Author: briandavidphillips

It's me. I am an associate professor, pastor, magickian, ecstatic tranceworker, hypnotist, virtual reality enthusiast, stereophotographer, father, feline friend, husband, seiðr practitioner, chaostician, somaferist, werewolf, and much more.
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Focused Energy, Reality Shifting, and Detachable Fingers

My students at the university are learning magic tricks which they teach to their classmates . . . the prestidigitation kind not the occult . . . the exercise is intended to give them experience in demonstrational speaking, the act of teaching a skill to others, while signposting the importance of critical thinking. Too many folks out there manipulate perception in order to hoodwink folks and take advantage of them. Well, in my communication courses, I endeavor as much as possible to impart the Quintilian Paradigm . . . an adaptation of the famous statement by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus that…

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Pendulum Autoquestioning and Ideomotor Effect

P E N D U L U M AUTOQUESTIONING Introspective Guidance Hypnotic Ideomotor Processes For those of you taking my courses in which I have introduced you to ideomotor effect and pendulum autoquestioning . . . here’s a bit of review on how to use the card and pendulum you received . . . A number of folks have received copies of my business card with a strange diagram on the back . . . or they have received so-called psychic pendulums as gifts from me in various shows or classes or even on the street. The diagram is a…

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THE UNCANNY Webinar Free Streaming Video

On 28 September 2014, Brian David Phillips conducted an online workshop on UNCANNY CREEPS, WILLIES, SHIVERS, AND SHUDDERS: Physical Manifestation of Psychological Cognitive Dissonance (A Discussion of An Involuntary Visceral Trance Response) via online webinar chat. The UNCANNY CREEPS, WILLIES, SHIVERS, AND SHUDDERS online webinar session is an introduction to concepts and methods related to UNCANNY CREEPS, WILLIES, SHIVERS, AND SHUDDERS, Physical Manifestation of Psychological Cognitive Dissonance (A Discussion of An Involuntary Visceral Trance Response). In this discussion, Brian David Phillips discusses UNCANNY CREEPS, WILLIES, SHIVERS, AND SHUDDERS as Physical Manifestation of Psychological Cognitive Dissonance or A Discussion of An…

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Uncanny Creepy Time!

In my graduate seminar in Literature of the Fantastic at the university today, I opened a discussion of The Uncanny. As I promised my students, here are some creepy images that fit with some of the points I made in the lecture. CREEPY DOLL REACTION One way the feeling of the uncanny or the creeps is created is when something seems familiar or known but there’s also something off about it, just enough for it to create cognitive dissonance. This young girl with her doll, experiences that sensation big time. It’s okay, that doll in the corner isn’t really moving…

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Troxler Effect and Monsters in the Mirror

I know you’ve seen ’em . . . in the bathroom at night, looking into the mirror and you notice the reflection looking back at you doesn’t seem right . . . there’s something off about that face, it’s staring at you . . . and the eyes aren’t your eyes, they’re the eyes of something menacing, something dark, something very very wrong . . . a hint of evil chills the air . . . you felt it, that chill in the back of your brain, that soft tremor of fear . . . there it is again. Or,…

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The Monomyth: Mythic Structure or the Hero’s Journey Model

Prof. Brian David Phillips discusses the MYTHIC STRUCTURE or the Monomyth or the Hero’s Journey Model of literature, film, and psychological transformation as adapted from the work of comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell. Students in my literature and film courses as well as a number of other courses that I teach at the university or various institutes will be familiar with the basic outline. Be sure to click subscribe on our Waking Dreams 3D/VR/AR/360° Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8wy50wAOGy3WgPMNbsOi2w – in fact, if you have not already done that, just go ahead and do that NOW. For more about 3D/VR/AR/360° Taiwan, head…

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Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality Channels on Youtube Worth Watching (Twitch Mixed Reality Streamers Too)

Here is a less than comprehensive list of Youtube channels on mixed reality and virtual reality . . . most worth watching. Included are mixed reality streamers on Twitch as well. Be aware that this is not everything and what is listed may or may not be worth the view – to you (despite the title of this post). The channels I check regularly are in bold (that doesn’t mean they are good or bad, it just means I like to check ’em out for whatever reason – my taste may be very different from your own). AWESOME VR (I…

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Starting Out

Just a quick howdy to let you know we are coming soon. Oh so soon. We are setting up this new site to accommodate my students as well as others who need access to our posts via Facebook but can’t share the pages from our original site (long story for another day, frustrating issues on that). Also, this will be a nice placeholder for some of our more esoteric materials that don’t fit in the other sites. Over the next few weeks, we will be copying and moving posts over from the main site to here. We are starting with…

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