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Looking for some NLP

08:14 / 14.05.04

Well, after some work with meditation and sigils, I've decided to take another step. I look forward for NLP and dreamwork. I have some questions that more experienced people can sure answer:

· I started with LaBerge for dreamwork (Lucid Dreaming). Is it a good choice? I only read some hundred pages but it seems so.

· NLP seems quite complex. Over all, I cannot find my way through the net to find nothig that seems like an unbiased reference of the field (maybe my google fu is weak). It's 40 years old in its actual form, I think it shouldn't be this difficult...

· Do you think it's more than what a working person can chew?

Well, enlight me, please.

08:28 / 14.05.04

The LaBerge book seemed pretty good to me. I can't say whether it was great, because I learned shamanic techniques while reading it and use those for my explorations rather than lucid dreaming. Maybe one for my To Do List.

You probably won't find an unbiased internet source on NLP. The main trainers seem to enjoy the air of mystique that surrounds a lot of it, and they want to take large amounts of your money from you for signing up to their courses. That may raise your hackles, and it's certainly good to be cynical about how financially oriented these people and companies are. By far (and I mean, by far) the best way to learn this is to save your pennies and sign up to a course. I'm currently finishing McDermott's ITS Master Practitioner (London, UK). If you're in the states, do anything with Robert Dilt's name on it (he's unquestionably the best).

I've never seen or read a decent book on this subject.

14:25 / 14.05.04

It's 40 years old in its actual form, I think it shouldn't be this difficult...

I think that's part of the problem. There's been a lot of time for the basic ideas to spread out and mutate from the basic ideas originally used in therapy to all the questionable books and seminars on how to get that most desireable person to fall into bed with you, how to sell anything to anybody, self-improvement of all sorts...

I've got a handful of books from the local used bookstore; most are the "classics" by Bandler and Grinder and I haven't looked at them in a while. I could pass some of them on if postage isn't too horrific...