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twitter.com] ""If you can't embrace the dark you'll never dance in the light"
James Ray is using metaphor pacing-leading in his Twitter-persuasion. He sets the metaphors up, and then moves them along to shape meaning and perception.
James Ray has set himself up as "the light", and he suggests his followers to "dance in the light".
He has framed his manslaughter charges as "the dark" and wants his followers to embrace that too. They have to embrace the dark, to be a James Ray dancer.
In his seminars he also leads and grooms followers to embrace the "dark side" as can be seen in the horrible behavior of some of his followers during his seminars, and after.
"embrace the dark" is actually a good metaphor for what James Ray really does himself, and with his inner followers.
Going to keep close watch on the James Ray twitter-persuasion tactics.
For some reason, some critics have labelled James Ray as "stupid", but that is a serious error. James Ray is reckless, greedy, careless, sociopathic, a copier of others techniques, and totally self-interested, but "stupid" is not an appropriate label.
He knows how to persuade, and how to persuade using metaphors, which is a very advanced persuasion tactic. That is called Mastering Metaphors in conversational hypnosis from NLP, which is a part of what he does.
(please do NOT EVER buy anything from Kevin Hogan or these others, this is for reference only. Kevin Hogan is in the same covert persuasion game as James Ray)
Mastering Metaphors in Their Mind [
www.kevinhogan.com]
Mastering Metaphors by Stever Robbins www.masteringmetaphors.co.uk
Hypnotic Metaphors [
hubpages.com] "Hypnotic metaphors are the best way to....persuade people, alter their belief systems and win them for a cause. Metaphors or nothing but carefully drafted stories that create a new frame for reality."
There is very advanced work in conversational persuasion and "hypnosis", and that uses metaphors very much like James Ray is currently attempting to do on Twitter. This is targeted at his current followers, many of who have already been deeply programmed with those metaphors at his intense seminars, so this is just a reminder, an anchor, a reframe, and fine-tuning, and can work on them very powerfully.
The metaphors work directly on the unconscious, as they can internally reframe how a person can think about a person or situation.
The way to counteract those techniques, is by using accurate facts and accurate metaphors to analyze the situation.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/28/2010 07:59AM by The Anticult.