Description

Once upon a timethere arose a Wizard in the land … a wizard who could just say words and the burdens of hearts would be lifted and lives renewed. Virginia was her name. She would invite people to sculpture their understandings of their families using other people and she would utter statements of wisdom. Then, almost magically people would be free from struggles of years duration, free to enter into a transformation of life. Wen two Modelers in a distant land heard about this Wizard,and the magic she was creating with her words they traveled to that land to see if they could capture the formula of the magic. And these two Wizard Modelers took with them all of the tools for pattern detection that theyknew of, pattern detectors of language, mathematics, and information processing and sought audience with the Wizard to ask permission to detail out the precise formulations of her magic. And when they came into the very presence of the Wizard Virginia, they stood in awe before her magic . . . wondering if it was what she said, how she said it, the ideas within her words of wisdom, her touch as she moved people about, her sheer physical size and presence, the love and compassion that abounded so much in her. And they wondered. . . really wondered about it all.Then they heard about another Wizard, a gruff old man who didn’t have the presence or size of Virginia, and who didn’t seem to care for people all that much . . . and yet Fritz could also just say words and people would performthought experiments in their heads . . . and yell at chairs, sit in hot suffer pools and then emerge liberated from old emotional prisons and freed to become who they truly were. Richard kind ofthought that his magic was in his gruffness. But since they didn’t know, they continued to wonder.Finally, they were directed to go to yet another Wizard,and so they traveled to Phoenix and met the Wizard Milton who then became their guide into the strange Land of Trance, where he would use just words to perform medical and psychiatric magic . . . yet this Wizard seemed to use words that were wonderfully vague in the most precise way. And again, they wondered, really wondered about the structure of magic.Eventually the Wizard Modelers sorted out the Structure of Magicand of the secrets of that magic . . . and began their school, the University of the Structure of Magic . . . today this school is known as NLP and Neuro-Semantics. And with that, the adventure began…