Institute of Semantic Restructuring
Email: rl (at) robertlink (dot) org.
Semantic Restructuring is the pursuit of enlightenment, enlivenment, empowerment through the creative re-arranging of the building blocks of meaning. For a better description, Start Here.
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20250810a
Hello world, from trixie rc3! (One more time!)
20250801a
Who are you, and what do I think I have to say to you?
I'm not new to blogging, I've seen it rise and fall. But there's something in the air, or in the matrix, however you prefer, there's something moving me to write, here, now, to an unknown and unknowable and possibily non-existent you.
It is my fond hope that you are someone interested in the things I'm interested in, and who will appreciate my thoughts even if they fail to conform to your understanding of things. What I offer is offered freely, and that means you are free to take it or leave it. Free.
I am on the first steps of reacquainting myself with "the N-LP community," and I have done a fair amount of soul-search as to just what that could possibly mean for me. I'm working on cleaning up the various writing projects housed at this site, but that doesn't address the feeling I'm wrestling with.
My thoughts are simply outside any norm. Being interested in hypnosis and meditation and N-LP and similar pursuits is already outside what seems to be on the minds of most people. But even within the group of people thinking about such things, my thoughts rarely fit well with the thoughts or writings of others.
I'm taking a glance through "NLP II" by Dilts. I realize, as I read it, that I have taken in my thinking a very different approach to the material than the approach he is taking. He seems to delight in "making" new patterns. I long ago concluded that no single pattern is worth much on its own, but that the core skills of what was originally called the meta-model and the milton-model suffice to let the consultant create new patterns on the fly, guided by the descriptions elicited from clients. I long ago concluded that, in turn, John's mastery of presupposition was the cornerstone of the meta-modeal and milton-model.
So where "NLP II" seems to focus on a growing number of increasingly complicated models and patterns, I remain focused on basic skill acquisition. Absent fluency in the 32 presupposition environments laid out in the appendices of "The Structure of Magic, Vol. I," and "The Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, Vol. I," absent mastery of those foundational presupposition patterns there's little if any point in "learning" the superficial patterns built on the foundational patterns.
So, if you ask me (and no one has in quite some time, which makes this a rather awkward thing to be writing to possibly, probably, no one) the way to "learn N-LP" is to master the presupposition patterns in "Structure-I" and "Patterns-I".
Of course, one way to work towards that goal is to work with the material presented elsewhere on this site, but more about that later.
Email: rl (at) robertlink (dot) org.
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