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.”

NLP as a Cult Exit Therapy.

NLP as a Cult Exit Therapy, yes you read that right.

Out of the frying pan into the NLP fire.

The ever audacious NLP Cult has successfully conned some into allowing them access to brainwash and induct victims of other cults. Who could be more vulnerable than those that have already been tricked by other cults?

Read this by Kevin Garvey (voluntary exit counsellor and a consultant on cult related issues) published by the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA).

http://icsahome.com/infoserv_respond/by_author.asp?Subject=NLP+Seen+as+Dangerous


NLP ... encourages misguidance of the emerging victim ... relies upon an innate distrust of the critical intellect ... inhibits the emergence of the critical mental faculties ... duplicates the basic method found in the cults. 

Police Infiltration by the NLP Cult.

It is amazing that some police forces around the world still persist in attempting to use NLP techniques for interrogation and other purposes. Both because it doesn’t work and far more worryingly because it exposes police officers to the potential of being recruited into the cult at “NLP Training” sessions run by cult members.

This excellent article in this month’s PoliceChief Magazine (in the US) debunks the use of NLP in policing.

http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=2268&issue_id=122010

Perspective on Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
By Gary I. Wilson, Colonel (Retired), United States Marine Corps, Carlsbad, California

Conclusion

NLP has captured the attention of law enforcement and interrogators regarding its application to detecting deception during interview and interrogation processes. Clearly, there is a lack of evidence-based data to support using NLP for ferreting out deception. Yet employing NLP techniques for detecting deception persists throughout law enforcement communities despite the dearth of supportive evidence. NLP utility for deciphering truth from deception is a myth. Nonetheless, it is still touted for investigative interviewing. Those working in the area of forensics need to be aware of the shortcomings of methods that are not evidence based. It is essential to strive for the use of techniques and methods that are supported by research data—“The only certain method of discerning truth relies on the corroboration of the known facts independent of the information provided by the person interviewed.

Brainwashed NLP Police Force.

Master Practitioner Dares to Criticize the NLP Cult.

This show how zealously the leadership guards against insiders speaking out, a common feature of cults. In this case removing his videos from YouTube for mentioning their names.



 He also some interesting points:

• Those parts of NLP that work are not unique and predate NLP. 
• The unique parts don’t work. 
• To perform therapy you need to be sensitive. (In my experience the NLP cult brainwashing removes the ability to do that.) 

Therapy and the NLP Cult.

Cults generally recruit vulnerable people and the NLP cult is no exception. Part of Bandler's evil genius is to market his cult as a therapy for almost all life’s ills.

Any condition you have NLP claims to have the answer for example http://www.nlp-therapy.co.uk/ claims to treat emotional problems, fears and phobias, stress reduction, weight control and more. Many market it as an addiction cure for smoking, alcohol and drugs, the list of therapeutic claims is endless.

So what does the real scientific community make of NLP’s therapeutic value?

This excellent piece is by Steven Novella, MD. (Yes real letters after his name, a Doctorate in Medicine takes many years of study, examination and evaluation and is not bought at a 6 day seminar).

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/neurolinguistic-programming-and-other-nonsense/

Dr. Novella is an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine. So what does Dr. Novella think of NLP’s therapeutic claims.

When first proposed there was nothing overtly pseudoscientific about NLP. It was a bit simplistic and naïve, but may have had some merit. But it turns out that the assumptions of NLP, namely that our cognition, behavior and emotions can be “programmed” by mimicking the more superficial aspects of those with desirable attributes (for example posture and mannerism) are wrong. The last thirty years of research have simply shown that NLP is bunk…..

…….. In the case of NLP it has failed every test of both its underlying theories and empirical tests of its efficacy. So, in short, NLP does not make sense and it doesn’t work. In science you don’t get three strikes, those two and you’re out.