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thankyousir · 07-12-2008, 11:58 PM

I have always been interested in NLP (okay, only since I saw it brought up in The Game by Neil Strauss) and have read a bit of stuff on it, but what amazes me is how amazingly profound and useful it can be, yet it is forgotten except by the self-help industry. and when the self-help industry talks about it they make it sound like it is a "get better results in 20 days" scam.

In actuality the topics are incredibly deep I think. a few of the presuppositions for instance:

The map is not the territory in this they cleanly and easily hurdle the whole philosophical argument of the separation of consciousness and reality, and use this presupposition as the basis for modifying "submodalities" or how we view the world subjectively

All actions are appropriate in some context/there is always a positive intention behind any action I view this as something completely humanistic and beautiful, something that asserts the essential goodness of every human being

You cannot separate mind and body/there is no failure only feedback These are also beautiful, Taoist things I think, stressing the duality (or non-duality) of things.

I just get a little upset that it seems like though this has its niche, it is not especially appreciated by popular science or psychology. This and Positive Psychology, which I also think is very profound, seems ignored. What do you guys think?

07-12-2008, 11:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
thankyousir Upright Location: Michigan	The Philosophy of Neuro Linguistic Programming. I have always been interested in NLP (okay, only since I saw it brought up in The Game by Neil Strauss) and have read a bit of stuff on it, but what amazes me is how amazingly profound and useful it can be, yet it is forgotten except by the self-help industry. and when the self-help industry talks about it they make it sound like it is a "get better results in 20 days" scam. In actuality the topics are incredibly deep I think. a few of the presuppositions for instance: The map is not the territory in this they cleanly and easily hurdle the whole philosophical argument of the separation of consciousness and reality, and use this presupposition as the basis for modifying "submodalities" or how we view the world subjectively All actions are appropriate in some context/there is always a positive intention behind any action I view this as something completely humanistic and beautiful, something that asserts the essential goodness of every human being You cannot separate mind and body/there is no failure only feedback These are also beautiful, Taoist things I think, stressing the duality (or non-duality) of things. I just get a little upset that it seems like though this has its niche, it is not especially appreciated by popular science or psychology. This and Positive Psychology, which I also think is very profound, seems ignored. What do you guys think?