Steve Andreas > Articles > Whispering in the Wind

Book Review. Whispering in the Wind

by Carmen Bostic St.Clair and John Grinder

Reviewed by Steve Andreas

� 2003

This book states, �Our intention is to provoke a professional high quality public dialogue among the practitioners of NLP, as an integral part of these developments,� (p. 348) and it is in this spirit that I write. I hope this can begin a fruitful and ongoing exchange that others in the field will contribute their thoughts and insights to. While I found much of the book interesting and thought-provoking, raising many issues that are important to the field, I also found a lot of it difficult to understand, and often contradictory in both form and content. I want to begin by mentioning the sections that I found particularly useful.

• Pattern Verification
• Scope and Category
• Deletion, Distortion and Generalization
• Robert Dilts� Neurological Levels
• History and Epistemology
• Modeling Distinctions
• 'New Code' NLP
• The Change Format for the New Code
• Comparison of New Code and Old Code
• Content-free States
• Submodality Patterns
• Perceptual Positions (Triple Description)
• Kinesthetics in Observer Position?
• Other (2nd) Position
• Clean Perceptual Positions
• The Presuppositions of NLP
• Presentation of Patterning
• Russell�s 'Theory of Logical Types'
• Language and Organization of the Book
• Epistemology
• Incongruence
• Format of the book
• Summary
• References