How to Spot the NLP Sociopath.

Whilst much of NLP is made up pseudo-science the rest is an instruction manual that should be titled “How to be a Sociopath”. Brainwashing ensures that the NLPer actually believes that these actions are a positive thing and that they are successful in life because of these skills.

Sociopaths can be difficult to spot as they are usually very convincing liars, however if you know what to look for after a little time getting to know them the signs are unmistakable.

Sociopaths are masters at influence and deception. Very little of what they say actually checks out in terms of facts or reality, but they're extremely skilful at making the things they say sound believable, even if they're just making them up out of thin air.

So to help you out here is what to look for:

10 signs for spotting a sociopath

NLP Cult Social Isolation

Another reason proponents of NLP use to deny that it is a cult is that it does not physically or geographically isolate people from the rest of society. The often quoted A Bradbury is one example of this trick. (I can debunk every item in that article.)

NLP does socially isolate people although they still are physically present in society the sociopathic nature of their beliefs and practices makes them intolerable to most people (except psychopaths and other hustlers, confidence tricksters etc.).

NLPers believe that the self is the only thing that matters. Personal wealth and success the only goal in life. Manipulating and using anybody they meet including friends and family in order to achieve their goals is taught as some pseudo-scientific method and given silly names like:

Embedded Commands = subliminally telling people what to do or think

The NLP Power of Agreement = telling someone they agree with you when they don’t

Silence Imposition Technique = being rude and ignoring someone

NLP Cult Recruitment

The NLP Cult members are the recruitment agents. Once they have been awarded NLP Practitioner status they use their persuasion techniques to manipulate anyone they know or meet to attempt to lure them into the cult. The first step is usually a free seminar often 2 or 3 days over a weekend. Once there the potential victim will be subjected to more manipulation and the hard sell to get them to pay for a NLP Practitioner course (full NLP Cult membership). Fake schools are a very common recruitment tactic amongst cults.



This blog post describes what happens at these free seminars

“…… quoting Einstein and other famous scientists. These statements were taken completely out of context and used to support ideas that the people being quoted probably would not have agreed with.”

“He got us to do all these exercises where we'd write down things that we want out of life or something like that, and then we'd have to find someone we've never met and read our list to them...and then high-five them and say, "you’re awesome!" hehehe. Anyway, the last time this happened before the break, he suddenly informed us that the person we had just met was our partner for the weekend. Now this was all really cleverly orchestrated to manipulate us into remaining for the whole weekend. We were told to tell our partner why we were going to give it our 100% etc. and I thought, I'm not definitely going to stay, but there is no point in being here if I'm not going to give it 100% while I'm here.”

“Anyway, it was hard to get my girlfriend to leave with me, not because she wanted to stay, but because she felt bad about ditching her 'partner' when she'd just made all of these promises to him. I explained that that was one of the very reasons I did want to leave, and I convinced her and we left. I felt like shit afterwards. I felt emotionally drained...and I was only there for two hours. The full thing went from 9AM-11PM on friday sat and sunday. I would've been a fucking Zombie by then.”