NLP itself is in need of radical reinvention & rediscovery
Having said that, Richard’s CDs and DVDs are an excellent way to start… there are quality control issues with some of their CDs so listen to all of your order through once to make sure all of the tracks play, there are no sudden drop outs, etc.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch… the major problem faced by NLP today is that it has atomized into mini-factions… trainers are going red in the face over who “coined a concept”… and a plethora of rinky dink training Models…
… that represent no major advance in the art… which leads me to suspect that John Grinder, whose work, unfortunately is at least as important as Richard Bandler’s and yet very little known…
… because there is so little material recorded of JG when he was in his prime, and now he has dropped out (from a deep sense of disgust I sadly believe)… leaving us with only a partial understanding of what NLP is, or should be… yet in some of Richard’s late stage recorded works, now that he is also into High Ritual Magick as our NLP Warlock, an intimation of great nostalgia for the innovative time he had with John…
There are some interesting rumblings out there that Jon Altfeld MIGHT be evolving into one of our next great trainers. if there is going to be a real second or third generation NLP worthy of that name… possibly he and Doug O’Brien will dig around and strike gold one day… soon… I certainly hope so… we need the fresh air…
Tony R. seems to have drunk his own Kool-Aid… although he can be extremely powerful… being physically in his presence and doing his live stuff with the Tony people is strange beyond all description… OTOH he is doing some unique and very useful stuff with people who need all the help they can get…
Then you have guys like Carmine Baffa and Joesph Riggio who occupy their respective fringes of the art… for the life of me I cannot follow what they mean to do with the legacy… please surprise me with something good, please, please…
Then there is the strange ass huckster scene… right out of Snake Oil 101… one day they’re hawking Far Infrared Dildos and the next day it’s Make Women Your Zombies !!! Do things ever change at their core ?..