Many of you may have heard about NLP- Neuro Linguistic Programming. At first glance it seems implausible but it is based on strong research and its application to magic is just now blooming.
Richard Bandler and fellow researcher Grinder had heard about therapists who apparently did "magic" with their words. These were Virginia Satyr and Milton Erickson. What Bandler and Grinder did was to create a model of their tools in therapy and it came to be known as NLP. Neuro- applies to the brain, Linguistic- applies to words and Programming- applies to its application. In brief, people have an internal map or model of the world. The model is not the world itself but an interpretation of the model. Through their body language and words they reveal to the therapist their model of the world. The therapist then creates a model of that model- a "meta-model" as it were. There are plenty of training opportunities available but the problem has been that Bandler and Grinder couched the NLP training in difficult to understand language such as "nominalizations," etc.
In relationship to magic you may have heard of Derrick Brown from his books Pure Effect. Brown does not explain his use of NLP very coherently. Kenton Knepper has done extensive work to apply NLP to magic, but again, uses quite a bit of techno-jargon. But the authors of Sleight of Mind have brought to the average non-therapist a good treatment of NLP and basic explainations. There are other books out there but this one is a keeper. It is available through me at my ebay store, magic etc. Just click on the link or send me a note to magicetc@comcast.net and its yours for a measly 35.00 plus 4.90 postage (US)
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