I had a long talk last week with an old and dear friend. A successful business owner with a wonderful family. Things were as they always were in talking about life's ups and downs, until politics arose. It was like a switch had been thrown. This is someone who has been for the most part apolitical all his life, yet he was slamming me in a quite forceful manner. This is a friend I have known for 25 years, and I have never seen him behave this way.
Then he started off on religions. Mind you this is a former church deacon. "All the religions are manmade constructs and false" in one breath, then saying we should understand Islam better in the next. And he was getting heated about it (and I was not stoking the flames). To put it in the modern vernacular, he was 'getting in my face'
Almost as if he was following the exhortation from Obama for his supporters to 'get in people's faces'
And then the discussion went on to something else and the animosity evaporated. Almost as if a switch was turned off.
A couple of folks have commented that the whole NLP theory is tin foil or reaching. To them I would simply say read the article. Yes it is long, but if you only go through the first 20 pages, understand some of the basic concepts and see some of the documented incidents of Obama using precisely those concepts, you may view this phenomenon as something which can be understood and explained.
Worth the read.
http://www.internet-grocer.net/hypnosis.pdf
How do you undo the programming? Somebody with NLP expertise has to deprogram the victims?