What are you reading right now?

[Curtisp]

Playboy..does that count? I really like the articles.

[sgreger1]

I just got my latest order of books from Amazon, three books on Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Ericksonian psychotherapy. Boring stuff to anyone not interested in those subjects, but brain candy for me.

Neuro linguistic programming is intiresting. My mom had a book on it that i read part of once. But what is ericksonian psychotherapy?

[PipenSnus]

Neuro linguistic programming is intiresting. My mom had a book on it that i read part of once. But what is ericksonian psychotherapy?

Ericksonian psychotherapy was one of the forerunners of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). It is a group of techniques developed by Milton H. Erickson, a psychiatrist and hypnotherapist who revolutionized clinical hypnosis. Without going into great detail, Erickson's basic premise was that the original model of hypnosis was all wrong. Trance is not something that a hypnotist imposes on a patient. Trance is a natural state of consciousness. We all move in and out of trance states all the time. Some examples of trance would be when you're really engrossed with a task, or fascinated by a movie, or even when you're suddenly startled. All of those are different types of trance states (and there are others) that can be used by a therapist to help a client make positive life changes.

[Randall]

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[sgreger1]

Wow that is super intiresting, I had never thought of it in that manner before. This is a good observation though and I must agree with him, life is a series of trances, from dreams to when your making love to when your playing a videogame or smoking mary j. All humans seem to seek out a trance of their liking for entertainment and other purposes, which is why rarely will you find someone sitting quietly in the woods by himself (which in itself would be another type of trance if you think about it.)



I'm taking a break from my normal "no reading fiction" policy to indulge in Isaac Asimov's "The End Of Eternity". Really cool book, especially when you conisder when it was written. It always amazes me how people in the 40's etc could even imagine what a world with computers or robots would be like.

[bill77.017]

Reading H.p. lovecraft at the moment. Nearly finished all his stories. Scary stuff!!!

[bipolarbear1968]

Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861

[danielan]

Reading H.p. lovecraft at the moment. Nearly finished all his stories. Scary stuff!!!

Me too...

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27083

About 2/3 of the way done.

He's really an eldritch author

[Jimbob_Rebel]

The Road to Serfdom ~ F.A. Hayek

[skyline142]

Havent read a book in many many many years. But I decided to pick up 'DMT: The Spirit Molecule'. Very interesting so far.

[PipenSnus]

Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861

I read Lincoln by Gore Vidal not long ago. It's a fictional account of Lincoln's presidency, but carefully derived from historical documents. Fascinating book. Really made the important figures of that era come alive.

[bipolarbear1968]

I've heard of Gore Vidal's version, although I would be interested in reading that.

Speaking of fictions and Lincoln-


I'm kinda interested in this. I believe it's mostly pictures.

[shikitohno]

Reading Ulysses, by James Joyce at the moment. Entertaining enough, but some parts are rather incoherent. I gather they're supposed to be though, so I still don't find the book too bad.

[PipenSnus]

If you think Ulysses is incoherent, don't go anywhere near Finnegans Wake. The whole novel is one long dream sequence, entirely stream of consciousness, and loaded with multilingual puns.

[deadohsky]

Finished The Stand not too long ago and now onto The Dark Tower series. Just about done with The Gunslinger.