sets together in one incredible discount price (if you were to purchase it all separately, it would cost US$1285 but with the package you only pay US$850 for the entire set . . . saving US$435 . . . until Oct. 31, when the pre-release sale ends and all the packages vanish - note that folks who order before Oct. 1 also receive two full-length Erotic Hypnosis Audio CDs free with their purchase).  Seriously, that really is a Mega Uber Big Wow special, the sort of thing I do not often repeat, if ever.

Now, just because I can seemingly  move people with my mind or use voodoo dolls on them or create responses through energy manipulation or telepathically affect their behavior or guide someone through breathing and visualization into ecstasy that completely and utterly floods their nervous system or even allows them to drop or step away from fears, worries, or negative emotional connections . . . seemingly . . . by using a suggestion model and hypnotic processes, this in no way means that the Kunlun Nei Gung system is not what it appears to be at face value, that is. Far from it. There may be ways to achieve similar effects using very different models or systems. As I own manuals that describe how some of the old Chinese vagabond masters achieved some of their old Taoist effects based upon suggestion and gimmicks and know that there are folks who present what are in effect suggestion effects or magic tricks or illusions as genuine supernatural powers, I tend to approach such things with a critical mind . . . but, my belief system does accept that sombunal (some but not all) such folks may be genuine . . . albeit, I tend to examine such claims with a critical eye first and I teach my metaphysical or psychic hypnosis courses with that same openness to possibility while grounded within a critical mindset.

However, be that as it may, my genuine reaction to the Sifu Max video is one of joy in just how professionally done the video is. It's a beautiful trailer and Mantra Productions did a kick-ass job putting it together. Seriously, I wish someone would make a video like that for me. That is awesome. My capacity for critical though gets in the way of accepting it at face value, particularly as I've been there and done that but it's still a great piece of work.  Seriously, these folks have done a wonderful job putting this thing together and their design work is top notch.  Some day, I suppose I need to sit my ass down with someone with these sorts of technical skillsets for production and presentation.  Wonderful work indeed.  Right now, my productions are oriented on content presentation and while production is not awful, it's certainly not Hollywoodish . . . at the moment.  Great work from the Mantra folks and very entertaining to watch, regardless of what modality you work within.  Although, hint, some of the costumes look to be a bit on the inaccurate side for what they are purported to be representing, at least to those of us who actually live in Asia (a number of folks here in Taiwan and in Hong Kong who I've shown the video to have remarked upon some problems they had with the costuming choices, but then sometimes costuming is less about accuracy and more about personal preference - this coming from someone who has shot some DVD sets wearing Hawaiian shirts and others wearing formal wear from India - be comfortable and express yourself).

Of course, you should make up your own mind in such things . . . use your own critical judgement and direct experience.  Feel free to browse my youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/briandavidphillips to see some of these effects in action, using a hypnotic rather than energetic model.  Or, compare your experiences in the workshops or with the techniques.  However, there are many roads that reach the same effect or goals and all that really matters is your joy of the journey and your positive results along the way.

All the best,
Brian

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Ross Jeffries . . . speed seducer and Satanist

Many of you know who Ross Jeffries is . . . yes, the speed seduction guy from http://www.seduction.com . . . while he's not the inventor of the pickup or seduction industry, he certainly goes a long way in having made it big business.  Ross took Neurolinguist Programming and applied it to the specific context of picking up women . . . the current batch of bug ol' PUAs may or may not feel it but they owe Ross at the very least a very large tip of the hat.

Well . . . some of you may not know that Ross Jeffries started off as Paul Ross and long before he created Ross Jeffries, he was out there using influence and "yanking people's chains" . . . here is a video of Ross, er, Paul Ross, that is, on a televangist's talk show debating away.  Ross was a guest as a Conservative Satanist . . . yes, you read that right . . . a Conservative who worships Satan . . . this is during the Reagan years.

Wally Debating Satanist Paul Ross, Part One

Wally Debating Satanist Paul Ross, Part Two

Interview with Ross Jeffries
Does he worship the devil?

Ross Jeffries responds to Devil-Worshiping Interview

There you have it. How's that for some oddness and a bit of fun?

All the best,
Brian

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Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan

All the best,
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Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan

We're Number Thirty-Seven . . . the song by Paul Hipp

Paul Hipp celebrates the USA's exciting position in the World Health Organization's ranking of health care systems in the world (see http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html for the list) through song.

Seriously, if you're reading this in a stream that doesn't include the embedded video so you can't see the video and hear the song, you need to get on over to the original post at Life of Brian at http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian and watch it now.

Naturally, there will be folks who are excited by the catchy patriotic tune who miss the subtext but such is indeed the nature of the world.

By the way, before I get any gloating messages from folks who notice that the US scored higher than Taiwan, uh, Taiwan's not on that list . . . I assume it has more to do with the fact that Taiwan is technically not recognized as a sovereign nation by most countries on the planet despite fighting for WHO membership for decades (while Taiwan is not independent de jure, it most definitely behaves that way de facto). We actually have excellent health coverage in Taiwan, in average far better than the average in the US.

Oh . . . caveat, keep in mind that while it's a great song and the US healthcare system really lags behind a lot of countries, the WHO ranking is not new and has been around for a long time so theoretically the US could actually be more highly ranked today - see http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/14/paul-hipp/rocker-viral-video-mocks-us-37th-best-health-care-/ - although, I would suspect that given recent problems in the United States regarding treatment and insurance, the number may also very well be lower today than thirty-seven.

All the best,
Brian

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President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan

How NOT to Survive in the Wilderness

Seriously, I feel for the guy . . .

How to *NOT* survive in the wild - Naturist Episode 1 - Watch more Funny Videos

Big time.

All the best,
Brian

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Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist, Intuitionist, Trance Wizard 
President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan

Little Girl Lost

Some people treat all relationships as competitions, either consciously or unconsciously, they want to keep things moving in a way so that they collect their brownie points to win the game.

Way back in university when I was studying theatre (I have undergraduate and graduate degrees in acting and directing), I found Transactional Analysis to be an incredibly useful tool for analyzing character. Sure, I also studied Stanislavski and I know my way around units and motives . . . but Eric Berne's TA focuses on aspects that are incredibly useful. Unfortunately, many people in real life do play games.

One common game that many couple find themselves trapped within is the "Little Girl Lost" game. It's a rather common habitual response set in which the female in a relationship acts a bit on the childish side in order to manipulate her male partner into acting like a parent who then spoils the child. In essence, both partners feel like they're getting brownie points but are unfortunately stifling any real communication or relationship growth.

In Asia, where I live, the "Little Girl Lost" game has a particular expression and in the following video, I discuss game play in general and specifically the Chinese variation of "Little Girl Lost."

This video is an excerpt from a course I taught in eXperiential Hypnotherapy during my most recent trip to India (the clip is from 25 January 2009 and the complete discussion does appear on the eXperiential Ecstasy DVD set available in our online shop found at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/products/shop.html in addition to the upcoming introductory experiential hypnotherapy product) in which I demonstrated and discussed the "little girl lost" game in the context of human sexual relationships . . . folks attending my upcoming Erotic Hypnosis - http://ehbrg.blogspot.com - course will be learning how to play with these ideas in rather interesting ways to avoid gameplay and establish meaningful and worthwhile relationship models . . . but . . . well, watch the clip to see the points being made . . .

Stop with the games already. Act like an adult and consensually play with your partners and things will run so much more smoothly. If the "little girl lost" game appeals to you, then keep in in the bedroom as consensual roleplay along with the costumes and toys and not in the realm of the one-up-goal-set game it unfortunately too often becomes.

If you can't see the included video here because you are reading this blog post via a Facebook note or Hypnothoughts sidebar or some other stream service, then go to the original post on my blog at http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/ to access the full post with any videos or photos included.

For those looking for adult erotic applications of hypnosis, folks attending the Erotic Hypnosis seminar I will be teaching (the Engineering eXperiential Erotic Ecstasy seminar at http://ehbrg.blogspot.com) on August 17 will be learning variations of these patterns and more.

Sign Up Now
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to consenting adult recreation
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While you still have time to register, you do not have much of it.  Time is defintely running out so if you haven't finalized your registration, you need to do it NOW . . . and I don't mean soon, I do mean NOW.

The seminar is open to beginners through experienced hypnotists, all we require is that you be at least twenty-one years of age for the adult seminar and have a genuine curiosity in the subject matter with a willingness to come in and play.  No, there is no nudity in the Erotic Hypnosis course nor is there anything untoward - as long as you don't consider inducing consensual orgasms and erotic experiences in others as untoward.  The techniques taught can be applied to a wide range of situations in a variety of appropriate contexts from therapy to entertainment to recreational activities between consenting adults.

Anyone is welcome, couples or singles, male or female, straight or not-so-straight, with special pricing available for couples.

Go to http://ehbrg.blogspot.com for more information and register right away to reserve your spot in the very special presentation of the Erotic Hypnosis program.

Note that folks who sign up for the Walkabout Trance Beach Resort Getaway (the improvisational speed street hypnosis event athttp://walkabouttrancebeachresortgetaway.blogspot.com) and-or the Erotic Hypnosis seminar (the Engineering eXperiential Erotic Ecstasy seminar athttp://ehbrg.blogspot.com) in August will be learning variations of these patterns and more. Please note, that it's actually to your advantage to sign up for both events (they are scheduled together for your convenience).

However, it's to your advantage to sign up early for either or both events to reserve your opportunity to attend. I don't travel to the US very often and likewise teach these courses very infrequently so this is a unique opportunity for folks to have an amazing experience with us.  If you have not yet completed your registration for these events, you will really want to do so NOW to ensure your opportunity to participate in a very very unique experience.  Seriously, you need to do it now or risk missing your opportunity for an amazingly unique experience . . . that's NOW.

All the best,
Brian

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Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist, Intuitionist, Trance Wizard 
President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan

The Head Tilt

Can a simple tilt of the noggin' really enhance one's attractiveness to others?  The Head Tilt can indeed have near-magickal properties.  What makes a person more attractive? Well, lots of things. However, there are some natural movements that occur in intersexual communication that enhance one's ability to elicit arousal. These movements or signals have been studied by animal behaviorists when looking at other species mating behaviors and some, such as Desmond Morris, have observed and cataloged similar mating behaviors or arousal signals within human communities.

This video is an excerpt from a course I taught in eXperiential Hypnotherapy during my most recent trip to India (the clip is from 25 January 2009 and the complete discussion does appear on the eXperiential Ecstasy DVD set available in our online shop found at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/products/shop.html in addition to the upcoming introductory experiential hypnotherapy product) in which I demonstrated and discussed the "head tilt" in the context of human sexual signalling . . . folks attending my upcoming Erotic Hypnosis - http://ehbrg.blogspot.com - course will be learning how to play with these ideas in rather interesting ways . . . but . . . well, watch the clip to see the points being made . . .

Act like an adult and consensually play with your partners and things will run so much more smoothly.

If you can't see the included video here because you are reading this blog post via a Facebook note or Hypnothoughts sidebar or some other stream service, then go to the original post on my blog at http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/ to access the full post with any videos or photos included.

For those looking for adult erotic applications of hypnosis, folks attending the Erotic Hypnosis seminar I will be teaching (the Engineering eXperiential Erotic Ecstasy seminar at http://ehbrg.blogspot.com) on August 17 will be learning variations of these patterns and more.

Sign Up Now
EROTIC HYPNOSIS
a comprehensive course in erotic and sensual hypnosis
for any context from therapy to entertainment
to consenting adult recreation
http://ehbrg.blogspot.com
NOW for registration!

While you still have time to register, you do not have much of it.  Time is defintely running out so if you haven't finalized your registration, you need to do it NOW . . . and I don't mean soon, I do mean NOW.

The seminar is open to beginners through experienced hypnotists, all we require is that you be at least twenty-one years of age for the adult seminar and have a genuine curiosity in the subject matter with a willingness to come in and play.  No, there is no nudity in the Erotic Hypnosis course nor is there anything untoward - as long as you don't consider inducing consensual orgasms and erotic experiences in others as untoward.  The techniques taught can be applied to a wide range of situations in a variety of appropriate contexts from therapy to entertainment to recreational activities between consenting adults.

Anyone is welcome, couples or singles, male or female, straight or not-so-straight, with special pricing available for couples.

Go to http://ehbrg.blogspot.com for more information and register right away to reserve your spot in the very special presentation of the Erotic Hypnosis program.

Note that folks who sign up for the Walkabout Trance Beach Resort Getaway (the improvisational speed street hypnosis event athttp://walkabouttrancebeachresortgetaway.blogspot.com) and-or the Erotic Hypnosis seminar (the Engineering eXperiential Erotic Ecstasy seminar athttp://ehbrg.blogspot.com) in August will be learning variations of these patterns and more. Please note, that it's actually to your advantage to sign up for both events (they are scheduled together for your convenience).

However, it's to your advantage to sign up early for either or both events to reserve your opportunity to attend. I don't travel to the US very often and likewise teach these courses very infrequently so this is a unique opportunity for folks to have an amazing experience with us.  If you have not yet completed your registration for these events, you will really want to do so NOW to ensure your opportunity to participate in a very very unique experience.  Seriously, you need to do it now or risk missing your opportunity for an amazingly unique experience . . . that's NOW.

All the best,
Brian

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Orgasm or Arousal?

Hmmm . . . orgasm or arousal?  That is the question.  There is a tendancy, when presented with the opportunity, for many folks to jump right in and focus on the orgasm right off the get-go when an arousal set is so much more appropriate.  Orgasms are great, I reccommend them, but arousal has advantages too.  This isn't simply the old foreplay question as technique in order to more readily lead to orgasm, we're talking about toolsets that get you there right away, but then what?

As has been discussed on multiple times on this blog before in regard to what happens when many folks discover that it's possible to hypnotically program a partner to have orgasms at the firing of a simple trigger . . . orgasm buttons, if you will.

One difficulty that emerges with that fact (yes, indeed, it is fact) is that some folks focus on that ol' orgasm button and forget there's a whole lot more to a relationship than the orgasm. In fact, if all you're doing is pushing the button, you're forgetting about a whole bunch of other important stuff.

This video is an excerpt from a course I taught in eXperiential Hypnotherapy during my most recent trip to India (the clip is from 25 January 2009 and the complete discussion does appear on the eXperiential Ecstasy DVD set available in our online shop found at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/products/shop.html in addition to the upcoming introductory experiential hypnotherapy product) in which I demonstrated and then discussed the differences between the utility of arousal triggers as opposed to orgasm triggers . . . don't get me wrong, they're both pretty nifty kool things and the folks attending my upcoming Erotic Hypnosis - http://ehbrg.blogspot.com - course will be learning how to install both . . . but . . . well, watch the clip to see the points being made . . .

Don't abuse your toys and they will last so much longer.

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For those looking for adult erotic applications of hypnosis, folks attending the Erotic Hypnosis seminar I will be teaching (the Engineering eXperiential Erotic Ecstasy seminar at http://ehbrg.blogspot.com) on August 17 will be learning variations of these patterns and more.

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While you still have time to register, you do not have much of it.  Time is defintely running out so if you haven't finalized your registration, you need to do it NOW . . . and I don't mean soon, I do mean NOW.

The seminar is open to beginners through experienced hypnotists, all we require is that you be at least twenty-one years of age for the adult seminar and have a genuine curiosity in the subject matter with a willingness to come in and play.  No, there is no nudity in the Erotic Hypnosis course nor is there anything untoward - as long as you don't consider inducing consensual orgasms and erotic experiences in others as untoward.  The techniques taught can be applied to a wide range of situations in a variety of appropriate contexts from therapy to entertainment to recreational activities between consenting adults.

Anyone is welcome, couples or singles, male or female, straight or not-so-straight, with special pricing available for couples.

Go to http://ehbrg.blogspot.com for more information and register right away to reserve your spot in the very special presentation of the Erotic Hypnosis program.

Note that folks who sign up for the Walkabout Trance Beach Resort Getaway (the improvisational speed street hypnosis event athttp://walkabouttrancebeachresortgetaway.blogspot.com) and-or the Erotic Hypnosis seminar (the Engineering eXperiential Erotic Ecstasy seminar athttp://ehbrg.blogspot.com) in August will be learning variations of these patterns and more. Please note, that it's actually to your advantage to sign up for both events (they are scheduled together for your convenience).

However, it's to your advantage to sign up early for either or both events to reserve your opportunity to attend. I don't travel to the US very often and likewise teach these courses very infrequently so this is a unique opportunity for folks to have an amazing experience with us.  If you have not yet completed your registration for these events, you will really want to do so NOW to ensure your opportunity to participate in a very very unique experience.  Seriously, you need to do it now or risk missing your opportunity for an amazingly unique experience . . . that's NOW.

All the best,
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Photographic Studies in Hypnosis

An interesting photographic study from the Prelinger Archives uses photographs within film to chronicle a young woman's response to hypnosis.  I would suggest that you let the video load for a bit before trying to view it.  Folks on a stream need to go to my blog at http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian to see the embedded video.

Speaking of hypnosis, folks should note that the upcoming events for August, the Walkabout Trance Beach Resort Getaway (http://walkabouttrancebeachresortgetaway.blogspot.com), Aug. 15-16, and the Erotic Hypnosis eXperience (http://ehbrg.blogspot.com), Aug. 17, are taking place at Redondo Beach in California, USA, and that we're gearing up for some amazing stuff.  Folks who register for both events receive fantastic pricing advantages.

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Zombie Outbreak Simulator

So . . . you want to see just how fast the zombie apocalypse kills everyone?  So . . . just load the Zombie Outbreak Simulator . . . http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/community/Zombie_Infection_2 . . . yep.

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To Geek or Not to Geek . . . of faux geekiness

Wil Wheaton (http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup) has some interesting things to say about the recent Geek Advancement rants hitting the blogosphere and his feelings about being used in the video.

A bunch of geek-celebrities appear in the video for the Society for Geek Advancement (http://geekadvancement.com), a charity PR thing.  What they didn't know was that they would be appearing in the video as geeks with other celebrity geeks who aren't really all that well known for their geekiness:

Ashton Kutcher, Shaq, MC Hammer?  Evidently the project's definition of geek has expanded well beyond the original parameters.

Felicia Day, Wil Wheaton, Woz . . . no brainers . . . geeks through to the core.

Wheaton feels like he wasn't lied to about the what the project meant (it is a charity program of sorts) but that the definitions got changed and suddenly it was like geeks trying to convince the cool kids that we're cool and not nerds.  See his reaction to the reactions on his blog at http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2009/05/regarding-the-difference-between-embracing-and-exploiting-geek-culture.html#comment-6a00d8341c59aa53ef01156f8d945a970c.  The inclusion of self-promoting marketers and celebrities who defintely not members of geek culture but whose PR folks seem to want them to sell that culture feels like a bit of a sellout.

Wheaton notes that he felt the bit of having people protest that they "don't play Dungeons and Dragons" to somehow prove that they are not uncool was a bit much as it implies there's something wrong about playing D&D.  Yes, breaking stereotypes is neat but there are certain things in geek culture that are stereotypes because they are wide spread so to specifically single that part of the stereotype out as something one doesn't do implies that there's something wrong with doing it.

While I agree strongly with Wheaton that the whole "I don't play D&D" bit was offensive in that it seemed to imply that there was something wrong with playing D&D (I am assuming REAL D&D at a table and not just the computer games which don't count quite so far in terms of geekiness), but I felt the same sort of twinge when Wheaton's bit came up and he said "I don't speak Klingon" as if there were likewise something seriously wrong with the folks who do that (I don't, although I do have the edition of Hamlet in the original Klingon but I respect the folks who do learn it for whatever purpose as well as the ones who learn the various elvish tongues from the Rings) as there was a slight implication that such language experiments or even things Trek aren't so much geekie but goofy (same with the D&D backhand). The video spent a lot of time defining Geek as things "we don't do" rather than embracing what we do do and how that's kind of pretty damned nifty.

Come to think of it, wouldn't it be neat to see a video of a bunch of celebrities admitting that they DO do all those geekie things . . . I mean folks who really do those things. Instead of a video that tries to say "we don't do those WEIRD things and we're geeks but really normal just like you" have 'em saying the geekish things they do say and we're geeks and we're really normal just like you.

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Insights from the Smothers Brothers

I love the Smothers Brothers (http://www.smothersbrothers.com) - folks noting my upcoming birthday may also take note that there are DVDs of the Smothers Brothers that I would indeed consider rather nifty presents - that and the complete Monkees, that is.  While the Smothers Brothers were a bit before my time, when I was young I loved watching old re-runs of their comedy hour and still sing some of their songs to the great annoyance of my family on long car trips.  It is very likely that when I teach the unit on social movements and music, I will at least include them in the syllabus next year within the course I will be teaching on music and culture at the university.

Today, some folks look at their short hair and suits and misread who they were and miss some really important points on just how far they went to get their social message heard.  There are some points in regard to their take on freedom of expression and the use of entertainment as a platform for political dissent that are very very telling and of very high interest and worthy of note today.  Mother Smothers' favorite son and the other one were really very cutting edge and they did make anti-war statements on air during their variety show.  They spoke out on subjects that were important to them and definitely non-establishment in their take.  Many folks assume that today there's even more freedom of expression in part because of the things that Tommy and Dickie and others of their generation did, but . . .

Well, here's an excerpt from an interview they did in 2002 which sheds some light on some very fair points.  The interviewer asks the brothers, "Are you surprised what TV shows get away with these days in terms of political humor? It makes what you did on The Smothers Brothers Show tame in comparison." Tommy's response is very revealing in just how squarely he hits it right on the head:

"You have to put it in context. In prime today, you hear no political satire. Back in the 1960s we were in prime time, saying get out of Central America, get out of Vietnam. It's pretty well controlled now. All political satire is being done in the fringes: 11.30 PM or Saturday Night Live. That's when there's hardly anybody watching. There's an illusion of free speech. People say "Don't you wish you were on television now, Tom, you could say anything you want". I say, well, I'm not hearing very much - a lot of vulgarity but not a lot of content."

Yep.  Read the complete interview at http://www.storyofthestars.com/smothers_brothers.htm.

Within the last decade of American entertainment, shows that stepped over the line we pushed back and then they had a tendency to cave - either to political pressure of pressure from advertisers, studios, or producers who towed the line.  Folks like the Smothers Brothers took the advice of their friends who said, push back and if you're stopped from getting your message out then keep talking until you are heard.  George Harrison summed up that message in his own solo special guest appearance on the show on 17 November 1968, in regard to controls on presentation in American television: "Well, whether you can say it or not, keep trying to say it":

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Of course, George was a bit of a pirate anyway:

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Ask Me Questions . . .

As most regular readers of Life of Brian know, I have been super busy of late, releasing a series of new products (currently, the Lifetrance DVD set is on sale as part of the pre-release celebration and we've got a whole slew of more stuff coming on the horizon with Psychic Hypnosis, Phillips Induction, Manifesting Abundance, and more DVDs in the queue for release within the next few months) and setting up and promoting new courses such as the Walkabout Trance Beach Resort Getaway (Improvisational Creative Speed Street Hypnosis at Redondo Beach, California, USA, Aug. 15-16) followed immediately by the special Erotic Hypnosis Beach Resort Getaway (Engineering eXperiential Erotic Ecstasy also at Redondo Beach, Aug. 17 - the first time we've taught this material in North America).

As part of our run up for all these products and courses and more, I will be posting a number of essays related to the various topics.  These aren't promotional adverts per se, although we will obviously have these.  They're more of tie-in resource posts that hold nothing back.  So, if there's something you really want to know about involving hypnosis or trancework or the like, then now's your chance.

I am taking questions.  Email a question to me at brian@briandavidphillips.com and I will see if we can answer it . . . those of you familiar with my writing style know that I tend to be verbose and comprehensive so ask and we'll see if we can have some fun.  I will post the responses to the Life of Brian blog at http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian in the brand-spanking-new HYPNOSIS Q&A category at http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/hypnosis-qa which will become a regular feature on the blog in which folks can ask me questions and I will post answers as best I can for the ones that are relevant or appropriate or timely or interesting or I have time for or whatever (please be patient, responses may take a few days to go into the post queue).  Since this is an irregular category, I'd suggest hopping to the main page at http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian first.

Of course, a blog post is no substitute for in-person training (hint hint, sign up NOW) or at least some video instruction (check our shop) . . . but, I've never been one to hold things back so if I can give an answer then I will definitely give it a go.  So, the door's open, feel free to step in and enjoy the company!

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Snarky Tofu on My Several Worlds (Joshua Samuel Brown interview worth the looksee)

One of my favorite writers and friend Joshua Samuel Brown (http://www.josambro.com) - the link is also in the "favorite authors" sidebar on my blog - is a difficult person to pin down, not that I would really want to engage in same-sex semi-nude wrestling with the guy in order to pin him, I gave that sort of thing up in high school.  He's a delightful person with an amazing number of facets and is a very witty writer, albeit with a bizarrehumorstreak that takes some getting used to for some but for those who "get" him, he's delightful.  Josh has just been interviewed by Carrie Marsall at My Several Worlds (http://www.myseveralworlds.com) and it's a very worthwhile interview well worth your looksee, as is the rest of Carrie's blog.  Carrie was first exposed to Josh's writing through his Snarky Tofu blog (http://josambro.blogspot.com) - you can find both blogs in the Taiwan blog connection on my own blog's sidebar, although I'm including all the relevant links here anyway so you can click away and enjoy.

The interview is nicely done and captures both Josh's engaging style and a bit of his fun personality.  I also reccommend both blogs as worthwhile adds to one's regular blogroll.

Go forth and read and enjoy.

All the best,
Brian

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Robert Anton Wilson explains Quantum Physics

A montage of a few of the various times Robert Anton Wilson had been asked about quantum physics. See the youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEZtw1yt8Kc.

Wilson is my favorite philosopher.  I re-read his Illuminatus Trilogy (co-written with Robert Shea) as well as a number of his non-fiction works every couple years.  I've written a few academic papers on his work and still enjoy re-reading and re-reading it.

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Don't Talk to the Police

Professor James Duane gives you good reasons why you should not talk to the police if you are innocent.

See the video on googlevideos here.

All the best,
Brian

Blood Pressure Medicine may lead to Memory Erasure DrugOnce Again Aritificial Repression comes into the Picture

I've posted about this before . . . but it's in the news again (see "blood pressure drug erases bad memories").  Basically, an accidental side effect of a certain type of blood pressure medicine may pave the way to designer drugs catering to memory erasure in trauma victims.  The most recent Dutch experiment sounds a bit on the creepy side (the scientists induced fears in volunteers by associating images of spiders with electrical shock) but it is pointed towards more work in this area.

As I have stated before, I honestly believe artificial repression or memory erasure is a bad idea.  It is an area worth looking at, but personally, I think a much better strategy is to help folks cope with their memories rather than to attempt to remove them.

While the jury is still out on whether chemical erasure is truly permanent, there is enough evidence that other forms of memory replacement do not have longterm benefit (although they may have short term positive effects in terms of interrupting the response long enough for other coping strategies to be built, although even then it is better to be working within the memory frame to build the coping strategies).

Artificial repression ends up doing what spontaneous repression does, it is a short term coping mechanism that allows a person to function in the short term but eventually, the negative emotional energy builds up and leads to other problems.

See past essays on this subject here:

• Hypnotic Memory Erasure: Artificial Repression (No Eternal Sunshine, No Spotless Mind) at http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/2005/01/hypnotic_memory.html
• Freedom of Choice and the Client in Therapeutic Relationships at http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/2005/01/freedom_of_choi.html
• Dangerous Hypnosis? Dangerous Misconceptions about Hypnosis at http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/2005/04/dangerous_hypno.html
• Hypnotically Induced False Memories for Dieters: No Thank You at http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/2005/08/hypnotically_in.html
• Repressing Data from Memory: He Doesn't want to Worry (Better Options are Available) at http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/2005/08/repressing_data.html

Of course, we may not know for some time what the long term effects of the various memory erasure pills on the market will be - whether they do indeed lead to psychologically robust healthy individuals or if they lead to neurological damage that causes other memory bleeds or something else.  We do know that some folks do indeed need some form of chemical help and most can be helped through other means and coping strategies, including appropriate hypnotherapy.

Yes, the pain is awful.  However, there is help.  Doing a reboot on areas of the brain may help in terms of short term grief, fear, or worse, but it may not turn out to be the best long term solution.

This is . . . of course . . . my opinion.

All the best,
Brian

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The Mentalist does Psychophysiological Mind Reading

I spent the better part of Sunday testing out our new HD camera and shooting video for a program on techniques employing ideomotor effect (also one of my topics for the upcoming Global Hypnosis Summit which you really should be signed up for if you haven't signed up already). I did some muscle testing bits (psychophysiological mind reading) - those of you familiar with some of my walkabout trance strategies know the finger game. I also did some prepping for my upcoming comedy show on Seduction Mindtricks (see http://www.briandavidphillips.com for show details).

So, imagine my scintillating synchronicity surprise when Lorraine and I watched the new episode of The Mentalist together and lo and behold the episode ("Crimson Casanova") featured a professional PUA (pick-up artist) and included a scene in which Patrick Jayne (Simon Baker) realizes that a girl didn't want them to see something hidden in the room so he grabs her hand and does a Kreskinesque muscle reading bit that leads him to a digital camera with incriminating evidence on it.

I must say that I absolutely LOVE the show THE MENTALIST and am happy with each episode so far as they all have these throwaway little bits in which Jayne (a former "fake" psychic) performs a bit of NLP, hypnosis, or mentalismish magic as part of the show and the techniques they show are genuine techniques, not Hollywood made up crap based upon superstition or misconceptions. Of course, Jayne is very very very good at the stuff and so his skillset presentation makes it seem almost supernatural but it's still firmly planted in realistic presentation . . . at least so far.  That is, so far, the show has not succumbed to Hollywoodisms and, so far, the effects and tricks and abilities Jayne has demonstrated all fall well within what is actually possible for a skilled practitioner of the various skillsets Jayne is purporting to use in the storyline.

The music video above is from a youtube thingie at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsgSQLfHzG8 for those who can't see it in their reader streams.

If you haven't caught the show, catch it.

Unfortunately, it's not available in my neck of the woods (no, the poster at the top of this post is not a local one) so I have to depend upon the kindness of strangers to get my fix but those of you who live in areas where it is readily available, see it.

All the best,
Brian

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The Mother's Act: Mandatory Psychiatric Treatment

This is a video from the psychetruth channel.  Dr. Breeding's webpages are at http://www.wildestcolts.com and you can find the Mother's Act at http://www.naturalnews.com/022789.html.

While there are indeed some folks who do require drug intervention.  However, there are other approaches that one might consider first, such as hypnotherapy or counseling.

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Learning the Wrong Lessons from Disney

We usually think of Disney films as having positive moral lessons for our children . . . but . . . sometimes the lesson actually learned is not the lesson being taught.  Take a look at Seven Classic Disney Movies that Taught Us Terrible Lessons (http://www.cracked.com/article_16905_7-classic-disney-movies-that-taught-us-terrible-lessons.html) for an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek, but pretty much in the general direction of truth read.

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Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist, Intuitionist, Trance Wizard
President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan

60 in 60

Author Jeff VanderMeer is dosing his brain with literature, hardcore heavy duty stuff, and blogging about the experience.  Every day for sixty days he is reading a classic book on the Penguin hit list for philosophy and blogging the experience and seeing how his brain changes.

It's an interesting experiment, one that thousands of graduate students have repeated in the past as they cram for comprehensive or reading list exams, only VanderMeer's experiement is for personal experience and curiousity rather than to jump through some graduate school hoops.

Read the experience in progress at Ecstatic Days - http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/tags/read/nonfiction/60-in-60 - then go out and repeat the experiment for yourself and see what happens to your brain.

All the best,
Brian

(If you are reading this blog post via a stream, go to http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/ to access the full post with any videos or photos included.)

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Studies Show Dating is Dead . . .hooking up is here to staySo, Lie Back and Enjoy the RideCum to SEDUCTION MINDTRICKS 情場高手速成班Dec. 20, 10:00pm, Taipei

Love may not be in the air but there's definitely something going on.

HOOKING UP is here to stay and dating seems to be heading the way of the dinosaur, if recent sociological studies of teen behavior are any indicator.  Charles M. Blow writes an op-ed on the recent demise of dating and the ascendancy of hooking up in the New York Times and he can't help but lament the passing of more traditional dating . . . The Demise of Dating . . . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/13/opinion/13blow.html . . . for those who aren't familiar with the term, "Hooking Up" refers to a casual sexual encounter with no expectation of a relationship (no, it is not the same as an fuckbuddy which is more like hooking up but with longterm effect while hooking up is a random short-term event-driven relationship).

The paradigm has shifted. Dating is dated. Hooking up is here to stay. (For those over 30 years old: hooking up is a casual sexual encounter with no expectation of future emotional commitment. Think of it as a one-night stand with someone you know.) According to a report released this spring by Child Trends, a Washington research group, there are now more high school seniors saying that they never date than seniors who say that they date frequently. Apparently, it’s all about the hookup. When I first heard about hooking up years ago, I figured that it was a fad that would soon fizzle. I was wrong. It seems to be becoming the norm. I should point out that just because more young people seem to be hooking up instead of dating doesn’t mean that they’re having more sex (they’ve been having less, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) or having sex with strangers (they’re more likely to hook up with a friend, according to a 2006 paper in the Journal of Adolescent Research). To help me understand this phenomenon, I called Kathleen Bogle, a professor at La Salle University in Philadelphia who has studied hooking up among college students and is the author of the 2008 book, “Hooking Up: Sex, Dating and Relationships on Campus.” It turns out that everything is the opposite of what I remember. Under the old model, you dated a few times and, if you really liked the person, you might consider having sex. Under the new model, you hook up a few times and, if you really like the person, you might consider going on a date. I asked her to explain the pros and cons of this strange culture. According to her, the pros are that hooking up emphasizes group friendships over the one-pair model of dating, and, therefore, removes the negative stigma from those who can’t get a date. As she put it, “It used to be that if you couldn’t get a date, you were a loser.” Now, she said, you just hang out with your friends and hope that something happens. The cons center on the issues of gender inequity. Girls get tired of hooking up because they want it to lead to a relationship (the guys don’t), and, as they get older, they start to realize that it’s not a good way to find a spouse. Also, there’s an increased likelihood of sexual assaults because hooking up is often fueled by alcohol. That’s not good. So why is there an increase in hooking up? According to Professor Bogle, it’s the collapse of advanced planning, lopsided gender ratios on campus, delaying marriage, relaxing values and sheer momentum. It used to be that “you were trained your whole life to date,” said Ms. Bogle. “Now we’ve lost that ability — the ability to just ask someone out and get to know them.” Now that’s sad.

Sad indeed.  It's not like it was ever all that easy - at least emotionally - for most folks in the old dating game anyway (although there are studies that show men and women tend to have a fifty percent chance of success when asking a stranger out on a date via cold walkup, if only they just had the courage to try, but then most folks aren't aware of the studies on this stuff).

Now, whether you are looking to hook up or if you are looking for new and effective ways to "just ask someone out" and perhaps get to know them in both the carnal or relationshippy way . . . or, if you just want to have a really good time, thenI would suggest something particularly new and fun . . . this Saturday night I will be performing a brand new comedy hypnosis show like no other . . . we're going to be taking a lighthearted and fun look at social influence and hypnosis and dating and seduction.

This is a very very different and new show: SEDUCTION MINDTRICKS 情場高手速成班 (The Comedy Hypnosis Show with an Adult Twist 好玩有趣的追求異性催眠法).  No one has ever done quite what we're planning on.  Of course, as with any comedy hypnosis show, things work out best if you bring your friends, lots of them, especially for the sort of things we plan on.

SEDUCTION MINDTRICKS
情場高手速成班
The Comedy Hypnosis Show with an Adult Twist
好玩有趣的追求異性催眠法

For show info/reservations http://www.comedy.com.tw
For performer info http://www.briandavidphillips.com

12月20日 地點：Live COMEDY CLUB Taipei (http://comedy.com.tw)
時間：10:00pm
地址：台北市泰順街24號B1
訂位電話：02-2369373
口譯：羅玉蘭

Dec 20: Live COMEDY CLUB Taipei (http://www.comedy.com.tw)
Bilingual Chinese-English Performance
10:00pm
B1, No.24, Taishun St., (in the Shirda area)
Telephone: 02-2369373
Interpreter: Lorraine Phillips

什麼是隱藏式催眠? 讓陌生人對你產生好感的竅門在裡? 異性追求術在歐美已形成一種次文化, 有些人像宗教一般沈迷, 不少宅男宅女為了打開社交大門, 不惜花三、五千美元只為跟慕名已久的大師上一堂課, 如果你想知道情場高手靠的是那門子的秘笈功夫, 歡迎你今晚來跟羅教授學習, 有伴沒伴帥不帥美不美都沒關係, 趕快報名。

Casanova, Don Juan, Valentino . . . Lilith, Cleopatra, Catherine the Great . . . all the great lovers knew just what to do to guide another person into powerful states of affection, attraction, ecstasy, and beyond. What did these skilled seducers know that most of us don't? Step into a fun-filled evening of playful seduction with a humorous twist. Learn a few of the tricks of the seductionist trade while having a hilarious evening of hypnotic fun. This performance is unlike any other as audience members learn about genuine techniques used by so-called speed seducers and members of the pickup artists secret underground while having a laugh-filled good time. Men and women will learn something about themselves and about the world of seduction while experiencing a truly unique evening's entertainment. Bring your friends as the more the merrier and the wilder the fun.

徵求十八歲以上愛現的觀眾 • 350元 • 隨票附送催眠CD送完為止

Risque Hypnosis Show (Adults Only) • 350NT • Free Hypnosis Audio CD and Psychic "Love" Pendulum (while supplies last)

Poster http://public.fotki.com/briandavidphillips/hypnosis/posters/20081220hypnoseduct.html

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For performer info http://www.briandavidphillips.com

Speaking of seduction.  While the SEDUCTION MINDTRICKS 情場高手速成班 (The Comedy Hypnosis Show with an Adult Twist 好玩有趣的追求異性催眠法) performance will include some real world influence and seduction techniques - the real thing - it's focused on light-hearted entertainment so while you will indeed learn some really kool stuff, if you want the real thing, Lorraine has finally convinced me to offer a course on actual bona fide seduction.  So, in January, I will be teaching a course on CONSENSUAL SEDUCTION.  See http://www.briandavidphillips.com/training/socialinfluence.html for the details.  In brief:

CONSENSUAL SEDUCTION &
SOCIAL INFLUENCE

A Practical Course in
Social Life Skills Enhancement for
Love, Business, and Life

Social Influence, Hypnosis,
Neurolinguistic Programming, and
Waking Trance for
Building Social Opportunities for Romance and
Creating Intimate Social Connections

Brian David Phillips, Ph.D., C.H.

Imagine having the confidence and skills to be the sort of person who can walk up to a stranger and to create an amazing connection. No fear, no manipulation, just honestly being the sort of person who is comfortable and confident who creates special moments for others, enjoying opportunities for romance. This course is about gaining skillsets and about inner transformation . . . becoming that sort of person, the sort of person you wish to be.

 

DATES: January 17-18, 2009
LOCATION: Taipei, Taiwan (Venue Announced After Registration Finalization)
COURSE HOURS: 14 hours (two days)
LIMITED SEATING: Positions in the class are filled on the basis of first-come first-served.
PREREQUISITE: previous experience not required
REGISTRATION: contact Lorraine Phillips here for information on how to register. International guests should contact Lorraine about accommodation suggestions or other matters. This course is offered in cooperation with Crystal Hypnosis, contact Lorraine at yuklan.law@msa.hinet.net and she will tell you how to register (please let her know whether you are Taiwanese or not as the registration process is different). This seminar is open to both men and women.
COURSE MATERIALS and BONUS VALUE GIFTS: Students receive the course handouts and a special Psychic Love Pendulum with Autoquestioning Answer Card. Those who register before January 1 receive their reservation for the basic course materials and bonus value gifts including (1) the Social Confidence Enhancement hypnosis audio CD and (2) the Inviting Love In hypnosis audio CD.

Recently, in popular culture, more and more people have become interested in learning ways to enhance their romantic persona. Films like Hitch and Cassanova have shown fictional characters who know how to engage the romantic imaginations of others and create pleasurable consenting relationships. Those films are just fiction and show a fictional world. However, now we see books like The Game and television series like The Pick-Up Artist purport to take regular folks and teach them how to be more successful with the appropriate sex. What about the reality? Yes, there are naturals out there and yes some folks really are more successful in romance. However, while romantic success is certainly partly based upon natural inclinations, it's also based upon skillsets . . . skillsets that can be learned and can be improved upon. This course shows you the real world techniques of social influence used in such programs of consensual seduction . . . creating contexts that enable you to build real romantic, intimate, or social connections with others, enhance your real relationships, and allow you to intensify real pleasure within real relationships with real people. Learn that real people like yourself can go further and be much more effective than Cassanova or Hitch could ever dream.

This is an intensive course in social influence, personality strengthening, and consensual seduction techniques, enhanced hypnosis techniques for self-awareness and positive change, including trance processes to engage the imaginations of others in ways that enhance intimate and social connections. Participants should be prepared to leave all their preconceptions at the door and jump into this seminar with imaginations open and ready to experience new worlds and powerful processes.

Note, the intended learning processes will be demonstrated, explained, and practiced by those in attendance. Men and women will find the skills and information presented in this course to be invaluable. For much of the material, you will learn by doing, so come prepared to actually practice these powerful techniques. The actual course presentation is tailored to the needs of the participants. This course covers how to use hypnosis and waking trance to enhance your social skills and intimate relationships, how to become a better socializer or lover lover through internal self-improvement, how to enhance romantic and intimate connections with others, as well as an introduction to how to intensify and create pleasure experiences with others within an appropriate loving and romantic context. This is our powerhouse introductory course for Social Influence and Personality Development for a variety of contexts, including consensual seduction, social interaction, business, and more, and will take participants through some very powerful changework processes as well as instill skills that give them the ability to walk up to a perfect stranger and being creating romantic connections at the get-go. We will cover powerful change and trance state processes so that participants will be able to enhance their business, love, romance, sexual, and intimate relationships.

Students are asked to bring a digital camera with still image and video capability for certain in-class exercises as well as for the homework (yes, there is homework).

Check the webpage at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/training/socialinfluence.html for more information.  Contact Lorraine at yuklan.law@msa.hinet.net to signup now.

All the best,
Brian

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Cure for Shyness? Watch a DVD of fifty women staring into the camera.

So, let's say you have a case of communication apprehension, the kind that makes it extremely difficult for you to talk to women.  What do you do?

Well, some Japanese men purchase a DVD specifically designed to help them get "used" to seeing a woman look at them.  The DVD is comprised of video of fifty women different women staring out from the screen.  The idea is that this helps the men overcome their anxiety.

I kid you not.  See the clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A12dH72757U for a taste of the experience or buy the beastie here (see the webpage for more example footage).

Just in case you think you might want to talk to a pretty "foreign" girl:

Sorry, English skills not included.  See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw6bp27nAKE for the clip.

Just so you know, the program also has clips of little girls as many men have a generalized fear of speaking to women that is not merely specific to adults.

Of course, hypnotists have a number of much more effective and far swifter techniques to help folks overcome social phobia, but you have to admit that this particular product is original to say the least.

The approach is obviously based upon the concept of progressive desensitization and may indeed help some folks.  However, I would suggest going to a competent hypnotherapist for help (in addition or instead of this program).  Interesting idea and intriguing execution of the concept.

All the best,
Brian 

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Psychology and Torture

Stanley Fish has an opinion piece today in the New York Times - Psychology and Torture (http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/psychology-and-torture/) - on the recent declaration by the American Psychology Association which bans members from being part of interrogations (not limited to torture but US military interrogations that include "pressure" tactics are the intended target).  Fish gives some interesting background to the story.

All the best,
Brian 

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Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan
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Gay Marriage . . . taking rights away

Suggestibility Effect Sequencing for Genuine Waking Hypnosis

Most folks who are aware of my work know of my interest in speed hypnosis . . . the really fast instant and rapid hypnosis inductions.  Most of the folks who know of that interest are also very keenly aware that for me hypnosis does not require eye closure and that I love to improvise new inductions and new processes, often building variations on classic suggestibility effects.  For me, a suggestibility effect is not merely a test of hypnotizeability but is an induction in and of itself and so can be very wonderfully leveraged as the gateway into a full-on eyes-open waking hypnosis session complete with manifestations of any or all of the so-called effects of classic hypnotic depth.

In fact, the suggestibility volume of my DVD course at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/products/core.html has the most comprehensive coverage of suggestibility effects and how to sequence them that I am aware of. The instant and rapid inductions volume of the same course has examples of converting suggestibility effects into more formal speed inductions as well.

In one of the many hypnosis lists I belong to, a discussion came up that centered on the arm catalepsy suggestibility effect.  This Life of Brian - http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian - post is a collection of some of my responses in that thread that may be of interest to folks interested in upgrading their approach to suggestibility effects and waking hypnosis.  Do note that the various quotes in this post come from various respondents within the discussion.

can you tell me how you would do the rigid steel bar arm suggestability test without actually going into the "close your eyes" sleep hypnosis?

Just do it without telling the person to close their eyes. Depending upon context, I will use it as an induction proper or as an initiator for a waking hypnosis session. If I wish to use it as a waking hypnosis session gateway, I will run the test as usual and then do a sticky bit of telling the person they can now bend it as the hand becomes stuck to the head or something like that (those who have trained with me know to use the magick word "because" there). While I will do that bit with arm catalepsy, more likely lately I will start that sequence off with the stick-stuck-to-hand suggestibility effect but the sequencing is relatively the same:

STICKY STICK HYPNOSIS FUN

Watch the clip in high quality on youtube at http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=tN8tyMb3tp4.

STICKY STICK SUGGESTIONS
(CTS Filming Clip)

Watch the clip in high quality on youtube at http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=lavgIuBzLp8.

Sorry the video is out of focus on that one but that's the breaks (my wife was shooting some clips from the audience during the taping of a television special appearance - the actual program footage will be better).

Of course, one doesn't need the stick.  The following is the effect with a pen in sequencing - albeit with an eye closure segment that lasts all of eight seconds (in which I adjust the positioning of the pen).

STICKY HYPNOSIS FUN

Watch the clip in high quality on youtube at http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=QjkpvYr2_ts.

Just from this simple sequence, usually with eyes open for the entire time, I often take it on to full on manifestation of every so-called level of hypnotic depth.  Folks who attended my recent series of courses in India where I taught several Speed Hypnosis seminars (based upon a system of improvisational structures that are built upon a unique understanding of how to leverage suggestibility effects and to create your own based upon the central operators), that I demonstrated just this very concept with a number of folks with an eyes open suggestibility-based induction that then led into all of the various depth signs (usually, I would call out the depth markers on the Arons Scale as we achieved them - and, yes, we did achieve all of them in a matter of moments with no eye closure and no suggestions for relaxation.  While eye closure and relaxation are nice to use as leverage sets for hypnosis, they are not required, albeit they are extremely helpful and most commonly used.

Typically, if I use arm catalepsy, I will be using it as an induction into a formal contextualized hypnotic session.

ARM CATALEPSY HYPNOSIS INDUCTION
SUGGESTIBILITY FUN

Watch the clip in high quality on youtube at http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=VlM77AC30HU.

ARM CATALEPSY HYPNOSIS INDUCTION

Watch the clip in high quality on youtube at http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=WqZIL06Ql-0.

no matter who i try it on. maybe i need more intent. all the while im thinking, either its going to work perfectly or im going to look like an idiot

I agree with others that if you believe you may end up looking like an idiot, then that's pretty much the way it's going to go. However, do understand that with practice and experience you do start having a feel for the nuances that do increase your effectiveness. I do the "sticky" bit quite a bit when I'm out and about and what you see is pretty much what you get. You need to be focused and confident but you also really need to get the other person focused and expecting it to work. Don't leave any doubt in the trance partner's mind, that's the key to any of this stuff. Get 'em focused and excited about the prospects of something really interesting happening.

Great stuff Brian. I'm a professional drummer, so I'm gonna try the sticky stick for sure! Nice!

I used to drum now I just pretend to be a drummer.

If I have 'em handy, I will use my sticks (okay, mostly used as Harry Dresden style wands - I partially kid you not - although I do indeed drum once in awhile, albeit well on the side of suck) and have a very nice flashy silver pair that are great, especially for video or stage . . . but, nine out of ten times I use a pen or pencil or a business card (the sticky bit is great for giving out your card . . . hand 'em your card then stick 'em and tell 'em they can keep the card as a souvenir so it now has a special memory attached). A nice variation I've done a few times is to stick two folks at once and instead of using a stick or the like have 'em make "0" with their thumb and index fingers so they are interlocked then stick 'em and let 'em try to figure out how to unlock themselves from one another . . . with much merriment for all (especially when you introduce an element of "happy skin" so that if they touch the other person's skin it's like a happy drug that makes them giggle and laugh but they need to try to get unstuck which means they will touch and more giggle drugs or what-have-you).

You can routine it with more sticky bits and have quite a bit of playful fun with folks.

This is a gag you can do anywhere and at anytime. Wendi Freisen says after she took my speed hypnosis walkabout last year, she was sticking waiters in a luxury resort.

Have fun with variations and enjoy yourself.

Wow. That was really impressive actually.

Thank you.

Can you walk me through the stuck videos?

What do you need walking through on?

The effect itself is a classic stage hypnotist's gag which I include in my list of suggestibility effects that I often work and play with. It's called the "stick stuck to hand" suggestibility effect (not a "test" but an effect as "test" implies the possibility of failure and I would rather consider whatever the response is as feedback).

Have the person focus upon the point where you have him grip the stick or pen or pencil or business card or coin or whatever and tell him to imagine that his fingers are getting tighter and tighter. Watch the response to check to make certain that there is a tightening effect. Once you've got the tightening, slip into the "tighter and tighter" patter to increase the effect and then go for the "so tight that the more you TRY to let go the tighter they become until they are stuck, the more you TRY to release the more stuck they become" to create (1) the implied failure of TRY and (2) the self-reinforcing loop of the fingers becoming more stuck.

Play with the stuck effect for a bit and then do the hand switch: "this hand is free BECAUSE that hand is now stuck" and so on. The use of the word "because" enhances the power of the suggestion - yes, it really does work (see Robert Cialdini's INFLUENCE: SCIENCE AND PRACTICE -  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0205609996/shakespeareeclec - as well as Kevin Hogan's COVERT HYPNOSIS - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0970932146/shakespeareeclec - for references to the academic studies that explored this).  You can also find both of these texts via my bookstore at  http://astore.amazon.com/shakespeareeclec  in addition to the direct links.

Once you have moved the stuck effect around a bit you can then transfer to stick to nose or head or where-ever. I will often slip in invisible tickle feathers at this point as well.

There is a listing and description of twenty-seven suggestibility effects including the "stick stuck to hand" in the resources section of my webpages at http://www.briandavidphillips.com . . . those interested in video explanations with demonstrations of the effects might check the suggestibility volume of my DVD course at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/products/core.html - the suggestibility volume also has a bit on sequencing various effects while the instant and rapid inductions volume of the same course has examples of converting suggestibility effects into formal speed inductions. I am not aware of any other DVD set that covers so many suggestibility effects and their use (most programs cover the basic ones while this one has some of more esoteric ones which don't get formal demonstrations quite so often). Of course, once you understand the principles, you can begin creating new variants based upon the concepts.

I hope this has been helpful.  Seriously, if you really want to take your work with suggestibility effects, waking hypnosis, speed hypnosis, and even street hypnosis, consider ordering my DVD set at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/products/core.html  and/or consider taking one of my walkabout trance or speed hypnosis courses whenever the next is available.  Go to http://www.briandavidphillips.com regularly to keep abreast of new courses, trainings, mp3s, DVDs, shows, events, products, and what-have-you.

All the best,
Brian

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Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan
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I Want My Ghost Gadgets

MSNBC has a nice piece on ghost gadgets . . . the technology of the paranormal investigator . . . complete with a list of items you can get at your local radio shack type outlet . . . Ghost Gadgets http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27438294 . . . okay, sure, some of that stuff is obviously not very logical but a whole slew of it is pretty kool.  I want my ghost gadgets.

All the best,
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Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist, Intuitionist, Trance Wizard
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HUMAN DESIGN for Spiritual Seekers獻給靈性求道者的人類圖

HUMAN  DESIGN for Spiritual Seekers
獻給靈性求道者的人類圖

veetnisha@yahoo.com.tw
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二天團體課程

TWO DAY GROUP
with
Dr. Joseph ‘Deepak’ Vidmar

November 15 & 16, 2007
10am – 6pm
Taipei

NEW IN TAIWAN

帶領人：笛帕教授Dr. Joseph ‘Deepak’ Vidmar
時　間：2008年11月15-16日（週六、日）
早上10:00-下午6:00
地　點：台北

新鮮人類圖來到台灣

What might it be like for you......

 

• to discover your true nature?
  
• to enjoy total self acceptance?
  
• to find you own unique inner voice of truth?
  
• to make the right decisions every time
  
• to know in detailed depth your best potentials to succeed in all areas of your life?
  
• to unravel the mysteries of relationships?
  
• to understand the design of others, and to know how best to relate with them?
  
• to have a simpler, richer and more purposeful life?

這對您會是像什麼情況呢?......

 

• 發現你自己的真實本性?
  
• 享受全然地接受自己?
  
• 找到你自己獨特的真實之內在聲音?
  
• 每次做出正確的決定?
  
• 詳細深度地知道你的最佳潛能，讓你在生命各領域能夠成功?
  
• 解開關係的神秘?
  
• 了解別人的圖，因此能夠與他們做最好的連結?
  
• 過個更簡單、更豐富、更有目的的生命?

WHAT IS HUMAN DESIGN?  Human Design is a map, a blueprint, a schematic for who you are and what you are supposed to do with your life here on Earth. It is a map of your True Self at both the conscious and unconscious levels. It is the Instruction Manual on how to live your life at the Physical-Emotional-Mental-Spiritual levels that fulfill your purpose in life and enables you to live a path of greatest fulfillment and least resistance and pain.

Human Design is a new system that came to Earth through Ra Uru Hu in January, 1987. It is a new knowledge that combines the ancient systems of Kaballah, Chakras, Astrology, and I’Ching in a new way that includes modern sciences of physics and genetics.

This group is not for academic information giving only. We will have times for questions about personal issues in your life. It is a group for personal transformation and growth. I will know the map and chart of every single person in the group. That is why the group is kept to a small and personal size.

什麼是人類圖？人類圖 是張地圖、藍圖、圖表，說明了你是誰，你今生來到地球上應當怎麼活你的生命。它顯示出你意識層面的真實自己True Self 和潛意識層面的真實自己True Self。人類圖是本指導手冊，告訴你如何活你的生命，在身體、情緒、頭腦、靈性四種層面實現你的生命目的，同時讓你的生命道路是條有著最大實現而最小阻力、痛苦的道路。

人類圖 是套新體系，於1987年1月時來到地球上，傳達給喇•鄔盧•護Ra Uru Hu。這套新知識體系是以新的方式，包含物理學和基因學等現代科學，結合了猶太卡巴拉Kaballah、印度脈輪Chakras、西洋星象學Astrology和中國易經。

這團體不只提供學術資訊，我們有問答時間，讓你提問有關你生命中的個人議題。這是個提供個人蛻變轉化和成長的團體，我會知道團體中每個人的地圖和圖表，這也是為什麼這團體保持小而個人的團體。

SEMINAR IS IN ENGLISH WITH CHINESE TRANSLATION. YOU WILL

 

• receive a personal chart of your Human Design that is unique to you
  
• receive a personal package of information that is useful to your life.
  
• know and understand your Type (there are five) that is your True Self
  
• know your own personal Strategy to meet with least resistance in the world
  
• know your Inner Authority that will tell you how to make the best decisions that are correct for you every time. It tells you the way to know your own truth.
  
• know the primary pain and suffering you will feel if you live your Not-Self
  
• know your Profile that will tell you what role you are to play in this life
  
• know which Chakras are activated and which energies are fixed and reliable. You will know which parts of you are True and cannot be changed. You will know which parts of you are false, unreliable, and the result of conditioning from others.
  
• know which Hexagrams from the I’Ching are activated and what behaviors are correct and will align you to your True Self
  
• know which parts of you are the result of conditioning and are not really true for you. You are unique and what society/family expects and who you really are can be totally different. Your choice is to live your life according to your own personal Truth or to live your life according to someone else’ ideas.

課程以英語進行，有中譯。你將會:

 

• 拿到一張你個人的人類圖，屬於你個人獨特的圖。
  
• 收到有助於你生命的每人一份整套資訊。
  
• 知道和了解你的類型Type（有五種類型），那是你的真實自己True Self。
  
• 知道你個人的策略Strategy，讓你在這世界上少有阻力
  
• 知道你的內在權威Inner Authority，告訴你每次做決定，如何對你而言是正確的最好決定。內在權威Inner Authority告訴你如何知道你自己的真實。
  
• 知道你主要的苦痛和受苦，是來自於你活你的非自己Not-Self，你就會感覺到的苦痛和受苦。
  
• 知道你的人物角色Profile，告訴你今生所要扮演的角色。
  
• 知道哪些脈輪Chakras被啟動，哪些能量是固定和可靠的。你會知道哪些部份的你是真實的True，是不能被改變的。
  
• 知道從易經來看，哪些卦Hexagrams被啟動，什麼樣的行為是正確的，會把你定位到你的真實自己True Self
  
• 知道哪部份的你是受制約的結果，並不是真實的你。你是獨特的，社會或家庭所期待的你和真實的你，這二者有可能迥然不同。你可以選擇，依循你的個人真實來活你的生命，或是根據他人的想法來活你的生命。

 

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Reservation: We need your birth data ahead of group to have time to make your chart.

Contact: Ming-Yng, After Nov. 7,  0912084608;    Before Nov. 7, 002-62-817357532

E-mail: veetnisha@yahoo.com.tw , information: http://www.astronlp.com

Where:   Taipei

Cost:  7,700 NTD  (30% Discount if Register and pay before Oct. 25; 15% Discount if Register and pay before Nov. 1)

 

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預約：在課程之前，我們需要知道你的出生資料（年月日時分和地點），以便製作你的人類圖。

連絡：張明瑩，11月7日以後： 0912084608；　11月7日以前：002-62-817357532

e-mail: veetnisha@yahoo.com.tw　　　http://www.astronlp.com

地點：台北

費用：新台幣7,700元。 10月25日前報名繳費，七折優惠（5,300元）；11月1日前報名繳費，八五折優惠（6,500元）。

 

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Dr. Deepak  A Past-President of the Louisiana Psychological Association (USA) and Professor of Psychology and Gifted Education (retired), Dr. Deepak has given or supervised IQ tests and personality tests or therapy sessions over 5000 individuals. He is a certified Human Design Analyst and LYD Guide. He is also a Master Practitioner and Trainer in NLP and was on the Ethics Committee of the American Association of Clinical Hypnosis. He has lived most of the last 15 years in India and was the Ashram Astrologer at Osho Multiversity where people came from all over the world. He was also a Group Leader in Hypnosis, Meditation and Astrology.  He has given over 3000 sessions to spiritual seekers in over 15 countries in the world.  Human Design can tell you Strategy & Authority and is the best and quickest way to know, accept, and relax with yourself.  To love the miracle of who you are is to love life itself.

Dr. Deepak笛帕教授是心理學教授(美國)，由他經手或督導的智商測驗和人格測驗與治療個案超過5,000人以上。他是人類圖諮商分析師和人類圖LYD導引，也是NLP神經語言程式專業級和訓練師，曾遴選為美國臨床催眠學會道德委員。在印度生活將近15年，擔任奧修多元大學的專任星象師多年，也是催眠、靜心和星象學團體帶領者。他旅遊世界上15個國家以上，為3,000位以上的靈性求道者做過星象個案和治療個案。人類圖可以告訴你策略Strategy和權威Authority，知道你自己、接受你自己、對你自己很放鬆。你是誰就是個奇蹟，能夠愛這個你是誰的奇蹟，就是愛生命本身。

 

Is Obama a Hypnotist?Only if you define hypnosis in a meaningless way.

There is a very spurious document making its rounds right now in the various hypnosis forums right now that purports to be an examination of Barack Obama's use of hidden covert manipulative hypnosis techniques in his speeches by making a number of specious leaps (here).

As to actual content of the document and the idea of hidden hypnosis, I have no patience for the growing argument that anything that influences folks should be considered some form of hypnosis (often applied to discussion of communication events by those particular authors disagree with) or that using effective rhetorical strategies with purpose is inherently unscrupulous or manipulation.  We seem to be going in a direction of defining hypnosis so broadly that it no longer becomes useful to discuss it as there becomes no real difference between "hypnosis" and "rhetoric" and "influence" and "persuasion" and "communication" . . . in our attempt to codify and explain hypnosis and to get it out of the realm of the watch waving we have begun to overdilute it.  Yes, influence is important . . . yes, communication is important . . . and these are certainly areas that make us better hypnotists if we understand influence and are better communicators . . . but influence alone is not hypnosis . . . communication and rhetoric alone are not hypnosis . . . even "trance" alone is NOT hypnosis.

One commenter on the Obama hypnosis document in the Hypnosis Technique Exchange discussion made the following statement:

What public speaker doesn't use oratorical techniques? They've been around for centuries, only now we are in the frame where they have to be Ericksonian, but Uncle Milty didn't invent this stuff - he found it already running in humans.

Indeed.

I have been teaching communication at university for over two decades and I often begin the very first day of my classes each year with a bit from Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (aka, Quintilian) who is considered by many to be one of the cornerstone thinkers of Western rhetorical studies (what we used to call "communication" before the latter became more fashionable) who created a thorough and detailed system for developing the "orator" (which we now would consider the "public speaker" or the "communicator").

Quintilian objected to the belief that communication should be considered "persuasion" as there are so many different ways to influence and persuade folks (he noted that money is a very quick and effective way to get people to do what you want them to do).

Rather, to Quintilian, the true essence of rhetoric, communication, is "a good man speaking well" . . . the tricks of the trade of a good communicator are not merely tools of manipulation . . . although they certainly can be used that way by unscrupulous persons.  When I teach students at the university Robert Cialdini's various laws of social influence, I do so with that signpost from Quintilian . . . any good communicator should learn this stuff and then use the techniques in resonance with their own strong moral guide, should learn to influence and to more effectively get their message across (public speaking courses across the world have included the Monroe Activation Sequence for many many years - it was taught to me when I was an undergraduate and I taught it when I began teaching public speaking courses at university - because it is an effective way to structure a persuasive speech and no one has any ethical issue with including the visualization step which so obviously is related to the hypnotic operator . . . no one has issue with it because the technique itself is not the ethical question . . . as long as we are "good men speaking well" then it is being used appropriately).

Of course, Obama is using effective speaking techniques . . . McCain likewise has speech writers who endeavor to craft words for him that increase his effectiveness at swaying public opinion (the recent appeals to fear and guilt by association are just such rhetorical strategies).  If Obama were not using effective rhetorical devices, that would be the shocker.

Whether or not Obama is indeed a "good man speaking well" . . . well, that's a different question.  I have a strong sese that Obama IS such a man . . . with a message that is resonant with many of my own beliefs.  I also believe that McCain is for the most part a good person who believes in his message . . . a message I disagree with on so many fundamental levels.

Honestly, I wouldn't normally even go to a site like Penny Press Las Vegas (the hosts of the Obama Hypnosis file) which I would consider well on the ultraconservative side as my personal beliefs and politics are well on the other side of the spectrum.  I found the so-called analysis to be offensive, particularly the nonsensical "EXPOSING OBAMA’S DECEPTION MAY BE THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY" at the bottom of every page which shows the agenda of the document which in and of itself is a negative suggestion that the writer and publisher hopes will sink into the reader's unconscious simply through the repetition and the softening up of the main text itself . . . as if there isn't plenty of mudslinging and spurious statements coming from the other side of the aisle in this particular election.  The "analysis" LOOKS detailed to those with a superficial knowledge of the material BUT it jumps to a LOT of conclusions and uses a number of those so-called "evil" techniques in its own right.  Dressing the document with "footnotes" is all well and good except that the material is being used in away to that is out of context or at least as dressing to lead readers into conclusions that are well more than giant leaps.

The various hypnosis forums really aren't the appropriate place for the Obama criticism (or McCain bashing for that matter).  For instance, the Hypnosis Technique Exchange is a large list with folks with many different views from many different countries.  While the US presidential elections are extremely important to many in the world at large, most here are not interested in getting sucked into a political flamewar.  One reason the list works is that folks are allowed some degree of tolerance and are encouraged to enjoy their own beliefs and modalities.  One problem with politically charged debates - particularly when they are colored with the "ethics" argument - is that they inherently end up with an us versus them mentality that can be damaging to one's good relations in other contexts.  We're all here to discuss hypnosis and related modalities.  While the political debate is important, it is specifically appropriate in other forums - for instance, most folks who read my blog regularly have a pretty good idea as to what my political leanings are.

All the best,
Brian

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Into the Mind of Alan Moore

Stepping into the mind of Alan Moore . . .

THE MINDSCAPE OF ALAN MOORE

MONSTERS, MANIACS, and MOORE

All the best,
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Alan Moore reads Robert Anton Wilson

Hail Eris . . .

Alan Moore reads from Masks of the Illuminati at the Robert Anton Wilson Memorial event held in London, March 2007.  The youtube is here.

Next, Alan Moore presents a more personal eulogy for the author with references to Wilson's life and work in his own words and heartfelt delivery. The youtube is here.

As regular readers here know, Robert Anton Wilson is my all time favorite author (I re-read Illuminatus every couple of years and enjoy it more and more each time).  While I have always enjoyed Moore's work in comic books and graphic novels, lately I've been reading more of his work in mind and fantasy, magickal philosophy and practice and finding him to be delightful . . . well, at least to me.  There is a treasure trove of videos on the various sharing sites for those with cursory interest.

One last twenty-three skidoo, indeed.

All Hail Discordia,
Brian

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President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan
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How to Read TAROT Cards

Most readers of Life of Brian know of my interest in Tarot.  I do indeed teach various courses in Tarot in addition and as part of my hypnosis work (no, I don't use a fortune-telling approach but prefer a more traditional divinatory context, one that is more akin to introspective meditation than prediction).

While I do teach courses in reading Tarot, I am always interested in other approaches.  Snooping about on the web, I came across a few approaches that are worth contrasting.  The two how-to pieces are fairly straightforward and while their orientations are very different - psychic versus faking - both are actually legitimate approaches to the cards and there are plenty of folks doing professional readings using either of these approaches.

PSYCHIC TAROT CARD READING
Peter John

This "psychic" approach is one that I tend to refer to as intuitive reading.  Tarot Card Reading by Peter John.

HOW TO FAKE A TAROT CARD READING
Videojug

I know, they put this thing together for fun and tongues are planted firmly in cheeks but this is actually a fairly common approach among psychic entertainers and is even more ethical then some of the learned cold reading lines some folks use. If one simply changes the tone and timbre to an intuitive approach, you have a fairly straightforward and valuable approach to reading cards for beginners.  Of course, I would strongly suggest folks learn more before doing professional work but the kernel concepts are here.  How to Fake a Tarot Card Reading by videojug.

PSYCHIC READING CARDS
The New Wrinkle

I'm including this as it shows an interview with a dayin "psychic" with interview on the approach and the like.  I do not agree with her on a whole slew of points (I do not believe one's cards have to be gifted and do not subscribe to an orientation of special powers within the cards or the like).  Psychic Reading Cards from the new wrinkle.

For those interested in combining Tarot cards with hypnosis and trancework for some very powerful introspective revelations, check out my Tarot Trance DVD at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/products/shop.html.  See http://www.briandavidphillips.com for my teaching schedule and check back often to catch the next Tarot course and feel free to join the TarotL email list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TarotL for discussions (I am the list owner).  Folks on Facebook should join the Tarot Asia Tarot Trance group there (http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11281831923).

All the best,
Brian

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Learning Enhancement Hypnosis Seminar 改善學習能力的催眠法

LEARNING ENHANCEMENT HYPNOSIS
改善學習能力的催眠法

A Practical Course in
Improving Learning through Trancework
. . . hypnosis methods that work
運用催眠提升學習能力的方法與實務

Brian David Phillips, Ph.D., C.H.
http://www.briandavidphillips.com

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For correspondence, information in Chinese, or for questions regarding Chinese interpretation, please contact Lorraine Yuk-Lan Law Phillips at yuklan.law@msa.hinet.net . . . http://www.briandavidphillips.com

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DATES: October 18-19, 2008
LOCATION: Taipei, Taiwan (Venue Announced After Registration Finalization)
LIMITED SEATING: Positions in the class are filled on the basis of first-come first-served.
PREREQUISITE: previous experience not required
REGISTRATION: contact Lorraine Phillips at yuklan.law@msa.hinet.net to register. International guests should contact Lorraine about accommodation suggestions or other matters. Registration closes Oct. 11.
http://www.briandavidphillips.com

日期: 10月18-19日 （兩天共十五小時）
講師: Dr. Brian David Phillips 羅狼仁教授
地點：台北縣市 （教室另行公佈）
報名：電郵yuklan.law@msa.hinet.net
傳真：886-2-24526223
http://www.briandavidphillips.com

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Course Description:

Learn to learn in ways that enhance the way you understand and use new skills. Accelerated learning is only the beginning. Welcome to a hands-on practical course in educational enhancement hypnosis methods leading to specialist certificate in Learning Enhancement Hypnosis with the Society of Experiential Trance. This is a comprehensive practical course in accelerated educational enhancement hypnosis techniques with a hands-on approach to mastering the skills presented. This course is appropriate for hypnotists, educators, parents, coaches, and anyone concerned with improving the learning curve and mastering skills. The methods presented can be applied in a very wide range of contexts.

運用催眠改善記憶力，幫助學生考試成績，或者提升運動方面的表現，幫助改善技巧，以達到加速整個學習的過程，將催眠運用於教育，不但可以助人，也是催眠師提升社會地位，修正社會人士對催眠師誤解的最好方法。羅教授以二十多年的專業教育經驗，加上一輩子研究催眠的心德，整理出一套運用催眠於教育的課程，理論和實務並重，初學者和有經驗的催眠師都歡迎參加.

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The course is taught in English (we provide English to Chinese interpretation for those requesting it, please contact Lorraine for details).

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For correspondence, information in Chinese, or for questions regarding Chinese interpretation, please contact Lorraine Yuk-Lan Law Phillips at yuklan.law@msa.hinet.net

See http://www.briandavidphillips.com for more information.

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All the best,
Brian

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Waking Hypnosis effects without the "hypnosis"

On the hypnosis board of one of the magic forums I belong to, a question was asked of the members of whether or not one can do waking hypnosis with someone who doesn't know you're a hypnotist.  My first response to that sort of question is to determine what sort of effect one was after and what the context was.  So often, folks ask those sorts of questions in the hopes of hypnotizing hot babes to start making out or more.  In this case, the example effect was to stick someone's hand to their face using waking hypnosis methods with someone who does not know you are a hypnotist.

I have done this a number of times. Typically, I simply said somethng along the lines that I wanted to play an "imagination game" . . . then I went into rigid arm suggestibility effect and from thee converted it into a routine of sticking the hand in different places. This is a blast with the stick stuck to hands effect as well - here is a video of the process http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN8tyMb3tp4 although the girl in this video knows I am a hypnotist (this is done from waking state). Some of my students have learned the variant I do of this where instead of a stick you use your business card and then let them keep the card as a souvenir of the experience. A lot of folks respond very very well to the "drunker and drunker" suggestibility effect which can be a wonderful stage or street induction whether the person knows you're a hypnotist or not if they follow the directions they will feel wonderful (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEEzv99u898 for a great clip).

So many hypnotists ignore suggestibility effects without realizing they can be a LOT of fun for your trance partners, are quick and easy, and they ARE hypnosis inductions in their own right with out without eye closure! If you look on the youtube at http://www.youtube.com/user/briandavidphillips there are a number of examples (or check the video section of my webpages at http://www.briandavidphillips.com).

If you are unfamiliar with suggestibility effects, there is a comprehensive list in the "resources" section of my webpage at http://www.briandavidphillips.com with explanations of how to do them. Of course, my comprehensive core hypnosis DVDs at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/products/core.html have explanations and demonstrations of all of the listed effects as well as other hypnotic processes (few programs demonstrate so many suggestibility effects as hypnotic processes and there are some processes in that set that aren't commonly available elsewhere - yes, that's a product pitch so click on the blasted link . . . oh, better still . . . imagine you are looking deeply into my eyes and finding yourself inexplicably relaxed and feeling good as you continue to breathe in and out and relax more and more deep deeper deeply into a pleasant feeling as you find yourself clicking on that link NOW and ordering that wonderful product for yourself NOW and knowing that deep deeper deeply in those special places deep within in where all those pleasant thoughts dwell you can now enjoy the sweet, pleasant, wonderful anticipation of that special package   coming   to you soon . . . er, or, something like that . . . although, kidding aside, it really is a solid product with a ton of material not covered elsewhere while hitting all the major bases for the core basic hypnosis skills, so if you haven't bought it yet you really should).

Seriously, for the most part, you just need to have some confidence in yourself and in your process and you will be fun. Make it a playful experience and have fun with it. If you present whatever you are doing as a fun imagination game then you are set. Sometimes I will use a suggestibility effect as an icebreaker and then introduce the hypnosis concepts for more obvious hypnotic fun.

Of course, Kreskin used to do a whole slew of hypnotic effects without a formal induction (while claiming hypnosis didn't exist). Ormond McGill would play with eyes open suggestibility effects as inductions quite a bit to and you will find a few performers doing them at venues in locales where stage hypnosis is restricted but suggestion is not. Some mentalists will use them as hedge effects to demonstrate their "psychic" powers and the like as well.

I hope this has been helpful.

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935 Lies

935 Lies written and performed by Harry Shearer from his album Songs of the Bushmen . . . see here.

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Psychology of Mind Control

Here's an interesting series of short videos related to mind control.

MK-ULTRA, CIA MIND CONTROL, and BRAIN WASHING TO MAKE ASSASSINS

From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOARWX3OjFc.

MIND CONTROL, PSYCHOLOGY of BRAINWASHING, SEX and HYPNOSIS

From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSTDtzqoMuU.

MIND CONTROL HATE PROPAGANDA, HATE SPEECH and CRIME . . . BLACK PR

From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ghNfiKNxz0.

MIND CONTROL IN A CAN: SOFT DRINKS AREN'T SEXY . . . COKE, POP

From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPNsRID0A9w.

See more of Psychetruth at http://www.youtube.com/user/psychetruth.  Befriend on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/psychtruth and read the blog at http://psychetruth.blogspot.com.  Of course, to start doing your very own form of mind control, get the DVDs at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/products/core.html now.

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Presidential Hopefuls

Well, he certainly has my vote.

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Schools Kill Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson talks about creativity and education . . . http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html . . . a TED talk.

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Thomas Barnett's Map for Peace

Thomas Barnett discusses the map for war and the map for peace . . . http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/thomas_barnett_draws_a_new_map_for_peace.html . . . a TED talk.

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Haunted Taiwan . . .

After watching some ghost hunting type programs and discussing critical approaches to such material, students in one of the courses I teach at National Chengchi University in Taipei this past semester created their own videos related to haunted locations in Taiwan. They were to demonstrate some degree of critical thinking in their videos about actual locations and events (although some dramatization would be allowed).

You can judge their success . . . here are their projects . . .

HAUNTED TAIWAN: Haunted University

HAUNTED TAIWAN: Haunted Elevator

HAUNTED TAIWAN: Haunted Pavilion

HAUNTED TAIWAN: Haunted Apartments

HAUNTED TAIWAN: Haunted Dorm

HAUNTED TAIWAN: Haunted Time Loop

Keep in mind that this is not a television production course so these were in no way expected to be broadcast quality.

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Psychic Kids . . .

Sometimes, it just sucks to not live in the US . . . othertimes not so much.  However, it sure would be nice if we had some of those kool networks you folks back in the "beautiful country" (hint, America in Mandarin is Meiguo which literally is the words beautiful and country together).

The Family Phillips has been watching old episodes of Ghost Whisperer of late - we just finished season two from DVD and plan on tackling Medium . . . Kaye really enjoyed Most Haunted and Ghost Hunters . . . think you can figure out at least some of our ol' television programming tastes?

Well, I just saw the link to the new A&E show in the US that would be perfect for my daughter . . . Psychic Kids: Paranormal Children . . . http://www.aetv.com/psychic-kids . . . unfortunately, we don't have A&E here and since it's a brandspanking new show, we won't be able to see it for some time, if at all since non-major channels don't usually distribute too well on this side of the planet.

The show really does look perfect for my daughter Kaye though as it has psychic phenomena (heck, we even faux nightvision cam women running around screaming at themselves bumping in the dark from Most Haunted entertaining) and the principle subjects are young people, a number of them the right age range for Kaye who is fourteen.

Anyone out there see this show?  How is it?

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Mind Control Made Easy

I know I've posted this before . . . actually, some time ago . . . but it's making the rounds again and it's good enough to give another go.  The Mind Control Made Easy video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnNSe5XYp6E is both parody and manual:

The Boing Boing reference that's making the rounds at http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/23/mind-control-made-ea.html states:

Carey Burtt’s superb “Mind Control Made Easy or How to Become a Cult Leader” (2000). It may be fun, but this is no comedy, it’s more like a documentary. Cults thrive on our vulnerabilities, and a good demonstration of just how vulnerable we all are was given in a series of experiments conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch in the 1950s.

Creepy yet entertaining yet scary.

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The Illusion of Reality

How the discovery of the atom eventually changes our understanding of reality itself . . . see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1406370011028154810.

Bikinis turn men on and their brains off . . .. . . or not! Quite the opposite, in fact.

The Lynx Effect ad above - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VII18CVrlTU - was used in a scientific study on the effects of sexual stimuli on men.  See Study: Women in Bikinis Make Men More Impulsive at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,366102,00.html.  Now, while sexual stimuli cause men to be more sexually excited - duh - that's not really the point as to what the study found.  They found that men became more impulsive overall.  In other posts on this blog we've found that sexual stimuli tend to make men with higher testosterone less cautious and basically the little brain takes over from the big brain but this study shows that the impulsive behavior is definitely generalized and part of an evolutionary setup.  Men exposed to sexual stimuli actually exhibit improved cognition and creativity.  So, that's a very good thing.  Good news on the bikini front . . . folks in Kanab, Utah, may be seeing a rise in impulsiveness, cognition, and creativity soon as the ban on bikinis at the local pool has been lifted . . . http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,365849,00.html . . . well, for now, at least.

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More on Anti-Hypnosis Prejudicial Nonsense

Here's a followup to this post http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/2008/06/hypnotic-prejud.html . . . . . . as some of you know, I posted a bit about this on my regular blog and on my Hypnothoughts page http://www.hypnothoughts.com/profile/meiguolangren

It seems that producers of adult-oriented hypnosis materials are getting hit with a shocker and a half that will put some of them out of business and is threatening the business survival of others.

Clips4Sale is a content hosting and sales site where many folks who produce adult content host their content which is sold to customers. The hypnosis sites there have received notices that their material would no longer be hosted or sold through the site. Other adult material is fine, however, any material that combines hypnosis with erotic content is now gone.

CCBill is a credit card processing company that provides services to adult entertainment online stores so they can accept and bill via major credit cards. Since a quite a few credit card processors won't accept allow adult material in their services (for instance, Paypal change their policies and no longer allows it), this is an important service. They have sent out notices to their customers to let them know that any sites that combine hypnosis with erotic content is no longer allowed (folks were given 48 hour notices while others were shut down immediately).

Evidently the move is coming from MasterCard which sent notices to companies letting them know they would no longer accept business from sites that have what they called "illegal content" which is what they are characterizing hypnosis+erotica.

It seems likely that the recent unrelated conviction of Paul Little (Max Hardcore) has spurred a bit of paranoia so I would guess that it is the sites that cater to rape fantasy and hypnosis (sites like Hypnotrick that appear to use hypnosis to rape women coming in for therapy but who are hypnotized into having sex without remembering it later - anyone with an inkling about hypnosis can easily tell it's ACTING and has nothing to do with genuine hypnosis but the Hardcore case has spooked a lot of folks) that are most likely to blame for the policy change which is lumping all hypnosis as erotic entertainment in with the nonconsensual trick/drug/drunk/blackmail nonconsensual crowd . . . albeit, the emails the erotic hypnosis producers received specifically refer to hypnosis.

If it were just the hosting and processor services, then the folks who produce erotic hypnosis videos could just look for another provider who has a bit more sense about things and less prejudice toward hypnosis of any kind.

However, since it's the credit card provider there's little they can do. CCBill and Clips4Sale have adopted their own policies now parroting the MasterCard policy (evidently, the notice CCBill received from MasterCard specifically referred to erotic hypnosis as "illegal content" and listed a number of sites by name - although that list hasn't surfaced so it's everybody's guess who has ruined it for everyone.

Interstingly, the better hypnofetish sites that have genuine hypnosis (not the roleplay porn that uses hypnosis as a mcguffin excuse to have women or men get naked and have sex) but the ones that rely on genuine hypnosis . . . have prehypnosis interviews at the beginning of the session where they clearly demonstrate that the models know and are consenting to the hypnosis and the adult content and a number of the sites have begun adopting posthypnosis interviews for the same to show that no untoward boundaries have been crossed. That's a LOT more than most porn sites that are being considered perfectly acceptable have ever done.  Oddly, thanks to the Tampa conviction of Hardcore we're moving into some very weird possible ramifacations for free speech (his case was moved there supposedly because his site was hosted by a secondary provider on a server there - without his knowledge - but really because prosecutors were looking for an easier community-standards conviction which would have been more difficult in Los Angeles where Hardcore's company operates - go google the case for more information on this case).  Evidently, the Hardcore case has spooked some folks into a kneejerk reaction that assumes that not only nonconsensual sex based porn should be illegal (it should be illegal) but that the portrayal of nonconsensual sex fantasy by actors should also be illegal (it shouldn't be) but that also pre-informed consensual hypnosis-based erotica should be considered inherently nonconsensual by its very virtue of involving hypnosis and should be illegal (which is just bizzarrobrainfreezeonuberWTF) . . . bearing in mind that whether or not the hypnofetish sites are hardcore, softcore, or just teasing seems to have no bearing on the characterization.

Now, before folks respond that it's just porn and it's creepy so who cares anyway (I care and I would disagree with that as I happen to think most adult entertainment is fine, but that's me and I respect that there are folks uncomfortable with any sort of adult entertainment) . . . and if hypnosis and erotica aren't your thing (that's okay, FOR YOU . . . I tend to think sex=good hypnosis=good sex+hypnosis=reallygood but that's me) . . . go to my hypnothoughts blog http://www.hypnothoughts.com/profile/meiguolangren on this and read the comments . . . it's not just the hypnoporn sites that are being hit with unreasonable prejudice . . . look at the comment about local magazines (which we might write off as an aberration of one local's prejudice) and then notice the one about Costco Credit Card Processing . . . no religious community objection, no porn or adult content of any kind, just rejection from the program because it's a "hypnosis" business.

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WELCOME TO THE FUTURE AND IT SUCKS . . .US Live Expectancy Going Up and Down at the Same Time . . .. . . the healthcae gap is getting wider and it's killing women

Common understanding is that due to advanced in healthcare and technology and nuitrition, life expectancy has been rising.  Women tend to have a longer life expectancy than men.  A recent study on mortality rates by counties in the United States paints a very different - and rather depressing - picture.

The study by Majid Ezzati, Ari B. Friedman, Sandeep C. Kulkarni,  and Christopher J. L. Murray takes a hard look at actual county-by-county mortality data to uncover some disconcerting trends.  The PLos Medicine paper is The Reversal of Fortunes: Trends in County Mortality and Cross-County Mortality Disparities in the United States.  In the map above, you can compare mortality rates for men and women for the periods of 1961-1983 to those of 1983-1999.  The dark red areas are decreasing life expectancy while dark green areas are growing life expectancy.  Light red is below average but not decreasing and light green is above average but not increasing.  White areas are average.  Note the strong regional differences but also the nosedive in life expectancy for women.

The US is one of the most advanced nations on the planet but access to quality care is becoming limited  The cyberpunk dystopia is unfortunately becoming more and more increasingly accurate as a model for American society when it comes to access to healthcare.  Wealthier areas have always had more access to superior care and the gap between wealthy and the poor is widening as the middle class shrinks but also as many find their insurance  - if they can afford it - costs more and covers less.

The gap between male and female life expectancy is frightening as women naturally have higher expectancy but we are seeing a reveral.

What is causing the downturn?  For men, increased murder rates and HIV infections have has a real effect on life expectancy (but not for women).  Other culprits are factors for men and for women:

The researchers looked at differences in death rates between all counties in US states plus the District of Columbia over four decades, from 1961 to 1999. They obtained the data on number of deaths from the National Center for Health Statistics, and they obtained data on the number of people living in each county from the US Census. The NCHS did not provide death data after 2001. They broke the death rates down by sex and by disease to assess trends over time for women and men, and for different causes of death.

Over these four decades, the researchers found that the overall US life expectancy increased from 67 to 74 years of age for men and from 74 to 80 years for women. Between 1961 and 1983 the death rate fell in both men and women, largely due to reductions in deaths from cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke). During this same period, 1961-1983, the differences in death rates among/across different counties fell. However, beginning in the early 1980s the differences in death rates among/across different counties began to increase. The worst-off counties no longer experienced a fall in death rates, and in a substantial number of counties, mortality actually increased, especially for women, a shift that the researchers call "the reversal of fortunes." This stagnation in the worst-off counties was primarily caused by a slowdown or halt in the reduction of deaths from cardiovascular disease coupled with a moderate rise in a number of other diseases, such as lung cancer, chronic lung disease, and diabetes, in both men and women, and a rise in HIV/AIDS and homicide in men. The researchers' key finding, therefore, was that the differences in life expectancy across different counties initially narrowed and then widened.

This is scary stuff as the trends increase.  The folks at io9 offered their own take on the results:  So basically there is a growing health gap in the United States. Despite its status as a developed nation, the country is likely to harbor more and more communities where life expectancy is more like a developing nation. We're looking at a future where it's going to be increasingly difficult to say whether a country is "developing" or "developed" since it will exhibit characteristics of both.

Welcome to the future and it sucks.

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Cloudbusting

Kate Bush's song "Cloudbusting" was released with the Hounds of Love. The song's release was 14 Oct. 1985. The song and music video portray the relationship between father and son . . . psychologist Wilhelm Reich and his son Peter . . . the song describes Reich's arrest through the eyes of his son and is based upon Peter Reich's 1973 biography of his father, A Book of Dreams. Reich was one of Freud's direct disciples who had a break with Freud and pioneered the concept of release and orgasm in psychotherapy. He developed the cloudbuster (shown in the video and featured on the cover of the single) and the orgone accumulator. He was persecuted by the FDA in the US for his orgone developments and former connections to the communist party - this was the McCarthy era - and arrested by the FBI and his books burned (yes, actually banned). He died in prison, a broken man. While some of his later conclusions and developmetns may seem spurious and perhaps even fringe, his kernal work is extremely valuable and led to the birth of a number of extremely powerful therapeutic processes.

CLOUDBUSTING
Kate Bush

Yes, that is Donald Sutherland playing Reich while Kate Bush plays his son Peter.

CLOUDBUSTER
Brief Reich Drama

This is an extremely brief docudrama portraying the arrest of Reich.

CLOUDBUSTING INTERVIEW ONE
Kate Bush

In an interview, Bush explains what she was trying to accomplish with the video in regard to the book the material is based upon.

CLOUDBUSTING INTERVIEW TWO
Kate Bush

Another interview with Bush from 1985. It starts more about her work in general as she first begins making inroads into the US market and then has more details about the story of the video.

All the best,
Brian