{ "title": "The Nested Hall — Craft Catalog", "version": "2026-08-20", "howToUse": [ "This file is the whole labeled catalog. Copy a skeleton. Fill the brackets with their life. Keep the structure.", "Pick a door: Bandler (fast, blunt, named machines, closures out of order, one thread unexplained) or Erickson (slow, sensory, permission, wait, no moral).", "Do not mix the doors by accident.", "Commands are present tense, 2–6 words, verb first, replacement behaviors not absences. Not 'stop reaching.' Sit on your hands.", "Erickson marks at the clause seam. Bandler marks every 2–8 words.", "For each nested loop, know the job, the timing, the opening, and whether you will close it.", "Leave one thread unexplained." ], "maps": [ { "id": "erickson-rossi-five", "who": "erickson", "name": "Erickson / Rossi — Five-Stage Microdynamics", "formula": "1 Fixation of attention → 2 Depotentiating conscious sets → 3 Unconscious search → 4 Unconscious process → 5 Hypnotic response (ratify).", "does": "THE formula for formulating an Ericksonian trance. Every other Erickson move is a way of doing one of these five." }, { "id": "bandler-grinder-spine", "who": "bandler", "name": "Bandler / Grinder — Trance-formations Spine", "formula": "Pace current experience → distract / overload / interrupt the sequential mind → analog-mark present-tense verbs every 2–8 words → ratify → future-pace a real-life cue.", "does": "THE formula for formulating a Bandler trance. He talks faster than notes. The body takes the verbs." } ], "howToWriteATrance": [ "Pick the door (Bandler or Erickson).", "Pick the job of the trance (what should be true on their Tuesday when you stop talking).", "Pick one master map.", "Copy one full skeleton from tranceFormulas (stage: full).", "Fill brackets with their images and their verbs. Not ours.", "Ratify a real body response. Future-pace a cue that will actually happen.", "Leave one thread unexplained, or return to the first sensory place. Do not lecture." ], "whoLabels": { "bandler": "Bandler", "erickson": "Erickson", "both": "Both" }, "stages": [ { "id": "map", "label": "Master map", "tell": "The whole architecture. Everything else is a piece of this." }, { "id": "full", "label": "Full trance — copy and fill", "tell": "A complete session skeleton. Replace the brackets. Keep the structure." }, { "id": "fixate", "label": "Fix attention", "tell": "Give the conscious one simple job: look, listen, feel, remember. Attention has to land somewhere." }, { "id": "depotentiate", "label": "Depotentiate the set", "tell": "Make the critic busy, dizzy, or unemployed so it stops running the meeting." }, { "id": "search", "label": "Unconscious search", "tell": "Send the mind inward to find something. Searching is already trance." }, { "id": "process", "label": "Unconscious process / response", "tell": "The response that ratifies: a swallow, a heaviness, a yes they did not decide." }, { "id": "deepen", "label": "Deepen", "tell": "In and out, down and down, story inside story. Each return is faster." }, { "id": "work", "label": "The work inside trance", "tell": "Once they are in, this is how you put the new thing in without yanking them out." }, { "id": "return", "label": "Return / keep it running", "tell": "Bring them back so the work can travel. Or leave a thread running." } ], "families": [ { "id": "language", "label": "Language", "does": "What the sentence does. Milton Model. Marks, binds in grammar, ambiguity." }, { "id": "structure", "label": "Structure", "does": "How the session is built. Nests, quotes, unclosed threads, spatial voices." }, { "id": "state", "label": "State", "does": "What the body is running. Anchors, chains, submodalities, time." }, { "id": "bind", "label": "Binds", "does": "Choices that all do the work. Conscious–unconscious. Covering all classes." }, { "id": "metaphor", "label": "Metaphor", "does": "Stories that are the work. Isomorphism, seeding, dual-level, John." }, { "id": "induction", "label": "Induction", "does": "How the set changes. Utilization, confusion, pause, naturalistic, shock." }, { "id": "install", "label": "Install", "does": "How the new thing stays. DHE, future pace, posthypnotic, open-ended, replacement verbs." }, { "id": "reframe", "label": "Reframe", "does": "How meaning moves. Content, context, Sleight of Mouth, the credentialled fool." } ], "loopJobs": [ { "id": "recreate", "label": "Recreate", "tell": "Run the scene until the new response is automatic — not understood, automatic." }, { "id": "design", "label": "Design", "tell": "Build a response that was not there. Construction, not excavation." }, { "id": "imprint", "label": "Imprint", "tell": "Leave a machine running so it fires later without the operator." }, { "id": "reorganize", "label": "Reorganize", "tell": "Keep the parts. Change the order (the gap, the route, the sequence)." }, { "id": "reframe", "label": "Reframe", "tell": "Keep the facts. Change what they mean, or where they belong." }, { "id": "install", "label": "Install", "tell": "Put a specific behavior in, as verbs, in the same slot as the old one." }, { "id": "open", "label": "Leave open", "tell": "Do not finish it. An unfinished thread keeps working after the room is empty." } ], "tranceFormulas": [ { "id": "rossi-five", "name": "Erickson / Rossi — Five-Stage Microdynamics", "who": "erickson", "stage": "map", "does": "THE formula for formulating an Ericksonian trance. Every other Erickson move is a way of doing one of these five stages.", "formula": "1 Fixation of attention → 2 Depotentiating conscious sets → 3 Unconscious search → 4 Unconscious process → 5 Hypnotic response.", "slots": [ "what they look at / listen to / feel", "how the critic is softened", "the inner question", "the process you don't manage", "the response you ratify" ], "steps": [ "Fix attention on something present: sensation, a story, a memory, your voice, a spot on the wall.", "Depotentiate the conscious set: confusion, not-knowing, humor, a story, 'you don't have to'.", "Start an unconscious search: I wonder, that feeling, which hand, when will you notice.", "Leave room for unconscious process. Wait. Do not fill.", "Ratify whatever response arrives (swallow, heaviness, stillness, a tear, a breath). Name it. That's right." ], "skeleton": "[FIXATE] You can [see/hear/feel] [present thing].\n[DEPOTENTIATE] And you don't have to [know / try / make it happen].\n[SEARCH] I wonder [inner question they will answer by going in].\n[PROCESS] [silence, keep describing the scene]\n[RESPONSE] That's right. [name what just happened]. You didn't have to make that happen.", "tell": "If you skip a stage the trance is thin. If you only do stage 1 you have attention, not trance. If you skip ratification they will later say nothing happened.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Master map" }, { "id": "bandler-map", "name": "Bandler / Grinder — Trance-formations Spine", "who": "bandler", "stage": "map", "does": "THE formula for formulating a Bandler trance. Pace what is, overload the sequential mind, mark the verbs, future-pace.", "formula": "Pace current experience → distract / overload / interrupt the dominant (sequential) process → analog-mark suggestions → ratify → future-pace.", "slots": [ "3 undeniable nows", "the overload or interrupt", "commands every 2–8 words", "a test", "a real-life cue" ], "steps": [ "Pace: three things that are already true (body, sound, time).", "Distract the sequential mind: nested story, stacked quotes, too-fast talk, a joke, a handshake that does not complete.", "While it is busy, analog-mark 2–6 word present-tense commands every 2–8 words.", "Ratify a body response. Claim the machine is in.", "Future-pace one cue that will actually happen in their life." ], "skeleton": "You're [body]. You can hear [sound]. [time truism].\n[Story / joke / interrupt that is too much to sequentialize]\n**[command]** … **[command]** … **[command]**\nThat's it. It's in.\nWhen you next [real cue], [the new response], and it will seem natural.", "tell": "Bandler does not wait for permission to be in trance. He talks faster than notes. The notes are the critic. The body takes the verbs.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Master map" }, { "id": "erickson-script", "name": "Erickson Session — Copy This Script Shape", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "A complete Ericksonian trance you can rebuild with anyone’s images. Slow. Sensory. No moral.", "formula": "Their landscape → pace now → seed one image → interspersal at seams → one confusion+pause → isomorphic tale or John → implied directive → ratify → harvest seed → wait → return to the first sensory place.", "slots": [ "their place (not water if they hate water)", "seed image", "marked seam-words", "one paradox", "a character who is them and is not", "inevitable cue", "return place" ], "steps": [ "Open in a sensory place taken from their life.", "Pace what is already true until it cannot be denied.", "Seed one image in one sentence. Do not explain it.", "Keep describing. At clause seams, mark relax / down / now / easy / that's right.", "One confusion. Pause longer than is polite. One simple suggestion.", "A short tale or My-Friend-John whose plot is their change.", "When [inevitable], [desired]. Silence.", "Name a response. Return to the first place. Harvest the seed. Stop. No lecture." ], "skeleton": "The [their place] is [sensory]. You can feel [undeniable], hear [undeniable].\nAmong that, [SEED IMAGE], and you never thought much about it.\nAs [ordinary continuation], you can **settle**, **go down**, that's right.\n[Paradox]. [pause]\n**[simple suggestion]**\nI knew a [person] who [their problem in other clothes]. What they did was [new behavior as plot].\nWhen the next [breath / sound / inevitable] happens, [desired change].\nThat's right. [SEED IMAGE] again — [what it has been doing].\nThe [first place] is still [here]. [silence]", "tell": "Do not use our pond. Use their kitchen, their shift, their actual dog. Keep this skeleton. Change every noun.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "bandler-script", "name": "Bandler Session — Copy This Script Shape", "who": "bandler", "stage": "full", "does": "A complete Bandler trance: nests, quotes, analog-marked verbs, a laugh, a named machine, one unexplained image.", "formula": "Refuse biography → open 3 loops → quote-stack a command → mark verbs every 2–8 words → joke+command → name the machine → close out of order → leave one image → future cue.", "slots": [ "machine name", "story A B C", "innermost speaker", "replacement verbs", "one joke", "unexplained image", "real-life cue" ], "steps": [ "I do not care about your childhood. I build machines. This one is [NAME].", "Open story A. Before it ends, B. Before that ends, C.", "Innermost mouth says the command.", "At the bottom, **verbs** every 2–8 words. Replacement behaviors, not absences.", "A real joke. As they laugh, **command**.", "Name the machine. Claim it is in.", "Close C or B first, not in open-order. Leave one image unexplained.", "When you next [cue], [machine runs]." ], "skeleton": "I don't care about your childhood. This machine is [NAME]: [one line].\n[STORY A]…\nBefore that finished, [STORY B]…\nWhich reminds me, [STORY C]. [Speaker] told me [other] used to say \"**[command]**.\"\n**[verb]** … **[verb]** … **[verb]**\n[Punchline]\n**[command]**\n[Tag that keeps it a joke]\nAnd that is [NAME]. It's in.\nAnyway, [close B or C first]. [A last, or still open]\n[ONE IMAGE, never explained]\nWhen you next [real cue], [NAME] runs.", "tell": "Fill brackets with their Tuesday. Keep the cadence. If you explain the last image you killed it.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "five-four", "name": "5-4-3-2-1 Sensory Overload", "who": "bandler", "stage": "fixate", "does": "Bandler/Grinder. Occupies working memory with sensory count until sequential tracking gives up and the next suggestion is relief.", "formula": "5 things you see, 5 you hear, 5 you feel. Then 4-4-4. Then 3-3-3. Then 2. Then 1. Then the lead.", "slots": [ "present see/hear/feel items", "the lead at the bottom" ], "steps": [ "Name five visible, five audible, five felt — all true now.", "Four of each, a little slower.", "Three. Two. One.", "And you can [lead]." ], "skeleton": "You can see [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].\nHear [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].\nFeel [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].\nAnd four: [see] [hear] [feel] …\nThree… two… one…\nand you can **[lead]**.", "tell": "Must be true. If you invent a sound they will catch you. This is pacing that becomes overload by counting.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "eye-fix", "name": "Eye Fixation", "who": "both", "stage": "fixate", "does": "Give the eyes one job. When they tire, that tiredness is the induction.", "formula": "Pick a spot. Look there. As the eyes [truism of strain], the rest of you can [lead].", "slots": [ "spot", "eye truisms", "lead when they blink or blur" ], "steps": [ "A spot slightly above eye-line.", "Pace: looking, blinking, watering, blurring — whatever happens.", "When the eyes want to close, that can be the way." ], "skeleton": "You can look at [spot], and keep looking.\nAnd as the eyes [blink / blur / water], you don't have to make them close,\nand when they want to, they can, and you can **[lead]**.", "tell": "Erickson uses whatever the eyes already do. Bandler will tell them to stare until the pictures get interesting.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "breath-match", "name": "Match Breath, Then Slow", "who": "both", "stage": "fixate", "does": "Join their breathing. After three matched breaths, lengthen the exhale by a little. They follow.", "formula": "Match rate 3× → slightly longer exhale → 'and that breath can go a little further down.'", "slots": [ "their rate", "the slightly slower lead" ], "steps": [ "Watch the chest or shoulders. Speak on their exhale.", "Three cycles at their speed.", "Fourth cycle a fraction slower. Lead: and the next one can go down." ], "skeleton": "[speak on their exhale] That's right.\n[match, match, match]\nAnd this next breath can go a little further **down**.", "tell": "If you lead before you match, you are conducting. If you match first, you are weather.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "everyday-trance", "name": "Common Everyday Trance", "who": "erickson", "stage": "fixate", "does": "Uses a trance they already know (highway, book, dishes, waiting room) so you are not installing a special state. You are naming one they have.", "formula": "You already know what it is like to be absorbed in [ordinary]. This can be like that.", "slots": [ "their ordinary absorption", "this = that" ], "steps": [ "Ask or guess an ordinary absorption of theirs.", "Describe it until they are in the memory of it.", "And this can be that." ], "skeleton": "You already know the state of being absorbed in [driving / reading / waiting / a song],\nthe way the [miles / pages / minutes] go by and something else is doing the rest,\nand this can be like that.", "tell": "You do not need a velvet voice. You need their highway.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "remember-a-time", "name": "Can You Remember a Time… (Revivification)", "who": "both", "stage": "fixate", "does": "Accesses a previous trance or resource state by asking the mind to find it. The search is the induction.", "formula": "Can you remember a time when you [absorbed / safe / learned easily / forgot the room]. Be there. See what you saw.", "slots": [ "the past state", "V-A-K of being there", "and you can have that here" ], "steps": [ "Ask for a specific past absorption.", "Present tense: what do you see, hear, feel.", "And that can be here, now." ], "skeleton": "Can you remember a time when you were so [absorbed] that the room went away.\nBe there. What do you see. What do you hear. Where in the body is that.\nAnd you can have that **here**.", "tell": "If they remember trance from last week, use that. Previous trance is the shortest induction.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "access-previous", "name": "Access Previous Trance", "who": "both", "stage": "full", "does": "If they have been in trance with you (or anyone) before, you do not start from zero. You recall the state.", "formula": "The last time, when [sensory of that trance], and you can go back there now, even more easily.", "slots": [ "sensory of last time", "permission that this time is easier" ], "steps": [ "Name one sensory from the previous trance (the log, the laugh, the heaviness).", "That's right. You know this place.", "And you can go there now, faster." ], "skeleton": "You remember [sensory from last time]. That's right.\nYou know this place. You have been here before.\nAnd you can **go there now**, even more easily.", "tell": "Fractionation across sessions. Each time the road is shorter.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "name-fix", "name": "Their Name as Fixation", "who": "erickson", "stage": "fixate", "does": "A well-timed use of their name orients attention to you, then you immediately lead.", "formula": "[Name]. [pause]. And you can…", "slots": [ "name", "pause", "lead" ], "steps": [ "Say the name as if beginning a sentence that matters.", "Pause a beat.", "Lead." ], "skeleton": "[Name].\nAnd you can **[lead]**.", "tell": "Do not pepper the name. Once, at the turn. Surprise without threat.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "seven-plus-minus", "name": "7±2 Overload", "who": "bandler", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "Working memory holds about seven chunks. Give it nine. It delegates.", "formula": "More channels than they can sequentialize: story + commands + aside + joke + a dog, under one repeating payload.", "slots": [ "extra channels", "one payload underneath" ], "steps": [ "Start a story.", "Add a second story before the first is trackable.", "Add asides, a joke, marked commands.", "Do not give a map." ], "skeleton": "[Story A] and meanwhile [story B], which is also [aside],\nand **[command]**, and [joke], and **[command]**,\nand you don't have to keep track.", "tell": "The notes cannot keep up. That is the technique. The body can.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "tense-confusion", "name": "Confusion of Tenses", "who": "erickson", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "Was, is, will be, had been, will have been — mixed until 'when' is no longer a job the critic can do.", "formula": "What was is what will have been, and you can notice now what you already will have learned then.", "slots": [ "past", "present", "future", "all in one sentence" ], "steps": [ "Start in past.", "Without warning, present.", "Then a future perfect that treats the change as already done." ], "skeleton": "You remember when you [past],\nand you are [present],\nand you will have already [future perfect of the change]\nbefore you even [present trivial].", "tell": "The critic tries to sort the clocks. While it sorts, the future perfect has already filed.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "double-task", "name": "Double Task (Count and Listen)", "who": "both", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "Gives the sequential mind a counting job so the rest can hear the suggestions.", "formula": "Count backwards from 100 by 3s, and while that part does that, the rest of you can [lead].", "slots": [ "counting or other sequential job", "the lead for the rest" ], "steps": [ "Assign a slightly hard count (100 by 3s, or the alphabet backwards).", "They will lose their place. That's right.", "And the rest of you…" ], "skeleton": "You can count back from 100 by threes, out loud or in, and it's all right to lose your place,\nand while that part is busy, the rest of you can **[lead]**.", "tell": "Losing the count is the yes-signal. Ratify the loss. Do not help them count.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "dual-induction", "name": "Dual Induction / Two Messages", "who": "bandler", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "Two voices or two overlapping sentences so the sequential mind cannot follow both. It picks one. The other still ran.", "formula": "Voice A tells a story. Voice B marks commands. Or one mouth overlaps two sentences.", "slots": [ "story channel", "command channel" ], "steps": [ "Story in one stream.", "Commands in another (second person, other location, overlap).", "Do not synchronize on purpose." ], "skeleton": "[A] There was a man who [story]…\n[B, overlapping] **relax** … **go down** … **that's right**\n[A continues as if alone]", "tell": "On a page: **bold** inside ordinary. In a room: two operators, or one operator who changes chair.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "try-bind", "name": "The Try-Bind", "who": "erickson", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "Try presupposes difficulty and failure. 'Try to keep your eyes open' installs closing.", "formula": "Try to [opposite of what you want]. See if you can [opposite].", "slots": [ "the opposite they will fail", "the thing that then happens" ], "steps": [ "Give the rebel something to try that is the opposite of the work.", "Wait for the failure of the try.", "Ratify: that's right." ], "skeleton": "Try to keep your eyes open just a little longer.\nSee if you can stay exactly as alert as you are.\nThat's right. And you can **[lead]**.", "tell": "Use on the person who will not be led. The try is the toy. The failure of the try is the trance.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "now-after-confusion", "name": "Confusion → Now", "who": "both", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "After overload, the word now — analog-marked — is a sudden simple thing. The mind takes it as a place to land.", "formula": "[overload]. [pause]. **Now.**", "slots": [ "the scramble", "the marked now", "the simple suggestion that follows" ], "steps": [ "Scramble.", "Stop.", "Now. Then one simple verb." ], "skeleton": "[Paradox / too many numbers / reversal].\n[silence]\n**Now.**\n**[simple verb].**", "tell": "Now is a location. After confusion it is the only location left.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "i-wouldnt-until", "name": "I Wouldn't Tell You to X Until Y", "who": "bandler", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "A Bandler classic. The surface is caution. The payload is X, and Y is already happening or about to.", "formula": "I wouldn't tell you to [command] until [something already true].", "slots": [ "the command", "the until-clause that is already so" ], "steps": [ "I wouldn't tell you to…", "The command, analog-marked.", "Until [breath / sitting / hearing this]." ], "skeleton": "I wouldn't tell you to **[command]** until you [are sitting / have taken that breath / heard this sentence].", "tell": "The critic hears the wouldn't. The body hears the command plus a time that has already arrived.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "person-can-you", "name": "A Person Can… I Don't Know If You Can…", "who": "both", "stage": "search", "does": "Displaces the ability onto 'a person,' then wonders whether you can — which starts the search that performs it.", "formula": "A person can [X]. I don't know if you can [X] yet. I wonder how soon you will notice you already are.", "slots": [ "the ability", "the you that will volunteer" ], "steps": [ "State the ability as something people do.", "I don't know if you can.", "I wonder when." ], "skeleton": "A person can [ability].\nI don't know if you can **[ability]** yet.\nI wonder how soon you will notice you already are.", "tell": "The 'I don't know' is honest and is also a search instruction. Don't wink.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Unconscious search" }, { "id": "before-you-x", "name": "Before You X, You Can Y (Time Bind)", "who": "erickson", "stage": "search", "does": "Presupposes X will happen. The only question is what to do first. Y is often the induction.", "formula": "Before you [desired trance or change], you can [small present action].", "slots": [ "the presupposed X", "the Y that is the induction" ], "steps": [ "Name the change as a when, not an if, using before.", "Give a small Y (breathe, sit, hear).", "X is no longer up for debate." ], "skeleton": "Before you **[go all the way down / have that change]**,\nyou can [take a breath / let the chair hold you / hear this].", "tell": "Before is a thief. It steals the whether.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Unconscious search" }, { "id": "transderivational", "name": "Transderivational Search", "who": "bandler", "stage": "search", "does": "Vague words (that feeling, this experience, those thoughts) send the person in to find their own referent. The inward search is trance.", "formula": "You know, that feeling… this experience of… those thoughts that…", "slots": [ "a vague noun", "no specification", "wait" ], "steps": [ "Use that / this / those + a nominalization.", "Do not specify whose or which.", "Wait while they search." ], "skeleton": "You know, that feeling,\nthe one that is already here,\nand this experience of **[going down / letting it work]**.", "tell": "If you specify, they can argue the specification. If you don't, they supply a referent from their life, which is the only one that works.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Unconscious search" }, { "id": "lesser-included", "name": "Lesser Included Structure", "who": "bandler", "stage": "search", "does": "A command hidden as a grammatical subset of a larger innocent sentence.", "formula": "I don't know if you can [COMMAND] as easily as you think you can.", "slots": [ "innocent frame", "included command" ], "steps": [ "Write a long sentence.", "Inside it, a 2–6 word command that could stand alone.", "Mark only the included command." ], "skeleton": "I don't know whether you can **relax now** as completely as that part of you already knows how to.", "tell": "The sentence is polite. The subset is an order. Analog-mark the subset.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Unconscious search" }, { "id": "which-hand", "name": "Which Hand / Which Side (Ideomotor Search)", "who": "erickson", "stage": "search", "does": "A question the body answers. The answer is a hypnotic response.", "formula": "I wonder which [hand / side / finger] will [lift / warm / twitch] first.", "slots": [ "body part", "small involuntary" ], "steps": [ "Wonder which.", "Wait. Do not pick for them.", "Ratify whatever moves." ], "skeleton": "I wonder which hand will feel a little lighter first,\nor warmer, or just different,\nand you don't have to make it happen.", "tell": "Any difference is a yes. Name it. That naming is ratification.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Unconscious search" }, { "id": "thats-right-stack", "name": "That's Right — Stacking Ratification", "who": "erickson", "stage": "process", "does": "Names each micro-response so the person agrees they are already in. Three that's-rights is a yes-set made of their own body.", "formula": "That's right. That's it. Notice that. You didn't have to make that happen.", "slots": [ "what just occurred", "the name that makes it trance" ], "steps": [ "Watch for swallow, blink, drop of the chest, stillness.", "That's right.", "Do not overdo. Three is plenty. Twelve is a salesman." ], "skeleton": "That's right.\n[next micro-response] That's it.\nYou didn't have to make that happen.", "tell": "If you skip this they will leave saying nothing happened. The memory of trance is partly your naming of it.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Unconscious process / response" }, { "id": "levitation-recipe", "name": "Ideomotor Levitation / Catalepsy", "who": "erickson", "stage": "process", "does": "A body phenomenon that ratifies trance. Do not demand Broadway. A finger is enough.", "formula": "Suggest a small involuntary → wait → ratify → use as the yes-signal for going further.", "slots": [ "small involuntary", "wait", "ratify", "the further" ], "steps": [ "One of those hands can feel a little light, or heavy. I don't know which.", "Wait longer than is polite.", "That's right. And it can stay just like that.", "And you can go down." ], "skeleton": "One hand or the other can notice a difference — lighter, heavier, warmer —\nand you don't know which, and you don't have to make it.\n[wait]\nThat's right. That can stay just like that.\nAnd you can **go down**.", "tell": "If nothing moves, ratify the stillness. Stillness is a response. Demanding a lift is amateur.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Unconscious process / response" }, { "id": "magnetic-hands", "name": "Magnetic Hands", "who": "both", "stage": "process", "does": "Two hands, a suggested pull or push. The movement is theirs, hence convincing.", "formula": "Hands facing. Imagine a magnet / a balloon / a weight. Wait. Use the movement.", "slots": [ "the imagined force", "the wait", "the use" ], "steps": [ "Palms facing, a foot apart.", "A magnet, or a heavy book, or a helium balloon. Their channel.", "When they move, that's right. And that same part can [lead]." ], "skeleton": "Hands facing. And you can imagine [magnet / balloon / book].\nYou don't have to make them move.\n[wait]\nThat's right. And that same part of you can **[lead]**.", "tell": "Visual people get pictures of magnets. Kinesthetic people get weight. Match the force to the channel.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Unconscious process / response" }, { "id": "interspersal-trance", "name": "Interspersal as the Induction", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "Erickson’s named contribution, used as the entire trance: ordinary description with marked words at the seams.", "formula": "Sensory scene. At every clause seam, a marked relax/down/now/easy. Never announce them.", "slots": [ "ordinary scene from their life", "seam-words" ], "steps": [ "Write a slow paragraph of a real place.", "Every second or third clause, a marked word.", "Keep describing after each mark as if nothing happened." ], "skeleton": "The [place] is [sensory], and you can **settle**,\nwhile [ordinary detail], **that's right**,\nand as [continuation] you can **go down**,\nand the [place] continues.", "tell": "The story is the induction. If you say 'now I will hypnotize you,' you have switched to a ritual and lost this door.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "countdown-deepen", "name": "Countdown / Drops as Deepener", "who": "both", "stage": "deepen", "does": "Each number or each drop is a step. Couple the count to a sensation that is already happening.", "formula": "With each [number / drop / breath / step] you can go further down.", "slots": [ "the countable already happening", "down" ], "steps": [ "Pick a count that exists (breath, dripping, footsteps).", "Each one, further.", "Do not rush the numbers. The body is the metronome." ], "skeleton": "With each [breath / drop / number],\nfurther **down**,\neasier,\nthat's right.", "tell": "Couple to something real. Invented metronomes feel like stage. Dripping on brass, breath, a clock they can actually hear.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Deepen" }, { "id": "fractionate-deepen", "name": "Fractionation Deepener", "who": "both", "stage": "deepen", "does": "In, slightly out, in deeper. Each re-entry teaches the road and shortens it.", "formula": "In → partial reorient → in again, faster / deeper. Repeat 2–4 times.", "slots": [ "in", "a partial out (eyes, a stretch, a sentence of here)", "in deeper" ], "steps": [ "Take them in.", "Bring them halfway back (eyes almost open, or 'you can hear the room').", "And you can go back, further.", "Repeat. The third entry is usually the one that holds." ], "skeleton": "[in]\nYou can hear this room, and that's all right,\nand you can **go back down**, even further than before.\n[repeat once or twice]", "tell": "Nested loops are this at story scale. Microphone handoffs are this at voice scale. Do not fully wake them unless you mean to.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Deepen" }, { "id": "nests-as-trance", "name": "Nested Stories as the Trance", "who": "both", "stage": "full", "does": "Opening unfinished stories IS the induction. The conscious tracks plot. That tracking is the fixation. The unfinishedness is the depotentiation.", "formula": "Open A (unfinished). Open B inside A. Open C. Payload. Close out of order (Bandler) or C-B-A (Erickson).", "slots": [ "tale A B C", "payload", "close order", "optional unclosed thread" ], "steps": [ "A landscape. Leave it.", "A character. Leave them.", "The change as plot.", "Marked verbs at the bottom.", "Bandler: close the middle first. Erickson: close inside-out. One of you leaves a thread." ], "skeleton": "[A — landscape]…\nNow [B — character]…\nAnd [C — the change as plot]…\n**[verbs]**\n[Bandler: close B, then A, leave C — or scramble]\n[Erickson: C finishes, B finishes, A finishes, no moral]", "tell": "You do not induce and then tell stories. The stories are the induction. If you announce trance first you have used the wrong door.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "conversational", "name": "Conversational Induction (No Ritual)", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "Trance in ordinary talk. Utilization of whatever they said last. No 'close your eyes.'", "formula": "They say X. You pace X. And that can be the way you Y. Continue as conversation.", "slots": [ "what they just said", "the and-link", "the use" ], "steps": [ "Use their last sentence.", "And that can be…", "A bind or an implied directive as if you were still chatting.", "Do not change your voice into a hypnotist. A slight drop is enough." ], "skeleton": "You [their words].\nAnd that can be the way you **[lead]**.\nWould you rather [A that does it] or [B that also does it].", "tell": "If they notice you 'started hypnosis,' you failed this door. You were supposed to still be talking.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "utilization-trance", "name": "Utilization Induction", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "The cough, the noise, the 'I can't be hypnotized,' the skepticism — all of it is the way in.", "formula": "Name what they brought. And that can be the way… Cover all remaining classes.", "slots": [ "what they brought", "the use", "the open class" ], "steps": [ "Name it without fighting it.", "And that can be…", "You may X, or Y, or something else, and any of those is this working." ], "skeleton": "You [resistance / noise / can't].\nAnd that can be the way you **[change]**.\nYou may [A], or [B], or it may happen in some other way that is yours.", "tell": "Fighting what they brought makes you an opponent. Using it makes you the room.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "interrupt-blitz", "name": "Interrupt Blitz (Bandler Instant)", "who": "bandler", "stage": "full", "does": "Cut an automatic sequence. In the hole, a simple command. Resume. Trance is the missing piece they accepted.", "formula": "Familiar sequence → cut → freeze a beat past comfort → **sleep / down / now** → resume ordinary.", "slots": [ "the automatic sequence", "the command in the freeze" ], "steps": [ "Handshake, name-exchange, joke, sip, a sentence.", "Halt before completion. Look at the hand, or stop mid-word.", "Command. Then continue as if the sequence always included this." ], "skeleton": "[Sequence begins]—\n[halt, one extra beat]\n**[sleep / down / now]**\n—and [resume, ordinary].", "tell": "Do not explain the freeze. Explanation fills the hole you needed.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "early-learning-trance", "name": "Early Learning Set as Full Induction", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "Returns the not-knowing in which they once learned to write or walk. That state can learn again. The memory is the trance.", "formula": "Remember learning [ordinary hard thing]… the letters that would not stay… and you did not know, and then you knew, and you can learn this the same way.", "slots": [ "childhood skill", "the confusion of not-knowing", "the knowing that arrived by itself", "this = that" ], "steps": [ "Pick a universal: letters, tying shoes, riding.", "The confusion. The trying. The not-knowing.", "And then it was there.", "And you can have this the same way, without knowing how." ], "skeleton": "You remember learning [letters / to walk / to ride],\nhow [it wouldn't stay / you fell / the confusion],\nand you didn't know how you would ever,\nand then you knew, and you didn't know how you knew.\nAnd you can learn this the same way.", "tell": "Do not interrogate their childhood. Borrow the learning state. That is enough past.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "john-trance", "name": "My-Friend-John as the Trance", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "The whole induction is a third person going into trance. Identification does the rest.", "formula": "I had a client who sat there like you are sitting, and what they noticed was… and then they…", "slots": [ "displaced person", "their present state on that person", "what that person did (the trance and the change)" ], "steps": [ "A person who is not them, sitting as they sit.", "Describe that person's going-in in sensory detail.", "That person's change as plot.", "Stop. No 'and you too.'" ], "skeleton": "I knew a [person] who sat [as they are sitting],\nand they noticed [sensation],\nand then they [went in / changed],\nand they didn't have to know how.\n[stop]", "tell": "They can reject advice. They cannot as easily reject a story that happened to John. You stop so identification can finish the sentence.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "yes-set-trance", "name": "Yes-Set Truisms as the Whole Door", "who": "both", "stage": "full", "does": "Four things they will not deny. The fifth is the trance, filed as the next truism.", "formula": "Body truism. Breath truism. History truism. When/as [inevitable], [trance or change].", "slots": [ "3 undeniable", "1 when-clause" ], "steps": [ "You are sitting.", "Breath is happening.", "You have already [their fact].", "When the next breath leaves, you can go down.", "Wait." ], "skeleton": "You are [body].\n[Breath / time] is already happening.\nYou have already [their fact].\nWhen you [inevitable], you can **[lead]**.\n[silence]", "tell": "Erickson: slow, sensory. Bandler: fast, then a command in the fourth slot. Same chain.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "presupposition-chain", "name": "Presupposition Chain Induction", "who": "both", "stage": "full", "does": "Stack awareness, time, ordinal, and change-of-time verbs so trance is never the question.", "formula": "You may notice… as you continue… before you go all the way… another breath… already…", "slots": [ "notice/realize", "continue/already", "before/when", "another/first" ], "steps": [ "Awareness word (notice, realize, aware) — presupposes the thing noticed.", "Continue / already — presupposes it started.", "Before / when — presupposes it completes.", "Another — presupposes a first." ], "skeleton": "You may notice that you have already begun,\nand as you continue,\nbefore you go all the way **down**,\nanother breath can take you further.", "tell": "Do not ask if they will. Ask what they will notice as they continue. The trance is in the grammar.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "analog-only", "name": "Analog Mark Is the Induction", "who": "both", "stage": "full", "does": "Ordinary sentences. The only trance technology is the second channel on selected words. Voice drop, pause, gesture, location.", "formula": "Neutral story in channel 1. Command words in channel 2. No other ritual.", "slots": [ "innocent paragraph", "2–6 word marks" ], "steps": [ "Write a paragraph that could be read at a table.", "Choose 8–20 words to mark. Present tense verbs.", "Deliver with the mark. Do not announce the mark." ], "skeleton": "You can hear this, and you can **settle back**,\nand as the [ordinary] continues you can **let it happen**,\n**that's right**, and **go down**.", "tell": "Bandler marks hard, every 2–8 words. Erickson marks at the clause seam and keeps moving. Same machine. Different speed.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "quote-trance", "name": "Quote-Stack as Induction", "who": "bandler", "stage": "full", "does": "You never said go down. A man told you a teacher told a student. The innermost mouth is the hypnotist.", "formula": "X said Y said Z said: **command**.", "slots": [ "three speakers", "innermost command" ], "steps": [ "Speaker 1 is not you.", "They quote speaker 2.", "The command is in speaker 3's mouth, marked.", "Return to speaker 1 doing something ordinary." ], "skeleton": "[Speaker 1] told me that [speaker 2] used to say to [speaker 3],\n\"**[go down / sleep / relax now]**.\"\nAnd then [speaker 1] just [ordinary action].", "tell": "The nervous system does not care whose mouth. The critic does. Give the critic a citation.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "synesthesia-trance", "name": "Synesthesia Lead", "who": "bandler", "stage": "deepen", "does": "Cross the senses ('see how that feels,' 'hear that color') so the map-maker cannot sequentialize and the body answers.", "formula": "See how [sound] feels. Hear the [weight]. What color is that ease.", "slots": [ "sense A applied to sense B" ], "steps": [ "Take a sensation they have.", "Ask for it in another sense.", "The search is the deepen." ], "skeleton": "You can see how that **feels**,\nand hear the **weight** of it,\nand notice what color that ease is.", "tell": "This is Bandler’s 4-tuple overlap. Do not explain synesthesia. Ask it.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Deepen" }, { "id": "spatial-dissoc", "name": "Here / There Dissociation", "who": "both", "stage": "work", "does": "Puts the critic in one place and the work in another. The balcony can watch. The stage can change.", "formula": "You can watch that from here. There, that can [change]. Here, you can be comfortable.", "slots": [ "here (observer)", "there (the work)" ], "steps": [ "Here: the chair, the watching.", "There: the younger, the problem, the old movie.", "There does the work. Here stays." ], "skeleton": "You can watch that from **here**,\nand **there**, that can [change],\nand here you can be comfortable while it does.", "tell": "If they slide into there and the feeling floods, put them back here first. Then there can work.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "voice-goes", "name": "My Voice Will Go With You", "who": "erickson", "stage": "return", "does": "Posthypnotic of the operator. The work is not tied to the room.", "formula": "My voice will go with you. These learnings go with you. You will hear this when it is useful, in your own inner voice.", "slots": [ "what travels", "when it speaks later" ], "steps": [ "Toward the end, still in.", "The voice / the learnings / the ease goes with you.", "In your own voice, when it is useful." ], "skeleton": "And my voice will go with you,\nand these [learnings / this ease / this machine] go with you,\nand you will hear them in your own way, when it is useful.", "tell": "Do not make them dependent on your velvet. Transfer to their inner voice or you have built a client, not a change.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Return / keep it running" }, { "id": "amnesia-wrap", "name": "Amnesia Wrap", "who": "erickson", "stage": "return", "does": "Protects the work from the critic’s review. Do not say forget. Change the subject hard to something sensory and slightly funny.", "formula": "Finish the work. Interrupt. Vivid new subject. Reorient.", "slots": [ "the work to protect", "the interrupt", "the vivid new subject" ], "steps": [ "Do not summarize the work.", "A sideways sensory beat (a dog, a sound, a joke).", "Here-and-now. Eyes. Stretch." ], "skeleton": "[work ends, no recap]\n[sideways image, no moral]\nAnd you can be here, clear, bringing what you need, the work already running.", "tell": "'Forget this' is a spotlight. A dog walking off is an amnesia.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Return / keep it running" }, { "id": "reorient-formula", "name": "Reorientation Formula", "who": "both", "stage": "return", "does": "Brings them back so the work can travel. Not a snap. Not a hole you leave them in.", "formula": "In a moment you will be here, bringing what you need, eyes open, clear, already begun.", "slots": [ "the return cue", "what comes with them", "a here-and-now sensory" ], "steps": [ "In a moment, but not yet (optional).", "Count up, or drops lifting, or a joke and a stretch.", "Eyes open. Already begun. Permanently if that is true." ], "skeleton": "In a moment you will be here,\nbringing with you what you need,\neyes open, clear,\nthe [work] already running.\n[cue: 1… 2… 3… or a laugh, a stretch, a dog]", "tell": "Erickson: dripping on brass, each drop lifting. Bandler: a joke, a stretch, the dog walking off.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Return / keep it running" }, { "id": "posthypnotic-cue", "name": "Posthypnotic Cue Install", "who": "both", "stage": "work", "does": "Pairs a future real-life cue with a response so the trance keeps working without you.", "formula": "When [cue that will actually happen], you will [response], and it will seem natural / automatic / like you.", "slots": [ "real cue", "response", "natural" ], "steps": [ "Pick a cue that will fire this week (doorway, phone, urge, a person).", "Pair the new response.", "Seem natural. Not robotic." ], "skeleton": "When you next [real cue],\nyou will [new response],\nand it will seem natural.", "tell": "Vague cues do not fire. A Tuesday, a doorway, a phone in the hand. Run it once as a future pace if you are in Bandler’s door.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "future-pace-trance", "name": "Future Pace as Last Beat", "who": "bandler", "stage": "work", "does": "Run the new response in a vivid future scene now, so it is already a memory when the Tuesday arrives.", "formula": "See a specific future scene → step in → run the new behavior → notice it worked → back here.", "slots": [ "specific scene", "the new behavior", "evidence it worked" ], "steps": [ "A real upcoming moment. Not 'someday.'", "Step in. Present tense.", "The new verbs. Evidence.", "Back. That's in." ], "skeleton": "See [specific Tuesday, doorway, phone].\nStep in. You [new verbs].\nNotice [evidence it worked].\nBack here. That's in.", "tell": "Vague futures do not hold. If they cannot see a Tuesday, you do not have an install yet.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "pantomime", "name": "Pantomime / Nonverbal", "who": "erickson", "stage": "fixate", "does": "Erickson could induce with almost no words: a look at the hand, a slowing of breath, a gesture that the body copies.", "formula": "Do in your body the state you want. Pause. Let them copy. Then one word, or none.", "slots": [ "your body as the model", "the wait", "optional one word" ], "steps": [ "Slow your own breath. Drop your own shoulders.", "Look at their hand, not their face, if you want catalepsy.", "Wait. One word: that's right. Or none." ], "skeleton": "[slow your breath, drop your own shoulders]\n[look where you want their attention]\n[wait]\nThat's right.", "tell": "If your body is jazzed, your words will not hypnotize. The first instrument is you.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "february-man-trance", "name": "Pseudo-Orientation in Time", "who": "erickson", "stage": "work", "does": "Orients them in a future that has already solved it (or a past that received help), then brings the solution back. The critic cannot argue with a memory of a future.", "formula": "Go forward to a time when this is already handled. Look back. What did you do. Bring that back.", "slots": [ "future location", "the already-done", "the return" ], "steps": [ "A time when this is already handled.", "Look back at now from there.", "What did you do. Who did you become.", "Bring that back." ], "skeleton": "And you can go forward to a time when this is already handled.\nLook back. What did you do.\nBring that back here.", "tell": "Wrong tense for an argument. They are remembering a future, not promising one.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "time-distort-deepen", "name": "Time Distortion Deepener", "who": "both", "stage": "deepen", "does": "A minute can hold an hour of work. Or a day can keep happening until it is done.", "formula": "In the next minute you can have all the time you need. Clock time and this time are not the same.", "slots": [ "stretch or compress", "the work that needs that time" ], "steps": [ "Name clock time as one thing.", "This time as another.", "All the time you need, in the next minute." ], "skeleton": "Clock time can do what it does,\nand in this time, in the next minute,\nyou can have all the time you need to [work].", "tell": "Nested loops are a time distortion. Groundhog Day is a time distortion. Use it on purpose.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Deepen" }, { "id": "blender", "name": "The Blender (Commands as the Induction)", "who": "bandler", "stage": "full", "does": "No separate induction. The analog-marked verbs every 2–8 words ARE the trance. Story is only a carrier.", "formula": "Carrier sentence **verb** carrier **verb** carrier **verb**. Density is the technology.", "slots": [ "carrier", "present-tense 2–6 word commands at 2–8 word spacing" ], "steps": [ "Write the story you would tell anyway.", "Every 2–8 words, a command. Present tense. Verb first. Replacement, not absence.", "Mark them. Do not explain them." ], "skeleton": "You can **sit back** in that chair and **let the breath drop**\nwhile the [story] continues, **that's right**, and **go down**,\n**let it work**, **now**.", "tell": "If you can count more than eight words between marks, you are lecturing. If the commands are 'stop X,' you are spotlighting X. Give verbs they can do.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "cu-trance", "name": "Conscious–Unconscious as the Door", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "Two jobs. Both count. Listening is success. Drifting is success. The critic is employed. The rest is free.", "formula": "Your conscious mind can [listen / watch / note]. The rest of you can [go down / change / remember]. Both are all right.", "slots": [ "conscious job", "unconscious job" ], "steps": [ "Hire the critic.", "Hire the rest.", "Both are fine. You don't have to know how." ], "skeleton": "Your conscious mind can [listen to this story / watch the room / note the words],\nwhile the rest of you **[goes down / learns this / lets it work]**.\nYou don't have to know how. Both are all right.", "tell": "If they listen, good. If they drift, good. You named both as success. There is no way to fail the suggestion.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "cover-all-trance", "name": "Covering All Possibilities as Induction", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "Whatever they do is a yes. Trance cannot be refused because refusal was listed as a way it happens.", "formula": "You may X, or Y, or something else entirely, and that will be the way this works for you.", "slots": [ "class A", "class B", "open class" ], "steps": [ "Eyes closing is a way.", "Eyes open is a way.", "Or something else, in your own way." ], "skeleton": "You may [close your eyes], or [keep them open and go in anyway],\nor it may happen in some other way that is yours.\nAny of those is this working.", "tell": "Never leave a way to fail. Include 'or not yet' if you must.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "apposition-deepen", "name": "Apposition of Opposites as Deepener", "who": "erickson", "stage": "deepen", "does": "Heavy and light, down and up, remember and forget. The critic holds both. A third state appears.", "formula": "Pole A and pole B, together, unresolved.", "slots": [ "pole A", "pole B", "the third state" ], "steps": [ "Name both poles as true.", "Do not resolve.", "And you can [third]." ], "skeleton": "Heavy and light.\nDown and up.\nAnd you can **[settle in the middle of that]**.", "tell": "Do not pick a winner. The contradiction is the solvent.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Deepen" }, { "id": "seed-as-trance", "name": "Seed and Harvest as Session Shape", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "The session is a seed in minute one and a harvest at the end. Everything between is the wait that makes the harvest mean.", "formula": "One unexplained image, early. The entire trance. The image returns as the point. Still no lecture.", "slots": [ "seed image", "the work", "harvest line" ], "steps": [ "Minute one: one sentence of an image.", "Do the five stages.", "Return to the image. Let it speak one sentence.", "Stop." ], "skeleton": "Among the [scene], [IMAGE], and you never thought much about it.\n[entire trance]\n[IMAGE] again. [what it has been doing all along].\n[silence]", "tell": "The wait is the technique. If you explain the seed at the start, there is nothing to harvest.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "compound-conj", "name": "Compound Suggestion — Conjunction", "who": "erickson", "stage": "work", "does": "Easy accept AND useful accept. They travel together.", "formula": "Easy thing, and useful thing.", "slots": [ "easy", "useful" ], "steps": [ "Put the easy one first (you can hear the air, you are sitting).", "And.", "The useful one." ], "skeleton": "You can hear [easy], and you can **[useful]**.", "tell": "Always easy first. Useful first is a shove.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "compound-as", "name": "Compound Suggestion — Implied Causative", "who": "erickson", "stage": "work", "does": "As / while / during glues two things in time so the second feels like it belongs to the first.", "formula": "As you X, you Y. While A, B.", "slots": [ "undeniable or inevitable X", "desired Y" ], "steps": [ "X is happening or about to.", "As / while / during.", "Y." ], "skeleton": "As you [breathe out], you can **[go down]**.\nWhile [the story continues], **[that's right]**.", "tell": "The weakest logical link and the most useful. The body accepts simultaneity as cause.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "compound-because", "name": "Compound Suggestion — Causative", "who": "both", "stage": "work", "does": "Because / makes / causes. Sounds stronger. Use when they are already moving. Thin ice if they are not.", "formula": "Because you are X, you can Y. X makes Y.", "slots": [ "because-clause that is true", "Y" ], "steps": [ "A because that is actually true (you are sitting).", "Then Y." ], "skeleton": "Because you are sitting, you can **[go down]**.\nBecause DHE 2000 is the only way, **relax your shoulders**.", "tell": "Bandler will use because as a joke that still runs. Erickson uses as/while more than because.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "more-x-more-y", "name": "The More X, The More Y (Accelerator)", "who": "bandler", "stage": "deepen", "does": "Couples a process already happening to the one you want. The engine is running. You throw a belt over it.", "formula": "The more you [present process], the more you [desired process].", "slots": [ "current process", "desired process" ], "steps": [ "Name something already increasing (breath ease, heaviness, the story).", "The more that, the more the lead." ], "skeleton": "The more you [hear this / settle / wait],\nthe more you **[go down / let it work]**.", "tell": "Do not couple to something that isn't happening. That's a lie, and they will feel it.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Deepen" }, { "id": "permission-door", "name": "Permission Door (You Don't Have To Yet)", "who": "erickson", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "Offers rather than orders. Yet books the future. The fight leaves the room.", "formula": "You don't have to [desired] yet. You may. I wonder if. It's not necessary that.", "slots": [ "permission verb", "the action", "yet / now" ], "steps": [ "You don't have to.", "Yet.", "And you can." ], "skeleton": "You don't have to **[go all the way down]** yet.\nYou may notice it happening anyway.\nYou don't need to make it.", "tell": "Bandler will say sit on your hands. Erickson will say you may notice the hands growing heavy, and you don't have to do anything about that yet. Know which room you are in.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "in-a-moment-trance", "name": "In a Moment, But Not Yet", "who": "erickson", "stage": "search", "does": "Separates the suggestion from this second so the critic has nothing to refuse right now, and the future is already booked.", "formula": "In a moment, but not yet, you will… and when you do…", "slots": [ "delay", "the coming action", "the when that assumes it" ], "steps": [ "In a moment, but not yet.", "The action.", "When you do (presupposed)." ], "skeleton": "In a moment, but not yet, you will **[go down]**,\nand when you do, [what will be true].\nNot yet.\nNow.", "tell": "Promise it for later. Later arrives as a remembered appointment. The last 'now' is the landing.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Unconscious search" } ], "presuppositions": [ { "id": "p-exist", "name": "Existence", "does": "Names a thing, so it is.", "formula": "The X… That Y…", "example": "The part of you that already knows. The trance you are already in." }, { "id": "p-aware", "name": "Awareness", "does": "Notice / realize / know / aware presuppose the thing noticed.", "formula": "You may notice X. Are you aware that Y.", "example": "You may notice the breath has already slowed." }, { "id": "p-time", "name": "Time", "does": "Before / after / during / when / while / as / until.", "formula": "Before you X, Y. When you X, Y.", "example": "Before you go all the way down, take a breath." }, { "id": "p-ord", "name": "Ordinal", "does": "First, another, last, next — presuppose a series.", "formula": "Another breath. The first time you…", "example": "Another breath can take you further. The remaining tension." }, { "id": "p-or-ex", "name": "Exclusive or", "does": "This or that, not both — both do the work.", "formula": "Will you X now or in a minute.", "example": "Do you want to go down quickly or take your time going down." }, { "id": "p-or-in", "name": "Inclusive or", "does": "This or that or both.", "formula": "X or Y or both.", "example": "You may close the eyes or keep them open or one then the other." }, { "id": "p-adv", "name": "Adverb / adjective", "does": "Deeply, easily, already, naturally — the modifier is not the debate.", "formula": "You can easily X. You have already Y.", "example": "You can easily settle. You have already begun." }, { "id": "p-change", "name": "Change-of-time verbs", "does": "Begin, continue, proceed, stop, start, still — presuppose a process in motion.", "formula": "Continue to X. Stop Y. Begin to Z.", "example": "Continue to go down. Stop trying. Begin to notice." }, { "id": "p-comment", "name": "Commentary adjectives", "does": "Fortunately, luckily, happily — a value as weather.", "formula": "Fortunately, X.", "example": "Fortunately, you don't have to know how." }, { "id": "p-poss", "name": "Possibility / necessity", "does": "Can / must baked in.", "formula": "You can X. You have to Y.", "example": "You can let it work. You have to be available, not eager." } ], "techniques": [ { "id": "nested-loops", "name": "Nested Loops", "who": "bandler", "family": "structure", "does": "Opens stories inside stories so the conscious tracks plot while the payload lands at the bottom, unmarked as instruction.", "formula": "Open A → open B inside A → open C → PAYLOAD → close inner stories (in order, or scrambled) → leave one thread open.", "slots": [ "outer story A", "middle story B", "inner story C", "payload / replacement behavior", "close order", "the unclosed thread" ], "tell": "Start a story. Before it ends, start another. Before that ends, start a third. At the deepest point, say the thing you want installed. Finish the inner stories. Do not finish one of them.", "example": "Eight Days opens Groundhog, Radio, Notebook, Fort, Tombstone before any of them resolve. Closures arrive scrambled. Aurelia never closes.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "open-loop", "name": "The Unclosed Loop", "who": "both", "family": "structure", "does": "A story left unfinished keeps working after the session. The mind continues it.", "formula": "Open a vivid, unfinished image. Never resolve it. Do not explain it. Stop talking.", "slots": [ "one image", "one unfinished action", "silence after" ], "tell": "Give them a blue key, a river engineer, a dog that walks off. Then stop. Explanation kills it.", "example": "The small blue key. The man who taught a river to turn. Two hundred clocks. The sleeping brown dog.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "scrambled-closure", "name": "Closures Out of Order", "who": "bandler", "family": "structure", "does": "Closes nested stories in a different order than they opened, so the conscious cannot file the session as a sequence.", "formula": "Open A B C D. Close C, then A, then D, then B. Or close several at once in a cascade.", "slots": [ "open order", "a different close order", "one cascade beat" ], "tell": "The filing clerk of the mind wants A-B-C, C-B-A. Give it C, then A, then D. It stays busy. The payload stays in.", "example": "Eight Days: Close E first (Cassius), Close A last (the cathedral). Furniture: skip the river engineer in the cascade.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "stacked-realities", "name": "Stacked Realities / Extended Quotes", "who": "bandler", "family": "structure", "does": "Buries a command inside quotes of quotes so no one present is 'saying' it.", "formula": "X told me that Y said that Z said: **command**.", "slots": [ "speaker 1", "speaker 2", "speaker 3", "the command in the innermost voice" ], "tell": "You are not telling them to relax. You are reporting that a man on a stage said his teacher said sit down. The command still runs.", "example": "Furniture: the presenter quotes the auctioneer quoting the man who sold the door. **Give up the wheel.**", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "micro-loops", "name": "Micro-Loops", "who": "bandler", "family": "structure", "does": "Tiny open-and-close stories (one or two sentences) that fractionate attention without a full nest.", "formula": "One image. One unfinished beat. Return to the main line. Later, one-line close — or never.", "slots": [ "one image", "one unfinished beat", "return line" ], "tell": "Drop a bird hitting a window. Keep talking. The glass is still broken in the room even if you do not go back.", "example": "Recurring Day: a bird hits the window, the glass shatters, the bird flies away. The day continues.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "embedded-command", "name": "Embedded Commands", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Hides a command as a clause inside a longer sentence so it is heard twice: once as grammar, once as instruction.", "formula": "Carrier sentence … **verb phrase** … rest of sentence.", "slots": [ "carrier sentence", "2–6 word command, present tense, verb first", "analog mark (tone, pause, bold, gesture)" ], "tell": "Bandler: every 2–8 words, blunt, marked hard. Erickson: at the clause seam, softer, marked by a slight drop in voice. Same machine. Different speed.", "example": "You can **settle back now** as the bark presses the spine. **Let her come to you.** **Sit on your hands.**", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "analog-marking", "name": "Analog Marking", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Marks the command with a second channel (tone, pause, gesture, bold, location) so the unconscious files it separately.", "formula": "Neutral words in channel 1. Command words in channel 2 (lower, slower, gesture, spatial).", "slots": [ "channel 1 voice", "channel 2 mark", "the marked phrase" ], "tell": "Say the story in one voice. When the instruction arrives, drop half a note, pause a half-beat, or look at a different spot. Do not announce the mark.", "example": "In this hall, **bold** is the analog mark. Bandler marks hard. Erickson marks at the seam and keeps moving.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "interspersal", "name": "Interspersal Technique", "who": "erickson", "family": "language", "does": "Erickson’s own named contribution: scatter the real suggestions inside an otherwise ordinary description so they are associated, not argued.", "formula": "Innocuous sensory story with **relax / down / now / easy** dropped into clause seams, then keep describing.", "slots": [ "ordinary scene", "marked words at seams", "no explanation of the marked words" ], "tell": "Describe a pond, a log, a drop of water. At the seams, **settle back now**. **Notice the weight.** Do not say you are hypnotizing. The story is the induction.", "example": "The Hundredth Floor: bark, sunlight, pine resin, then **settle back now**, **let your eyes soften**, **notice the weight**.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "confusion", "name": "Confusion Technique", "who": "erickson", "family": "induction", "does": "Erickson’s other named contribution: overload or scramble the conscious set so a simple suggestion is accepted as relief.", "formula": "Too much, too fast, or logically impossible → pause → one short, clear suggestion.", "slots": [ "overload (numbers, reversals, non-sequitur, puns)", "a pause", "one simple suggestion" ], "tell": "Make the filing clerk dizzy. Then hand it one easy job. It will take the job because it wants the dizziness to stop.", "example": "Six feet down and a hundred floors up are the same depth. While the critical faculty corrects the sentence, **go down**.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "pattern-interrupt", "name": "Pattern Interrupt", "who": "bandler", "family": "induction", "does": "Breaks an automatic sequence mid-fire so the next thing said is taken as the missing piece.", "formula": "Start a familiar sequence → cut it before completion → freeze → analog-marked install → resume as if nothing happened.", "slots": [ "familiar sequence", "the cut point", "the install in the freeze", "resume line" ], "tell": "Handshake that never completes. Sentence that never finishes. Joke without a punchline. In the hole, put the instruction.", "example": "Furniture: the microphone changes hands mid-sentence. Faster, sharper. The Gap installs in the cut.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "utilization", "name": "Utilization", "who": "erickson", "family": "induction", "does": "Uses whatever the person brings — resistance, noise, a cough, a belief — as the induction itself.", "formula": "Name what is happening → and that can be the way you… → continue with their material, not yours.", "slots": [ "what they brought", "and-link", "the use you put it to" ], "tell": "Do not fight the cough. The cough can **take you deeper**. Do not fight 'I can't be hypnotized.' That can be the conscious mind’s job, while the rest of you…", "example": "Four hundred stacking chairs. Air conditioning losing to body heat. The dog already asleep. All of it is used, none of it is an obstacle.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "pacing-leading", "name": "Pacing and Leading", "who": "both", "family": "induction", "does": "Matches current experience until it is undeniable, then takes one small step the person has not yet taken.", "formula": "Pace, pace, pace (undeniable) → and → lead (new).", "slots": [ "3 undeniable now-statements", "and-link", "1 small lead" ], "tell": "You are sitting. You are breathing. You can hear this voice. And you can let the next breath go a little further down.", "example": "Four truisms: she is sitting; breath is happening; she has done hundredth-floor work from a fortieth-floor desk; she noticed the closed pad and did not force it. Then the only conclusion available.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "yes-set", "name": "Yes-Set / Truisms", "who": "both", "family": "induction", "does": "Stacks statements that cannot be denied so the next statement rides the chain of yes.", "formula": "Truism. Truism. Truism. Suggestion that feels like the fourth truism.", "slots": [ "truism 1 (body)", "truism 2 (breath or time)", "truism 3 (their history)", "the suggestion as truism 4" ], "tell": "Erickson does this slowly, with sensation. Bandler does it fast, then stuffs a command in the fourth slot. Same chain.", "example": "The Four Truisms of the Hundredth Floor. Furniture: **That is correct.** **Nobody asked you.** **It started already.**", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "naturalistic", "name": "Naturalistic Induction", "who": "erickson", "family": "induction", "does": "Induces trance by describing ordinary ongoing experience until trance is just a more accurate name for what is already happening.", "formula": "Describe sensation as it is → add 'and you can' → never call it hypnosis unless that helps.", "slots": [ "present sensation", "and you can", "a slightly deeper sensation" ], "tell": "Do not start a ritual. Start a description. The log, the light, the weight of the hands. Trance is what description does when it is accurate and slow.", "example": "The pond script. No gavel. The bark is already against the spine. The descent is the induction.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "early-learning-set", "name": "Early Learning Set", "who": "erickson", "family": "induction", "does": "Returns the listener to the state of not-knowing in which they once learned to write, walk, speak — a state that can learn again.", "formula": "Remember learning [ordinary hard thing]… the letters that would not stay… and you did not know, and then you knew.", "slots": [ "ordinary childhood skill", "the not-knowing", "the knowing that arrived by itself" ], "tell": "Take them back to the alphabet. The confusion of b and d. Then: and you can learn this the same way, without knowing how.", "example": "Sela’s first breath of air — a burn in a body built for water. The second breath burned less. The lungs were already doing the work.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "not-knowing", "name": "Not Knowing, Not Doing", "who": "erickson", "family": "induction", "does": "Gives the conscious mind the job of not-knowing so the rest can work.", "formula": "You don't have to know how… you don't have to make it happen… it can happen.", "slots": [ "what they don't have to know", "what they don't have to do", "what can happen anyway" ], "tell": "Assign the critic a chair. Its job is to not know. That is a complete job. The rest of the room is then free.", "example": "**Nothing is required of you here.** **Put the effort down.** **Leave it on the log.**", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "permission", "name": "Permission Language", "who": "erickson", "family": "language", "does": "Offers rather than orders, which bypasses the part that refuses orders.", "formula": "You may… you can… I wonder if… it’s not necessary that… you don’t have to yet…", "slots": [ "a permission verb", "the action", "optional 'yet' or 'now'" ], "tell": "Bandler will say **sit on your hands**. Erickson will say you may notice the hands growing heavy, and you don't have to do anything about that yet. Both land. Different doors.", "example": "I wonder if the pad can open by not opening. You don't have to decide yet.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "you-dont-have-to", "name": "You Don’t Have To", "who": "erickson", "family": "language", "does": "A negative that installs the positive by relieving obligation.", "formula": "You don’t have to [desired action] yet. You don’t need to [desired state] now.", "slots": [ "the thing they will do", "yet / now / unless you want to" ], "tell": "The word yet is a time-bind. It presupposes the action arrives. The 'don’t have to' takes the fight out of the room.", "example": "You don’t have to go all the way down. You don’t have to open the pad. It has been ready a long time.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "in-a-moment", "name": "In a Moment, But Not Yet", "who": "erickson", "family": "language", "does": "Separates the suggestion from this second so the critic has nothing to refuse right now, and the future is already booked.", "formula": "In a moment, but not yet, you will… and when you do…", "slots": [ "delay phrase", "the coming action", "the when-clause that assumes it" ], "tell": "Promise it for later. Later arrives as a remembered appointment, not a demand.", "example": "In a moment, but not yet, the pad will do what it has always been going to do. Not yet. Now.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "i-wonder", "name": "I Wonder If…", "who": "erickson", "family": "language", "does": "Turns a command into the operator’s curiosity so the listener’s mind answers by doing.", "formula": "I wonder if you can notice… I wonder which hand… I wonder when…", "slots": [ "wonder", "the experience", "an implied choice inside it" ], "tell": "Questions the mind tries to answer by searching internally. Searching is already trance.", "example": "I wonder if the fish is still six feet down while you are a hundred floors up.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "presupposition", "name": "Presupposition", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Puts the real payload in the part of the sentence that is not up for debate.", "formula": "Before / after / when / as / continue to / another / the remaining [payload as given].", "slots": [ "time or continuation word", "the payload treated as already true", "a trivial question on the surface" ], "tell": "Don't ask if they will change. Ask whether they will notice the change before or after lunch. The change is no longer the question.", "example": "When the sixteenth arrives, she is there. Not if. When. The day that will not advance, until it does.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "conversational-postulate", "name": "Conversational Postulate", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Asks a yes/no question whose polite answer is the action, not the word yes.", "formula": "Can you… Would you mind… Is the door closed? (meaning: close it / do the thing)", "slots": [ "polite question", "the action it actually requests" ], "tell": "Can you sit back in the chair? A critic can say yes. A body sits back. You wanted the body.", "example": "Would you still send this knowing the boat does not turn around.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "tag-question", "name": "Tag Question", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Adds a small question at the end that pulls a yes and makes reversal socially expensive.", "formula": "Statement, don't you. Statement, isn't it. Statement, can you not.", "slots": [ "statement you want accepted", "soft tag" ], "tell": "Keep the tag light. Heavy tags sound like a salesman. Light tags sound like shared weather.", "example": "It is far more than you thought, isn’t it. And that is machine three.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "cause-effect", "name": "Causal Linkage (And / As / While / Because)", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Glues two things together so the second feels caused by the first, whether or not that is logically true.", "formula": "As you X, you Y. While A, B. X, and Y. Because you are sitting, you can go down.", "slots": [ "undeniable A", "link word", "desired B" ], "tell": "The weakest link is 'and'. The strongest-sounding is 'because'. Use 'as' and 'while' for simultaneity. Bandler will also use 'the more you X, the more you Y'.", "example": "As the crew goes down a level, Margaret goes down a level. Because DHE 2000 is the only way, **relax your shoulders**.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "more-you", "name": "The More X, The More Y", "who": "bandler", "family": "language", "does": "A Bandler linkage that turns a process into an accelerating couple.", "formula": "The more you [present process], the more you [desired process].", "slots": [ "current process", "desired process" ], "tell": "Couple something already happening to something you want. The engine is already running. You just throw a belt over it.", "example": "The more the day repeats, the more automatic the decent hours become. The more you **wait**, the closer the wolf.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "complex-equivalence", "name": "Complex Equivalence", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "States that A means B, so changing the meaning changes the life.", "formula": "X means Y. X is Y. That is just Y.", "slots": [ "experience A", "new meaning B" ], "tell": "This is how a wound becomes an instrument. Not by denying the wound. By filing it under a different name that still tells the truth.", "example": "Thin is a faculty. A boundary is a key. Waiting is the appointment. Accuracy is not movement.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "lost-performative", "name": "Lost Performative", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "States a value as weather, with no person attached to argue with.", "formula": "It’s good to… One doesn’t… It is obvious that… People can…", "slots": [ "valuative statement", "no named speaker" ], "tell": "If you say 'I think you should wait,' they can disagree with you. If you say 'waiting is the appointment,' they have to disagree with physics.", "example": "Reception was never a function of volume. Late is not wrong. You do not own your patterns. You host them.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "mind-reading", "name": "Mind Reading (Soft)", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Names an inner state as if already observed, which is accepted if it is close enough.", "formula": "I know you… You may be wondering… That part of you that…", "slots": [ "a plausible inner state", "a next step that uses it" ], "tell": "Stay close to what calibration would show. If you miss, you look like a performer. If you hit, you look like weather.", "example": "You hate that the only work is doing absolutely nothing. She can **always tell**.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "universal-quantifier", "name": "Universal Quantifier", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "All, every, never, always — as a truism or as a bind.", "formula": "Every / all / never / always [statement you want treated as law].", "slots": [ "quantifier", "the law" ], "tell": "Erickson uses these as sensory truisms ('every breath'). Bandler uses them as installs ('always tell', 'never explain'). Soft when pacing. Hard when installing.", "example": "She can **always tell**. **Nothing is required.** The pad **never** opened. **Every** object he owned.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "modal-possibility", "name": "Modal Operator of Possibility", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Can, may, might, able to — opens a door without shoving.", "formula": "You can… you may find… you might notice…", "slots": [ "can / may / might", "the new ability" ], "tell": "Possibility is a smaller ask than necessity. Use it to install abilities. Use necessity ('must', 'have to') only when the person is already moving.", "example": "You can **stop trying now**. You may notice the hands are empty.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "modal-necessity", "name": "Modal Operator of Necessity", "who": "bandler", "family": "language", "does": "Have to, must, need to, should — Bandler uses these as blunt installs; Erickson almost never shoves with them.", "formula": "You have to… you need to… the only thing you must do is…", "slots": [ "necessity verb", "the action", "optional humor to grease it" ], "tell": "In a Bandler hall this is legal because the frame is already 'I build machines.' In an Erickson hall it sounds like a doctor. Know which room you are in.", "example": "You must be available, not eager. You have to **get out of the damn way**.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "nominalization", "name": "Nominalization", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Turns a process into a thing so it can be moved, put down, sold, hosted.", "formula": "Name a process as a noun. Then do something physical to the noun.", "slots": [ "process-as-noun", "a physical verb applied to it" ], "tell": "Respect, waiting, heat, arranging, the gap. Once it is a thing, you can **put it down**, **sell it**, **route it**, **sit on it**.", "example": "Sell the furniture. Put the effort down. The Gap. The Receiving. Five Open Hands.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "unspecified-verb", "name": "Unspecified Verb", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "A verb without how, so the listener fills in their own mechanism.", "formula": "Change. Learn. Work. Settle. Go down. Let it happen.", "slots": [ "verb with no procedure" ], "tell": "If you specify how, they can fail the how. If you don't, they use whatever how they have.", "example": "**Let it happen.** **Go deeper.** **Feel it land.** **Wait.**", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "lack-referential", "name": "Lack of Referential Index", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "People, they, someone, it — no named person, so the listener volunteers themselves.", "formula": "People can… they find… someone might… it happens…", "slots": [ "open pronoun", "the experience" ], "tell": "Do not say 'you will stop reaching.' Say 'people stop reaching when the wolf is still.' The you is volunteered.", "example": "Not one of the butterflies has ever been observed trying to be a butterfly.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "comparative-deletion", "name": "Comparative Deletion", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Better, deeper, easier, more — without saying compared to what, so the mind supplies the scale.", "formula": "Deeper. Easier. More comfortable. Better than before.", "slots": [ "comparative", "no reference point" ], "tell": "Deeper than what? They will find a depth. You do not have to.", "example": "**Easier with every breath.** **Going heavier now.** The second breath burned less.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "negative-command", "name": "Negative Command", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Don't think of a pink elephant. The not is a conscious tag. The image is not.", "formula": "Don't / never / you don't need to [image or action you want in mind].", "slots": [ "don't", "the image" ], "tell": "Use this for images you want present, or for a prohibition that is actually a spotlight. Do not use it for a behavior you truly want absent unless the spotlight is the point.", "example": "Do not watch for the effect. Do not explain the blue key. Don't look at the top.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "phonological", "name": "Phonological Ambiguity", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Two meanings in one sound: wait/weight, here/hear, no/know, down/down.", "formula": "Pick a homophone that carries both the story and the install.", "slots": [ "word that means two things", "a sentence that licenses both" ], "tell": "Erickson loved this. Bandler uses it as a joke that is also a machine. **Wait** is **weight**. **Here** is **hear**.", "example": "**Notice the weight** of your own hands. **Wait for the signal.** Same word in the body.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "syntactic-ambiguity", "name": "Syntactic Ambiguity", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "A sentence that parses two ways, so the unconscious takes both.", "formula": "They are visiting relatives. Hypnotizing hypnotists can be tricky. Speaking to you as a child…", "slots": [ "a sentence with two legal parses" ], "tell": "The critic picks one parse. The other parse still ran.", "example": "Speaking to you as a child of your own experience. I am looking at you, you know, in trance.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "scope-ambiguity", "name": "Scope Ambiguity", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Unclear what a modifier applies to, so it applies to more than you said.", "formula": "The deep warmth of your hands and feet. (Is deep only warmth, or also feet?)", "slots": [ "modifier", "two possible attachments" ], "tell": "Put the useful word where it can stain both nouns.", "example": "The quiet safety of it. Directly in front of the log, among the open blooms, sits one tight green bud.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "punctuation-ambiguity", "name": "Punctuation Ambiguity / Overlap", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Runs two sentences into one so the last words of the first are the first words of the second.", "formula": "I want you to notice your hand me the glass. He said relax into the chair is enough.", "slots": [ "sentence A ending", "sentence B beginning", "the shared words" ], "tell": "Speak it as one breath. On the page, you can fake it with a comma. In the mouth, you just don't stop.", "example": "You can hear this **now know** that the pad has been ready.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "selectional-restriction", "name": "Selectional Restriction Violation", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Gives human verbs to non-human things, which the body answers as if it were the thing.", "formula": "The chair holds you. The log remembers. The corn was already listening. The door wants you to step back.", "slots": [ "non-human subject", "human verb", "the body that will identify" ], "tell": "This is how metaphor becomes somatic. The person becomes the log, the river, the wolf, without being told to.", "example": "The log is already doing the holding. Corn listens before anyone plants a diamond. A holster keeps its argument to itself.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "quotes", "name": "Quotes", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Puts the suggestion in someone else’s mouth.", "formula": "A man I knew used to say, '**command**.'", "slots": [ "displaced speaker", "quoted command" ], "tell": "You didn't say it. He said it. The nervous system does not care.", "example": "My-friend-John. The presenter. The auctioneer. Jonah’s father talking to a house.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "embedded-question", "name": "Embedded Question", "who": "both", "family": "language", "does": "Hides a question inside a statement so the mind searches without deciding to answer you.", "formula": "I wonder whether you know how easy it is to… I'm curious when you'll notice…", "slots": [ "frame ('I wonder')", "the hidden question" ], "tell": "A direct question can be refused. An embedded question is already being answered internally by the time they notice it.", "example": "I wonder whether you know which of the seven machines is already in.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "double-bind", "name": "Double Bind / Illusion of Alternatives", "who": "erickson", "family": "bind", "does": "Offers two (or more) choices that all perform the same class of action.", "formula": "Would you like to X now or in a few minutes? Do you want to go down quickly or take your time going down?", "slots": [ "choice A (does the thing)", "choice B (also does the thing)", "the class they share" ], "tell": "The fight is given a toy: when, not whether. Now or later. This chair or that chair. Trance in both.", "example": "Would you send it exactly as written knowing there will be no reply. Stay or leave — both are her pace.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "cu-bind", "name": "Conscious–Unconscious Double Bind", "who": "erickson", "family": "bind", "does": "Gives the conscious mind one job and the unconscious another, so resistance in one is cooperation in the other.", "formula": "Your conscious mind can X while your unconscious Y. You can listen to the story or you can go down. Both are fine.", "slots": [ "conscious job", "unconscious job", "permission that both count" ], "tell": "If they listen, good. If they drift, good. You named both as success.", "example": "The conscious tracks the auction joke. The unconscious takes the seven machines. **You will not even notice four of them going in.**", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "therapeutic-bind", "name": "Therapeutic Double Bind", "who": "erickson", "family": "bind", "does": "Makes the symptom the solution, or the resistance the method, so there is no way to 'win' by staying the same.", "formula": "You can keep X, and as you keep it, it becomes Y. Or you can stop X, which is also Y.", "slots": [ "the symptom or resistance", "the outcome both paths produce" ], "tell": "If they perform the symptom, they do it under instruction (hence not involuntary). If they refuse, they refuse by changing. Either way the class shifts.", "example": "Keep arranging the day. Run it again. The only loop that ends the cycle is the one where he is not running a loop.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "covering-all", "name": "Covering All Possibilities", "who": "erickson", "family": "bind", "does": "Lists every class of response so whatever happens is a yes.", "formula": "You may X, or Y, or something else entirely, and that will be the way this works for you.", "slots": [ "response class 1", "class 2", "open class ('or something else')" ], "tell": "Never leave a way to fail the suggestion. Include 'or not yet' if you must. Include 'or in a way I haven't mentioned.'", "example": "The lily opens into power, love, wonder, beauty — or stays closed, which was never broken, never late, never deficient.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "reverse-set", "name": "Reverse Set", "who": "erickson", "family": "bind", "does": "Instructs the opposite so the rebel cooperates by doing what you actually wanted.", "formula": "Don't go into trance too quickly. Try to keep your eyes open. See if you can stay exactly as you are.", "slots": [ "the opposite instruction", "the thing the rebel will do" ], "tell": "Use on a person who defines themselves by not-being-led. Give them something to refuse that is the opposite of the work.", "example": "I will not be discussing your mother. If you came here to talk about your feelings, there is a man down the hall.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "apposition", "name": "Apposition of Opposites", "who": "erickson", "family": "bind", "does": "Places two opposites next to each other so the mind holds both and a third state appears.", "formula": "Heavy and light. Down and up. Remember and forget. Move and be still.", "slots": [ "pole A", "pole B", "the third state they produce" ], "tell": "Do not resolve the contradiction. Let them sit together until the critic tires.", "example": "Down before up. Six feet down and a hundred floors up. Full power, controlled speed. Available, not eager.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "implication", "name": "Implication", "who": "erickson", "family": "language", "does": "Says a little so the listener concludes a lot, and the conclusion is theirs, hence kept.", "formula": "State A. Stop. Do not state B, which A requires.", "slots": [ "the said", "the unsaid that A requires" ], "tell": "The closed pad is mentioned once. You do not say what it means. They will. That meaning is theirs, so it sticks.", "example": "A small blue key is in the tin. No one asked for it. It opens nothing in the harbour records. We will not explain it.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "open-ended-suggestion", "name": "Open-Ended Suggestion", "who": "erickson", "family": "install", "does": "Specifies the class of change, not the content, so their life fills in the correct details.", "formula": "Your unconscious will find the right way to… in the way that is most useful for you.", "slots": [ "class of change", "their life as the author of details" ], "tell": "If you specify the movie, you will get your movie. If you specify the genre, you will get their life.", "example": "Movement first, direction second. The step does not need a map.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "implied-directive", "name": "Implied Directive", "who": "erickson", "family": "install", "does": "When X happens, Y will happen — X is coming anyway, so Y is booked.", "formula": "As soon as / when / the moment you [inevitable X], you will [Y].", "slots": [ "inevitable X (next breath, next pause)", "desired Y" ], "tell": "Couple the install to something the body is about to do anyway. Breath is the most reliable X.", "example": "When the next drop hits the brass, **go down**. When the sixteenth arrives…", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "compound-suggestion", "name": "Compound Suggestion", "who": "erickson", "family": "install", "does": "Joins an easy accept to a useful accept so they travel together.", "formula": "Easy thing, and useful thing. You can hear the air conditioner, and you can let the shoulders drop.", "slots": [ "easy accept", "and", "useful accept" ], "tell": "This is pacing-and-leading at the sentence scale. Always put the easy one first.", "example": "You are sitting, and the office was never the constraint.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "contingent-suggestion", "name": "Contingent Suggestion", "who": "erickson", "family": "install", "does": "Makes Y depend on X, where X is already in motion.", "formula": "As the hands get heavier, the breath can go lower. Once the laugh lands, the machine is in.", "slots": [ "X already happening", "Y that rides it" ], "tell": "Do not wait for a special state. Use the state you have.", "example": "As you laugh at the man who sold his own door, **sell the furniture.**", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "seeding", "name": "Seeding / Seed and Harvest", "who": "erickson", "family": "metaphor", "does": "Plants an image early with no meaning. Returns to it later as the point of the whole piece.", "formula": "Mention once, lightly, early. Do not explain. Resume the piece. Return at the climax. Now it means everything.", "slots": [ "the seed image", "the early mention (one sentence)", "the harvest at the end" ], "tell": "The closed pad. The blue key. The river engineer. Mention. Leave. Return. The wait is the technique.", "example": "Among the open blooms sits one tight green bud that never opened. You noticed it once. You never thought much about it. Then Part Two.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "isomorphic-metaphor", "name": "Isomorphic Metaphor / Teaching Tale", "who": "erickson", "family": "metaphor", "does": "Tells a story whose structure is the person’s structure, without naming the person.", "formula": "Their problem as a landscape. Their resources as a character. Their change as a thing the character does. No moral.", "slots": [ "their situation translated", "a character who is them and is not", "the change as plot", "no explanation" ], "tell": "If they recognize themselves too clearly, the critic re-enters. If they don't recognize at all, nothing maps. Aim for 'this is about me' only after the story has already worked.", "example": "Margaret LLC. Fortieth-floor desk, hundredth-floor work. Sela walking onto sand. The cartographer measuring a country that will not hold still.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "multiple-embedded", "name": "Multiple Embedded Metaphors", "who": "erickson", "family": "metaphor", "does": "The Erickson/Lankton nest: Story A contains B contains C. Payload in C. Close C, B, A. Conscious remembers A. Unconscious kept C.", "formula": "A opens → B opens → C opens → direct work / commands → C closes → B closes → A closes.", "slots": [ "outer tale", "middle tale", "inner tale", "payload", "ordered closes" ], "tell": "This is Erickson’s nested loops, later formalized. Bandler’s version is faster, funnier, and often closes out of order. Same architecture.", "example": "Pond contains fish contains hull contains Margaret contains Sela. Return to the log is the trance.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "dual-level", "name": "Dual-Level Communication", "who": "erickson", "family": "metaphor", "does": "Entertains the conscious with plot, instructs the unconscious with structure and marked words.", "formula": "Surface: a story that holds attention. Under: isomorphism + interspersal + binds.", "slots": [ "surface plot", "under-structure", "marked words the plot conceals" ], "tell": "If they can tell you the moral, you preached. If they can tell you the story and later their hands do something new, you worked.", "example": "Furniture is a comedy. Seven machines go in while they laugh. The laugh is the anesthetic. The machines are the surgery.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "my-friend-john", "name": "My-Friend-John", "who": "erickson", "family": "metaphor", "does": "Displaces the suggestion onto a third person so the listener can take it without being the patient.", "formula": "I had a client / a friend / a man who… [their problem, their change].", "slots": [ "displaced person", "their situation (which is this situation)", "what happened" ], "tell": "They can reject advice given to them. They cannot as easily reject a story that happened to John. Identification does the rest.", "example": "Lieutenant Calum Ward. Captain Igraine Voss. The hotel’s one guest. The man who sold his own furniture.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "anecdote", "name": "Anecdote Stacking", "who": "erickson", "family": "metaphor", "does": "Several short tales in a row, each carrying a fragment of the same payload, none complete.", "formula": "Anecdote 1 (fragment). Anecdote 2 (fragment). Anecdote 3 (the missing piece). No summary.", "slots": [ "3–7 short tales", "shared payload split across them" ], "tell": "One story can be argued with. Five stories with the same bones cannot. The bones are the install.", "example": "Two brothers digging. A lighthouse inland. Nineteen letters in a tin. Same machine: send once, then be still.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "shock", "name": "Shock, Surprise, Humor as Depotentiation", "who": "both", "family": "induction", "does": "A jolt, a laugh, or a rudeness that drops the set. The next sentence has no guard.", "formula": "Pattern in progress → shock/joke/insult → immediately the install → continue.", "slots": [ "the jolt", "the sentence that follows before recovery" ], "tell": "Bandler: comedy as anesthetic, insults as pattern interrupts. Erickson: a sudden surprise, then a simple suggestion. Do not wait for them to finish laughing.", "example": "I do not care about your childhood. **Let the machinery work.** You will not even notice four of them going in.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "handshake", "name": "Handshake Interrupt", "who": "erickson", "family": "induction", "does": "Classic Erickson: begin a handshake, freeze it midair, catalepsy, trance.", "formula": "Reach → take the hand → halt the completion → look at the hand → 'sleep' or a simple suggestion → catalepsy holds.", "slots": [ "the automatic social sequence", "the freeze", "the suggestion in the freeze" ], "tell": "This is the pattern interrupt in the body. Any automatic sequence will do: a handshake, a name exchange, a sip of water.", "example": "The hotel guest reaches one second early, every morning. On the four-thousandth morning he lets the second complete. The Gap.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "catalepsy", "name": "Catalepsy / Ideomotor / Levitation", "who": "erickson", "family": "induction", "does": "A body phenomenon that ratifies trance: the arm stays, the fingers move, the hand lifts.", "formula": "Suggest a small involuntary movement → wait → ratify whatever happens → use it as the yes-signal.", "slots": [ "small involuntary", "wait", "ratify", "use as ideomotor yes" ], "tell": "Do not demand a Broadway levitation. A finger. A swallow. A change in breath. Name it. That naming is the ratification.", "example": "Fingers go slack, **the weight of your own hands** pressing into the thighs. Fist closes and opens once, slowly.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "ratification", "name": "Ratification", "who": "erickson", "family": "induction", "does": "Names what just happened so the person agrees they are already in.", "formula": "That's right. That's it. Notice that. You didn't have to make that happen.", "slots": [ "what just occurred", "a name that makes it trance" ], "tell": "If you skip ratification, they will later say nothing happened. If you name it, they have a memory of it happening.", "example": "**That’s right.** The body has already agreed. **It started already.**", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "dissociation", "name": "Dissociation", "who": "both", "family": "state", "does": "Splits observer from experience, or then from now, or body from commentary, so change can happen in one part while the other watches.", "formula": "You can watch that from here. The part that X, and the part that Y. Then / now. There / here.", "slots": [ "part A", "part B", "which part does the work" ], "tell": "The critic can have a seat in the balcony. The stage can change. They can meet after.", "example": "Your conscious mind can listen to the joke. The rest of you can take the machine. Sela’s lungs doing the work the mind had not approved.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "age-regression", "name": "Age Regression", "who": "erickson", "family": "state", "does": "Returns a younger state that still has a resource, or that can receive a new one.", "formula": "A sensory bridge (smell, classroom, handwriting) → the younger state → the resource or the new parent / the new event.", "slots": [ "sensory bridge", "age / scene", "what that age receives" ], "tell": "Do not interrogate the past. Give it a new experience. The February Man visits a child who will grow into the adult in the chair.", "example": "The early learning set. The alphabet. Sela’s first breath. A childhood skill that arrived by itself.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "pseudo-orientation", "name": "Pseudo-Orientation in Time / February Man", "who": "erickson", "family": "state", "does": "Orients the person in a future that has already solved it, or a past that received help, then brings the solution back.", "formula": "Go forward to a time when this is already handled. Look back. What did you do. Bring that back. Or: a helper visits the past on several dates.", "slots": [ "future (or past) location", "the already-done", "the return" ], "tell": "The critic cannot argue with a memory of a future. It is the wrong tense for an argument.", "example": "He wakes, and it is the sixteenth. She is there. Not because the sequence improved. Because it stopped being a sequence.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "amnesia", "name": "Amnesia by Interruption or Implication", "who": "erickson", "family": "install", "does": "Lets the work stay out of autobiographical memory so the critic cannot dismantle it.", "formula": "Interrupt before they review. Or imply 'you won't need to remember this.' Then change the subject hard.", "slots": [ "the work to protect", "interrupt or implication", "a vivid new subject" ], "tell": "Do not say 'forget this.' That is a spotlight. Change the subject to something sensory and slightly funny. The filing clerk files the joke.", "example": "The dog gets up, stretches, walks off the stage. That is the resolution. It is not an explanation.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "posthypnotic", "name": "Posthypnotic Suggestion", "who": "both", "family": "install", "does": "Pairs a future cue with a response so the work runs later, in life, without the operator.", "formula": "When [future cue in their actual life], you will [response], and it will seem natural.", "slots": [ "real-life cue", "response", "natural / automatic" ], "tell": "Cue must be something that will actually happen. Doorways, breath, a particular person, the urge to send the nineteenth message.", "example": "When the urge to engineer an outcome arrives, Five Open Hands. Void if monitored.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "future-pace", "name": "Future Pace", "who": "bandler", "family": "install", "does": "Bandler’s version: run the new response in a vivid future scene now, so it is already a memory.", "formula": "See a specific future scene → step in → run the new behavior → notice it worked → back here.", "slots": [ "specific future scene", "the new behavior", "evidence it worked" ], "tell": "Vague futures do not hold. A Tuesday. A doorway. A phone in the hand. Run it until the body has already been there.", "example": "The sixteenth. The field with a glove. The rectangular hole where the door was, and he likes the wind.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "fractionation", "name": "Fractionation", "who": "both", "family": "induction", "does": "In and out of trance, or in and out of a story, each re-entry deeper / faster.", "formula": "In → out (reorient slightly) → in again, faster. Repeat.", "slots": [ "in", "partial out", "in deeper" ], "tell": "Each return teaches the nervous system the way. Nested loops are fractionation at story scale. Microphone handoffs are fractionation at voice scale.", "example": "Furniture: THE MIC CHANGES HANDS / THE MIC GOES BACK. Pond: leave the fish, return to the log.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "overload", "name": "Overload", "who": "bandler", "family": "induction", "does": "Too much content too fast for the conscious to sequentialize, so it delegates.", "formula": "Multiple stories, commands every 2–8 words, jokes, asides, a dog — without a map.", "slots": [ "more channels than working memory", "one repeating payload underneath" ], "tell": "Bandler talks faster than notes. That is the technique. The notes cannot keep up. The body can.", "example": "Four hundred chairs. Seven machines. Twelve nested loops. A dog. You will not even notice four of them going in.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "anchoring", "name": "Anchoring", "who": "bandler", "family": "state", "does": "Pairs a state with a cue (touch, tone, location, word, gesture) so the cue can fire the state later.", "formula": "Elicit state at peak → apply unique cue → break state → test cue → use in context.", "slots": [ "state", "unique cue", "peak timing", "test", "use" ], "tell": "Spatial anchors: this chair is trance, that floor is the joke. Tonal anchors: analog marking is a voice anchor. Kinesthetic: a touch at peak.", "example": "The log is a spatial anchor for trance. The microphone handoff is a tonal/spatial anchor for Bandler voice vs. original voice.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "collapse-anchors", "name": "Collapse Anchors", "who": "bandler", "family": "state", "does": "Fires two incompatible states at once so the unwanted one cannot hold its shape.", "formula": "Anchor unwanted. Anchor wanted (stronger). Fire together. Hold until integration. Test.", "slots": [ "unwanted state cue", "wanted state cue (stronger)", "simultaneous fire" ], "tell": "The nervous system cannot run both fully. The better-built state wins if it is actually stronger. Do not collapse two weaks.", "example": "Arranging vs presence. Reaching vs stillness. The day he is useful to people who can do nothing for him collapses the sequence-day.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "state-chain", "name": "State Chaining", "who": "bandler", "family": "state", "does": "Links states in a sequence so firing the first walks the person to the last.", "formula": "Elicit A, anchor. Elicit B, anchor. Elicit C, anchor. Chain A→B→C. Fire A, arrive at C.", "slots": [ "start state", "bridge state(s)", "destination state" ], "tell": "You cannot jump stuck → free. You can walk stuck → curious → moving → free. Design the stepping stones.", "example": "Furniture state chains: curiosity → exposure → steadiness. Struggle → surrender → certainty. Confrontation → realization → release.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "submodalities", "name": "Submodalities / Mapping Across / Swish", "who": "bandler", "family": "state", "does": "Changes the encoding of an experience (size, distance, brightness, location) so its meaning and intensity change.", "formula": "Find the coding of unwanted vs wanted. Map the unwanted into the wanted’s coding. Or swish: old picture shrinks, new picture explodes in.", "slots": [ "unwanted picture/sound/feeling codes", "wanted codes", "the switch" ], "tell": "Content can stay. Coding changes. A large, close, loud shame becomes a small, far, quiet fact. That is not insight. That is editing.", "example": "A laminated chart (bright, close, official) burned. A top you stop watching (no longer center-frame). Heat routed down into the legs.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "swish", "name": "Swish Pattern", "who": "bandler", "family": "state", "does": "A specific submodality move: cue picture of the problem swishes into a compelling self-image.", "formula": "Cue image (what they see just before the old behavior) → swish to a big, bright self who is already past it. Repeat fast. Break state. Test.", "slots": [ "cue image", "desired self-image", "speed", "repeats" ], "tell": "Fast. The slowness is thinking. The swish is a reflex install. Direction: away from the cue, toward the self.", "example": "The hand reaching for the nineteenth letter. Swish to the man who puts the envelope down and is still a man.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "visual-squash", "name": "Visual Squash", "who": "bandler", "family": "state", "does": "Two conflicting parts, one in each hand, brought together until they integrate.", "formula": "Part A in one hand. Part B in the other. What does each want (positive intent). Hands together. New part in both.", "slots": [ "part A", "part B", "positive intent of each", "the integrated whole" ], "tell": "Do not pick a winner. Find the intent under each. Combine at the intent level. The behaviors can retire.", "example": "The hand that reaches and the hand that waits. Available, not eager. Both hands open.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "phobia-cure", "name": "Fast Phobia Cure", "who": "bandler", "family": "state", "does": "Dissociated double-cinema: watch yourself watching the old terror until the feeling cannot find the body.", "formula": "In the booth, watching the screen of you then. Run it forward dissociated. White-out. Run it backward associated, very fast. Repeat. Test.", "slots": [ "the old event", "double dissociation", "fast rewind" ], "tell": "This is not exposure. This is recoding. If they go into the feeling, stop and put them back in the booth.", "example": "Used when a hall touches old heat — Cort’s fire, Rosalind’s sting — without requiring the listener to relive it as now.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "threshold", "name": "Threshold / Compulsion Blowout", "who": "bandler", "family": "state", "does": "Drives a compulsion past the point of absurdity until the circuit breaks.", "formula": "Take the urge. Multiply it. Faster, bigger, more ridiculous, until it pops. Then a new image in the hole.", "slots": [ "the compulsion", "the multiplier", "the pop", "the replacement" ], "tell": "More, not less. The person who has been resisting is feeding it. Blow it out by giving it too much.", "example": "Nineteen letters. Run the sending to infinity until sending is comic. Then one message, then still.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "change-history", "name": "Change Personal History", "who": "bandler", "family": "state", "does": "Finds the first or worst time a feeling was learned, and puts a resource in then, so the chain re-files.", "formula": "Track the feeling back. First / worst / most significant. Resource the younger self. Bring it forward through the chain.", "slots": [ "the feeling", "the then", "the resource", "the walk-forward" ], "tell": "DHE would rather build a future than excavate a past. Use this when the past is still running the room. Do not go digging for sport.", "example": "The four hours after Deacon’s fast decision. This time there are no four hours. The pew learns a man it came to bury.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "nbg", "name": "New Behavior Generator", "who": "bandler", "family": "install", "does": "Builds a behavior from a model or from imagined evidence, then future-paces it.", "formula": "See someone (or you) doing it. Step in. Feel it. Adjust. Future-pace three scenes. Ecology check.", "slots": [ "model or imagined you", "step-in", "three future scenes" ], "tell": "Construction, not insight. If they can see it and step into it, they can have it. Then run it until it is cheap.", "example": "Ward on the crate until the crate decides he is furniture. Igraine keeping the power and dropping the commentary.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "dhe", "name": "DHE 2000 — Construction, Not Excavation", "who": "bandler", "family": "install", "does": "Bandler’s later frame: do not dig for trauma. Build machines. Install them. Test them. Leave them running.", "formula": "Name the machine → demonstrate in metaphor → analog-mark the install → future-pace → do not process the biography.", "slots": [ "machine name", "metaphor that is the machine", "commands", "future test", "biography refused" ], "tell": "I do not care about your childhood. I build machines. Five of them today. You will not even notice four of them going in.", "example": "The Gap, the Plain Sentence, the Routed Heat, the One Message, the Recognition, the Animal Decides, the Receiving.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "transparent-install", "name": "Transparent Install", "who": "bandler", "family": "install", "does": "Tells them you are installing it. The honesty is itself a pattern interrupt, and the install still runs.", "formula": "I am going to install X. Here is X. **commands**. It's in.", "slots": [ "the named machine", "the demonstration", "the claim that it is in" ], "tell": "Erickson would rarely say this. Bandler says it because the frame is engineering, not magic. The critic is invited to watch and still cannot stop a well-timed analog mark.", "example": "And that is machine six, the one that actually gets the job done while you’re busy trying to look spiritual.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "humor-anesthetic", "name": "Humor as Anesthetic", "who": "bandler", "family": "install", "does": "Gets a laugh, then puts the command in the laugh, before the guard comes back.", "formula": "Joke → laugh begins → **command** → continue the joke.", "slots": [ "the laugh line", "the command inside it" ], "tell": "The laugh is a pattern interrupt you don't have to force. Do not wait for it to finish. Ride it.", "example": "He auctioned the front door of the house while he was still living in it. **Sell the furniture.** **Keep nothing back.**", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "replacement", "name": "Replacement Behavior, Landed in Story", "who": "bandler", "family": "install", "does": "Does not delete a behavior. Installs a specific other behavior in the same slot, demonstrated by a character.", "formula": "Old behavior in a character who pays for it. New behavior in a character who does not. Commands = the new behavior, in verbs.", "slots": [ "old behavior", "character who suffers it", "new behavior as verbs", "character who has it" ], "tell": "People cannot 'stop reaching.' They can **sit on their hands**, **wait for the signal**, **send once**. Give them verbs, not absences.", "example": "Stillness, company not assessment, her-pace, hold-observation, unreplied test, Five Open Hands.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "trapdoor", "name": "The Trapdoor (Named)", "who": "bandler", "family": "install", "does": "Names the cheat so it cannot be used in the dark: a message engineered to work is still a technique.", "formula": "State the test in one plain sentence. Make it un-gameable. Stop.", "slots": [ "the cheat they will try", "the test in one sentence" ], "tell": "If you do not name the trapdoor, they will build a better sequence and call it presence. Name it out loud.", "example": "Would you send it exactly as written knowing there will be no reply. Five Open Hands: void if monitored.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "sleeping-dog", "name": "The Sleeping Dog (Accidental Interrupt)", "who": "bandler", "family": "structure", "does": "An interruption that looks unrelated, so the critic does not file it as technique, and it still fractionates.", "formula": "In the middle of work, a sideways sensory beat that does no obvious job. Do not explain it. Continue.", "slots": [ "the sideways beat", "no moral", "resume" ], "tell": "If you wink at it, it becomes a gag. If you leave it, it becomes a teacher of presence.", "example": "The brown dog is still asleep. Interruptions land sideways. He is not an ending.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "credentialled-fool", "name": "The Credentialled Fool", "who": "bandler", "family": "reframe", "does": "A rival expert who does the old behavior with credentials, then is publicly destroyed by the quality he mocked.", "formula": "Give the old behavior a PhD. Let it fail in public. Do not debate it. Show the failure.", "slots": [ "the old behavior", "a titled character who performs it", "the comic or sharp failure" ], "tell": "People will not drop a strategy they think is intelligent. Show a very intelligent person losing with it. Intelligence is then free to leave.", "example": "Dr. Percival Haight-Browning. Dr. Alistair Sterling-Smythe. The laminated host. The architect who watched the top.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "content-reframe", "name": "Content Reframe", "who": "bandler", "family": "reframe", "does": "Same event, different meaning.", "formula": "It isn't X. It's Y. What else could this mean that is also true and more useful.", "slots": [ "old meaning", "new meaning that still fits the facts" ], "tell": "Keep the facts. Change the filing label. If the new label is a lie, it will not hold. If it is a better truth, it holds.", "example": "The hurt was real. It was undeserved. It is never called a gift. What breaks heals thin. Thin is a faculty. Instrument, not injury.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "context-reframe", "name": "Context Reframe", "who": "bandler", "family": "reframe", "does": "Same behavior, different context where it is the right tool.", "formula": "Where would this be useful. When is this the exact right thing.", "slots": [ "the behavior they hate in themselves", "a context where it is gold" ], "tell": "This stops self-war. The behavior is not the enemy. The context was wrong. Then you can move it.", "example": "Reaching is perfect for a drowning man. It is expensive with a wolf. Arranging is perfect for a kitchen. It is death on a Tuesday with a person.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "sleight", "name": "Sleight of Mouth (14 patterns)", "who": "bandler", "family": "reframe", "does": "Bandler’s formulaic set for attacking a belief at every structural joint. See the table. Use one. Not fourteen at once.", "formula": "Take a belief (X means Y). Apply one named move. Stop. Let it land.", "slots": [ "the belief", "one Sleight move", "silence" ], "tell": "These are scalpels. If you run all fourteen, you are performing. Pick the one that fits the joint that is actually holding the belief up.", "example": "Accuracy is not movement (redefine). She owes you nothing (apply to self / consequence). Late is not wrong (redefine + model of the world).", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "meta-model", "name": "Meta Model (the inverse)", "who": "bandler", "family": "language", "does": "The opposite of the Milton Model. Recovers deletions, distortions, generalizations when you need precision, not trance.", "formula": "When they speak in Milton, ask: who, what, how, compared to what, always, says who.", "slots": [ "their vague statement", "the recovery question" ], "tell": "Use this to build. Not to induce. If you Meta-Model a person in trance you will yank them out. If you Meta-Model yourself while writing, your slots get sharper.", "example": "'She never listens.' Never? To whom? Listens how? Compared to what. Then you know what the loop is actually installing.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "calibration", "name": "Calibration", "who": "bandler", "family": "state", "does": "Reading the person in front of you so the next move is true, not formulaic in the dead sense.", "formula": "Look. Listen. Match what is. Then choose the next technique from what you saw, not from your plan.", "slots": [ "what you saw", "what you do next because of it" ], "tell": "Every formula on this list is dead without this. Erickson’s whole method is calibration plus utilization. Bandler calibrates and then overloads.", "example": "8 out of 10 restating. 1 out of 10 interpreting. That score is calibration, then a machine.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "matching", "name": "Matching, Mirroring, Representational Predicates", "who": "bandler", "family": "state", "does": "Joins the person’s channel (see / hear / feel, posture, breath, words) so leading has a bridge.", "formula": "Notice their predicates and posture. Speak in that channel. Then lead one step.", "slots": [ "their channel", "your match", "your lead" ], "tell": "If they say 'I see what you mean,' do not answer 'I feel that.' See first. Then they can follow you into feeling.", "example": "Pond is kinesthetic and visual (bark, weight, green light). Furniture is auditory and kinesthetic (mic, laugh, heat). Match the hall to the body you want.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "perceptual-positions", "name": "Perceptual Positions", "who": "bandler", "family": "reframe", "does": "Runs the scene from self, other, and observer so a stuck first-position feeling has somewhere to go.", "formula": "Position 1 (me). Position 2 (them). Position 3 (the camera). Gather. Choose.", "slots": [ "the scene", "three seats", "what each knows" ], "tell": "Most arranging is first position with no camera. Put them in the balcony. The balcony is already a gap.", "example": "Avatar: other eyes, seeing is not possessing. The architect watching the top (third position used as a tell). Cassius not drawing (first position, still).", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "tote", "name": "Strategy Elicitation / TOTE", "who": "bandler", "family": "state", "does": "Finds the Test-Operate-Test-Exit sequence they actually run, then edits one step.", "formula": "How do you know when to start. What do you do. How do you know it's done. What would be a better test or a better operate.", "slots": [ "trigger test", "operate", "done-test", "the edited step" ], "tell": "Do not change a person. Change a step. The Gap edits the operate (wait one second). The Plain Sentence edits the test (what was said is what was said).", "example": "The guest reaches one second early. The seeing was never wrong. The hand was early. Edit: let the second complete.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "ecology", "name": "Ecology Check", "who": "bandler", "family": "install", "does": "Asks whether the new behavior is safe for the whole system, before it is locked.", "formula": "If you have this fully, who is affected. What do you lose. Is there a part that objects. Adjust.", "slots": [ "the new behavior", "who else", "the objection", "the adjustment" ], "tell": "Five Open Hands includes this as 'void if monitored' — if the install is being used as a lever, it is void. That is ecology, named as a trapdoor.", "example": "Friendship is all I need. Give her space to leave, knowing she will return. Want stays. Arranging leaves.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "time-distortion", "name": "Time Distortion", "who": "both", "family": "state", "does": "Stretches, compresses, or loops time so a minute holds an hour of work, or eight days hold a life.", "formula": "In the next minute you can have all the time you need. Or: this day will keep happening until it is done.", "slots": [ "stretch / compress / loop", "the work that needs that time" ], "tell": "Nested loops are a time distortion. Groundhog Day is a time distortion. Two moves a year is a time distortion.", "example": "The same civic Tuesday. Two hundred clocks disagree and a woman is on time. The clock that ran backward.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "waiting", "name": "Waiting / Pause as Suggestion", "who": "erickson", "family": "induction", "does": "The silence is the instruction. The operator is willing to not fill it.", "formula": "Say a complete thing. Stop. Let the room work. Do not rescue.", "slots": [ "the last sentence", "the actual silence", "no extra clause" ], "tell": "If you fear silence you will explain, and explanation is the critic’s food. Erickson could wait a minute. Practice waiting ten seconds without dying.", "example": "[pause] in the pond script. The trapdoor said once. The dog, asleep, not commenting.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "tailoring", "name": "Tailoring", "who": "erickson", "family": "induction", "does": "Every technique is rewritten for this person, this morning, this language.", "formula": "Take a formula. Replace every image with their images. Replace every verb with their verbs. Keep only the structure.", "slots": [ "the formula", "their images", "their verbs" ], "tell": "This document is the structure. Their life is the content. If you use our pond with a person who hates water, you are reciting, not working.", "example": "The halls are examples. Your nested loop should be their job, their kitchen, their actual Tuesday.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "reorientation", "name": "Reorientation", "who": "both", "family": "induction", "does": "Brings them back so the work can travel. Count up, sensory here, eyes open, already begun.", "formula": "In a moment you will be here, bringing with you what you need, eyes open, clear, the work already running.", "slots": [ "the return cue", "what comes with them", "a here-and-now sensory" ], "tell": "Do not snap. Do not leave them in a hole. Erickson: dripping on brass, each drop lifting. Bandler: a joke, a stretch, the dog walking off.", "example": "The dripping comes back. Each drop lifting you higher. And your eyes open. Already, and permanently, begun.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "common-everyday-trance", "name": "The Common Everyday Trance", "who": "erickson", "family": "induction", "does": "Uses ordinary absorption (driving, reading, waiting) as the already-present trance, rather than installing a special one.", "formula": "You already know the state of being absorbed in… and this can be like that.", "slots": [ "their ordinary absorption", "this = that" ], "tell": "You do not need a velvet voice. You need their highway, their book, their sink full of dishes.", "example": "A woman in a kitchen that smells of lemon oil listens to a stranger’s grief the way you listen to rain.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "depotentiate", "name": "Depotentiating the Conscious Set", "who": "erickson", "family": "induction", "does": "Softens the part that would analyze, so the rest of the work has room. Confusion, humor, shock, not-knowing, story — all serve this.", "formula": "Give the conscious an impossible or irrelevant job. Do the real work elsewhere.", "slots": [ "the job for the critic", "the real work" ], "tell": "This is the purpose, not a separate trick. If the critic is still running the meeting, none of the other formulas will hold.", "example": "I will not be discussing your mother. The cartographer’s instruments. A laminated hour. All of them keep the critic busy.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "incremental", "name": "Incremental Suggestion", "who": "erickson", "family": "install", "does": "Small yes, slightly larger yes, until the thing that would have been refused is already happening.", "formula": "Tiny. A little more. A little more. Now the thing itself, which now feels like the next tiny.", "slots": [ "first tiny", "steps", "the thing itself as a next tiny" ], "tell": "Sela did not have a map of dunes. She had a step. Then another.", "example": "Hands rest loosely. Knuckles uncurling one by one. A faint breeze. Fingers go slack. Arms like warm lead.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "symptom-prescription", "name": "Symptom Prescription / Ordeal / Paradox", "who": "erickson", "family": "reframe", "does": "Instructs the symptom, or attaches an ordeal, so it is no longer involuntary, or too expensive to keep.", "formula": "Do the symptom, on purpose, at 4 a.m., in this specific way. Or: keep it, and it will mean this other thing.", "slots": [ "the symptom", "the instruction or ordeal", "the new meaning" ], "tell": "Once they can produce it on purpose, it is not a possession. It is a behavior. Behaviors can be retired.", "example": "Run the day again. Memorise the tray, the old woman, the puddle. Keep performing until the performance is detectable even to you.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "spatial-anchor-voices", "name": "Spatial Voice Stacking", "who": "bandler", "family": "structure", "does": "Different locations or voices hold different nested stories, so the room itself is the nest.", "formula": "Story A from here. Story B from one step left. Commands from a third place. Return to A’s place to close A.", "slots": [ "location or voice per nest", "a command location", "return-to-close" ], "tell": "On a stage: microphone changes hands. On a page: **bold**, *italic*, [meta]. In a room: this chair, that window.", "example": "Furniture’s mic handoffs. This hall’s **commands**, *soft*, and the unconscious dialogue in the river.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" } ], "recipes": [ { "id": "nested-seminar", "name": "Nested-Loop Seminar (Bandler)", "who": "bandler", "does": "The full teaching-stack. Conscious tracks stories. Payload at the bottom. Closures scrambled. One thread never explained.", "steps": [ "Open story A (largest frame, unfinished).", "Open story B inside A.", "Open story C inside B. Optionally D, E.", "At the deepest point: analog-mark **commands** every 2–8 words. Land the replacement behavior as verbs, not absences.", "Close an inner story — not necessarily the last one opened.", "Close the others out of order. A cascade beat may close several at once.", "Leave one image unfinished. Do not explain it.", "Reorient with humor, a stretch, a sideways interrupt. Not a summary." ], "skeleton": "Once, [STORY A — largest world]…\nBefore that resolved, [STORY B]…\nWhich reminds me of [STORY C]…\n**[command]** … **[command]** … [replacement behavior in verbs]\nAnyway, about [C or B, closed out of order]…\nAnd [A closes last, or stays open]\n[ONE IMAGE, never explained]", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "confusion-sandwich", "name": "Confusion Sandwich (Bandler / Erickson)", "who": "both", "does": "Overload or paradox, pause, one simple suggestion as relief.", "steps": [ "Give the conscious too much: numbers, reversals, a logical impossibility, a pun.", "Do not resolve it.", "Pause.", "One short, clear **command**.", "Continue as if the confusion were ordinary weather." ], "skeleton": "[Too much / paradox / reversal]. Which is the same as [impossible equation].\n[pause]\n**[one simple command]**\nAnd the [original scene] continues.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "quote-stack", "name": "Quote-Stack Command (Bandler)", "who": "bandler", "does": "Buries the install in a voice that is not yours.", "steps": [ "Name a speaker who is not you.", "Have them quote someone else.", "Put the **command** in the innermost mouth.", "Mark it analogically.", "Return to the outer speaker. Do not claim the line." ], "skeleton": "[Speaker 1] told me that [speaker 2] used to say to [speaker 3],\n\"**[command]**.\"\nAnd then [speaker 1] just went back to [ordinary action].", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "yes-presuppose-command", "name": "Yes-Set → Presupposition → Command", "who": "both", "does": "Three undeniable statements, then a payload treated as already true, then a marked verb.", "steps": [ "Truism about the body.", "Truism about time or breath.", "Truism about their own history.", "A sentence that presupposes the change (when / as / continue to).", "A marked **command**." ], "skeleton": "You are [body truism].\n[Breath / time truism].\nYou have already [their history truism].\nWhen you [presupposed change], you can **[command]**.", "whoLabel": "Both" }, { "id": "interrupt-freeze", "name": "Pattern Interrupt → Freeze → Install", "who": "bandler", "does": "Cuts an automatic sequence and puts the new piece in the hole.", "steps": [ "Start a familiar sequence (handshake, joke, sentence, reach).", "Cut it before completion.", "Hold the freeze a beat longer than comfort.", "Analog-mark the install.", "Resume as if the sequence had always included this." ], "skeleton": "[Familiar sequence begins]—\n[cut]\n**[command in the freeze]**\n—and [resume, ordinary].", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "dhe-machine", "name": "DHE Machine Install (Bandler)", "who": "bandler", "does": "Names a machine, demonstrates it in metaphor, installs with commands, refuses biography.", "steps": [ "Refuse the biography ('I do not care about your childhood').", "Name the machine in one line.", "Tell a story that IS the machine, not a lecture about it.", "Analog-mark 8–20 commands that are the machine in verbs.", "Claim it is in. Future-pace one real cue.", "Do not process feelings about it." ], "skeleton": "I build machines. This one is [NAME]: [one-line does].\n[Story that is the machine]\n**[verb]** … **[verb]** … **[verb]**\nAnd that is [NAME]. It's in.\nWhen you next [real-life cue], [the machine runs].", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "humor-ride", "name": "Humor as Anesthetic", "who": "bandler", "does": "The laugh drops the set. The command rides the laugh.", "steps": [ "A real joke (not a wink at the technique).", "As the laugh starts, **command**.", "Continue the joke so the critic files comedy, not instruction." ], "skeleton": "[Setup]\n[Punchline]\n**[command]**\n[Tag that keeps it a joke]", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "state-chain-recipe", "name": "State Chain / Swish", "who": "bandler", "does": "Walks a state to another, or recodes a cue image into a desired self.", "steps": [ "Elicit the starting state. Anchor or note its coding.", "Elicit a bridge state if the jump is too far.", "Elicit the destination. Make it stronger.", "Chain, or swish the cue picture into the destination self, fast, several times.", "Break state. Test. Future-pace." ], "skeleton": "When you [cue], you have been [old state].\nSee that picture. Now [SWISH] into [you already past it, big, close, bright].\nAgain. Faster. [break]\nThink of the cue. What happens now.", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "full-bandler", "name": "Full Bandler Stack", "who": "bandler", "does": "Nested loops + stacked quotes + analog-marked commands + humor + one unclosed thread + DHE naming.", "steps": [ "Open three loops.", "Stack a quote at least two deep.", "Mark commands every 2–8 words at the bottom.", "Land a named machine.", "Laugh once, command in the laugh.", "Close out of order.", "Leave one image unexplained." ], "skeleton": "[A opens]\n[B opens, with a joke]\n[C opens] [Speaker] said [other] said \"**[command]**\"\n[Machine name] **[verbs]**\n[Close C or B first]\n[A last or open]\n[Unexplained image]", "whoLabel": "Bandler" }, { "id": "erickson-yes-set", "name": "Truism Yes-Set → Implied Directive (Erickson)", "who": "erickson", "does": "Slow, sensory, undeniable, then a when-clause that books the change.", "steps": [ "Describe present sensation (truism 1).", "Describe breath or time (truism 2).", "Describe a fact of their life they will not deny (truism 3).", "When / as / the moment [inevitable], [desired].", "Wait. Do not explain." ], "skeleton": "The [sensation] is [undeniable].\nBreath is already happening.\nYou have already [their fact].\nWhen the next [inevitable cue] happens, [desired change].\n[silence]", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "interspersal-story", "name": "Interspersal Story (Erickson)", "who": "erickson", "does": "An ordinary scene with marked words at the clause seams. The scene is the induction.", "steps": [ "Pick a sensory scene (no plot required).", "Write it slowly.", "At clause seams, insert **relax / down / now / easy / that's right** and keep describing.", "Never announce the marked words.", "Return to the scene to ratify." ], "skeleton": "The [place] is [sensory]. You can **[command]** as the [detail] continues,\nand **[command]**, while [ordinary continuation], **that's right**.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "lankton-nest", "name": "Multiple Embedded Metaphors (Erickson / Lankton)", "who": "erickson", "does": "Three isomorphic tales, payload in the innermost, ordered closes. Conscious remembers the outer tale.", "steps": [ "Tale A: their life as a landscape. Leave it open.", "Tale B: a character who is them and is not. Open.", "Tale C: the change as something the character does. Open.", "At the bottom: the direct work, still in images, or a few marked words.", "Close C, then B, then A. No moral." ], "skeleton": "[A — landscape of their problem]…\nNow, [B — character]…\nAnd [C — the change as plot]…\n**[few marked words]**\nAnd [C finishes]\nWhich is when [B finishes]\nAnd as for [A], [A finishes, no moral]", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "confusion-pause", "name": "Confusion → Pause → Simple Suggestion", "who": "erickson", "does": "Erickson’s named confusion technique in its cleanest form.", "steps": [ "Scramble: non-sequitur, pun, reversal, too many numbers, a paradox.", "Stop. Longer than is polite.", "One short suggestion in simple words.", "Go on with something sensory and easy." ], "skeleton": "[Paradox / pun / reversal].\n[silence]\n**[simple suggestion]**\nThe [sensory easy thing] is still [here].", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "utilization-bind", "name": "Utilization + Bind", "who": "erickson", "does": "Uses their resistance as the method, then offers two choices that both do the work.", "steps": [ "Name what they brought (skepticism, noise, 'I can't').", "And that can be the way…", "Offer now-or-later, this-or-that, conscious-or-unconscious — all of which perform the class of change." ], "skeleton": "You [resistance]. And that can be the way you [change].\nWould you rather [A that does it] or [B that also does it].", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "cu-recipe", "name": "Conscious–Unconscious Dissociation", "who": "erickson", "does": "Two jobs. Both count as success.", "steps": [ "Give the conscious a listening / watching / noting job.", "Give the rest a changing / remembering / going-down job.", "Say that either is fine, and both can happen." ], "skeleton": "Your conscious mind can [job A],\nwhile the rest of you [job B].\nYou don't have to know how. Both are all right.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "seed-harvest", "name": "Seed Early, Harvest Late", "who": "erickson", "does": "One sentence, early, unexplained. The same image returns as the point of the piece.", "steps": [ "In the first minutes, one sentence of an image. No meaning.", "Do the whole rest of the work.", "Return to the image at the climax. Now it is allowed to mean.", "Still do not lecture. Let the image do the sentence." ], "skeleton": "Early: Among the [scene], [IMAGE], and you never thought much about it.\n[the entire piece]\nLate: [IMAGE] again. [what it has been doing all along].", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "naturalistic-pace", "name": "Naturalistic Pace and Lead", "who": "erickson", "does": "No ritual. Description of now, then one small and-lead.", "steps": [ "Describe what is already true in the room and the body.", "And.", "One slightly deeper thing.", "Repeat. Never name hypnosis unless that helps this person." ], "skeleton": "You can feel [true], hear [true], notice [true],\nand you can [small lead].", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "john-recipe", "name": "My-Friend-John Displacement", "who": "erickson", "does": "Their change, told as someone else’s.", "steps": [ "A person who is not them.", "Their problem, in that person’s clothes.", "What that person did (the new behavior).", "No 'and you should too.' Stop." ], "skeleton": "I knew a [person] who [their problem in other clothes].\nWhat they did was [new behavior as plot].\n[stop]", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "cover-all-recipe", "name": "Covering All Possibilities", "who": "erickson", "does": "Whatever they do is a yes.", "steps": [ "Name response class A as success.", "Name class B as success.", "Name 'or something else, in your own way' as success.", "Proceed." ], "skeleton": "You may [A], or [B], or it may happen in some other way that is yours.\nAny of those is the way this works.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" }, { "id": "handshake-recipe", "name": "Handshake Interrupt (classic Erickson)", "who": "erickson", "does": "Freeze an automatic social sequence. Catalepsy. Simple suggestion.", "steps": [ "Begin a handshake or any automatic sequence.", "Halt it mid-completion. Look at the hand, not the face.", "Wait until the arm is willing to stay.", "A simple suggestion: that can stay, and you can go down.", "Ratify. Then use the trance." ], "skeleton": "[Sequence begins] — [halt]\nThat can stay just like that.\nAnd you can **[simple suggestion]**.\nThat's right.", "whoLabel": "Erickson" } ], "miltonModel": [ { "id": "mm-mind", "name": "Mind reading", "does": "Names an inner state as if seen.", "formula": "I know you… You may be wondering…", "example": "You hate that the only work is doing nothing." }, { "id": "mm-lost", "name": "Lost performative", "does": "A value with no speaker.", "formula": "It’s good to… One doesn’t… It is obvious…", "example": "Late is not wrong." }, { "id": "mm-cause", "name": "Cause–effect", "does": "A linked as causing B.", "formula": "As X, Y. Because X, Y. X makes Y.", "example": "As the crew goes down, she goes down." }, { "id": "mm-equiv", "name": "Complex equivalence", "does": "X means Y.", "formula": "X means Y. X is Y.", "example": "A boundary is a key. Thin is a faculty." }, { "id": "mm-presup", "name": "Presupposition", "does": "Payload not up for debate.", "formula": "When / after / continue to / another…", "example": "When the sixteenth arrives…" }, { "id": "mm-univ", "name": "Universal quantifier", "does": "All / never / always as law.", "formula": "Every / all / never / always…", "example": "She can always tell." }, { "id": "mm-need", "name": "Modal of necessity", "does": "Must / have to / should.", "formula": "You have to… you need to…", "example": "You must be available, not eager." }, { "id": "mm-can", "name": "Modal of possibility", "does": "Can / may / might.", "formula": "You can… you may find…", "example": "You can stop trying now." }, { "id": "mm-nom", "name": "Nominalization", "does": "Process named as a thing.", "formula": "A noun you can move.", "example": "The Gap. The Receiving. Arranging." }, { "id": "mm-verb", "name": "Unspecified verb", "does": "No how.", "formula": "Change. Settle. Go down.", "example": "Let it happen. Wait." }, { "id": "mm-ref", "name": "Lack of referential index", "does": "They / people / it.", "formula": "People can… it happens…", "example": "Not one butterfly has been observed trying." }, { "id": "mm-comp", "name": "Comparative deletion", "does": "Deeper / easier — than what?", "formula": "Deeper. Easier. More.", "example": "Easier with every breath." }, { "id": "mm-post", "name": "Conversational postulate", "does": "Yes/no question that is an action.", "formula": "Can you… Would you mind…", "example": "Can you sit back in the chair." }, { "id": "mm-tag", "name": "Tag question", "does": "Pulls a yes at the end.", "formula": "…don’t you. …isn’t it.", "example": "It is far more than you thought, isn’t it." }, { "id": "mm-emb", "name": "Embedded command", "does": "Command as a clause.", "formula": "Carrier **verb phrase** carrier.", "example": "You can settle back now as the bark presses." }, { "id": "mm-eq", "name": "Embedded question", "does": "A search hidden in a statement.", "formula": "I wonder whether you know…", "example": "I wonder if the fish is still six feet down." }, { "id": "mm-neg", "name": "Negative command", "does": "Don’t + the image you want in.", "formula": "Don’t / never [image].", "example": "Do not watch for the effect." }, { "id": "mm-phono", "name": "Phonological ambiguity", "does": "One sound, two meanings.", "formula": "wait/weight, here/hear, no/know.", "example": "Notice the weight. Wait for the signal." }, { "id": "mm-syn", "name": "Syntactic ambiguity", "does": "Two legal parses.", "formula": "Hypnotizing hypnotists can be tricky.", "example": "Speaking to you as a child…" }, { "id": "mm-scope", "name": "Scope ambiguity", "does": "Unclear what a modifier covers.", "formula": "The deep warmth of your hands and feet.", "example": "The quiet safety of it." }, { "id": "mm-punct", "name": "Punctuation ambiguity", "does": "Two sentences share words.", "formula": "Notice your hand me the glass.", "example": "You can hear this now know that…" }, { "id": "mm-sel", "name": "Selectional restriction", "does": "Human verb on a thing.", "formula": "The chair holds you. The corn listens.", "example": "The log is already doing the holding." }, { "id": "mm-quote", "name": "Quotes / extended quotes", "does": "Someone else said the command.", "formula": "X said Y said **command**.", "example": "A man I knew used to say, sit down." }, { "id": "mm-analog", "name": "Analog marking", "does": "Second channel marks the payload.", "formula": "Tone / pause / gesture / bold on the command only.", "example": "**sit on your hands**" } ], "sleightOfMouth": [ { "id": "som-intent", "name": "Intent", "does": "Goes to the purpose under the belief.", "formula": "What is that trying to do for you.", "example": "Arranging is trying to keep you from being hurt. Presence does that better." }, { "id": "som-redefine", "name": "Redefine", "does": "Swaps the words.", "formula": "It isn’t X, it’s Y.", "example": "It isn’t rejection. It’s information. Accuracy is not movement." }, { "id": "som-conseq", "name": "Consequence", "does": "Shows what the belief costs if kept.", "formula": "And if you keep that, then…", "example": "If you keep interpreting, you keep scoring 1 out of 10." }, { "id": "som-down", "name": "Chunk down", "does": "Asks for specifics until the belief can’t cover them.", "formula": "Which part, specifically. When, exactly.", "example": "Never listens — to which sentence, on which day." }, { "id": "som-up", "name": "Chunk up", "does": "Goes to a larger class that changes the meaning.", "formula": "This is a case of what.", "example": "Nineteen letters is a case of volume mistaken for reception." }, { "id": "som-counter", "name": "Counterexample", "does": "One case the belief cannot swallow.", "formula": "And yet there was the time when…", "example": "And yet the day he did not try is the day she chose him." }, { "id": "som-outcome", "name": "Another outcome", "does": "Changes what the conversation is even about.", "formula": "The real question is…", "example": "The real question is not how to get a reply. It is whether you would send it with none." }, { "id": "som-analogy", "name": "Analogy / metaphor", "does": "A parallel that carries the reframe.", "formula": "That’s like…", "example": "That’s like checking whether the top is still spinning." }, { "id": "som-self", "name": "Apply to self", "does": "Turns the belief on the speaker of it.", "formula": "Does that belief apply to itself.", "example": "You say you have to interpret to be sure. Are you sure that’s true, or did you interpret that." }, { "id": "som-hier", "name": "Hierarchy of criteria", "does": "A higher value overrules.", "formula": "What’s more important than that.", "example": "What’s more important — being right about her, or being with her." }, { "id": "som-frame", "name": "Change frame size", "does": "Zooms time or number of people.", "formula": "In ten years / for everyone / in the moment…", "example": "In ten years, will this have been a sequence or a Tuesday." }, { "id": "som-meta", "name": "Meta frame", "does": "A belief about the belief.", "formula": "The fact that you believe that means…", "example": "The fact that you need the day to work means the day is still a technique." }, { "id": "som-model", "name": "Model of the world", "does": "Locates the belief as one map.", "formula": "In that model… Other models…", "example": "In Haight-Browning’s model the wolf is a system. The wolf did not read the paper." }, { "id": "som-reality", "name": "Reality strategy", "does": "Asks how they know it’s true — then edits that test.", "formula": "How do you know that. What do you see/hear/feel that means that.", "example": "How do you know it didn’t work — because there was no reply, or because you watched for the effect." } ], "halls": [ { "id": "eight-days", "title": "Eight Days", "subtitle": "The Key, The Gap, Five Open Hands", "tradition": "bandler", "duration": "130–160 min", "loops": 20, "commands": "chained bold", "blurb": "The original hall. Eight days with Stephanie nested inside Groundhog, Sleepless, Notebook, Dances, Avatar, Tombstone, Pulp, Kill Bill, and the rest. Boundary as key. Closures out of order.", "entryFloor": "Floor 100 · the alarm has already gone off", "installs": "Stillness instead of arranging. Company, not assessment. Her pace. The gap. A boundary as a key. Five Open Hands. Want stays; arranging leaves. One unclosed clock." }, { "id": "recurring-day", "title": "The Recurring Day", "subtitle": "Fifteenth of February, five worlds, one trapdoor", "tradition": "bandler", "duration": "70–90 min", "loops": 10, "commands": "every 2–8 words", "blurb": "The repeating day is the method. Five original worlds plus Inception and Field of Dreams. The only loop that ends the cycle is the one where he is not running a loop. The trapdoor is named out loud.", "entryFloor": "Same civic Tuesday · again", "installs": "Reps until automatic. Restate, do not interpret. Full power, controlled speed. Build and wait. Presence without guaranteed return. Name the trapdoor. Do not explain the blue key." }, { "id": "hundredth-floor", "title": "The Hundredth Floor", "subtitle": "Three Ericksonian routes to the same office", "tradition": "erickson", "duration": "three scripts · 773 commands", "loops": 8, "commands": "773 chained", "blurb": "Pond, two waters, four truisms. Descent is the induction; ascent is the installation. One lily pad never opened. Movement first, direction second. Thin is a faculty.", "entryFloor": "Sub-basement · unmarked brass plate", "installs": "Nothing required. Movement first, direction second. Thin as faculty. Down before up. The closed pad is timing, not failure. Discipline as architecture, not willpower." }, { "id": "furniture", "title": "The Man Who Sold His Own Furniture", "subtitle": "Comedy as anesthetic · seven machines", "tradition": "bandler", "duration": "70 min · expanded 24-part", "loops": 18, "commands": "336 / 1,512 chained", "blurb": "A man auctions the front door while still living in it. Seven machines install while you laugh. One river engineer is never closed. You host your patterns. Eviction is a different operation from ownership.", "entryFloor": "Day two, afternoon · four hundred stacking chairs", "installs": "You host patterns; you do not own them. Seven machines: Gap, Plain Sentence, Routed Heat, One Message, Recognition, Animal Decides, Receiving. One river never closed." } ], "loops": [ { "id": "same-morning", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "The Same Morning", "payload": "The day will not advance while arranging is running", "tier": 1, "opens": "Act 0", "closes": "Coming Back", "openBeat": "induction", "closeBeat": "coming-back", "film": "Groundhog Day", "meaning": { "job": "recreate", "installs": "Stop running the day as a sequence. Presence instead of arranging.", "person": "The part of you that rehearses until someone chooses you.", "tell": "While arranging is running, Tuesday will not become Wednesday. The day that works is the one you stop performing." } }, { "id": "radio", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "A Voice Across Water", "payload": "Waiting is the appointment", "tier": 2, "opens": "Act 0", "closes": "Close Radio", "openBeat": "induction", "closeBeat": "closures", "film": "Sleepless in Seattle", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Waiting is the appointment. Distance can carry a signal. You do not have to swim the ocean.", "person": "The part that cannot bear a lag between sending and being received.", "tell": "A voice across water does not swim. It travels. Put the envelope down." } }, { "id": "notebook", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "The Notebook", "payload": "Her words in her words", "tier": 2, "opens": "Act 0", "closes": "Close Notebook", "openBeat": "induction", "closeBeat": "closures", "film": "The Notebook", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Take her words at face value. Her words in her words. Restate, do not interpret.", "person": "The part that improves what was said so it can be sure.", "tell": "8 out of 10 restating. 1 out of 10 interpreting. The interpreting felt more certain. That is the laminated chart. Burn it." } }, { "id": "fort", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "The Fort Among The Wild", "payload": "The animal decides the timing", "tier": 3, "opens": "Act 0", "closes": "Close Fort", "openBeat": "induction", "closeBeat": "closures", "film": "Dances with Wolves", "meaning": { "job": "imprint", "installs": "The animal decides the timing. Stillness brings it near. Reaching pushes it back.", "person": "The part that goes to the treeline with a net and a theory.", "tell": "Sit on the crate until the crate decides you are furniture. Two Socks comes when he comes." } }, { "id": "tombstone", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "The Street That Wanted A Show", "payload": "The fastest hand can afford not to move", "tier": 4, "opens": "Act 0", "closes": "Close Tombstone", "openBeat": "induction", "closeBeat": "closures", "film": "Tombstone", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "True power in stillness. The fastest hand can afford not to move.", "person": "The part that draws first to prove it is safe.", "tell": "Hell coming with him is a story the street wanted. The dentist who waits is still the fastest." } }, { "id": "pulp", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "Told Out Of Order", "payload": "The briefcase stays closed", "tier": 4, "opens": "Act 1", "closes": "Close Pulp", "openBeat": "loop-a", "closeBeat": "closures", "film": "Pulp Fiction", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "The briefcase stays closed. Do not inventory the light. Closures can arrive in the middle.", "person": "The part that needs to know what is in the case before it can sit at the table.", "tell": "Closed is how it keeps its light. Stories told out of order still hold." } }, { "id": "carter", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "New Gravity", "payload": "Old muscle on a lighter planet", "tier": 4, "opens": "Act 1", "closes": "Close Carter", "openBeat": "loop-d", "closeBeat": "closures", "film": "John Carter", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "Old muscle on a lighter planet is leaping, not failure. New gravity, same body.", "person": "The part that thinks the old effort should produce the old result in a new room.", "tell": "You are not weaker. The planet changed. Recalibrate. Then leap." } }, { "id": "avatar", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "Other Eyes", "payload": "Seeing is not possessing", "tier": 4, "opens": "Act 1", "closes": "Close Avatar", "openBeat": "loop-a", "closeBeat": "closures", "film": "Avatar", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "Seeing is not possessing. Other eyes. I see you is not I have you.", "person": "The part that confuses attention with ownership.", "tell": "The bond that is not a supply chain. Look. Do not harvest." } }, { "id": "circle", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "The Circle", "payload": "Stand on the rock without arranging the pride", "tier": 4, "opens": "Act 1", "closes": "Close Circle", "openBeat": "rules", "closeBeat": "closures", "film": "The Lion King", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Stand on the rock without arranging the pride. Remember, then let weather be weather.", "person": "The part that needs a throne tonight in order to be in the family.", "tell": "A circle of grass does not require a speech. Presence is the office." } }, { "id": "list", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "The Folded List", "payload": "Five openings, not a strike", "tier": 4, "opens": "Act 1", "closes": "Close List", "openBeat": "loop-c", "closeBeat": "five", "film": "Kill Bill", "meaning": { "job": "design", "installs": "Five openings, not a strike. The folded list is a sequence of openings, not a hunt.", "person": "The part that treats a conversation like a bill to collect.", "tell": "Kill Bill as a joke on the revenge sequence. Fold the list. Open hands." } }, { "id": "reacher", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "The Man Who Sold The Air", "payload": "Money is never a lever", "tier": 4, "opens": "Act 1", "closes": "Close Reacher", "openBeat": "hands-old", "closeBeat": "money", "film": "Wolf of Wall Street", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "Money is never a lever on a person. Sitting down is the first honest trade.", "person": "The part that tries to buy the outcome, then feels noble about the offer.", "tell": "He sold the air until sitting was the first honest trade. Shame that size makes a ghost, not a friend." } }, { "id": "deacon", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "Loop A — The Cathedral", "payload": "The four hours after the fast decision", "tier": 5, "opens": "Act 1", "closes": "Close A last", "openBeat": "loop-a", "closeBeat": "close-a", "meaning": { "job": "recreate", "installs": "The four hours after the fast decision were the fire. This time there are no four hours.", "person": "The part that makes a clean choice and then undoes it in the after.", "tell": "The cathedral last. Stay in the decision. Do not hold a review in the nave." } }, { "id": "rosalind", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "Loop B — Cotton And Venom", "payload": "Reaching is what gets you stung", "tier": 5, "opens": "Act 1", "closes": "Close B", "openBeat": "loop-b", "closeBeat": "closures", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Reaching is what gets you stung. Cotton is enough. Venom is information, not a dare.", "person": "The part that puts a hand into the hive to prove it is brave.", "tell": "The bees arrive when the arms remember they are not nets." } }, { "id": "tomasz", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "Loop C — Hands Under Thighs", "payload": "The gap is the move", "tier": 5, "opens": "Act 2", "closes": "Close C", "openBeat": "loop-c", "closeBeat": "closures", "meaning": { "job": "reorganize", "installs": "The gap is the move. Hands under thighs until the seeing is done and the hand is not early.", "person": "The part whose perception is perfect and whose hand is one second early.", "tell": "Sit on your hands. The seeing was never wrong. Install the brake." } }, { "id": "pell", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "Loop G — Four Hundred Keys", "payload": "A boundary is a key", "tier": 5, "opens": "Act 2", "closes": "Close G", "openBeat": "loop-g", "closeBeat": "closures", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "A boundary is a key. A lock is not a wall. Four hundred keys, one that fits.", "person": "The part that treats a no as architecture being mean.", "tell": "Warmth is a key. Honour is a key. Relief is a key. The door is already the door." } }, { "id": "cort", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "Loop D — The Roof Leaves Delft", "payload": "Heat intact, vessel new", "tier": 5, "opens": "Act 3", "closes": "Close D", "openBeat": "loop-d", "closeBeat": "closures", "meaning": { "job": "reorganize", "installs": "Heat intact, vessel new. She is fire. Contained is not diminished. A roof can leave a building.", "person": "The part that thinks if the container changes, the fire dies.", "tell": "A roof leaves Delft the way a hat leaves a head. The canal still holds water." } }, { "id": "cassius", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "Loop E — The Un-Drawn Gun", "payload": "True power in stillness", "tier": 5, "opens": "Act 3", "closes": "Close E first", "openBeat": "loop-e", "closeBeat": "closures", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "The un-drawn gun. True power in stillness. Close this one first so stillness is the first close.", "person": "The part that confuses drawing with being ready.", "tell": "Close E first, out of order. Stillness is not last. Stillness is the first thing that gets to be true." } }, { "id": "bettina", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "Loop H — The Baton", "payload": "Releasing the arranging produced the music", "tier": 5, "opens": "Act 4", "closes": "Close H", "openBeat": "loop-h", "closeBeat": "closures", "meaning": { "job": "imprint", "installs": "Releasing the arranging produced the music. The baton becomes two honest pieces of wood.", "person": "The part that conducts twelve years of rehearsal and gets orchestras that are flawless and dead.", "tell": "Snap the stick. Eighty musicians put their attention where a stick used to be." } }, { "id": "rivers", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "Loop F — Two Rivers", "payload": "Rejoining required continuing, not steering", "tier": 5, "opens": "Act 4", "closes": "Close F", "openBeat": "loop-f", "closeBeat": "closures", "meaning": { "job": "imprint", "installs": "Two rivers rejoin without a treaty. Continuing, not steering. You do not negotiate a confluence.", "person": "The part that wants a meeting in writing before it will flow.", "tell": "East water and west water become one river. A map sues the confluence and loses in a museum." } }, { "id": "aurelia", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "Two Hundred Clocks", "payload": "An unclosed loop keeps working", "tier": 5, "opens": "Act 5", "closes": "never", "openBeat": "aurelia", "closeBeat": "never", "meaning": { "job": "open", "installs": "An unclosed loop keeps working. Two hundred clocks disagree. A woman is on time.", "person": "The part that needs every clock to match before it will leave the house.", "tell": "Leave her running. Do not explain the clocks. Time was never the agreement." } }, { "id": "february", "hall": "recurring-day", "name": "The Fifteenth of February", "payload": "Reps until automatic; performance always detectable", "tier": 1, "opens": "World 1", "closes": "Last", "openBeat": "february", "closeBeat": "february-close", "film": "Groundhog Day", "meaning": { "job": "recreate", "installs": "Reps until automatic. The only loop that ends the cycle is the one where he is not running a loop.", "person": "The part that believes a better sequence will finally be undetectable.", "tell": "Performance is always detectable. Spend the day being decent to people who can do nothing for you." } }, { "id": "elkwater", "hall": "recurring-day", "name": "Winter at Elkwater Crossing", "payload": "The animal decides the timing; restating beats interpreting", "tier": 2, "opens": "World 2", "closes": "Out of order, first", "openBeat": "elkwater", "closeBeat": "february-close", "film": "Dances with Wolves", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Restating beats interpreting. The wolf decides the timing. A lecture on dominance gets bitten.", "person": "The part that files a report instead of sitting on the crate.", "tell": "Tracks meant hunger meant attack meant a sentence in a ledger. Then: the animal came. The animal left. 8 out of 10." } }, { "id": "florin", "hall": "recurring-day", "name": "Voyage to Florin’s Edge", "payload": "Full power, controlled speed; indictment of over-analysis", "tier": 2, "opens": "World 3", "closes": "Out of order", "openBeat": "florin", "closeBeat": "february-close", "film": "The Princess Bride", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "Full power, controlled speed. Keep the gift. Drop the commentary on the gift.", "person": "The part that narrates the vine while hanging from the vine.", "tell": "The funniest indictment of over-analysis is a man with a textbook in a sword fight." } }, { "id": "radio-hour", "hall": "recurring-day", "name": "The Radio Hour", "payload": "The broadcast that moved people was the one not trying to", "tier": 3, "opens": "World 4", "closes": "Out of order", "openBeat": "radio-hour", "closeBeat": "february-close", "film": "Sleepless in Seattle", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "The broadcast that moved people was the one not trying to. Silence can be the hour.", "person": "The part that weeps on air when the ratings dip and calls it authenticity.", "tell": "A woman in a kitchen listens the way you listen to rain — not to fix the roof." } }, { "id": "asher", "hall": "recurring-day", "name": "Letters at Asher’s Landing", "payload": "Nineteen undelivered messages; presence without guaranteed return", "tier": 3, "opens": "World 5", "closes": "Out of order", "openBeat": "asher", "closeBeat": "february-close", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Presence without guaranteed return. Nineteen undelivered. One message, then a tin.", "person": "The part that cannot send unless arrival is assured.", "tell": "Would you still send this knowing the boat does not turn around." } }, { "id": "inception", "hall": "recurring-day", "name": "The Hotel Corridor That Folds", "payload": "A dream engineered to work is still a technique", "tier": 4, "opens": "Mid-pack", "closes": "Kick, not explanation", "openBeat": "inception", "closeBeat": "february-close", "film": "Inception", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "A dream engineered to work is still a technique. Do not watch the top.", "person": "The part that builds levels so the other person will choose what was planted.", "tell": "Checking whether the top falls is the tell. He goes home and does not look. That is the install." } }, { "id": "field", "hall": "recurring-day", "name": "The Corn That Was Already Listening", "payload": "Build it and wait. They come. You do not fetch.", "tier": 4, "opens": "Mid-pack", "closes": "Voice remains", "openBeat": "field", "closeBeat": "february-close", "film": "Field of Dreams", "meaning": { "job": "imprint", "installs": "Build it. Wait. They come. You do not fetch. A voice in corn is not a hallucination if you plough.", "person": "The part that sends nineteen letters into the stalks and calls it faith.", "tell": "The sentence is not a lever. It is a weather report." } }, { "id": "trapdoor-loop", "hall": "recurring-day", "name": "The Trapdoor, Named", "payload": "A plain message engineered to work is still a technique", "tier": 4, "opens": "Named out loud", "closes": "Stays named", "openBeat": "trapdoor", "closeBeat": "february-close", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Name the cheat out loud: a plain message engineered to work is still a technique.", "person": "The part that will build a more invisible sequence and call it love.", "tell": "Would you send it exactly as written knowing there will be no reply. Named so it cannot be used in the dark." } }, { "id": "rivals", "hall": "recurring-day", "name": "The Credentialled Fools", "payload": "Every rival destroyed by the quality he mocked", "tier": 5, "opens": "Finale", "closes": "Front row", "openBeat": "rivals", "closeBeat": "february-close", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "The quality they mocked is the quality that works. Credentials do not protect a bad machine.", "person": "The part that still believes the laminated expert is safer than waiting.", "tell": "Haight-Browning, Sterling-Smythe, the laminated host, the architect of the top — front row, publicly destroyed." } }, { "id": "blue-key", "hall": "recurring-day", "name": "The Small Blue Key", "payload": "Never explained", "tier": 5, "opens": "Asher’s tin", "closes": "never", "openBeat": "asher", "closeBeat": "never", "meaning": { "job": "open", "installs": "Never explained. A small unused key. The mind will keep it.", "person": "The part that needs to know what every object is for.", "tell": "It opens nothing in the harbour records. Leave it in the tin. That is the whole instruction." } }, { "id": "pond", "hall": "hundredth-floor", "name": "The Pond Itself", "payload": "Return to the soft log is the trance", "tier": 1, "opens": "Script One", "closes": "The lily", "openBeat": "pond-log", "closeBeat": "closed-pad", "meaning": { "job": "imprint", "installs": "Return to the log is the trance. The scene is the induction. Nothing is required.", "person": "The part that thinks trance is a ritual you perform rather than a place you are already in.", "tell": "The bark is already against the spine. Settle back now. The pond is doing it." } }, { "id": "fish", "hall": "hundredth-floor", "name": "The Fish Six Feet Down", "payload": "Nothing is required; stories pass without supervision", "tier": 2, "opens": "Script One", "closes": "During descent", "openBeat": "fish-down", "closeBeat": "two-waters", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Nothing is required. Stories pass without supervision. Put the effort down.", "person": "The part that monitors growth so it can be sure growth is happening — and thereby slows it.", "tell": "Not one butterfly has been observed trying to be a butterfly. Six feet is deep enough." } }, { "id": "two-waters", "hall": "hundredth-floor", "name": "Two Waters", "payload": "Six feet down and a hundred floors up are the same depth", "tier": 1, "opens": "Script Two", "closes": "The lily", "openBeat": "two-waters", "closeBeat": "closed-pad", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "Six feet down and a hundred floors up are the same depth. Down before up. Descent is induction; ascent is installation.", "person": "The part that thinks the office and the pond are different lives.", "tell": "While the critic corrects the sentence, go down. Confusional device, then the simple job." } }, { "id": "truisms", "hall": "hundredth-floor", "name": "The Four Truisms", "payload": "Yes-set to the only conclusion available", "tier": 1, "opens": "Script Three", "closes": "The lily", "openBeat": "truisms", "closeBeat": "closed-pad", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "A yes-set of four undeniable things, arriving at the only conclusion available.", "person": "The part that will argue a suggestion but will not argue a chair, a breath, a résumé, a pad it already noticed.", "tell": "Sitting. Breathing. Hundredth-floor work from a fortieth-floor desk. The pad noticed and not forced. Then: that faculty is the one you paid for." } }, { "id": "sela", "hall": "hundredth-floor", "name": "Sela of the Reef", "payload": "First breath of air is a burn; gravity is the new teacher", "tier": 3, "opens": "Script One", "closes": "Out of order", "openBeat": "sela", "closeBeat": "thin-place", "meaning": { "job": "design", "installs": "Movement first, direction second. Overwhelm can produce a step. The first breath burns. The second burns less.", "person": "The part that freezes because there is no map of the dunes.", "tell": "She did not have a map. She had a step. Then another. This is the load-bearing install of all three scripts." } }, { "id": "thin-place", "hall": "hundredth-floor", "name": "The Thin Place", "payload": "What breaks heals thin. Thin is how you feel what thick cannot.", "tier": 4, "opens": "Part Two", "closes": "The lily", "openBeat": "thin-place", "closeBeat": "closed-pad", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "The hurt was real, undeserved, never a gift. What breaks heals thin. Thin feels through. Instrument, not injury.", "person": "The part that wants either 'it made me stronger' or 'it ruined me.' Neither is the whole filing.", "tell": "Keep the facts. Change the filing. Thin is how you feel what thicker things cannot feel." } }, { "id": "margaret-loop", "hall": "hundredth-floor", "name": "Margaret of the Fortieth Floor", "payload": "Hundredth-floor work from a desk that stops at 40", "tier": 3, "opens": "Script One", "closes": "The office", "openBeat": "margaret", "closeBeat": "closed-pad", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "The office was never the constraint. Hundredth-floor work from a desk that stops at 40. Quiet presence was the work.", "person": "The part that waits for the title before it will do the job it is already doing.", "tell": "She thought she was doing no work. Standing in the sun. That was exactly what drew them." } }, { "id": "closed-pad", "hall": "hundredth-floor", "name": "The Closed Pad", "payload": "Mentioned once. Returns as the point of the document.", "tier": 5, "opens": "Part One, one sentence", "closes": "Climax of Part Two", "openBeat": "pond-log", "closeBeat": "closed-pad", "meaning": { "job": "imprint", "installs": "A thing can be closed for years and still be doing its work. Never broken, never late, never deficient. Harvest of the early seed.", "person": "The part that treats unopened as failed, late, or deficient.", "tell": "Mentioned once in Part One. Returns as the point of the document. The pad opens when it opens. Some faculties stay closed on purpose." } }, { "id": "auction", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Auction of Everything He Owned", "payload": "You host patterns; eviction is not ownership", "tier": 1, "opens": "Section 1", "closes": "Final line", "openBeat": "auction", "closeBeat": "keeper", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "You do not own your patterns. You host them. Eviction is a different operation from ownership.", "person": "The part that thinks insight is possession and possession is change.", "tell": "Sell the furniture while you are still living in the house. See what comes back. Never the pieces you would have bet on." } }, { "id": "cartographer", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Country That Would Not Hold Still", "payload": "Accuracy is not movement", "tier": 2, "opens": "Section 2", "closes": "Section 11", "openBeat": "cartographer", "closeBeat": "auction-close", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "Accuracy is not movement. You can know the doorframe to the millimetre without turning the handle.", "person": "The part that measures instead of entering, then blames the instruments.", "tell": "The country will not hold still. Stop measuring. Measure less. Move more." } }, { "id": "orchestra", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Twelve-Year Orchestra Rehearsal", "payload": "Precision that produces death", "tier": 2, "opens": "Section 7", "closes": "Section 9", "openBeat": "machine-heat", "closeBeat": "auction-close", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Precision that produces death. Release the arranging. The music that was waiting walks in.", "person": "The part that believes more rehearsal is always the missing piece.", "tell": "Forty-one stops in a single movement. The baton snaps. Hands open." } }, { "id": "hotel-voice", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Voice Through the Hotel Wall", "payload": "Recognition through the wrong channel, correct anyway", "tier": 3, "opens": "Section 4", "closes": "Section 10", "openBeat": "hotel-voice", "closeBeat": "machine-recognition", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Recognition through the wrong channel, correct anyway. The name was the only data that mattered.", "person": "The part that rejects a true signal because the biography was wrong.", "tell": "The body knows before the mind confirms. Act on the signal. Certainty arrives afterward." } }, { "id": "book-41", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Book Read Forty-One Times", "payload": "Reread until it holds", "tier": 3, "opens": "Section 4", "closes": "Section 10", "openBeat": "hotel-voice", "closeBeat": "machine-recognition", "meaning": { "job": "recreate", "installs": "Reread until it holds — not because the text changed, because the reader stopped improving it.", "person": "The part that keeps translating in order to be faithful, and so is unfaithful.", "tell": "The forty-first reading holds. Same book. Different reader." } }, { "id": "lighthouse", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Lighthouse Four Hundred Miles Inland", "payload": "A signal with no coast still works", "tier": 3, "opens": "Section 8", "closes": "Section 11", "openBeat": "machine-message", "closeBeat": "auction-close", "meaning": { "job": "imprint", "installs": "A signal with no coast still works. Reception was never a function of volume. The coast was never the point.", "person": "The part that will not light the lamp until a ship is confirmed.", "tell": "Four hundred miles inland. He lights it anyway. Ships that do not exist are still, in some ledger, not wrecked." } }, { "id": "river-turn", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Man Who Taught a River to Turn", "payload": "Never closed. Something left open keeps working.", "tier": 3, "opens": "Section 8", "closes": "never", "openBeat": "machine-message", "closeBeat": "never", "meaning": { "job": "open", "installs": "Never closed. Something left open keeps working. A man taught a river to turn. We do not finish him.", "person": "The part that needs every story to resolve before it will let the session end.", "tell": "Skip him in the cascade. Do not explain him. He is the open loop of the whole hall." } }, { "id": "one-guest", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Hotel with One Guest", "payload": "The Gap — one second between perceiving and acting", "tier": 4, "opens": "Section 3", "closes": "Section 3", "openBeat": "machine-gap", "closeBeat": "machine-gap", "meaning": { "job": "reorganize", "installs": "The Gap. One second between perceiving and acting. Keep the perception. Install the brake.", "person": "The part whose seeing is perfect and whose hand is early, which has started to make other people flinch.", "tell": "The guest lets the second complete. The bell sounds like a bell. The clerk does not flinch." } }, { "id": "two-moves", "hall": "furniture", "name": "Two Moves a Year", "payload": "The Plain Sentence", "tier": 4, "opens": "Section 5", "closes": "Section 6", "openBeat": "machine-plain", "closeBeat": "machine-heat", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "The Plain Sentence. What was said is what was said. Two moves a year. Literacy, not illness.", "person": "The part that searches for the second layer because a first layer feels too simple to be safe.", "tell": "The search reflex still fires. It simply finds room instead of a second layer." } }, { "id": "one-loaf", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Bakery That Made One Loaf", "payload": "Routed heat lights a city", "tier": 4, "opens": "Section 6", "closes": "Section 7", "openBeat": "machine-heat", "closeBeat": "machine-message", "meaning": { "job": "reorganize", "installs": "Routed heat lights a city. Nothing extinguished. Body, then heart, then head. One loaf, not forty that taste like panic.", "person": "The part that either dumps the fire or burns the kitchen.", "tell": "Same oven. Same fire. Route it. Unrouted heat is not more honest. It is just unrouted." } }, { "id": "brothers", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Two Brothers Digging", "payload": "One message, then still", "tier": 4, "opens": "Section 8", "closes": "Section 9", "openBeat": "machine-message", "closeBeat": "machine-recognition", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "One message, then still. The hole appears in the silence. Volume was never reception.", "person": "The part that talks the entire time about the hole and is infuriated that the quiet one has water.", "tell": "Send once. Then the lamp is the lamp." } }, { "id": "translator", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Translator Who Improved Everything", "payload": "The body knows before the mind confirms", "tier": 4, "opens": "Section 10", "closes": "Section 10", "openBeat": "machine-recognition", "closeBeat": "machine-recognition", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Leave a sentence unimproved. The body knows first. Act; certainty arrives afterward.", "person": "The part that cannot let a line exist in the form it arrived.", "tell": "The translator who improved everything finally leaves a sentence unimproved. It holds." } }, { "id": "backward-clock", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Clock That Ran Backward", "payload": "Late is not wrong", "tier": 4, "opens": "Section 11", "closes": "Section 11", "openBeat": "machine-recognition", "closeBeat": "auction-close", "meaning": { "job": "reframe", "installs": "Late is not wrong. Arrive when you arrive. Stop correcting the clock.", "person": "The part that is early to every grief and late to every joy, and thinks that is responsibility.", "tell": "He stopped correcting it. He arrived when he arrived. Different hall, same machine as Aurelia’s two hundred clocks." } }, { "id": "wolf-treeline", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Wolf at the Treeline", "payload": "Available, not eager. The creature decides the timing.", "tier": 4, "opens": "Machine 6", "closes": "Cascade", "openBeat": "machine-animal", "closeBeat": "auction-close", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Available, not eager. Stillness brings it near. Reaching pushes it back. The creature sets the pace.", "person": "The part that hunts what it wants and then calls the empty treeline fate.", "tell": "Machine six. The one that gets the job done while you are busy trying to look spiritual. Sit down in the mud. Look at the grass. He comes closer." } }, { "id": "wooden-box", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Box in the Stream", "payload": "Contents dry. The river does not know. The box does not care.", "tier": 4, "opens": "Machine 7", "closes": "Cascade", "openBeat": "machine-receive", "closeBeat": "auction-close", "meaning": { "job": "imprint", "installs": "You built nothing and that is why it is perfect. The box does not move. Contents dry. The river does not know.", "person": "The part that thinks peace has to be hammered together with nails and anxiety.", "tell": "The river does not know what is inside, and the box does not care about the river." } }, { "id": "brass-sphere", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Brass Sphere", "payload": "A drop of water held still at the center. Not a trick. Physics.", "tier": 4, "opens": "Machine 7", "closes": "Cascade", "openBeat": "machine-receive", "closeBeat": "auction-close", "meaning": { "job": "imprint", "installs": "A drop of water held still at the center. Not a trick. Physics. Receiving is the skill.", "person": "The part that keeps flapping its arms because it does not trust the field.", "tell": "Physics does not care if you believe in it. It will catch you when you stop." } }, { "id": "descent-crew", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Descent Crew", "payload": "Stop pressing. The level holds because of nothing.", "tier": 5, "opens": "Deepest level", "closes": "The beach", "openBeat": "descent-crew", "closeBeat": "auction-close", "meaning": { "job": "install", "installs": "Stop pressing. The level holds because of nothing. That is why it cannot be broken.", "person": "The part that almost ruins the descent by forcing the dream to stay awake.", "tell": "Hand off the console. The klaxons stop. The beach is stable. The intruder sits down on the sand." } }, { "id": "keeper", "hall": "furniture", "name": "The Keeper and the Distance", "payload": "The dog walks off. Resolution is not explanation.", "tier": 5, "opens": "Final section", "closes": "He leaves", "openBeat": "keeper", "closeBeat": "keeper", "meaning": { "job": "open", "installs": "Resolution is not explanation. The dog walks off. A little of the furniture comes home. Never the pieces you would have bet on.", "person": "The part that needs the moral before it will let the dog leave.", "tell": "The front door does not come back. He likes the rectangular hole. Wind in the hallway. That is the resolution." } } ], "symbols": [ { "id": "dog", "name": "The sleeping brown dog", "meaning": { "metaphor": "Presence without theory. An interrupt that looks accidental. Completely present, analysing nobody.", "person": "The part of you that is already doing the thing the seminar is talking about, and has no notes.", "change": "Gives the nervous system a model of monitoring nothing. When the dog walks off, the session is allowed to end without a moral. You can stop performing understanding." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "recurring-day", "furniture" ], "chain": "timing" }, { "id": "key", "name": "Key / lock / keyway", "meaning": { "metaphor": "A boundary that opens. A lock is not a wall. An unused small key that is never explained.", "person": "The part that hears 'no' as architecture being cruel, and the part that wants every object labelled.", "change": "Refiles refusal as a keyway — something that fits, not something that exiles. The unexplained key keeps working because it is not turned into a tip." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "recurring-day" ], "chain": "containers" }, { "id": "door", "name": "Door", "meaning": { "metaphor": "Entry, exit, a rectangular hole, a door that opens outward (you must step back).", "person": "The part that stands in a doorway arranging the room instead of going in or out.", "change": "Auctioning the door while living in the house = you can lose the old access and still be at home. A door that opens outward trains you to step back so something can arrive." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "furniture", "hundredth-floor" ], "chain": "containers" }, { "id": "river", "name": "River", "meaning": { "metaphor": "A force that rejoins without a treaty, that can be taught to turn, that is the same at six feet and a hundred floors.", "person": "The part that wants a signed confluence before it will move, and the part that keeps digging two channels.", "change": "Continuing, not steering. Two lives, two waters, two halls — same current. Leave one river engineer open so the current keeps working after the talk ends." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "furniture", "hundredth-floor" ], "chain": "engines" }, { "id": "pond", "name": "Pond / lily / closed pad", "meaning": { "metaphor": "The trance is a place, not a ritual. A closed lily among open ones. Green light as depth.", "person": "The part that thinks unopened = failed, and trance = something done to you.", "change": "Return to the log and the body remembers how. The closed pad refiles waiting as timing, not deficiency. Some faculties stay closed on purpose and remain instruments." }, "halls": [ "hundredth-floor" ], "chain": "timing" }, { "id": "field", "name": "Field / corn / voice", "meaning": { "metaphor": "A place you build and then do not fetch from. Corn that was already listening. A field that remembers being a floor.", "person": "The part that constructs the diamond and then goes into the stalks with letters.", "change": "Build. Wait. They come. Installs faith as a weather report rather than a lever. The body learns to stay in the place it built." }, "halls": [ "recurring-day", "furniture" ], "chain": "timing" }, { "id": "dream", "name": "Dream / level / kick / totem", "meaning": { "metaphor": "A level engineered to produce a choice. A top you watch. A kick. A descent crew pressing buttons.", "person": "The part that will build a beautiful inner movie so the other person chooses the planted idea.", "change": "Names the cheat: a dream engineered to work is still a technique. Stop watching the top. Stop pressing. The level holds because of nothing — that is why it cannot be broken." }, "halls": [ "recurring-day", "furniture" ], "chain": "engines" }, { "id": "radio", "name": "Radio / broadcast / static", "meaning": { "metaphor": "A signal across distance and static. The hour that works is the one not trying to.", "person": "The part that turns the volume up when it is afraid it is not loved, and calls the volume authenticity.", "change": "Reception is not a function of volume. Silence can be the broadcast. The body learns to send once and let water carry it." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "recurring-day" ], "chain": "timing" }, { "id": "letter", "name": "Letter / nineteen messages", "meaning": { "metaphor": "Nineteen undelivered messages. An envelope put down. A tin that holds what was too expensive to send.", "person": "The part that cannot speak unless a reply is guaranteed, and so either does not speak or speaks nineteen times.", "change": "Presence without guaranteed return. The unreplied test. One message, then the tin. Want stays. Arranging leaves." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "recurring-day" ], "chain": "containers" }, { "id": "clock", "name": "Clock / day / Tuesday", "meaning": { "metaphor": "A day that will not advance. Two hundred clocks that disagree. A clock that runs backward. The sixteenth as weather.", "person": "The part that will not live until the clocks match, and so is early to grief and late to joy.", "change": "Late is not wrong. A woman can be on time among disagreeing clocks. The day ends when the sequence ends, not when the alarm is outsmarted." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "furniture", "recurring-day" ], "chain": "timing" }, { "id": "hands", "name": "Hands / fist / baton", "meaning": { "metaphor": "Sit on them. Open them. A baton snapped. A fist that was early. An open palm the wolf will take from.", "person": "The part that reaches, conducts, grabs, proves, and calls it love or leadership.", "change": "Installs the brake (the Gap), the opening (Five Open Hands), the release (Bettina), the available palm (machine six). Hands become a place, not a tool." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "furniture" ], "chain": "engines" }, { "id": "eyes", "name": "Eyes / seeing / I see you", "meaning": { "metaphor": "Other eyes. Four ways of seeing. Never turn to look — looking is grabbing. I see you.", "person": "The part that stares to possess, or looks away to hide, and has no third thing.", "change": "Seeing without possessing. Soften. Other eyes. The wolf comes closer when you look at the grass. Attention without harvest." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "furniture" ], "chain": "timing" }, { "id": "gravity", "name": "Gravity / weight / wait", "meaning": { "metaphor": "Weight, wait, new planet, old muscle, the log holding, heat routing down.", "person": "The part that fights the chair, the planet, the day — and calls the fight character.", "change": "Notice the weight. Let the chair hold you. New gravity makes old muscle look like leaping. Wait becomes a physical skill, not a moral one." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "hundredth-floor", "furniture" ], "chain": "engines" }, { "id": "map", "name": "Map / chart / laminated", "meaning": { "metaphor": "A chart that is not the country. Laminated method. Bread light as map. Burn it.", "person": "The part that would rather have a perfect model of a room than enter the room.", "change": "Accuracy is not movement. The country will not hold still. Put the map down. Walk into the thing that moves." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "furniture" ], "chain": "containers" }, { "id": "fire", "name": "Fire / vessel / heat", "meaning": { "metaphor": "Heat in the chest. A city lit by turbines. One loaf. A roof leaving a building. She is fire.", "person": "The part that either dumps the heat (extinguish) or dumps it on the kitchen (unrouted).", "change": "Nothing is extinguished. Only routed. Body, then heart, then head. Contained is not diminished. One loaf, perfect, instead of forty that taste like panic." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "furniture", "hundredth-floor" ], "chain": "engines" }, { "id": "briefcase", "name": "Briefcase / closed pad / unused key", "meaning": { "metaphor": "Closed is how it keeps its light. A pad that never opened. A box in a stream. A sphere with one drop.", "person": "The part that must inventory, pry, improve, and open in order to feel safe.", "change": "Do not inventory. Closed can be a working state. The contents stay dry because the box does not argue with the river." }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "hundredth-floor", "furniture" ], "chain": "containers" }, { "id": "furniture-sym", "name": "Furniture / auction / front door", "meaning": { "metaphor": "You host patterns. You do not own them. The front door sold while you live there.", "person": "The part that thinks 'knowing my pattern' is the same as being free of it.", "change": "Ownership is not eviction. Insight is not a move-out notice. Sell what you hosted. See what returns on its own. Keep the rectangular hole if the wind is better." }, "halls": [ "furniture" ], "chain": "containers" }, { "id": "totem", "name": "Totem / spinning top", "meaning": { "metaphor": "A spinning top you check. A test of whether dropping the outcome actually dropped it.", "person": "The part that lets go and then peeks, which is not letting go.", "change": "A man who has dropped the outcome is not checking whether dropping it worked. Checking is the tell. Do not look at the top." }, "halls": [ "recurring-day", "eight-days" ], "chain": "timing" }, { "id": "wolf", "name": "Wolf / treeline / Two Socks", "meaning": { "metaphor": "The creature who decides the timing. Stillness brings it. Reaching pushes it back.", "person": "The part that hunts what it wants — love, trance, a career, a child — and then stands in an empty treeline smelling of need.", "change": "Available, not eager. Sit down. Look at the grass. Let the creature set the pace. This is machine six, and also Elkwater, and also 'her pace is her pace.'" }, "halls": [ "eight-days", "recurring-day", "furniture" ], "chain": "timing" }, { "id": "brass", "name": "Brass / plate / sphere / dripping", "meaning": { "metaphor": "An unmarked plate. Water onto metal as a clock. A sphere holding one still drop.", "person": "The part that needs a floor number, a label, a trick, before it will ride the elevator.", "change": "The express car is behind an unmarked door you have walked past for years. Dripping on brass is enough clock. Physics, not a trick, holds the drop." }, "halls": [ "hundredth-floor", "furniture" ], "chain": "containers" }, { "id": "thin", "name": "Thin / scar / quartz", "meaning": { "metaphor": "A scar that healed thin, a quartz vein, a faculty you paid for. Not thick. Not a gift. An instrument.", "person": "The part that wants the wound to have been worth it, or to have never happened — and cannot bear the third filing.", "change": "Keep: it was real, undeserved, should not have happened. Change: what broke healed thin, and thin feels through walls. Carry it as instrument, never as identity-as-injury." }, "halls": [ "hundredth-floor" ], "chain": "engines" }, { "id": "lighthouse", "name": "Inland lighthouse", "meaning": { "metaphor": "A lamp with no coast. A signal that still works. Reception without a confirmed ship.", "person": "The part that will not send until the other person is already waving from the water.", "change": "Send once. Be the lamp. The coast was never the point. A signal four hundred miles inland is still, in some ledger, a ship not wrecked." }, "halls": [ "furniture", "recurring-day" ], "chain": "timing" } ], "machines": [ { "id": "gap", "hall": "furniture", "name": "1 · The Gap", "does": "One second between perceiving and acting. The seeing was never wrong; the hand was early. Keep the perception, install the brake.", "section": "3" }, { "id": "plain", "hall": "furniture", "name": "2 · The Plain Sentence", "does": "What was said is what was said. The search reflex still fires — it simply finds room instead of a second layer.", "section": "5" }, { "id": "heat", "hall": "furniture", "name": "3 · The Routed Heat", "does": "Nothing is extinguished, only routed. Body, then heart, then head, permanently. Routed heat lights a city.", "section": "6" }, { "id": "one-message", "hall": "furniture", "name": "4 · The One Message", "does": "Send once, then be still. Reception was never a function of volume.", "section": "8" }, { "id": "recognition", "hall": "furniture", "name": "5 · The Recognition", "does": "The body knows before the mind confirms. Act on the signal; certainty arrives afterward. Late is not wrong.", "section": "10" }, { "id": "animal", "hall": "furniture", "name": "6 · The Animal Decides", "does": "Available, not eager. Stillness brings it near. Reaching pushes it back. The creature sets the pace.", "section": "expanded" }, { "id": "receiving", "hall": "furniture", "name": "7 · The Receiving", "does": "Let it be built and get out of the way. Receiving is the skill. Seven machines run in the dark without supervision.", "section": "expanded" }, { "id": "open-hands", "hall": "eight-days", "name": "Five Open Hands", "does": "Name. Return the verdict. Unreplied test. Keep the want. Hand back the pace. Void if monitored." }, { "id": "movement-first", "hall": "hundredth-floor", "name": "Movement First", "does": "Overwhelm stops producing freeze. Movement first, direction second. The load-bearing install of all three scripts." }, { "id": "thin-faculty", "hall": "hundredth-floor", "name": "Thin as Faculty", "does": "The hurt was real, undeserved, never a gift. What breaks heals thin. Thin is how you feel what thick cannot. Instrument, not injury." }, { "id": "unreplied", "hall": "recurring-day", "name": "The Trapdoor", "does": "Would you send it exactly as written knowing there will be no reply. A plain message engineered to work is still a technique." }, { "id": "reps", "hall": "recurring-day", "name": "Reps Until Automatic", "does": "The man does not get better at the day by understanding it. He gets better by running it until the correct response is reflex. DHE 2000 in narrative form." } ], "metaphorChains": [ { "id": "door-field", "name": "Door in a field", "kind": "containers", "halls": [ "furniture" ], "images": [ "a door with no house around it, standing in a field", "the field remembers being a floor", "the floor remembers the weight of a piano", "the piano’s weight becomes a string", "the string remembers a river", "the river as molten rock", "the rock as bread", "bread light as map", "the map as face", "the face as a room", "the room as a door in a field" ] }, { "id": "containers", "name": "Chain A — Containers", "kind": "containers", "halls": [ "furniture", "eight-days", "hundredth-floor", "recurring-day" ], "images": [ "door", "house without a door", "briefcase that stays closed", "tin of nineteen letters", "shoebox of four hundred keys", "closed lily pad", "wooden box in a stream", "brass sphere with one drop", "unused key", "a lock that is not a wall" ] }, { "id": "engines", "name": "Chain B — Engines and routing", "kind": "engines", "halls": [ "furniture", "eight-days", "hundredth-floor" ], "images": [ "heat in the chest", "heat routed into the legs", "one loaf from the same oven", "volcanic motivation under barren rock", "turbines lighting a city", "a roof leaving Delft into a canal", "a baton snapping", "seven machines running in the dark" ] }, { "id": "timing", "name": "Chain C — Timing and arrival", "kind": "timing", "halls": [ "recurring-day", "furniture", "eight-days", "hundredth-floor" ], "images": [ "the same Tuesday", "a wolf at the treeline", "a tide that arrives unsummoned", "a seed under snow", "a door that opens outward", "a pad that was never late", "a clock that ran backward", "two hundred clocks that disagree", "the sixteenth arriving like weather" ] }, { "id": "cross-river", "name": "The river, four halls", "kind": "cross-hall", "halls": [ "eight-days", "furniture", "hundredth-floor", "recurring-day" ], "images": [ "Two rivers split on granite and rejoin without a treaty (Eight Days)", "A man taught a river to turn, and that loop is never closed (Furniture)", "Two waters, six feet down and a hundred floors up, the same depth (Hundredth Floor)", "The field remembers being a floor; the string remembers a river (Furniture chain)", "A wolf at Elkwater decides the timing the way a river decides a bank (Recurring Day)" ] } ], "counts": { "tranceFormulas": 60, "techniques": 107, "recipes": 20, "miltonModel": 24, "sleightOfMouth": 14, "presuppositions": 10, "loops": 56, "symbols": 22, "machines": 12 } }