Month: October 2015

  • The exaggerated and misjudged nonsense of NLP – as shown in the words of Richard Bandler

    I recently read Richard Bandler’s “Make Your Life Great” (2008). It reawakened my frustration with NLP as a whole, and how it preys on a crowd hungry for hope (the customers) or power (the practitioners) to perpetuate its inflated promises and flimsy doctrines. Here’s an example of the kind of bullshit I’m talking about: “I…

  • Compliance – is it Hypnosis, or just being nice?

    Compliance vs Unconscious Response I saw a hypnosis demonstration recently in a lecture hall of professionals. The speaker asked for a volunteer, then selected one based on their prior suggestibility. As the volunteer stood up, the speaker said “and you can just go into a trance right now… as you come up to the stage”.…