Okie Dokie… and now a word from the skunk works
a new daytime TeeVee drama: Life As A Laboratory…
Me and some other practiced NLP dudes are now in the concocting phase… we’re taking everything we know on multiple levels, unconscious, liminal, fully conscious, metaphorical, our own personal databases of hard won knowledge… basically the kitchen sink thrown in… and we’re toiling away at a new grade (or mindset, or something) of NLP, as if anyone has well clarified what NLP is in the first place…
So, being the senior trolls dwelling in our dark and smoky cave on the far edge of the known world… I think we are seeing the first glimmers of a new thing-a-ding, Third Generation NLP… this has many tempting possibilities within, although we aren’t really sure what we’re doing, we have no choice but to trust the processes we have a lifetime of being associated with… and to be painfully candid, have grown at last frustrated and bored with as well…
These Mystery Method and related specialty uses of NLP are extremely interesting because they give us street level, hard reality feedback of what an unusual community with specific goals CAN do with NLP, since they have taken it and run with it, then creating their own meta-ideas (thinking about their own thinking) about HOW one does this NLP stuff…
OK, we have fun watching them approach their issues, generate distinctions and philosophies to explain their experiences and results, then we take that up and ask ourselves what to do with it on one higher logical level…
Which leaves us where ? I’m fairly certain that as we strengthen the 3rd generation processes, rest assured they will seem/feel/translate as unfamiliar, heterodox… possibly as iconoclastic as the 1st generation… with that the very models of “game” will change, both in ways subtle and dramatic… approaching “invisible game”, or “deep non-game”…![]()