The language is often politically incorrect by today’s standards (strong profanity, mocking of certain therapeutic approaches, and occasional aggressive confrontation).
Watching the 1987 recordings is a vastly different experience than reading a textbook on NLP. This is where the "Art" in the title truly shines. Bandler does not lecture; he performs.
Advanced work with the fine-grained details of internal mental images (e.g., brightness, distance, size) to "reprogram" emotional responses instantly. Richard Bandler - State of the Art - 1987 - Adv...
In an era of gentle mindfulness and slow therapy, Bandler’s 1987 message remains a radical, uncomfortable, and exhilarating bolt of lightning: All you have to do is learn the structure of your own magic.
He argued that content is irrelevant. He famously stated, “If you have a problem, you have to have pictures and sounds—it’s not a problem if you don’t.” In this seminar, he systematically dismantled how the brain encodes meaning not by what you see, but how you see it. The language is often politically incorrect by today’s
True students of NLP return to the 1987 recordings not for a script, but for a state . Bandler was in a state of creative flow so intense that his syntax fractured into poetry. He taught that the map is not the territory, and then he burned the map.
In "State of the Art," Bandler demonstrates that by tweaking these subtle knobs in the mind, one can radically alter the impact of a memory or a belief. He moves away from the dry "Swish Pattern" drills of earlier years and demonstrates a much more fluid, conversational way to rewire the brain. He teaches the audience to stop asking "why" a client has a problem and start asking "how" they maintain it—and how to scramble the coding of that problem so it can no longer exist. Bandler does not lecture; he performs
Bandler shows how a phobia is just a specific submodality configuration (panoramic, associated, fast-motion). Changing one submodality (e.g., turning it B&W or dissociating) can cure it in under 5 minutes.
: Techniques for "making things easy" and rapid state shifts. Time Distortion