Christine Cardon and NLP Fully Exposed
So What Is NLP?
Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a pseudo-science fake branch of psychology dreamt up by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, USA in the 1970s. Bandler also made up other systems named Design Human Engineering (DHE) and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR).
Pseudoscience separates itself from ordinary science based mainly on the element of falsifiability. Claims of a scientific nature must be tested in a way that makes it possible to be proven wrong, and NLP avoids that by being the practice of ‘doing what works’ – which makes it unfalsifiable. If a practitioner has an ineffective interaction with a client, it can be disregarded as “just not right for them”.
All attempts to produce reliable results for NLP’s core tenets using scientific means have produced negative results. NLP is to psychology what astrology is to astronomy.
What does it take to become an “NLP Practitioner”?
So it’s a lucrative con and it doesn’t work, other than the placebo effect of making the person think that they are doing something positive, but is it harmful?
Is NLP Harmful?
Part of the evil genius of Bandler is to convince the victim that they experiencing success through NLP. This is achieved through brainwashing by hypnotism. Hypnotism produces real changes in how the brain works. The most disturbing is the metaphoric detachment of the front area of the brain from the rest. This is the area that controls decision making, problem solving, emotions, and consciousness. With this part disengaged, someone can make a suggestion and the victim will accept it no matter how much evidence to the contrary is all around them. If people are not informed hypnosis is being used and the right conditions are created, hypnotising a subject or even a group is extremely easy. Once you have entered into NLP you have agreed to give the power to think for yourself up. It is easy for the scammer to convince you to come back and spend more money.
There are also, of course, many other side effects to disconnecting yourself from reality.
Communication.
When I met Christine she wouldn’t let me get a word in edgeways, she simply talked over me. At the time I thought she was being extremely rude and I asked her not to do that. She told me “I have to be like that for work.” Well if you work somewhere that rudeness like that is normal you need a new job. Now again NLP explains this behaviour, the victim is programmed not to accept any input. This helps prevent reality getting in. NLP victims are taught to ignore anything that challenges their belief system by ignoring it. This again just manifests in rudeness, being ignored is the ultimate insult, it is telling you that you are not even worthy of a response.
Christine also spoke with a very loud voice, even shouting in normal conversation, I kept asking her to stop shouting but she just said she wasn’t. There was no tone variation, she spoke totally without any emotional clues. This is very reminiscent of watching people who have been hypnotised on TV entertainment shows. There was even a glazed look in her eyes, a distant look, it was very freaky at the time, like someone had stolen her soul (maybe they have). I kept asking if there was something wrong but she didn’t have a clue what I was on about. Again knowing now what has happened to her I can see she was showing the symptoms of someone under the influence of hypnosis.
Manipulation.
Narcissism.
Sadism.
Materialism.
Sensitivity and Emotion.
Memory Manipulation.
NLP teaches memory manipulation techniques, the victim blocks out bad memories and reinvents others in a more positive way. To start I thought it was nice how Christine had good memories of our times together when I could remember the same event in a less favourable light, like a weekend we spent in Edinburgh.
There were some things she couldn’t remember at all like cheating on me, or the time when I was taking her stuff round to her knew flat after she left me and her boyfriend, I didn’t know about, was hiding in the spare room and I was humiliated. It was a long time ago but surely she would remember at least that she had a boyfriend in Bethnal Green?
Christine has good reason for trying out such dangerous mind altering manipulation. It must have been hard going through the abortion and complications that would eventually lead to our last parting. (It wasn’t mine, I felt she was just using me as a shoulder to cry on and would leave me yet again as soon as she got over it, so I bailed first that time.)
But the negative side of deleting your bad memories is that you are not able to learn from your own mistakes. This is 50% of the input that helps us grow as human beings.
Is it Permanent?
NLP teaches a variety of techniques where the victim uses certain cues to produce certain behaviour.
From my interaction with Christine it seems that the victim of NLP is able to function normally for periods of time. After acting really weird and freaking me out for several hours she opened the bottle of wine we were going to have with dinner and was immediately noticeably different, after just one sip. Suddenly she could talk in a normal voice. We had two way conversation and reminisced about old times together.
This was like the TV hypnotist had clicked his fingers and said the key phrase, Christine was suddenly fully conscious and able to be her old self.
I’m not sure how much of the damage is permanent but I think it likely most is reversible.
Is NLP a Cult?
Whether or not NLP is a cult is again subject to much misinformation on the Internet, the cult members are very vocal in their denials. It cannot be denied however that NLP shows many of the characteristics of a cult.
Charismatic leader Richard Brandler was arrested for First Degree murder in 1988 and charged with the murder of his bookkeeper, who was also running a call-girl operation on the side. He had plunged headlong into cocaine addiction, and only he and his drug dealer (who was also the victim’s boyfriend) were present in her house when the shooting took place.
A crackpot of the first degree, every cult has one.
The practitioners have been “programmed” to believe the “programme”, giving them the right to “programme” others. That’s what cults do. Ever criticised NLP in front of a NLP practitioner? Like all fundamentalists they respond with the full force of the fanatic.
The use of scientific terminology to make it appear legitimate. The NLP expert will tell you that it is science. CAP, the regulatory body for UK advertising, has already slapped the wrists of those claiming that NLP is science. Yet, immune to the huge amount of scientific evidence showing that it is bogus, you will quickly hear them retreat to the idea that “science isn’t everything” or that the techniques “cannot be verified through clinical trials”. They can’t have it both ways.
Another clue that bellies NLP’s pseudo scientific nature is the frankly cult-like system of titles and ranks. The NLP hierarchy is rigorous. It’s hugely compelling to an insider, but from the outside looking in, it’s both amusing and worrying. People shell out thousands to be certified as a practitioner, master practitioner, trainer, master trainer, and beyond. Any given NLPer can have a string of letters after their name to rival an Oxford don. What they won’t tell you is that half of those “certifications” may have been picked up on weekend course, and the other half could have been easily bought online.
Cults socially isolate people and NLP has installed in Christine the need to be a “private person”. She has hidden her friends on Facebook so they cannot see who the others are. I thought this very odd and asked her what or who had happened to her to make her do this, the wall of silence was the response. Of course she couldn’t answer, this is designed to avoid the possibility of her friends getting together to stage an intervention. The wall of silence only infuriated me and made me determined to find out.
Christine didn’t want to talk about anybody from the past. “They are not part of my life anymore”. “The past is past move on”. Again designed to isolate the victim from anyone who can see the damage being done by the cult.
Victims are encouraged only to socialise with fellow members of the cult. When I met Christine at Heathrow airport she immediately started acting strangely as if she was afraid. I asked what was wrong “It’s not you” was the only response I was able to illicit before the wall of silence fell. It wasn’t her boyfriend she was about to cheat on that she was scared of it was her cult.
Why did she come to London at all? Was it something deep inside trying to escape the grip of NLP?
I wish I had known then the sad fate that had befallen her. Most of all I wish I knew how to save her now. She once was a truly alive person, warm caring and passionate, now she is just programmed skin and bones.
Meeting the brainwashed zombie my ex-girlfriend has been NLP’d into was a deeply traumatic experience at a time when I had enough problems of my own. I lashed out in anger for months, in a vain attempt to get through to her. Now I have investigated NLP and can understand what happened to her. All the illogical behaviour and plain weird views she holds became an obvious picture, like all the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle falling into place. My attempts to get past the defences programmed into her have proved futile.
I am compelled to tell the story in hope of saving others from being drawn in by the false promises of quick fixes to life’s problems. I had a lucky escape myself, she nearly had me believing for a while. As she put it “well some poeple dont like it , it cant appeal to everyone.” NLP is a dangerous fraud, be warned.
I get angry when people are rude to me, I get angry when people lie to me and I get angry when people try to manipulate me. That is what the NLP cult does, it takes ordinary decent people and turns them into rude, manipulative liars that are completely selfish, materialistic and have no regard for human kind.