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This immediately made me remember Dr. Milton H. Erickson who through conceptualizing the unconscious as highly separate from the conscious mind, with its own aw

by kesor 10y ago

This immediately made me remember Dr. Milton H. Erickson who through conceptualizing the unconscious as highly separate from the conscious mind, with its own awareness, interests, responses, and learnings, he taught that the unconscious mind was creative, solution-generating, and often positive. This was a great influence and basis for big parts of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), which was in part based on his hypnosis techniques. The NLP crowd believes that through some tricks and work on yourself, you can open a wider channel for your unconscious to show its potential, for example not having to wait a whole day for some answer to come to you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson

kesor 10y ago
Years ago when I read Milton H. Ericson's book: "My Voice Will Go With You", it made me think of all problems as something that my unconscious should deal with if I just give it the reins. It worked quite well, thank you for reminding me about something I used to do. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393301354/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393301354/
goldfeld 10y ago
Hmmm so a reductive description of NLP sounds exactly like monotheism?
- mbrock 10y ago
  "The Origin on Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" has some controversial but interesting ideas about divinity arising as a reification of brief conscious "messages" from the unconscious in times of stress or elation.
- kesor 10y ago
  I did not describe all of NLP. A better description of NLP would be to say that it is a technique to model existing people that have a certain skill (like Milton H. Erickson), and then program other people enabling them to use the same skill. This is called in NLP "Modeling," and is actually a much better description of what the thing is about. The Milton H. Erickson NLP Model is just one model out of many that NLP practitioners are talking about. But it is one of the more popular ones.

by kesor 10y ago

kesor 10y ago

Years ago when I read Milton H. Ericson's book: "My Voice Will Go With You", it made me think of all problems as something that my unconscious should deal with if I just give it the reins. It worked quite well, thank you for reminding me about something I used to do. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393301354/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393301354/

goldfeld 10y ago

Hmmm so a reductive description of NLP sounds exactly like monotheism?

mbrock 10y ago
"The Origin on Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" has some controversial but interesting ideas about divinity arising as a reification of brief conscious "messages" from the unconscious in times of stress or elation.
kesor 10y ago
I did not describe all of NLP. A better description of NLP would be to say that it is a technique to model existing people that have a certain skill (like Milton H. Erickson), and then program other people enabling them to use the same skill. This is called in NLP "Modeling," and is actually a much better description of what the thing is about. The Milton H. Erickson NLP Model is just one model out of many that NLP practitioners are talking about. But it is one of the more popular ones.