"It is a very easy equation," Here he uses a comparative deletion and a nominalization. Easy, compared to what? What is being equated? "if you think that I am the lawmaker and in my hands are all things," Mind-read, embedded command, metaphor, universal quantifier, and unspecified noun. "the permissible, the punishment, and the rewards of all creation,"
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I believe brainwashing is real, and with every generation, it gets more sophisticated and effective.
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You know, something Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in one of his books stands out to me here. In the book, Sherlock Holmes basically tells Watson that it seems like he has a supernatural power for two reasons: he's a good detective, and people remember his successes more than his failures. He says he's often wrong, but that doesn't get around to everyone else.
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Going through these posts again, I found this quote. I figured I'd give it a go, and pick out of it what I can by way of an analysis... "Now I know you're supposed to clear your mind and experience reality," Awareness predicate, and a negated direct command. It seems to be an indication that clearing your mind will cause you to experience reality. Of course, no statement
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Feel free to move or delete if this is the wrong place. There's a Facebook ad going around for a technique called, "MindShifting", by Stevie Kent. He got his technique from a couple of psychologists, one of whom was a communication expert and the other a spiritualist. I can't find his information for free, but I've noticed a few things. He claims his technique can help
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There's another PUA guy out there that hasn't gotten as much attention. He calls himself Derek Rake. He started out, it seems, taking free material from other PUA's, and then learned a little bit about NLP and started changing what he offered from the common free advice to advice on fractionation (taking someone in and out of trance in rapid succession to get them to go deeper, fas
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That is a school of thought, yes. However, it doesn't address the issues of hypnotic phenomena that can't happen without hypnosis being real, such as automatic ideomotor and ideosensory phenomena, nor does it explain the efficacy of indirect hypnosis. One of my teachers produced a theory called the implicit neural activation and information processing theory. I think it's worth che
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Looks like Lakhani might have passed away in 2022, at least from a YouTube video I saw
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A long time ago, Lakhani claimed that he helped a 12-year-old boy stop wetting the bed. I'm wondering if he didn't take that from Dr. Milton Erickson, who famously used a metaphor about baseball to teach a young boy about bladder control...
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Shout out to Corboy for pointing out something I didn't think about when I posted about Pucelik's book. There are two versions: one from circa 1990, and the other is an updated version. The one from 1990 is the one I'm referencing, with the writing team of Pucelik and Byron Lewis. It's a good read, and I might have to get myself the updated version, too
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News about the "Turnaround"... I got a book from the "secret" third man who helped create NLP, named Frank Pucelik. It's called, "The Magic of NLP, Demystified". Check out his version of the meta model in the book. You'll find a section on referential indexes. This section is broken up into five subsections, one of which is called, "reversed referen
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question lady Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > QuoteygHi Solea > > The issue of authority is a big one, and if we > e were not looking to authority outside of > ourselves, or authority learned from outside of > ourselves but now internalized, we would not be > prey to so much. > > > > Getting free of the lure and the
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helpme2times Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Remember that video where Katie is counseling the > woman who is afraid of war? Well, there are > actually three videos covering the entire > dialogue. I just watched > Part > 2 - "I'm Afraid of War". > > Actually I didn't make it through the whole video. > It bo
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jj52 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Zentient, > > I don't know anything about the Unity Church, but > I did think it was really odd that a Church would > have Katie come do a seminar there when I saw that > event listed awhile back. Katie's belief system is > so Anti-everything-Christian... she doesn't belong > tea
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Thank you for the welcome. I had gone through TAC's replies on the subject, as well as several others, and I'm glad to see so much information is out there already. I really do hope anyone who was drawn into BK's institution finds these posts and breaks free. I'm new to NLP, relatively speaking, but a lot of people who have been around much longer are concerned about unethical
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Hello everybody, new to the board. I have received training in NLP, and I can confirm that BK uses language patterns and pacing and leading, as well as metaphors and embedded suggestions. I'm not the world's best NLPer, and it took me a couple of times to read through some quotes to find the suggestions, because I'm used to looking for analog marking. However, I wanted to mentio
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