This post is a follow-up to a previous post on how to become an artist. Becoming an artist requires mixing with people, learning from them and discussing art with them. But at the same time you will find that much of the time it is very lonely. So find opportunities to work with other people,...
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What am I, how did I get here and where am I going? The most important question is “what am I?”. If I am just a combination of my physical and mental wheels turning, then how can I expect to survive? If I subscribe to the idea of the soul, what is it? Is...
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Bending metal objects has long been a favorite pastime of people with alleged psychic ability. The claim is that it is possible to exercise your mind power in such a way as to influence the molecular structure of a metal object such as a key. Stage magicians seem to have no problem with duplicating the...
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I have already explained how I felt about synchronicity in a post called Understanding Synchronicity. I thought including this video would be worthwhile because it clarifies my feelings about our basic misunderstanding of coincidences and probability.
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Being hypnotized is a relationship between the hypnotist and the subject. It is not a matter of one person putting another to sleep or being in control of another person’s will. The hypnotist induces, by any of a number of methods, a state of willingness to cooperate in his subject. The subject’ awareness of...
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The popular conception of conversational hypnosis is of the act of hypnotizing a person while simply talking to them as in an everyday conversation. But how can suspending someone’s control over themselves be suspended so casually? The genesis of conversational hypnosis is the theory that we all go off into hypnotic trances during our daily...
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