Is Your Reality Actually Real? An NLP Exploration of Perception If you’ve ever watched The Truman Show, you likely remember the growing sense of unease as Jim Carrey’s character slowly realizes his entire life is a fabricated television set. A movie-set light falls...
The Map Is Not The Territory: Why The Laffer Curve Is Just A Bad Drawing Its time for an NLP Smackdown on "Trickle-down economics." In NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), we have a Golden Rule (An NLP Presupposition): The Map is Not the Territory. Think of that rule...
NLP and the Hero’s Journey: Living a Life of Mythic Proportions Editor’s Note: This article was originally published two decades ago on altfeld.com. It has been refreshed, rewritten, and republished here on January 31, 2026. There is a moment most of us...
A story... of Bungled Hypnotic Advertising! This article was originally published in 2011 on altfeld.com; updated in 2026 for this website. I wrote this one day in 2011 when I lived in South Central Pennsylvania. If you're near me, you probably listen to Mix95 radio...
Original Perspective: October 27, 2001, published on altfeld.com; Updated here for the Modern Attention Economy Summary for the Impatient Reader Recognize the Trance: Social media and news use sensory triggers to bypass your logic. Ignore "The" Economy: It's a...
NLP Makes Advertising and Websites More influential. But you CAN Take Your Power Back! Every day, we're bombarded by advertising. We see or hear an estimated 3,000 messages per day, or more... if we watch TV frequently. From billboards to product placements, from...
Watch NLP Co-Founder Richard Bandler use the "NLP Fast Phobia Cure" * to eliminate Michael Strahan's phobic response to snakes, in minutes. At the end, Kelly Ripa brings over a BIG snake to test Michael's response. Spoiler alert: It worked ridiculously well! *Note: ...
Let's explore the impact made by NLP or Hypnosis in Politics. Originally published on Altfeld.com; updated and expanded for 2026. Far more famous people have trained in Ericksonian (indirect) Hypnosis and NLP than you might guess. Certainly far more have strong...
All of us have, at one time or another, attempted to influence another person, to no avail. It's a universal experience to walk head-first into unresponsive stubbornness, while "influencing the difficult." Many of us have personally experienced what it's like in...
There's been a rash of recent studies and publications that directly support NLP with Science, accidentally! Since NLP's early days in the mid-1970's, its development has been haunted by a lack of properly funded or carried-out research to back NLP with Science. This...