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Meta Reflections 2010 – #38
August 23, 2010
History of NLP Series #6
Meta Reflections 2010 – #38
August 23, 2010
History of NLP Series #6
Meta Reflections 2010 – #38 August 23, 2010 History of NLP Series #6. The 1980s started out pretty well for the field of NLP, but it did not end that way. In fact, almost as soon as the 1980s began, the field began dividing into various divisions as both founders led the way by going their separate ways. 1980 meta boat for sale. WON’T START don’t know any thing about it other then is been Sitting for a long time.bought a house and it was there with it. Title of the boat and keys on hand no trailer title. Trailer looks in good condition too. (If the post is up still available) serious inquires only. Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian American adult animated sci-fi-fantasy film directed by Gerald Potterton, produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine, which was the basis for the film, and starring the voices of Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten.
The 1980s started out pretty well for the field of NLP, but it did not end that way. In fact, almost as soon as the 1980s began, the field began dividing into various divisions as both founders led the way by going their separate ways. By the end of the 80s, each was claiming to do “pure NLP” and essentially “dissing” the other. As the 80s others were creating their versions of NLP and creating separate “kingdoms.” What a sad development for such a dynamic field.
Now the 1980s actually began in a wonderful way with the publication of “Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Volume I” (1980) by Robert Dilts published by Meta Publications. Robert had been commissioned to write that book back in 1978 having written a document on strategies that impressed both Richard and John. And this book, along with Robert’s other original books on NLP, went a long way to establishing the credibility of NLP.
- Find a Grave, database and images (accessed ), memorial page for Meta Earnestine Hause Jurecka (28 Nov 1897–14 Apr 1980), Find a Grave Memorial no. 9295517, citing Mart Cemetery, Mart, McLennan County, Texas, USA; Maintained by couchpotato (contributor 46553367).
- This paper presents a meta-analysis of the data from 6,179 participants in 77 studies that investigated the association between working-memory capacity and language comprehension ability. A primary goal of the meta-analysis was to compare the predictive power of the measures of working memory developed by Daneman and Carpenter (1980) with the predictive power of other measures of working.
Many years later, Oakley Gordon wrote a two part article in Anchor Point, “What is NLP? A Brief History” (May and July 1995). In those articles, he wrote in part the following:
“‘Volume I’ implies a ‘Volume II’. The second volume was to present the modeling techniques of NLP, the processes by which the NLP developers modeled excellence in human behavior. The project was aborted, however, due to the dissolution of the community of NLP developers.” (p. 14, Anchor Point, July 1995).
And so the vision of a series of volumes on NLP came to an end immediately after the first one. No other volume in that series ever appeared. Many years later when I wrote NLP Going Meta (1997/ 2004) I contacted Meta Publications and asked Fred Tappa for permission to name it “NLP: Volume II.” He said the term was reserved for the next volume and that was 1997— 17 years later! At the time I thought Fred was holding onto hope; but looking back my guess is that it was a joke and I just didn’t get it(!) at that time. The very next year, 1981, the first law suit between Bandler and Grinder occurred and as McClendon noted in The Wild Days of NLP, “Bandler bought John out of the Society” of NLP (p. 117).
About this dissolution of the society (and the community to a great extent) the collaboration between the original developers came to an end. Gordon (1995) noted:
“While there was some degree of tracking each other’s innovations, the overall effect of the breakup of the original group was a diversification in the trajectories of NLP with a resulting blurring of its definition.” (p. 16) So in a way, the 1980s brought so many challenges to the field that in some ways it is really surprising that NLP survived the 80s. Now among the challenges to the field, one of the strangest was Grinder’s attack on the original formulations of NLP. In 1983 Grinder and DeLozier decide the whole field was wrongly oriented and formulated and so created a “New Code” to replace the old code of NLP. Grinder went on to argue against the focus on conscious awareness in NLP claiming the “unconscious mind” as more intelligent and less likely to error. So the idea of “running your own brain,” so central to NLP (as per Bandler’s 1985 book, Running Your Brain for a Change), was called into question.
1986: Bandler provided his own challenges to the field due to actions in his personal life. In the middle of the 1980s he was arrested, charged with an account of murder, and spent 120 days in county jail. That certainly didn’t do the field of NLP any good! Steve Andreas lead a defense fund for Richard and personally provided $60,000 to Richard for the trial. What happened? A young woman, Corine Christensen, was shot by a .357 magnum revolver, the only other persons in the house was Richard Bandler and James Marino, an admitted cocaine dealer and her boyfriend. Though it was Marino’s house and although they had been fighting, the district attorney decided that the evidence pointed to Richard than the drug dealer! Anyway this lasted from 1986 to 1988 and ended in the grand jury unable to decide, so the charge was dropped. But, of course, not without the trial hitting the headlines in many papers and journals— including a scathing review in Mother Jones magazine that you can still find on various websites.
Another Bandler lawsuit occurred sometime later (1988 or 1989) against Tony Robbins. That one was against Robbins because he was not certifying people as NLP Practitioners or Master Practitioners through The Society of NLP. Settled in 1990 out of court with Tony promising to “certify people through the Society and pay his $200 for each one certified in NLP,” he promptly stopped training “NLP” as such and invented a new name, NAC— Neural Associative Conditioning.
And so with that Richard Bandler essentially chased Robbins away from the field with the result that even to this day Anthony Robbins will not say the three letters, NLP, when he is on Larry King or other international television programs. Richard just chased away the greatest salesman he could have ever had!
Another conflict arose during my Master Practitioner training in San Diego, 1989. One of the trainer there was Tad James. He had been participating in the Bandler trainings, but this time was different. Apparently without informing Bandler, Tad had claim ownership of the Time-Lines model that Bandler had created and had filed a trademark for “time-line therapy” (which by the way was never registered). From the stories I heard from trainers who were there, Richard and Tad argued loudly about this and almost came to blows. So that ended their relationship. After that Tad introduced his many versions of New Age religions including Huna into his sect of NLP.
With all of this fragmentation, many new Associations were created throughout the 1980s, but by the end of the 1980s, there was no International Association or body to govern the field of NLP. Again, Oakley Gordon (1995) write in Anchor Point:
“There is no organization with the authority to pass judgment on the quality of the diverse NLP training programs currently being offered, or even to define what is, and what is not, NLP.” (p. 17) … For the field of NLP has no single voice, no universally agreed upon definition, no quality control over what is offered under its name. An outside entering these waters may encounter anything from the sublime to the ridiculous.” (p. 18)
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On a very positive note, it was during the 1980s that NLP went global. It was introduced into England 1981 or 2; then to Europe in the early 1980s, NLP came to Hong Kong in 1982, and so it went. Men and women from around the world began showing up in Santa Cruz and other places in America where NLP was being taught and then taking it home to their own countries. When and by whom NLP was taken abroad is much of the story that I don’t know so if you do know specific details, do let me know.
So the decade that began so positively and that began to see the spread of NLP everywhere, a decade that began with so much hope ended in fragmentation, embarrassment, and conflict. Disk cleaner suite 2 2. It’s the way of many movements, perhaps most movements. And yet for a movement about positive psychology, human excellence, and all based on a cutting-edge communication model— the 1980s were really a challenging time for the field of NLP.
As you might have noticed, we love us some meta literature here at Flavorwire. So when we heard about Ariel S. Winter’s The Twenty-Year Death, a novel in three novels, each in the style of a different mystery writer, which hits bookstores next week, we asked the author to give us a rundown on some of his favorite works of meta-fiction.
“When it comes to novels,” he writes, “I’ve always been as excited by form as by story. Narrators within narrators, footnotes, colored ink, unique page layout, frame narratives, genre-bending, blank pages, photographs; these all pique my interest. However, I’ve had to learn that when I discuss my own novel The Twenty-Year Death, I need to lead with story rather than form or my interlocutor loses interest. Perhaps that’s because playing with form can be so hard to do right. If story is sacrificed for form, a novel’s no fun to read. If unique form seems unnecessary for the telling of the story, then these tricks feel only like tricks, unearned. It is only when a novel can be told in no other way, and remains entertaining and enlightening, that a book with unusual form works.”
“This list includes books that use all of the above techniques, and challenge the reader by telling stories in new ways,” Winter continues. “I limited myself to novels written in English (with one exception) and arranged the list chronologically. So if you want to read something a little different, these books are a good place to start.” Click through to read Winter’s picks, and then if you feel so moved, feel free to add to his list in the comments!
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767) by Laurence Sterne Cleanmymac 3 9 2.
This is the one that started it all. In the mid-18th century, the question “what is a novel” was still hotly contested. Pamela, an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson that is considered the first novel written in English, was published in 1740, marked by realism and psychological insight. Enter Sterne in 1759 with Tristram Shandy. It claims to be the memoirs of a country gentleman, but instead of his memoirs, we get digression after digression, and along the way there are black pages, marbled pages, drawings, sermons, and essays. It’s all farce with no sign of realism, controversial at the time, and still hilarious today.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein begins as a series of letters from Captain Robert Walton to his sister, as he embarks on a voyage to the North Pole. Shortly after his ship becomes ice locked, Walton rescues a half-frozen sledge rider: Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein tells the story of his attempt and success to reanimate the dead (which is written down by Walton and sent to his sister). In Frankenstein’s story, Frankenstein’s monster tells Frankenstein his story (which Frankenstein tells Walton who writes to his sister). This makes Frankenstein a Matryoshka doll of a novel, narratives within narratives within narratives.
Albert Angelo (1964) by B. S. Johnson
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Let’s get it said up front: Albert Angelo has holes cut in its pages. It also has text in two columns, the left as dialog, the right as the interior thoughts of the eponymous protagonist. It also has reproductions of an advertisement, and sections in the form of a play, and multiple narrative viewpoints. The story is of a young struggling architect working as a substitute teacher in a bad neighborhood while brooding about his ex-girlfriend. But it’s really about novels and writing, and it is alternately funny and very serious.
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The Mezzanine (1988) by Nicholson Baker
All of The Mezzanine takes place on a single escalator ride during the narrator’s lunch break. The whole novel. And during that escalator ride, the narrator thinks about every minute detail of his break—whether going to the bathroom is part of his break or still work, which cashier at the pharmacy is faster based on how they open a roll of coins, and ear plugs, a long discussion on ear plugs. Each of these thoughts leads to so many other thoughts that there are footnotes on almost every page. Baker’s sheer amazement in the minutia of life is inspiring, insightful, and always interesting.
The Rings of Saturn (1995) by W. G. Sebald
This is my one exception to the written in English rule. I had to include it. W. G. Sebald’s books are not called novels. They are labeled fiction, yet are they? The first person narrator is almost exactly Sebald. And there are photographs embedded in the text. Lots of them. Those are certainly real. And much of the narrator’s musings lead to historical essays, which are completely factual. What is a Sebald book? Entrancing. Rings of Saturn is about a walking tour in the English countryside, but it is about the paths of history and the existential questions of life.
Mason and Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon is funny. That should be everyone’s introduction to Pynchon: Pynchon is funny. Mason and Dixon is the historical account of the Mason and Dixon land survey that drew the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. That sounds like it could be a boring book. But Pynchon’s language, his long sentences, their sounds, his satire, his appropriation of other period-appropriate forms, his caricatures, and energy make for an entertaining onslaught. And it’s funny.
House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski
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The first thing to do with House of Leaves is to flip through the pages. There are pages with columns and boxes, pages that are almost completely blank, footnotes, different fonts, words in color, and pictures. The book is the unpublished manuscript of a lost documentary written by a blind man and edited and annotated by a tattoo artist. There are also letters from an insane mother to the tattoo artist in an appendix. And the whole thing is riveting. All of it. The story is that intense, and the complex form only accentuates the suspense. This is possibly my favorite book. Ever.
The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (2001)
As a picture book author as well as a novelist, I can’t help but include one picture book on the list. David Wiesner’s Caldecott winning The Three Pigs starts as a traditional telling of “The Three Little Pigs.” However, when the wolf blows down the first pig’s house, he blows the pig out of the story, where he is suddenly rendered realistically. He then pulls his brothers out with him. They fold the pages of their own story into a paper airplane, and travel in and out of Mother Goose rhymes and knights’ tales each illustrated in a different storybook style, until they return home and their original depictions.
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Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell
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Cloud Atlas is six interrelated novellas, each in a different genre: a 19th Century mariner’s journal, a composer’s letters from the 1930s, a 1970s-style mystery novel, a modern day vanity publisher’s escape from gangsters, a genetically engineered person from the future who has been marked for deletion, and a post-apocalyptic islander. With each novella, we get the first half, only to be interrupted by the next one, as the new narrator is reading the novella we were just reading. We then get the conclusions of each novella in reverse order ending with the mariner again. Every genre is embodied perfectly, another Matryoshka doll novel that’s hard to put down.
Bright Shiny Morning (2008) by James Frey
In Bright Shiny Morning, James Frey attempts to capture Los Angeles in a book. There’s the story of young runaways, the story of an A-list movie star, the story of a homeless man living on the beach, the story of the daughter of illegal Mexican immigrants working as a maid, and other little stories that come and go, just as long as they need to be. Interspersed throughout are nonfiction entries: essays on highways, historical facts. And there are no quotation marks, no indented lines, no section breaks. And every story is impossible to forget.
The Twenty-year Death (2012) by Ariel S. Winter
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My novel, The Twenty-year Death, is about a “Great American Author” Shem Rosenkrantz (think Fitzgerald, Hemingway) as he goes from critical darling and financial success to used up hack who can’t get work. We see him through three separate mystery novels, one set in 1931 and written in the style of Georges Simenon, one set in 1941 and written in the style of Raymond Chandler, and one set in 1951 and written in the style of Jim Thompson. I wanted to answer the question, what would a mystery series look like if the character we follow from book to book isn’t the detective, but secondary character? So, the three separate books each have a different protagonist, but through the shared characters, come together to form a larger story.