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Hartland's Medical and Dental Hypnosis
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2001
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2 editions
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Hypnotherapy: A Handbook
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1991
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8 editions
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The Highly Hypnotizable Person
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2004
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13 editions
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Universal Awareness: A Theory of the Soul
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2011
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9 editions
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Hartland's Medical and Dental Hypnosis
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Hypnosis: Current Clinical, Experimental and Forensic Practices
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Chap: Role And Uses Of Hypnosis In Psychological Treatment
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2012
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Chap: Introduction To Hypnosis
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2012
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Chap: Hypnotherapy And Smoking, Weight Loss And Alcohol And Drug Abuse
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2012
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Hypnotherapy (Psychotherapy Handbook Series) by Michael Heap (1991-06-01)
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Idle thoughts on the brain
Quite a while ago I had the following thought:
‘Everything that human beings do or achieve that has an impact on the world, whether it be minute or immense, must be mediated at one or more stages by microscopic activity in the nerve cells of the brain or brains of those individuals involved. And if any of that microscopic activity varied, even in the slightest way, the outcome might be vastly diffe Read more of this blog post »
‘Everything that human beings do or achieve that has an impact on the world, whether it be minute or immense, must be mediated at one or more stages by microscopic activity in the nerve cells of the brain or brains of those individuals involved. And if any of that microscopic activity varied, even in the slightest way, the outcome might be vastly diffe Read more of this blog post »
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This book is a very readable overview of modern physics, written with clarity and enthusiasm. It's a real page-turner for me.
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This book is currently by bedtime reading. The stories average 12 pages in length (20 in all, average paperback size) so I often manage to read a whole story before switching off the light. There is a good mixture of themes and topics (largely about
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| I shouldn't really say that I am enjoying reading this book, because the message is so depressing. But I suppose the enjoyment comes from having one's own fears and misgivings about our politicians, or at least the way our country is governed, confir ...more | |
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As I’m reading this book I am having mixed reactions. It’s amusing, irreverent and hard-hitting. The author is very well-informed, and his accounts of
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| Just the job for like me who needs regular reminders of the contributions of influential philosophers. Well written and easy to read. I would recommend this to anyone venturing into this fascinating domain. | |
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| I have never formally studied quantum physics but, as with many people in that position, I am still fascinated by the subject and am keen to further my knowledge. But I keep having to be reminded of the the history, the fundamentals, the evidence, th ...more | |
“Is it reasonable to speak of a modern ‘tyranny’, one that is having a malign effect on
our society, and which we may call ‘the tyranny of the professions’? 'The Tyranny of the Professions' on the author's website.”
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our society, and which we may call ‘the tyranny of the professions’? 'The Tyranny of the Professions' on the author's website.”
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“The universe, of which you are a part, does not have ‘an appearance’! All we can say is that the universe ‘is’.”
― The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation
― The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation
“The universe creates amazing maps of itself at these very rare locations in its structure that we identify as sentient beings. And for this achievement, may we not truly say, ‘What a Wonderful World’?”
― The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation
― The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation
“I insist that if you put together mainstream public and private medicine, alternative or complementary medicine, commercially available, across-the-counter remedies, and so on, then you have a healing industry the collective scale of which vastly outstrips whatever it is really capable of achieving. In short, there seems to me to be far too much of it about.
Skeptical Intelligencer (4), 2005”
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Skeptical Intelligencer (4), 2005”
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“If you survey healing throughout history and across contemporary cultures, and even within our own culture, you will encounter an extraordinary and fascinating range of human behaviour and beliefs, bounded only by the healer's own imagination and the compliance of those seeking to be healed, and therefore unbounded. I think this is more so than in any context other than religion.
Skeptical Intelligencer (4), 2005”
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Skeptical Intelligencer (4), 2005”
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“The person you are is an activity that your body engages in rather than your body itself. You are an activity! It is therefore possible to state, ‘I do, therefore I am.”
― The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation
― The Meaning of Universal Awareness: A Rational Foundation
“Our being is in our doing, and when we stop doing, we stop being.”
― Universal Awareness: A Theory of the Soul
― Universal Awareness: A Theory of the Soul
