I'm not really an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic
Programming) guy myself, but have friends who are
into it, and one of them told me about this
workshop coming up on Nov 10-11 in London that
sounds fairly fascinating. 

Info is here: 
http://www.mbnlp.com/Site/Contents/Events/EventDetail.aspx?ID=41

Excerpts: 

>>>“Although it causes some NLPers to blow a
gasket; the fact is that a number of elements of
the NLP toolkit are either transplanted directly
from the esoteric or are derived from it to some
extent (despite attempts to put a rationalist
facade over everything). I do enjoy showing the
clear lineage of some cherished bit of tech to
Mr. or Ms. “Rationalist-Master Practitioner” and
watch them try not to turn purple.”

“At the same time, to the “Irrationalist-Only”
brigade, I think I demonstrate fairly
conclusively that without the ability to use
logic and inference through language, the NLP
toolset is fairly banal.”

“It’s not one or the other but both that opens
the full range of possibilities offered by the
NLP toolset.”
<<<

>>>The Oracle of Fortuna was created by a now
semi-forgotten, semi-ignored occultist named
Edward C. Peach who went by the nom de plume
Ophiel. The Oracle was created as kind of
supplemental tool for students who studied the
occult with him; either through his books or
through his mail order correspondence courses. In
1971, he published ‘The Oracle of Fortuna’ as a
book. It wasn’t tremendously popular. Readers
often mistook what they were reading for
something else. Long out of print; today, copies
change hands for up to $100.

With The Oracle of Fortuna, Ophiel did something
that was quite brilliant. He took the
relationship between a normal deck of modern
playing cards and the Tarot, stripped away the
layers of complexity in working with the Tarot
but kept the structural relationships and
elemental associations between the Minor Tarot
Suits and a normal deck. He then took the form of
the solo card game ‘Patience’ (American
‘Solitaire’) and added two important sets of
dynamic symbolism to transform a time wasting
game into a brilliant mini-laboratory on how to
read the energetics of what was appearing – in
other words, what forces were at work behind any
question you’d care to ask… and also what might
be done to intervene in or change the situation. 
<<<


I figured someone on this list might find this
interesting. 

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