Not bad… some of them… I bought a handfull for a test drive, and I have 4 on order at the moment, don’t want to overlook a goodie because a couple weren’t so great…
Same idea as Glauberman, not as sophisticated in his use of Ericksonian story…
Like Idries Shah, there never was another Erickson… having done a seminar with his protege, Steven Gilligan… and a lot directly with John Grinder… each got part of the Erickson magic, nobody seems to have gotten to the essential root of his skill…
I believe, and this is fascinating that Shah should come up, that Erickson somehow arrived at an an understanding akin to the Sufi masters, he was doing “secualr sufism”, or both had arrived at the same city by differing roads…
This idea of the Magical Self is compelling, as if the limbic brain, the old mammalian primate base (structurally… thalamus, amygdala, hippocampus and ???) can opearate in sleeping mode, as a background processor for the forebrain… or it could potentially be awakened, and then the “unconscious mind” begins to function as a self-within-the-self that one could have a wide variety or relationships with…
If the monkey-mind is used as an archive of patterns, ranging from minor to full on life scripts… the person with that monkey-mind will appear very “scripted”… perhaps well fit to life pattern, but incapable of going much beyond the pattern without experiencing loss of self anxieties…
On the other hand, if the unconscious mind is properly awakened and allowed to reach its potential as a partner with the conscious mind, it can take on a multitude of archetype personalities (for you Jungian PUAs)… from the Playful Child to the Wise Elder, and turn you on to the best things life has to offer, in the best ways, at the right times, to the right degree (this comes from Aristotle, btw, and restated by Glauberman on each of his tapes, a bit differently), and most important, for the right reasons…
Nice to know you have that backup already waiting for you inside your own head…
As far as getting oneself with another… how well one can go about this, IMHO, has a lot to do with how well one can let go of oneself, in other words, how rigidly or loosely one is attached to ideas of one’s self, and ones comfort in letting the unconscious functions take over and do the driving for a while…
When you’re approacing, dating, doing your thing, there are four parties to the transaction, your conscious mind, her conscious mind, your unconscious mind, her unconscious mind, and how awake or asleep the inner minds are…
People most definitely relate on planes of awareness… the mysterious “clicks” and “anti-clicks” that send those unmistakable, impossible to describe little zings, shudders, hints, signals… because, also IMHO, in the really successful relationships, even in the great sex category, there is enough security, confidence, trust that the unconscious minds become a shared space to some degree, it is a natural process where a mutual self comes into being, maybe briefly, maybe for the rest of ones life…