Two-time Olympic silver medal winner, U.S. shotputter Adam Nelson has begun using hypnosis as a means to prepare himself for the gold this time around . . .

Dirk Treusch (web) has taken the sticky hypnosis challenge (web) to heart and ventured to the streets of Heidelberg where he put the concept of stickiness and hypnosis to the test . . .

For th…

Derren Brown has had to back down from some of his very critical statements about Neruolinguistic Programming (NLP) and - more specifically - about Richard Bandler, one of the founders of NLP. In his book, Trick of the Mind, Brown called NLP a bit of a pyramid scheme rather than a legitimate approach to the mind and therapeutic change. He also took a swipe at Bandler, equating him to a con man.

Bandler and friends took umbrage and hit Brown with a suit. Brown has backed down a…

Christine Phelan gives some strong examples of why Hypnotherapy is Finding its Place in Alternative Care . . . http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1456403/hypnotherapy_finding_its_place_in_alternative_care . . . just the example of an open-heart surgery patient standing and mo…

The TRANCE WIZARD (http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/2008/05/trance-wizard-p.html) Supernatural Hypnosis Show on June 22 at the Live Comedy Club Taipei was a blast. This was not your run-of-the-mill typical stage hypnosis performance, instead of a row of chairs on stage to fill with volunteers, we had a simple table with two chairs and various genuine occ…

Sean Michael Andrews has a theory about hypnosis and he tests it in this video . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB4M4aB5Qmk . . . Sean is a wellknown extreme street hypnotist. He was right there front and center at the last Los Angeles class I taught on Wal…

Sometimes hypnosis helps artists to create art . . . http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/2008/06/coldplay-goes-h.html . . . and sometimes hypnosis is the art, or at least a major part of it.

On 22 April 2008, Raimundas Malasauskas once again ventured into the world of the…

Now this is a fun and rewarding and delightful bit of hypnotic news . . . Coldplay's newest album Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends was written in part with the help of hypnosis.

Three years ago, front man Chris Martin (Gwyneth Paltrow's husband) made some ripples when he anounced that their fourth album would be "the greatest piec…

I was recently asked about a technique that I taught in one of my US courses in February . . . the use of a Pendulum and Answer Card for ideomotor effect based autoquestioning. As many know, I have special cards printed up that I use with clients or on the street and have a number of purple crystal pendulums that I use for the purpose.

Pendulum Autoquestioning is fascinating to many. It is based upon t…

Pete of Pete's Girls (http://petesgirls.com) - big time NSFW - just posted to his email lists that Clips 4 Sale where he sells his adult hypnosis video clips just gave him a headsup that they are removing all the hypnosis material from the site because the credit card provider, Master Card, insists. The other porn - tickling, Sybian, gangbang, and more - are all okay, it's the hypnosis material that is making them nervous…