I don't agree with your assessment. However, having read of your association with Milton Erickson, I can understand how you see a demon behind every tree. That august fellow was a master of deception, of sneaky manipulation of people's minds. I swear he trained Hitlerly, B.Boxer and other disgusting liberal political creeps who use those sweet girlish voices to induce lulls in logical awareness. Erickson set off all my bells and whistles from the first time I read him and listened to his tapes.
I do believe that intuitive lucid viewing is part of natural human abilities that can be developed in a perfectly safe and logical ways. The future is all around us, just as the past is. It's a question of how we perceive time. We in the civilized world see time as linear, others see/saw it in a different way.
Perhaps so.
Have tended to find, though, that where there MIGHT be a demonic explanation or involvement . . . wariness is usually wise.
About Milton Erickson . . . Have had mixed feelings . . . but have certainly been wary.
There were cases where a mother would bring a 6 or so year old boy by for treatment and the first time the boy entered the room, Milton would tell the parent to get him out of the building and never bring him back. I've always assumed that Milton knew some level of the demonic when he sensed it, saw it.
Certainly he was a hyper effective 'manipulator.' He evidently did it always in behalf of the patient's good. I do'nt believe he'd use his skills to teach Shrillery et all anything. He had too much horse sense and probably would have detected the evil associated with them. Of course if he was also in cahoots with evil . . . however masquerading as good . . . Then about those associations, what would I know!
He was certainly a fascinating character.
I just could never get that deep into NLP. Toooooo much focused work. I prefer to fly intuitively and prayerfully, trusting Holy Spirit to guide me as I go.
I don't know 100% for certain in 100% of the cases that RV would be associated with the demonic. And, you could be right about it being an inherent capacity. I just don't think it is. I suspect much more the former explanation. Not sure why all.
THX.