Psychology & Mind Control

This conversation covers Antony C. Sutton's "Wall Street Trilogy," (https://amzn.to/46lMS0O) argues that American financial interests played a significant, often overlooked, role in supporting and shaping various totalitarian regimes. It contends that Wall Street financiers, like those from J.P. Morgan and General Electric, provided financial and technical assistance to the nascent Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and the Italian Fascist state, viewing these regimes as opportunities for economic exploitation and control rather than ideological adversaries. The text further suggests that figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt were deeply connected to these financial elites, and that his New Deal policies mirrored "corporate socialism," which centralized economic power. It also touches upon attempts by certain American business figures to establish a fascist-style government in the United States, and highlights how information regarding these connections was sometimes suppressed.

The Wall Street Trilogy by Antony Sutton

This conversation covers the book "Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming" by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, published in 1979. It features reviews praising the book as groundbreaking and transformative for understanding human behavior and communication. The text introduces Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) as a powerful, explicit model for creating rapid and lasting personal change, emphasizing its focus on modeling effective behaviors rather than traditional psychological theories. The authors challenge readers to engage with the material experientially, suggesting that NLP offers practical, content-free communication patterns to achieve specific behavioral outcomes, including curing phobias, overcoming learning disabilities, and eliminating unwanted habits. Ultimately, the excerpts highlight NLP's potential for "generative change," enabling individuals to develop new capabilities and enrich their lives, moving beyond a remedial approach to problems.

Frogs into Princes - Neuro Linguistic Programming

This discussion covers the book "The Structure of Magic, Language and Therapy," by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, critically examines the historical reluctance of behavioral sciences, particularly psychiatry, to embrace rigorous theoretical frameworks, instead relying on various evasive maneuvers. It argues that effective psychotherapy, often perceived as "magic," possesses an underlying structure that can be systematically understood and learned, much like language. Drawing heavily on concepts from transformational grammar, the book introduces a "Meta-model" for therapeutic intervention, focusing on how clients' linguistic "Surface Structures" can be analyzed to reveal underlying "Deep Structures" and how processes like generalization, deletion, and distortion impoverish their models of the world. The text presents specific linguistic techniques and challenges therapists can use to help clients enrich their internal models, thereby expanding their choices and improving their lives, emphasizing that all human behavior, like language, is rule-governed.

The Structure of Magic Volume 1 - Language and Therapy

 This discussion covers the book"The Structure of Magic Volume 2," by Richard Bandler and John Grinder (https://amzn.to/45IvZgL) explores advanced concepts in psychotherapy, building upon its first volume by detailing representational systems—visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and digital (language)—that individuals use to model and communicate their experiences. The authors, Bandler and Grinder, introduce the concept of incongruity in communication, where a person's verbal and non-verbal messages conflict, and propose therapeutic tactics to address these internal conflicts. They examine "fuzzy functions" or "semantic ill-formedness," explaining how distorted connections between sensory input and internal representation can limit an individual's choices and contribute to distress. Finally, the book extends these principles to family therapy, offering a formal notation system for understanding and intervening in family dynamics and highlighting the "pairing principle" as a key factor in how relationships form based on complementary communication patterns.

The Structure of Magic, Volume 2

The discussion covers "Neuro-Linguistic Programming Volume I (The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience)" by Dilts, Grinder, and Bandler, (https://amzn.to/4l9mIDk) introduces the foundational principles of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). It outlines how human behavior, including learning, motivation, and communication, is a result of systematically ordered sequences of sensory representations. The book explores methods for eliciting these underlying strategies, often through observing accessing cues like eye movements and body language. Furthermore, it details techniques for utilization and installation of strategies, emphasizing how to tailor communication and interventions to match an individual's or group's natural representational systems for improved outcomes across various contexts, including education, business, and therapy. The authors emphasize that NLP offers a user-oriented approach to generate behavioral options effectively, allowing individuals to gain more personal control over their experiences.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming: The Study of Subjective Experience

This conversation covers Robert Dilts book (https://amzn.to/3I6ZkYh) , "Sleight of Mouth, a set of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) patterns for conversational belief change and effective persuasion". It details methods for identifying and re-evaluating limiting beliefs by using verbal reframes, such as altering frame size, shifting to another outcome, or employing analogies. The text also examines the foundational concepts influencing these patterns, including Alfred Korzybski’s "the map is not the territory" principle, the role of values and criteria, and the impact of internal states and reality strategies on perception. Furthermore, it addresses how thought viruses—deeply ingrained, often unexamined beliefs—can hinder personal growth and provides strategies for recognizing and transforming them.

Sleight of Mouth Volume I - The Magic of Language in NLP

This conversation discusses the scholarly article "Mere Agreement - A Similarity-Based Persuasion Mechanism," explores the "mere agreement effect," a phenomenon where gaining initial agreement on unrelated statements significantly increases a person's compliance with a subsequent request. The authors propose a two-step mechanism: first, initial agreement fosters a perception of similarity between the individual and the requester, and second, this increased perceived similarity leads to greater compliance. Through five studies, they demonstrate this effect's robustness, showing it's interviewer-specific and can be mitigated by prompting deliberate thought, but not by mood changes or processing fluency. The research highlights the practical applications of this subtle persuasion technique in various real-world scenarios. Study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1148126

Mere Agreement - A Similarity-Based Persuasion Mechanism

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