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From: marcthomashogan
Date: Mon Oct 14, 2002 8:29pm
Subject: Re: LInguistic deception - Wonder Words
Hi HighRoller
Interesting idea using phonetic ambiguity to force certain letters
As for wonderwords, I have the series and though interesting I too
would recommend books on NLP/hypnosis rather than wonderwords as you
already realise the real power is suggestion and in the future when
you look back on this you will know that the power of suggestion is
the real magic!
Marc
From your
--- In a previous message highroller entertainment casting wrote:
> --- In a previous message killerb_0187 wrote:
> > Yeah man, I sent you an email almost a week back, and you still
> aint
> > replied!!
> >
> > Are they worth it? I really need to know, because some of the
> effects
> > that are stated in the text for 'wonder words', derren himself
used
> > in his show!
> >
> > Remember the mall??
>
> My advice? If you want to know how Derren did the Mall skit, just
get
> some books on NLP. Frogs into Princes is the Introduction, but
Trance-
> Formations is the one with the real meat in it. What you're
looking
> for is phonetic and syntactic ambiguities, which are also covered
in
> Patterns in the Hypnotic technique of Milton Erickson. They are
very
> easy to learn and the only limit to using them is your own
vocabulary.
>
> You certainly DON'T need the Wonderwords/Wizards thing to do
> it....they may be very good (I don't know, I don't own them), but
I
> knew exactly what Derren was doing the moment I saw the Mall
segment,
> and I can honestly say that most people with a little training in
> either hypnosis or NLP could easily replicate that effect...I
trust
> you have noticed the embedded/ ambiguous commands that Derren
gives
> in this segment? So come right on up pronounced 'So come RIGHT
ARM
> UP' and so on?
>
> That's all that it is, communicating with the unconscious whilst
the
> conscious portion of the brain is distracted by all the pretty
shop
> windows.
>
> If anyone here has Wonderwords, can they post a review? I'd love
to
> know if they are worth the money or not.....
