Dick Sutphen - How to Rapidly Develop Psychic Ability

Dick Sutphen - How to Rapidly Develop Psychic Ability

released on 2-cassette set in 1985

This is just what I need, a quick way to learn how to develop my psychic powers. I don't have the time or patience to invest much of my free time in cultivating my psychic powers that everyone including me supposedly possesses according to gurus like Mr. Dick Sutphen (who now goes by the name of Richard Sutphen). I don't even have much free time available nowadays.

Sutphen lays out 10 exercises for developing one's psychic powers which involve blanking one's mind for at least a few seconds. Then, Sutphen conducts hypnosis sessions for listeners to further develop and cultivate psychic powers. So, it all comes down to using hypnosis for one to have psychic abilities. It sounds like something that requires a lot of time that I don't have as I've already mentioned.

The 2nd cassette has the required subliminal programming that is almost always found on these kinds of recordings. Whenever I listen to anything with subliminal messages, I never actually hear the messages. I wonder why that is. Maybe I need psychic abilities to hear them.

Tracklisting:

Side A

1.  10 Primary Exercises to Develop Psychic Abilities  {28:07}

Side B

1.  Expansion of Psychic Abilities  {21:53}

Side C

1.  Psychic Ability Programming with Body Relaxation and Music  {20:49}

Side D

1.  Psychic Ability Programming with Music  {21:33}

Another Sutphen tape I posted a few years ago is still available.

Helen Gurley Brown - Lessons in Love

Helen Gurley Brown - Lessons in Love

*special thanks to jay strange for this informative record

LP released in 1963

Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere.

Before she became the chief editor at Cosmopolitan magazine for a long time where she transformed the magazine from a not widely read cultural literary magazine to a magazine containing photos of stick thin models and articles about sex positions and dating, Helen Gurley Brown wrote a book called Sex and the Single Girl which became a bestseller in 1962. Much of the book's content was radical for its time and interestingly her husband, the late producer David Brown, was the one who prompted Helen to write a book about her days as a single woman.

Sometime soon after the publication of the book, it was planned by the Crescendo Record Company for Helen to record an album of her reading portions from her book. However, Warner Brothers who was making a movie version of the book at the time, owned the recording rights to the book, so the audio version was nixed. So, Helen came up with new material that resulted in the LP, Lessons in Love. Each side of the LP contained advice each for men and girls (that's what they're referred to instead of women).

Helen dishes advice on how to discreetly cheat on your wives or husbands (it's only natural and bound to happen, right). Helen offers advice each for secretaries and bosses to maintain relationships in and out of the office. There's hope for midgets , I mean little men, to have success picking up girls. There's even hope for plain or ugly girls to land men as Helen helpfully explains how this is possible. Helen also tells how men can reject a girl and how a girl can reject a man. At the end of each side, in a bit of contradiction from her stance that cheating is okay, Helen explains how a man and a girl can remain faithful and love only his wife or her husband respectively.

So listen to the original Cosmo Girl tell you how to live your love life.

Tracklisting:

Side 1 HOW TO LOVE A GIRL

1. How to Have an Affair and Live Happily Ever After! part 1 {3:58}

2. How to Have an Affair and Live Happily Ever After! part 2 {2:50}

3. How to Behave at Home If You're Misbehaving Away from Home {2:20}

4. Getting the Most from Your Secretary {2:58}

5. Little Man You'll Have a Busy Day {3:13}

6. How to Say No to a Girl {3:18}

7. How to Love Your Wife and Nobody Else {4:09}

Side 2 HOW TO LOVE A MAN

1. How to Love a Man If You Aren't Pretty {6:06}

2. How to Say No to a Man Who... {2:57}

3. Unfaithful Wives' Tales {4:56}

4. How to Love a Boss {2:55}

5. How to Talk to a Man in Bed {4:02}

6. How to Love Your Husband and Nobody Else {3:32}

Dollond and Aitchison - Congratulations, You've Got the Job!

Dollond and Aitchison - Congratulations, You've Got the Job!

*special thanks to jay strange for this gem

Sometime back in the 1970s, if you were hired to be a receptionist at Dollond and Aitchison, a UK (United Kingdom) chain specializing in eye glasses and eye tests, you were given this record to listen to as your orientation to working for this company. A male narrator is your guide throughout this record which may or may not be interesting since you were most likely a young female if you had the job of receptionist back then. This narrator explains how customer service is done in the company and a little bit about the company's background. Several work situations are played out depicting examples of what not to do and how to correctly handle the situation.

I was told by jay that companies in the UK often made orientation records although most of them were 7 inches and very few 12-inch records were produced by companies. This is one of those 12-inch records. These records were made apparently before everybody could afford the technology to produce orientation videos which is the norm now.

The founding of Dollond and Aitchison dates all the way back to 1750(!) as a company founded by Peter Dollond as Dollond & Co. In 1927, Dollond & Co. merged with Aitchison & Co. which was founded by James Aitchison in 1889. In 2009, Boots Opticians merged with Dollond and Aitchison which Boots bought a controlling share in D&A. D&A/Boots are one of the four big companies that have around a 70% share in the eyeglasses and contact lenses market in the UK.

If it's cool to have vinyl now at least according to the hipsters, it would be cool if some enterprise produced an orientation to working on vinyl. That would send a message that the company is cool meaning the cool kids want to work there and/or buy its products and services. If I owned a company, that's what I would do. Forget the orientation video on DVD and VHS. Since I have been wearing glasses since childhood, of course, I would choose to own an optical company. (Now you can tell how this record resonates with me.) I know something about the glasses market and I am a customer of optical stores so I know the mindset of the customer base. Anyway, I think I need all the help I can get attracting the cool kids (to increase market share) since I am uncool and unhip. I bet this record once stodgy years ago is now cool.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Congratulations, You've Got the Job! {13:44}

Side 2

1. Congratulations, You've Got the Job! continued {13:13}

Bill Gove - Time: Its New Dimensions

Bill Gove - Time: Its New Dimensions

*special thanks to KL from NYC for this one

I've posted records by salesmen before. I have no doubt you already know that if you're a loyal visitor to this blog and paying attention or if you're a newbie and possess ESP powers. However, in over two years of this blog's existence, nothing by America's #1 salesman has ever been posted until today. That's right. I have the record by America's #1 salesman ready for you to listen to. I bet you that you woke up earlier in the day never guessing that you are about to listen to America's #1 salesman later in the day. Lucky you. It's almost as good as waking up on yet another ordinary day only to find out you won the lottery later in the day.

On this record is a recording of a speech given by the #1 salesman in America. From the title and cover, one would think that he talks about time which would be really cool especially if he talked about time travel and its possible effects on creating several alternate realities or something like that. That is not so. I think this record is about selling although it's sometimes hard to tell as he keeps cracking jokes.

A glance at the liner notes reveal what Bill Gove really means by the dimensions of time is:

We can't control the clock - but we can (if we want to) control the DIMENSIONS OF TIME: HABIT-ENERGY-ATTITUDE-and COMMUNICATIONS. Time is not a separate entity - it is merely an extension of habit - energy - attitude - and communications.

Um okay. If America's #1 salesman says so then so it is.


Tracklisting:

Side A

1. Time: Its New Dimensions {21:33}

Side B

1. Time: Its New Dimensions continued {22:40}

James T. Mangan - How to Sell the Prospect by Selling Yourself

James T. Mangan - How to Sell the Prospect by Selling Yourself

LP released in 1962

James T. Mangan was President of Mangan & Mangan, "a Chicago firm offering sales counseling, public relations, designed advertising, and creative advertising ideas", when this record was put out by the Businessmen's Record Club. No doubt Businessmen's Record Club LPs were common in the offices of corporate America back in the day. Anyway on this LP, Mangan has a 3-part formula which he explains:

1. How to sell yourself to the prospect
2. How to sell your product or service
3. How to sell the firm you represent

So before you can sell vacuum cleaners, swampland, or any other crap that people don't really want, you have to be able to sell yourself. You have to have self-confidence and it would help to have a network of contacts to establish your reputation. Hopefully your reputation will be a good one. I'm wondering how successful this formula was for Mangan's own company. I went to my online best pal to find out how the company is doing today. My online best pal did not turn up anything about the company. That should tell you something. Then I asked my online best pal to find out anything about Mangan. You can click on this link to see what was turned up. I was like, wow.

I'm sure that being owner of outer space would enable one to sell oneself. If a salesman (I mean salesperson) owned outer space, I would consider buying something from the salesperson.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. How to Sell the Prospect by Selling Yourself {15:40}

Side 2

1. How to Sell the Prospect by Selling Yourself continued {16:31}

The Complete Parakeet Trainer

The Complete Parakeet Trainer

cassette released in 1985

This is another post with something that you can teach your bird to talk only this one is specifically for parakeets or parrots. Basically, your pet bird should be comfortable first then all background (i.e. distracting noise) should not be present in order for your pet bird to concentrate on you and the lessons you're teaching it such as the ones on this tape. Also, no other birds should be present, just you. According to the liner notes, parrots are sociable animals where they are more interested in each other's company than in anything else.

I've always wanted to have my own pet bird particularly my own pet parrot. Cats and dogs are okay, but parrots are really cool. However, I have no pets because no pets are allowed in the apartment building where I live. Anyway, parrots can talk. I guess that it takes time to train them to talk. You can't do that with cats and dogs. So whenever I get the opportunity to get a mortgage so I can own a house or find another apartment that allows pets, I'm getting a parrot. And I have the materials I need to engage in a some sort of conversation with my parrot. If that doesn't work out, at least I can pretend to be a pirate.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Hello Budgie {3:27}

2. Come On Over Here {3:32}

3. Give Me Some Love {3:39}

4. How About a Kiss {3:40}

5. Such a Pretty Bird {3:43}

Side 2

1. Hey Baby, What's Up {3:38}

2. How About a Cracker {3:31}

3. You're Pretty Cute {3:32}

4. Here Kitty, Kitty - Meow! {3:35}

5. Ha, Ha That's Funny {3:35}

Hunter Lott - Front-Line Interviewing and the Firing Session

Hunter Lott - Front-Line Interviewing and the Firing Session

cassette released in 1988

I found my copy of this cassette at one of my favorite local thrift stores. I guess it's good to know that managers, executives, company bigwigs, and "$100k talent" donate their castoffs to thrift stores too. No offense intended, but I wonder if any thrift store shoppers would actually be able to use this tape much less want to buy it except for weirdos like me who scour for this kind of stuff to post on blogs like this.

Hunter Lott is a human resources consultant who is "one of America's foremost experts on hiring and firing". Hunter Lott is a champion of "the rights of management" helping out the big guy. He is presently still helping companies hire the right people for the job and not getting sued firing the people who the companies thought were right for the job.

This tape is for bosses and "human resource professionals" who are taught on side 1 on how to conduct interviews so "potential superstars" can be identified. Hunter Lott explains on side 2 how to fire people without getting an appearance in a courtroom. Anyone who is a wage slave, an underling, someone on one of the lowest rungs of the ladder, anyone who is a member of the lower classes, or any worker on the bottom of the employee hierarchy/food chain can listen to this tape to learn how management thinks on hiring and firing or how management should think on hiring and firing. Also if your name is Don, you should start to worry about your job. Just sayin'.

This tape does come with a disclaimer:

NOTE: This cassette is intended to offer general information about laws, regulations and procedures which you can use to your benefit when dealing with these important labor matters. If you have any questions about any specific hiring and firing situation, contact a qualified labor attorney for assistance.

Ya got that. There's lots of useful info on this tape. Get that sampler ready (you know who you are). ;)

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Front-Line Interviewing {18:01}

Side 2

1. The Firing Session {14:32}

Madame Indra Devi - The Best of Yoga

Madame Indra Devi - The Best of Yoga

Lately, I've been doing a little yoga on the Nintendo Wii via the Wii Fit program. Actually, the Wii is the only way I've been getting my exercise lately. I like doing the yoga postures, but it's the other exercises that can be a killer especially the squatting ones. I've always wanted to try yoga and I never would have thought that my first yoga experience would be through a video game system so there ya go. Anyway this has me thinking what would it be like if a yoga master like Indra Devi was still alive and was involved somehow with the Wii. Obviously, that will never happen, but I still have this LP to use. Hopefully, I won't conjure up the devil or become a promiscuous alcoholic while engaged in some yoga postures.

I secured a copy of this LP at one of the local Goodwill stores. It appears to be a recording of a yoga class conducted by Indra Devi, who was born in Riga, Russia [*Editor's note: correction - Riga is the capital of Latvia which is now an independent country] (with the birth name of Eugenie Peterson) and found her calling early in life as a Hindu spiritual and yoga master. I know I take it for granted that there are lots of yoga videos plus the aforementioned Wii Fit available at the present. Back when this LP was released in 1973, I don't think there were many yoga classes available. I'm sure that the only way for a lot of people to get yoga instruction was through LPs like this. The LP starts out with simple breathing exercises then proceeds to neck and eye exercises. You'll have to listen to find out more about how to eye exercises. My favorite part of the record is the "sound vibrations" track where Indra Devi instructs participants to make certain sounds. It is the most fun exercise of this record. The last half of the record is devoted to various postures such as the "Cobra Posture", "Locust Posture", "Arch Posture", etc.

I wish I can explain these yoga exercises better especially in the context of this release. Unfortunately, the booklet that came with this record is missing. We'll just have to listen to Madame Indra Devi. I really like her voice along with doing the "sound vibrations". Otherwise, I'm only getting my yoga from the Wii.

Tracklisting:  (link will be back soon)

Side A

1. Introduction and Deep Breathing {3:34}

2. Breathing Exercises {4:03}

3. Neck Exercises {2:20}

4. Eye Exercises {3:25}

5. Sound Vibrations {3:09}

6. Relaxation {4:29}

Side B

1. Arch Posture {1:26}

2. Reverse Posture {1:29}

3. Plow Posture {2:44}

4. Cobra Posture {2:38}

5. Locust Posture {1:46}

6. Lotus Posture {1:55}

7. Yoga Modra {2:34}

8. Stretching Exercise {1:30}

9. Twist Posture {3:05}

10. Head Stand {4:03}

11. Stomach Lift {1:43}

12. End of Class {0:43}

Will Harvey - How to Find and Fascinate a Mistress [book]

Will Harvey - How to Find and Fascinate a Mistress [book]

book published in 1971

I found a copy of this book in some swap meet several years ago. When I first laid eyes on this book, I was somewhat amazed that a book like this was published. Then I looked at the cover again and I noticed the words "San Francisco Best Seller" on the top. I would not be surprised if this book was actually a bestseller in San Francisco at the time. If books like this were on top of bestseller lists, I would be interested in checking out what else sells (or sold) well in San Francisco. Forget the New York Times list. Anyway, I suppose I should feel lucky that a used copy of this book made its way to my locale which is a very conservative area (i.e. opposite of San Francisco). Come to think of it, this book would likely be read by folks in this area since they have a tendency to cheat and fool around while preaching morality. I do not think it is a coincidence that my locale has one of the highest rates of divorce in America.

This book is a guide to finding a mistress where the author has devised a test called the SYNAM test to determine if a woman is mistress material. Will Harvey has come up with four categories of the type of mistresses: honeybee, ladybug, hornet, and grasshopper. I suppose that his analogy of insect characteristics to mistress behaviors makes sense. There are tips on how to find mistresses and get them to be your companions. Harvey then writes about how to deal with the inevitable situation when the wife confronts the mistress. There are other tips such as how to deal with breakups with mistresses and what to do to use protection for both the philanderer and the mistress.

This book is aimed at men especially middle-aged to older men who are interested in having younger women on the side. This book seems to be a product of its time, but I'm sure the tips and ideas from this book are put to use today. Some people still want or need mistresses today after all. So, if you're looking for an interesting read (even if you're faithful which is good of course) check this book out.

From the blurb on the flap of the dust jacket:

This is not just a silly sex book or a manual for the sneaky. The author has found a realistic answer to the challenge of the sexually liberated woman who wants a capable man with no strings attached. He emphasizes HOW TO FIND THE WOMAN WHO IS LOOKING FOR YOU - and live to tell about it! But once you're on the man-mistress merry-go-round, how do you wave to the rest of the world without appearing silly? Or get off without stumbling? What respect does a mistress deserve? What happens when wife meets mistress?

Throughout his scientific and business career, the author has been asked these questions hundreds of times by bewildered friends and colleagues. They could never understand how he found and survived so many interesting women while maintaining a reasonable work schedule (from all outward appearances). Now, in the twilight of his career, he tells it like it is (or was for him). He's honest, arrogant - at times humble - but not apologetic. And for good reason. Some of the women in his life helped him write this book. All this country needs is a decent rationalization to relieve the suffering of untold millions who are doing it anyway - or wish they could. Never again will they feel alone.

Will Harvey began his career as an assistant professor in the sciences at a large university. An empty pocketbook and total frustration with academic life soon forced him into the business world. He would have preferred a steady job with an established firm, but the pressures of his personal life forced him to start his own company in the booming electronics field. Fortune smiled on him and he soon found himself in the on-again, off-again world of high finance (and low resistance). He attributes his modest success in business to the fact that he was most often preoccupied with the finer things in life when he otherwise would have been making serious mistakes at the office.

He has long felt that woman is the stronger sex, and that man's feeble claims to superiority are belied by the fact that most of his daily efforts are directly or indirectly devoted to the pursuit of, support of, or escape from a woman. So why fight it?

He looks back now on a lifetime which could have been conventionally wicked, had it not been for his constant struggles to turn personal necessity into social virtue.

part 1 part 2  (links will be back soon)

CONTENTS

1 PROFILES OF THE MISTRESS
Is She A Mistress? page 8
The Synam Test page 9
The Honeybee page 12
The Ladybug page 13
The Hornet page 15
The Grasshopper page 16
The Working Girl page 17
The Stewardess page 21
Your Own Secretary page 26
Where Do You Meet Her? page 29

2 I'M THE ONE
Mental Foreplay page 34
Don't Touch Me! page 35
The Panic Points page 37
Contact! page 41

3 MARKSMANSHIP
On The Firing Line page 48
The Bullseye page 49
Phase One page 50
Phase Two page 51
Phase Three page 52
The All-Day Sucker page 55
Bless the Squeek page 55
The First Shot page 57
The Warm-Up page 59
The Dud page 60
The Double Play page 61

4 OBSERVATIONS ON ORGASM
Are They All The Same? page 64
Automatics, Repeaters, And Not At All page 65
How Long Does It Take? page 68
The Over-Thirty Syndrome page 69
The Fatal Question page 71
Her Own Sex Manual page 73

5 LITTLE PROBLEMS
Don't Be Bashful page 75
The Afterglow page 76
The Dribble Problem page 77
The Gentle Hint page 78
The Missing Pill page 80
The Peeing Syndrome page 82
Oral Operations page 83

6 TABLE MANNERS
Time And Place page 87
Let Her Sniff The Buds page 94
How To Support A Mistress page 95
Holidays page 98
How To Protect And Present Your Mistress page 99
Wife Meets Mistress page 102
The Double Reverse page 103
Quickies page 110

7 THE END ZONE
I'm A Mistress page 115
You're A Bastard page 116
The Other Man page 117
The No-Breakfast Routine page 120
The Last Gasp page 121
The Silent Message page 122

8 FAMOUS LAST WORDS
Be Prepared page 125
The Condom page 126
Skins page 127
Hornet Protection page 129
VD page 132
A Blessing In Disguise page 133
The Pause page 134
Vaginal Suppositories page 136
The Diaphragm page 139
Foam And Applicator page 140
We're Stupid page 140
Testing The Condom page 141

9 HELPFUL HINTS FOR THE HUNTER
The First Blush page 145
The Team Approach page 146
Live Bait page 149
The Compassionate, Capable Man page 150
The Pompous Peacock page 152
The Badgered Businessman page 153
On The Job Contacts page 154
Too Good To Be True page 157
The Savior page 159

Michael Blate - Acugenics

Michael Blate - Acugenics

Acugenics is a program where an individual applies self-accupuncture without needles. Fingertips are used at 20 points throughout the body. The user of acugenics is supposed to be relaxed and Blate recommends that acugenics be used at night before the user goes to sleep. By the way, the user should either be naked or at least be wearing light clothing. Acugenics is supposed to be a self-healing method. The user is instructed to apply a few seconds at these sensitive spots. It sounds painful to do. I suppose that the user has to go through more pain before healing takes place.

This recording is dubbed onto what was originally a blank cassette. I found it at (you probably guessed it) a Salvation Army thrift store. I cannot tell what tape or record this recording was ripped from. I believe it is called acugenics as Michael Blate guides one through his Acugenics program while soft music of flute and occasional flourishes of harp play in the background.

On Side 2, Blate guides listeners through a healing program called applied imagination which uses a technique called guided imagery "which releases all the healing benefits stored in your imagination". This is supposed to realize your full potential for well being by balancing the energy throughout your organs. Soft music with harp plays in the background. The applied imagination program sounds less painful than acugenics which sounds more like my thing. I already feel more energetic from hearing this program's description. (He said "groin", "rectum", and "sex organs" heh heh heh heh heh).

According to his bio on his website: Author, lecturer and natural health educator, Michael Blate has spent most of his life exploring and sharing "self-health" methods and traditional spiritual teachings from around the world. He has written dozens of books and teaching guides to help people become more healthy, self-reliant and spiritually attuned. Michael has a special gift for presenting complex teachings in a straightforward, practical and easy-to-use format.

In the early 1970's, at a time when acupressure was all but unknown in the West, Michael’s first book — The Natural Healer's Acupressure Handbook — introduced this easy, effective technique to the US. Since then, G-Jo Acupressure had been taught in classes, workshops, schools, hospitals and universities around the world.

In addition to his contributions to health and healing, Michael’s explanations of the timeless wisdom known as Vedanta — sometimes called "spiritual yoga" (the basis of today's popular yoga programs) — have helped many spiritual seekers to more fully grasp this pinnacle of Eastern thought.

A frequent contributor to various magazines, Michael has also appeared on nearly 2,000 radio and TV talk shows to introduce audiences to the amazing healing powers and spiritual potential lying within each of us.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. track 1 {21:12}

Side 2

1. track 1 {14:23}

2. track 2 {7:41}

3. track 3 {1:39}

Dr. J. Clifton Williams - Success in the Classroom

Dr. J. Clifton Williams - Success in the Classroom

We'll continue with the back-to-school series of posts. This guy explains on this tape (from 1970) how to prepare for tests and how to do well on tests as well as how to make good grades in classes. I think I should have posted this one first instead of Techniques for Academic Success. Basically, if you don't do the homework and flunk the tests, you fail the classes. Thus, you become a loser in the realm of formal education which means you'll most likely for the rest of your life be working for low pay in either a big-box chain store taking shit from prick managers and ill-mannered customers or serving high-cholestrol, fattening, greasy food for a fast food chain while taking shit from prick managers and ill-mannered customers. So you better get motivated to succeed and start listening and/or passing this on to someone who's attending school.

Tracklisting:  (link will be back soon)

Side A

1. Success in the Classroom {28:44}

Side B

1. Success in the Classroom continued {24:35}

Dr. J. Clifton Williams - Techniques for Academic Success

Dr. J. Clifton Williams - Techniques for Academic Success

I know that the people out there want more druggie albums as well as more stuff about Satan and LPs of how to remove pimples from rear ends (I will be somewhat amazed if there is in existence of an LP of how to remove pimples from anywhere on the body). It's not that I am psychic that I know what people outside of my locality want (because I'm trying to find time to fully concentrate and listen to Russ Burgess again, yeah that's it.) It's that my visitors have asked for these kinds of albums.

I am sorry to disappoint any of you that the subject of this post does not deal with any of the topics mentioned in the above paragraph. No, I take that back. The cassette that is the focus of this post is very important, so you all really need this. You see, August is here and school usually starts in the middle of August here in the U.S. of A. Even if you are not going to school, no doubt you know someone who is going to school. If you are a visitor and fan of this blog, you are definitely acquainted with someone going to school. That person is yours truly.

This cassette by one Dr. J. Clifton Williams teaches listeners how to succeed in school which translates to how to be a success in corporate America. On side A, he explains how to effectively and efficiently write papers and give oral reports. I am fond of side B. Dr. Williams explains how the library is a very helpful resource for succeeding in school and how to use the library to its fullest advantage. That is awesome and here's the kicker. I am in library school right now. Library school is formally called School of Library and Information Studies (LIS). Library schools throughout the country have this name or something similar. Hopefully, I'll be employed in a library or archive somewhere soon.

There is not much information about Dr. Williams available. There is not even a Wikipedia entry for Dr. Williams although there is some composer who shares the same name who is apparently significant enough to have a Wikipedia entry. All I was able to find out is that he has degrees in psychology, does consulting in management and advises the president of Baylor University.

Nothing here about drugs, Satan or removing pimples, but you or someone you know will get an A or at least a B. Not to worry, druggie and Satan stuff as well as more stuff to make you a success in life are forthcoming.

Tracklisting:

Side A

1. Techniques for Academic Success {24:08}

Side B

1. Techniques for Academic Success continued {26:59}

Russ Burgess - The Burgess Method: Developing Your ESP Powers

Russ Burgess - The Burgess Method: Developing Your ESP Powers

*special thanks to Tripmaster for providing this LP

I hope he doesn't mind if I post this on the main page. The Basement has been getting a funny smell since I haven't been around for a while. I'm sure you know basements tend to smell after they have been neglected for some time. It's time to spray some Lysol* and get a new post produced.

Russ Burgess is a hypnotist and has ESP powers. Not only that but he is also an accomplished bird trainer. His bird training skills earned him a spot on The Ed Sullivan Show. Recently, he has retired from doing shows. I learned all of this from this article in The Community Journal (serving Ashburnham & Westminster, Massachusetts).

I couldn't find anything online about the background story of the LP presented here. So, you'll just have to listen to what Russ says if you want to develop your ESP powers. Yeah, I know I already posted "how-to-develop-your-ESP-powers" material before, but it could be beneficial to have other records available so as to have more ideas and other perspectives just in case the other ESP instructional post doesn't quite work for you. ;)

*The Basement of Curiosities is not sponsored by Lysol nor should it be implied that The Basement of Curiosities or the author is endorsing Lysol. It just happened to be available at the time. ;)

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. The Burgess Method side 1 {17:12}

Side 2

1. The Burgess Method side 2 {16:57}

Oscar Miro-Quesada - PSI*KICK

Oscar Miro-Quesada - PSI*KICK

Sometime back in January, someone asked about a game in the comments of one of my posts. This game had a record that you could play during the course of the game. It is a game called Seance that is about inheriting a rich dead uncle's fortune and the uncle left clues on the record.

A little over a week ago at the annual public library sale, I found a cassette tape that is a part of the game PSI*KICK. PSI*KICK is a game created by someone named Oscar Miro-Quesada. This game was designed for the players to practice using their psychic abilities that people supposedly possess. Aside from the cassette tape, the game comes with an instruction book, sets of cards, four dice, dowsing rods, scorecards, etc. I did not find the game, just the tape. PSI*KICK has 20 separate games to develop and use your potential psychic powers.

On side A, Oscar explains how you can enhance your ESP powers just by relaxing and meditating. Yes, just by relaxing and meditating. On side B, Oscar teaches you how to do Uri Geller moves by using your psychokinetic powers that you should have to bend forks. Curiously, there is no information on how to develop your ESP or psychokinetic powers on Oscar's website.



Tracklisting:

Side A

1. Guided Relaxation for Enhancing ESP {20:03}

Side B

1. Metal Bending: Mind Over Matter {21:34}

The Building Blocks of Successful TV-Service Salesmanship

The Building Blocks of Successful TV-Service Salesmanship

Today on the 17th of February in the year 2009, all television stations here in the United States were all supposed to permanently cease broadcasting with an analog signal and switch to broadcasting in digital. The date has been pushed back to June 12 by Congress because not everyone is ready to make the switch. The government has ran out of funds to provide for the coupons to purchase converter boxes. I should be lucky that I received my $40 coupon earlier last year to buy a converter box which I did. I say this because in the area where I live, nearly all of the local stations are switching today to digital whether people like it or not.
I guess the TV stations are saying in effect to the public, 'if you are not ready to watch our programming in beautiful digital quality, tough luck.' It seems that the local TV stations have a rather callous attitude towards their viewing public. What could possibly happen is that people really start to realize that most of the content aired on the local stations is mostly shit (infomercials, judge shows, mindless talk shows, news that is not really news, just sensationalistic pap, not to mention the junk known as advertisements that interrupt the programs or shows). Therefore, people would start to watch less television which results in declining ratings for the stations as well as lost revenue because hardly anyone is watching the ads. What I've said sounds overly optimistic, but there is a good chance that the scenario depicted takes place although I would place a low percentage on that actually happening. Most people here are just too addicted to the tube and if they can't get any coupons they'll just use the money that is set aside for food, the house payment, or bills and get a converter box or a digital TV so they won't miss out on "Desperate Housewives" and they want to watch their favorite newsanchor/TV personality. Also, it seems that most of the culture people here have nowadays comes from commercials.

Yes, I know this post is about a record that offers lessons for TV repair people on how to provide customer service. I'm sure that the lessons dispensed on this LP would apply today, but only used for the lucky elite people that have the equipment to watch the all-digital broadcasted TV.


Tracklisting:  (link will be back soon)

Side A

1. Your Store {7:25}

2. Handling Store Customers {4:36}

3. Advertising and You {4:13}

Side B

1. Telephone Techniques {3:37}

2. Home Service Calls {7:17}

3. Additional Tips {3:23}

Mona Ling - How to Get Appointments by Telephone

Mona Ling - How to Get Appointments by Telephone

I should point out that it's not actually Mona Ling who does the lecturing on this LP. It is some tool instead and Success Motivation Institute (SMI) did not bother to give his name or credit him. I paid only a dollar for this used record at one of the flea markets in Oklahoma City, but I still somehow feel ripped off as I was expecting a woman's voice (i.e. Mona Ling) to do the narration. With a name like Mona, there could be expectations of hearing a sexy woman's voice. That's what I was hoping for as I have no doubt that Ms. Mona Ling has a very pleasant voice and I am more likely to learn how to make appointments and sell stuff by telephone. Why is Mona absent from the record? Was Mona not allowed to speak? Was she really timid and afraid to have her self recorded? With her credentials that is plastered all over the back cover, I would think that Mona spoke somewhere on the record.

Some of her credentials include:

Dr. G. Herbert True, Special Consultant and former Professor of Marketing at Notre Dame wrote of the author, "I have found few people with as daring, with as revolutionary, and with as helpful ideas as Mona Ling!"

Miss Ling enjoys a well-deserved national reputation as an outstanding Telephone Sales Consultant. Her training courses have been presented to thousands of salesmen across the continent. She has worked with virtually every type of sales organization.

She is a prolific writer and contributes articles regularly to such national publications as: Insurance Field, Rough Notes, Health Insurance Underwriter, Insurance News and Canadian Insurance.

Hugh S. Bell, General Agent of Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa and author of "Championship Selling" and "How to Be a Winner at Selling" said, "In our agency we have used Mona Ling's record album. The men have been very much impressed and feel that sales may be increased by more intelligent and systematic use of the telephone, especially in prospecting. Miss Ling's suggestions are very practical and inspirational."

Edwin O. Carlson, General Agent of Occidental Life, San Jose, California said, "In today's market, only the professional sales approach gets to first base in producing business. Mona Ling's expertly developed technique is professional and produces immediate results. It would be impossible to recommend this program too highly."

My copy came with a booklet that has the script of the narration, the best times to call for different professions, instructions for breathing exercises and voice work, a self-analysis chart for telephone sales approach, etc. The booklet is supposed to be used as an aid as one can listen to the record and read the script at the same time. This is called the double sensory impact as the message is firmly implanted in the mind of the listener/reader. This is supposed to enable people to become more successful according to SMI. Keep in mind that some used copies of SMI records are missing these booklets as I have a few of their other records without booklets.

Lucky for you, you can learn how to better sell stuff by phone with the booklet available. Even better, thanks to cell phones, you can do this anywhere such as the coffee shop, the grocery store, while driving in traffic, at the park, etc. So what if other people around you become irritated at having to hear you talk. You probably gab on your cell phone in public anyway when talking to your friends or lovers. The important thing is that you're on your way to success.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. How to Control Time and Production {4:48}
Wasted time costs YOU money! Learn how to tighten your schedule and eliminate wasted time.

2. How to Write a Telephone Presentation {5:15}
Learn to use the same techniques that pay off for authors of each season's hit plays!

3. How to Deliver a Telephone Presentation {5:06}
Smile as you Dial! There are secrets to using your voice to sell yourself and your product.

4. How to Listen Effectively {2:46}
The art of telephoning works two ways, and a salesman can frequently "listen himself" into more appointments than he can talk himself into!

5. Guides for Telephone Approaches {4:06}
Seven steps to success in securing appointments by telephone!

Side 2

1. How to Overcome Objections {4:23}
Learn how Master Salesmen turn objections into opportunities to close!

2. Answers to Common Objections {5:39}
Fifteen common objections, dramatized and answered with time tested and proven methods.

3. Telephone Presentations {5:38}
Practical and effective presentations, recorded in interesting dramatizations that are easy to follow, to learn, and to apply.

4. How to Handle Different Types of Buyers {5:22}
Everyone is different, yet all fit into specific categories. Learn how to judge your prospect and how to appeal to him personally.

5. How to Be a Successful Salesman {4:54}
Learn how to develop and employ all the qualities and abilities available to you ... this is the secret of successful salesmanship.

Brad Harris - The Screamer: Turkey Locator Cassette

Brad Harris - The Screamer: Turkey Locator Cassette

* the pic of the wild turkey is not the cover of this recording

I think I'm overdue for a new post in this blog. The Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. of A. is right around the corner. That means that people all over America are hitting the stores to gather a bunch of food for the upcoming traditional Thanksgiving feasts put on by families everywhere. The main staple of the traditional Thanksgiving meal is the turkey. Usually, turkeys are bought from either the meat department of the grocery store or the frozen food section. Just pick up a turkey usually wrapped in plastic, put it in the cart, then check out and pay for it. Take it home and put in the freezer and wait until the big day arrives then bake it for the consumption of relatives that you may or may not be embarrassed that they share the same gene pool with you.

What's so fun about just picking up a turkey from the store? Would it be more exciting to go out in the wild and track and chase down your own turkey? No doubt it involves much more physical activity than shopping at the grocery store, but I'm sure going outdoors in the woods and looking for wild turkeys would provide a nice bit of exercise. Hunting for wild turkeys also involves some skills such as knowing how to track live animals and using a gun or some other weapon to take out the turkey.

Thankfully there is a tool that would aid in finding the main course of your next Thanksgiving meal. This device is called The Screamer. On a cassette tape (found at Goodwill), some dude named Brad Harris explains the merits of The Screamer and how to use this thing. Brad tells about four different calls that would cause the turkey to gobble and give its location. Basically these calls are imitations of bird calls. As Brad explains, you have to have technique and apply the right amount of breath to nail these calls.

I would like to wish my visitors a happy Thanksgiving, even including those visitors who don't celebrate this holiday. May all of your food including those store-bought turkeys turn out delicious and that you don't end up with too many leftovers.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. The Screamer side 1 {12:00}

Side 2

1. The Screamer side 2 {11:51}

Dr. Ed Sceery - Advanced Elk Calling

Dr. Ed Sceery - Advanced Elk Calling

Ed Sceery is someone who loves to hunt (i.e. tracking down and killing God's creatures for sport). He owns a business specializing in "professional grade" hunting products and has made videos and tapes on how to hunt various animals. Not only is Ed Sceery an avid hunter, but he also has a Ph.D. in animal science from New Mexico State University(as I'm sure you noticed the Dr. next to his name). So, basically he has an advantage over most other outsdoormen in that he has studied animals and animal behavior professionally.
Luckily for us, Ed has shared what he has learned. An example would be this cassette tape where Ed dispenses info on how to hunt down elk and attract elk to you. Ed mentions what bugles to use and how to use these bugles to make elk calls. He also briefly educates the listener on elk behavior especially with how males (bulls) and females (cows) behave and interact with each other. This insight on elk behavior is supposed to be helpful for successfully bagging an elk to hang in your trophy room.



Tracklisting:  (link will be back soon)

Side 1

1. Advanced Elk Calling side 1 {30:11}

Side 2

1. Advanced Elk Calling side 2 {30:12}

Beth Brown - The Truth about Mental Telepathy

I am trying out posting e-books here. I'm not as experienced in converting books to digital form. I have practiced with the paperback of this title. I scanned all of the pages. It's easy to do so when it is a paperback that is barely over 100 pages long. I may have damaged the book a little when I had to open the book wide enough for all of the pages to be scanned. Not that it matters much anyway, as the previous owner (presumably) had a need to write her or his name on the cover.

I am soliciting feedback about the quality of the scans and if you prefer a bunch of separate picture files or for the scans to be in .pdf form or if there's any other way you would like the scans to be presented. I also have plans to include magazines and other similar types of publications here sometime in the future.


Beth Brown - The Truth about Mental Telepathy

I obtained this copy at an antique store in Bethany, Oklahoma, a suburb west of Oklahoma City. This book promises to be a guide for anyone to develop their telepathic powers and case histories of people doing so.
This book is certainly loaded with case histories about instances where people suddenly found their telepathic abilities in life-altering situations such as a secretary mentally signalling to her boss to give her a raise or a schoolteacher sending signals to draw potential mates for marriage. It seems that more of the pages are devoted to case histories rather than how to develop your telepathic powers.
Supposedly, telepathy was used (unintentionally) to invent the telegraph as Henry Morse in England along with three other people in locations far away from England came up with the idea at about the same time. The author claims that telepathy played a key role in some other significant technological developments such as the printing press, the cotton gin, the automobile, etc. Curiously, there are not any footnotes or sources provided for these claims.
Not only will you develop your telepathic powers that you have (yes, the author says that everyone is supposed to have them), but you read a lot of interesting anecdotes and learn how to use your mind when you're finished with the book.



From the back cover:

Have you ever had someone on your mind, then decided to telephone that person only to hear him say that he was just going to phone you, or that he'd been thinking of you all day?
This is one of the commonest telepathic experiences.
Many people, too busy or uninterested to delve into the subject, chalk up such experiences to coincidence.
These people are not likely to develop their telepathic powers to the fullest extent; and some will meet head-on with misfortune that could have been avoided through faith and concentration.

Beth Brown has been a student of mental telepathy for many years.
She has known the thrill and excitement of gratifying telepathic experiences.
In this volume, she shares her knowledge and belief.

Contents: 124 pages, 12 chapters

part1 part2  (links will be back soon)

Earl Nightingale - The Strangest Secret

Earl Nightingale - The Strangest Secret

Yes, that's right. Earl has a strange secret. It's this secret that reveals how to achieve greater success, that reveals how to enjoy greater happiness and peace of mind. How do I know this? Well, the cover says so, therefore that's what the strangest secret does.

Okay, there are actually a lot of secrets out there that are much stranger than Earl's and I bet none of those other secrets have anything to do with greater happiness and greater success. I'll leave it up to you to dwell on those other secrets.

Earl Nightingale is known basically as a pioneer in the field of self-help/human motivation. At around the age of 12, Earl started to get interested in human motivation or why some people are successful while most other people are failures in life. This was during the Great Depression where Earl, like many other Americans, lived in squalor. The years have passed by, Earl serves as a Marine during World War II, then he goes in the radio business. He also starts an insurance agency at the same time where the agency went from last place to sixth place in sales witihn two years. He was also involved in advertising and public speaking.

Then at the age of 35, Earl "retires." This was evidently a big deal as newspapers all over the country wrote articles about Earl's early retirement. Earl doesn't actually retire but starts to study human motivation (his obsession from childhood) and wrote "The Strangest Secret" as well as recording other motivation records.

The other side of this LP consist of The Southwestern Company Sales Tips. These tips are aimed at salesmen particularly college students doing this as a summer job. The Southwestern Company publishes reference books and to this day still exists to supposedly "build people" i.e. hiring college students for cheap as "independent contractors" to peddle their books. Earl schools Southwestern's salesmen in how to deal with the customers and convince people (prospects) to buy the books. Back when this LP came out, salesmen went up to peoples' doors unwantedly and interrupted their lives to talk them into buying some crap. Nowadays, salesmen (known by their new common name "telemarketers") use the telephone to call and interrupt people during dinner time. At the end of the side, Earl in his calming smooth voice offers consolation for those folks unable to sell anything and encourages them to try again the next day while thinking how to differently approach the prospects. I mentioned in an earlier post that it would be a pleasure to even hear Earl describe paint peeling because of his voice. Listening to Earl dispense sales tips has kept me glued to my seat considering that I don't give a shit about selling books door-to-door.

Tracklisting:

1. The Strangest Secret {10:46}

2. The Southwestern Company Sales Tips: Your Job as a Salesman {2:37}

3. The Southwestern Company Sales Tips: Start the Day Right Use Time Wisely {3:23}

4. The Southwestern Company Sales Tips: The Approach (Sales Talk at the Door) {4:13}

5. The Southwestern Company Sales Tips: The Close (Sales Talk on the Decision) {5:11}

6. The Southwestern Company Sales Tips: So Your Sales Were Low Today? {2:22}