Richard Bandler, the Master Hypnotist

Paul McKenna has uploaded a wonderful video to youtube which tells the story of the extraordinary Richard Bandler and how he helped a woman overcome her terrible fear of flying.

The lady's fear was legitimate - she was a victim of a hijacking while a passenger on a plane in Peru and genuinely feared for her life. For almost three decades she lived with a terrifying fear of planes and flying, made all the more sad because she was a trained pilot herself.

This short program illustrates the brilliance that is Bandler and how he uses seemingly simple techniques to overcome acute fears and phobias.

Based on my studies of Bandler, the explanations of Bandler's techniques are oversimplified and somewhat inaccurate, but the video is worth the watch to see the effects he achieves.

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Einstein: The Amazing Parrot

If you haven't heard of TED.com yet, you're missing out. There's a plethora of fascinating video lectures available for free, streaming right into your browser. Jane Goodall, Dan Dennett, Dr. Brian Cox, Tim Berners-Lee, Jill Bolte Taylor, Hans Rosling.. all of these lecturers have brilliant little 20-minute clips available for your viewing pleasure. Treat yourself, and check it out. Then, become addicted, and enlighten your mind.

From a pureley entertaining perspective, this nice little clip of Einstein, an African Grey Parrot, illustrates the magic of communication and how humans and animals can learn to interact. It isn't so much a display of intelligence as it is a demonstration of how animals can learn to manipulate humans to get what they want.

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Seeing what isn't yet there...

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, people looked at a large piece of marble and saw it as a weathered, pathetic hunk of stone.

Michaelangelo looked inside it, and saw The David.

He carefully helped lose the parts that kept The David from being The David. With loving and meticulous care, the Artist freed, for the world to see, the divine beauty that was there within the stone all along.

Look within. What do you see?