It is a shame that GS is tied in with NLP as they have very little to do with each other in purpose and design. GS is a way to be aware and let go of doctrines and patterns so you can look at things from a more objective perspective. Books by Hayakawa, for example are more about society and have very little to do with self-help. Even books by Albert Ellis and Wendel Johnson which take a psychological perspective are more about letting go of abstractions and vagueness and looking at things as objectively as possible.

While NLP is full of vague ideas and doctrine and is about creating new abstractions in the mind. It replaces observation and listening with ‘rapport’ and ‘anchoring.’ While GS is about removing as much delusion as one can, NLP is about replacing one delusion with another. That is because NLP is about self-help rather than about improving society. It could be argued that improving the self will over time improve society, but history has shown this does not appear to be the case. The concept ‘improvement’ is itself an abstraction. How do you define an improvement anyway?

Some ideas like ‘modalities’ are really ridiculous. It defines people as ‘ear’ people and ‘eye’ people, etc. This is actually the opposite of GS which tries to let go of the ‘is’ of identification. If you are trying to find a persons modality, you are filtering your observation of them and not really seeing them as they actually might be. You are fitting them into a construct, a little box while real people are very complex, multi-modal human beings.

Now, when you look up GS in Wikipedia, you get NLP books in the suggested reading list. This tends to redirect people because the ’self,’ being interested in the ’self-survival’ will be naturally drawn to ’self-help’ and will completely miss out on the more society oriented General Semantics ideas and concepts. That’s what I call ’self-defeating.’

All the worlds share attributes and roots, that is how they work together. Well said!

Keep on playing those

MIND GAMES
By
John Lennon

C G6/B Am C/G
We’re playing these mind games together
Fmaj7 C/E D D/C
pushing the barriers planting seeds.
playing the mind guerrilla
chanting the mantra peace on earth.
We all been playing those mind games forever
some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerrilla
some call it magic the search for the grail.

C D G G/F Em G/D D
Love is the answer and you know that for sure.
Love is a flower you gotta let it you gotta let it grow

So keep on playing those mind games together
faith in the future outta the now.
You just can’t beat on those mind guerrillas
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind.
Yeah we’re playing those mind games forever
projecting our images in space and in time.

Love is the answer and you know that for sure..
Love is surrender you gotta let it you gotta let it go.

So keep on playing those mind games together
doing the ritual dance in the sun.
Millions of mind guerrillas
putting their soul power to the Karmic wheel.
Keep on playing those mind games forever
raising the spirits of peace and love.

C G6/B Am C/G Fmaj 7 C/E D D/C
Love
I want you to make love , not war,
i know you’ve heard it before.

NOTE: As you can see this Lennon song ain’t as hard as it looks. First of all there are two chord progressions:
the one for the verse:( C G6/B Am C/G Fmaj7 C/E D D/C),
and the one for the chorus:( C D G G/F Em G/D D).I suggest
to listen to the song so that you can get the chord changes
and the timing.By the way the song it’s in the key of C.
If anyone gets confuse with this transcription send me a mail
to :

Z10CC {at} CUNNYVM(.)EDU

P.S. Check out my first posted song LOVE by John Lennon.

hope you enjoy it ;

Victor Perez

We realize that this world is not *the* world, but *a* world, just like many different levels of many different games on many different platforms. The idea that this is *the* world, that life started just here and should propagate into space from here into an until-then dead universe, is causing us way too much performance anxiety.

I’ve read some really good esoteric stuff lately (mostly tinyurl.com/dwbooks), and time after time it confirms the validity of the life-is-a-game model.

Huizinga FTW!!!

I am not familiar with the NLP technology or construct, PA, but i have found Doug’s talk very musical, very well structured and powerful.

Personally, i am persuaded by myself, Douglas and Krishnamurti et al that certain cultures seem to have over-complicated the construct of the self. I observe this in our culture as a means of control. The real questions about self are quite simple. Moreover, as Doug suggests, even if we were to follow Maslow strictly, not only have we lifted ourselves from terra firma, but we have not seen to the basic needs of the many. Lastly, we may appear to have seen to our own basic needs, but this is not true. We have only managed to follow the rules and serve the demands of our social and economic construct. Moreover, having done this, we are still rather deficient in our emotional and social development.

All of this is implied in Douglas’ talk.

I am with you tho, PA, in feeling there is a value to the proper foundation, development (praxis) and peak of Maslow’s thought. The sooner we identify and properly name foundational elements, the sooner we can re engineer the development of resources and self. All of this is our collective work.

Actualisation results from needing, developing, satisfying, managing, teaching and or providing. It is finding the core attribute of one’s special connection to the creator/rule-giver, the special gift that made self and all the actions of that self manifest in the world. Then that refracts understanding, knowledge and wisdom back through all the other attributes and roots in all the other created things, ending with unity. The true unity with self is unity with the world

Also just to throw this out in the mediasphere, I have so much more use for audio content than any other sort. I don’t have very much eyeball time to spare during any given day, but my ears remain wide open and rather hungry for quality information.