From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 17:15:58 MDT
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, gts wrote:
> I've seen studies that show that people look in certain directions to help
> them understand certain types of problems, or to help them remember certain
> types of data. Apparently the orientataton of one's eyes helps to stimulate
> certain thinking processes. It is a subconscious process. If this was the
> case for you then you were motivated by your desire to understand or
> remember something. [snip].
This is a primary premise behind NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), ideas
proposed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder (though apparently according
to "skepdic.com" [an "authoritative source"???], linked to Tony Robbins
and the Landmark Forum. The only one of these I'm unfamiliar with
is Tony Robbins -- other than the late night TV informercials. I'm
not sure that I see the link.
At any rate, I always thought the NLP ideas were fairly interesting,
perhaps not unassociated with fixed emotional-facial expressions that
humans have (universal hard-wired communications, except perhaps for
those of us with high AQ scores).
Robert
URLs:
http://skepdic.com/neurolin.html
http://skepdic.com/landmark.html
Of course if skepdic.com is an advertising medium for "Cults in our Midst"
then we really ought to to wonder when the "Extropians" are going to make
the top ten list.
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