Michael Heap
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Hartland's Medical and Dental Hypnosis
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2001
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Hypnotherapy: A Handbook
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1991
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The Highly Hypnotizable Person
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2004
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Universal Awareness: A Theory of the Soul
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2011
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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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I heard Katherine Stewart give a lecture on this subject at Humanists UK's annual convention in June this year. I was so concerned at what she had to say, I felt I should find out more. I have now read the the early chapters of the book. It is very m ...more | |
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Not the author's only autobiography. This one is a short account, mainly of his early life and upbringing, and his faltering beginnings as a writer. There is much introspection and reflection on his troubled mental life during this period, which he i ...more | |
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This book is a wide-ranging review of what is known about sleep — its physical and psychological nature, why it is so important for a healthy mind and body, and what can go wrong and what to do about it. It’s very technical but written in a reader-fr ...more | |
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“The absurdities of life provide rich material indeed for the student of human psychology. There is scarcely a limit to the degree to which people - you and I and everyone else - may be persuaded to behave and think in ways that are illogical, meaningless and bizarre while believing the opposite to be the case.
The 'Skeptical Adversaria', Summer 2008.” ...more Michael Heap |
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Azeem Ibrahim gave a magisterial lecture on the disturbing subject of this book at Humanists UK's Annual Convention in June this year that I felt I had to read it. ...more | |
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I heard Katherine Stewart give a lecture on this subject at Humanists UK's annual convention in June this year. I was so concerned at what she had to say, I felt I should find out more. I have now read the the early chapters of the book. It is very m ...more | |
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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 | |
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I have mixed feelings about some of this book, but Richard Dawkins has such a brilliant mind and, for the most part, it shines through in much of his writing. Hence 4 stars. Religion is something people DO. If they didn't do it, it wouldn't exist. Th ...more | |
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Written in 1957, this novel is set in a typical small English village called Midwich in which hardly anything of note happens. Except that one day, what one assumes to be an extra-terrestrial spacecraft makes a temporary landing and all inhabitants i ...more | |
“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
“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
“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