<description>&lt;p&gt;What if someone told you that you could skip years of therapy with a few mental tricks? It sounded impossible&amp;hellip; until we found Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP is a form of hypnosis beloved by everyone from sex cults to the U.S. military to fortune 500 companies&amp;ndash;yet almost no one knows it exists.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Long before she co-founded NXIVM, hypnotist Nancy Salzman encountered NLP as a radical method for reprogramming the mind. Her story leads us to its inventor, Richard Bandler, a volatile, self-made guru. As we dig into how it took hold in so many places, we face an unsettling possibility: NLP might actually work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener"&gt;omnystudio.com/listener&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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New from Kaleidoscope: Mind Games - Episode 1. The Guru's Guru.

FEB 25, 202642 MIN
America's Crime Lab

New from Kaleidoscope: Mind Games - Episode 1. The Guru's Guru.

FEB 25, 202642 MIN

Description

What if someone told you that you could skip years of therapy with a few mental tricks? It sounded impossible… until we found Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP is a form of hypnosis beloved by everyone from sex cults to the U.S. military to fortune 500 companies–yet almost no one knows it exists.  Long before she co-founded NXIVM, hypnotist Nancy Salzman encountered NLP as a radical method for reprogramming the mind. Her story leads us to its inventor, Richard Bandler, a volatile, self-made guru. As we dig into how it took hold in so many places, we face an unsettling possibility: NLP might actually work.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.