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Summary: Great book on how to break barriers of thinking
Review: Bandler and Grinder are absolutely the best minds in linguistics and theraphy and self-change. The meta-models and questions in this book can be used daily to break away limiting beliefs and limitations in thinking and possiblity. One secret is that the chapter called "Incantation for Growth and Potential" is the most powerful chapter in this book, as Bandler reveals just a few years ago.
Memorise the meta-models, and the questions to break away the Distortion, Deletion and Generalization, and you will be glad you did. One of the most powerful question I learned from this book is, "What IF I could?" whenever I think of a goal, or whenever someone said something is 'impossible' to achieve. READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Awesome!!
Review: Even though I was familiar of the material before I got this book, I was still amazed. This book is a must for anyone who wishes to communicate more effectively. I have many uses for it. I bought both I and II. You really need both to appreciate the scope of this awesome technology.
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Summary: A Complete and Total Fraud
Review: Hideous mishmash of linguistics, hypnosis and pseudo-psychology written by two college students in the 1960s who had no experience or degreed work in any of the mental health sciences, and both of whom engaged in conduct that is very possibly unethical, both at the time of the book's publication in the 1960's and subsequently. Bandler, in particular, has had a checkered career that the reader should research before investing in this book, or in any of the "ideas" that comprise NLP. The book consists of a series of self-invented formulas that use bits and pieces of linguistics and psychology to present "concepts" that were already laid out clearly by other authors years before. The book uses these pseudo-scientific diagrams and many unnecessarily complex, wordy explanations in order to (a) confuse the reader and (b) impress the easily impressionable as to how intelligent they are. This book belongs in the same category as L. Ron Hubbard's books on Scientology or Werner Erhard's "EST." Bandler and Grinder based this book on their observations (which were apparently not very good) of Milton Erickson's psychotherapeutic techniques, which are outlined in much more comprehensible detail in other books. This book, however, is hogwash.
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Summary: or How to Get Away With Murder
Review: http://www.voxfux.com/features/cia_murder.html
Interesting individual writing this book... accused of murder, cocaine dealing, CIA training... Google 'Richard Bandler criminal past.'
Aside from that, these books are great at teaching mind manipulation - of yourself and others. Proceed.. with caution.
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Summary: intense skepticism required
Review: I took a psych course from Bandler when he was a grad student at CMU in 68. He was quite shallow then believing in overly simplistic models of human behavior. I've read a number of his books and while they promise qite a bit they don't work all that well. Recall the old saying, "seek simplicity and distrust it". Be careful, this is likely to be just another dead end on your road to enlightenment
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Summary: THE first book on NLP--sometimes confusing but worth it
Review: THE first NLP book that specifically introduces the Meta-Model. A fairly easy book to read on some basic questioning techniques to get to someone's deep structure (someone's true linguistic representation of the world). Fairly easy to read except the appendix on transformal grammar. Use these patterns carefully for they can be rather direct. A must for the beginning NLP student.
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Summary: Start Your NLP Voyage Here
Review: The Structure of Magic, along with Noam Chomsky's work on Language (Knowledge of Language, Language and Thought, Language and Mind) are the bedrock documents of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), a rhetorical/psychological/spiritual discipline much misunderstood and much mis-appropriated by various well-meaning folks and charlatans alike, the most famous of whom is Anthony Robbins. If you're serious about understanding where NLP comes from, begin with this book and with Chomsky. Since Structure of Magic relies on an understanding of transformational grammar, it may be necessary to read Chomsky (and a good textbook on transgrammar) first. Additionally, you may find it valuable to have a general psycholinguistics text handy, and to have at least a passing understanding of psychoanalytic/psychological therapeutic technique (since Structure of Magic looks at the practices of particularly highly-performant psychologists/analysts). Once you're mastered this material, you'll discover that most of the other texts on NLP either miss key aspects of the discipline, or appropriate NLP's vocabulary and models for peculiar and sometimes suspect ends. A hard read, in the final analysis, but well worth it.
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Summary: For the serious NLP Student/Practitioner
Review: This book is one of the classics in the NLP field. Definately one that can be read and re-read. GO FOR IT!
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Summary: no other like it
Review: What a great book- a seminal work in the structure of consciousness, of communication, myth and meaning and the structure of magic. Words are power and they are hypnotic. Knowing how are programs are running is important. Ignorance on this subject is senseless and will eventually have to be accounted for. So the time is now to return back to sensory based descriptions in how we decide to live and map our territory. No other book describes it so well. Well i can't say that, this is the only "meta-model" book i've read, but i highly recommend it, because it's by the originators of NLP, and because Bandler is a pretty kick-ass dude. Because it's not a derivative- it's original, and people may think this subject- words and language and grammer is boring. Not so. Not so. It can get to be long and tedious, but all the more reason for SOM. If you buy one book only on linguistics and thinking this must be it. You'll notice the times you delete, the times you distort, and all the times you generalize. I'm continually getting better. Even some generalizations are good, even if they can't be backed up. Example: every day in every way i'm getting stronger and cooler. Well, read my review and study it's language. Can you notice the process of modelling my brain works through. If you can't, you might want to consider this book. If you can... well, let's say, i probably will always want to have this book in my collection.
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