[carapace]

That's awesome! Well met.

I want to emphasis that NLP "is" lots of different things depending on who you ask. The most important aspect IMO is the act of "going meta-" to your own psychology, learning to "reprogram" your "biocomputer".

It's a fundamental shift. People talk about education that adds facts to your store of knowledge vs. education that changes who you are. Learning to operate your own mind+body changes your self-image in a deep way, and raises the level on which you operate.

What excites me is the possibility that enough people learn to take responsibility for their own thoughts and emotional reactions, and we can collectively get over our shit and make e.g. some sort of cool Star Trek future, where humans are mostly sane and healthy. (And "we can hang out with cool aliens that like us." ~Dude, Where's My Car?)