Influence

Our Moral Values

George Lakoff has an interesting take on Our Moral Values as liberals must reposition and reframe their approach so as to combat the Strict-Father ideals of the neocons and religious right. It’s partly a matter of self-critique and parly a matter of reframe and influence. While I don’t buy some of the specifics, the general…

George W. Bush . . . Evil Hypnotist . . . well, maybe not hypnotist

The Axis of Logic has an excellent essay by Russell M. Drake on the 2004 US Presidential Elections that is really worth reading in terms of influence and persusasion. While some of the statements about hypnosis are a bit over-generalized and certainly not quite what we mean when discuss classic hypnosis, the points about influence…

Influence Street Patterns . . . seduction videos

I find conversational influence fascinating . . . particularly as it relates to intimate communication. As many of you know, there are folks who devote a great deal of study into Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and conversational or covert hypnosis as it applies to seduction or intimacy building. Now, hypnosis is a consensual state as is…

Influence in Fiction

Robert Cialdini is the king of influence . . . he is the author of pretty much the treatise on influence and how people get others to do things for them. He chose folks who have a lot of success at influence and then followed them around, noting what it was they actually did. His…

Build Your Own Hypnotic Seduction System

Since many folks interested in hypnosis, NLP, visualization, and other trancework systems are interested in how they can be applied to relationships between the sexes, particularly seduction (whoa, there, don’t get your hopes up as direct suggestion doesn’t work that way), recently on Mindlist, there’s been some discussion on truth and deception in seduction and…