Re: Time Distortion
James,
you wrote to Ian:
>>I enjoy your accounts of the impressions you have about Quantum Healing and
how it relates to NLP. It is refreshing to actually read material that
relates to the list subject [...]<<
I completely agree with that...
I find it refreshing, albeit without comparing it to another discussion topic.
You wrote:
>>[...] rather than these inane arguments about whether
NLP is a science or not. Indeed, arguments about what "science" really is on
a discussion list about Neuro-linguistic programming. <<
Usually I like to read these discussions (and sometimes I have time to
participate). I think it has relevance in relation to NLP for a variety of
reasons, some of which are:
- NLP is a pragmatic model, which is a *very* uncommon model. So people try to
give it a place in their own model model of the world; and one way of doing
that
is comparing it to various concepts of "science". And given that NLP has a few
things in common with scientific method, confusion is sure to result.
- NLP-ers are often being asked about it. So, when participants in courses ask
you about it, or when journalists ask you to explain, or when famous professor
X
attacks NLP in a nationwide newspaper for 'not being scientific', then after a
while you start to think about how to explain the relation betwen NLP and
science.
- It is an exercise in creating new distinctions in my model of the world too.
In turn, I think these distictions, once made explicit, may add something
valuable to NLP, to its practitioners, to the world, and so on.
Kind Regards,
Rene Duba