Has John Grinder Missed Out on His Own Personal Genius?

An Open Invitation to John Grinder

It all began with the pattern in “Turtles” by John Grinder and Judith DeLozier many years ago. At that time, quoting Bateson they noted that it was through the use of “logical levels” that one could manage first and second order attention, and so enter into a genius state of singular focus. When Meta-States later came onto the scene in 1994, I was so bold (or foolish) as to re-model the pattern as the Genius Pattern to use the words of Richard Bolstad in describing that Meta-State pattern. Today that pattern is known as the Accessing Personal Genius pattern and is regularly presented and trained in APG (Accessing Personal Genius) training.

When I then applied to self, I found that I no longer experienced “writer’s block” and that I could access that focused state, and since then, many others. And the results were revolutionary on the personal level, not only for me, but for hundreds. From all over the world, people were beginning to use all of their NLP skills and knowledge to actually access their genius states.

Then, Grinder with DeLozier argued for the use of “logical levels,” but now he does not.  Now he discounts and questions it. In London recently someone asked me in a training,

“Is John missing out on his own personal genius because of this? After all, what has he presented in the last 15 years that’s new? Yes, ‘new’ code was new in 1985, but that’s been quite a little while now. By the way, how old does the new code have to get before they will change the name to old code? 1985 doesn’t seem to be the ‘new’ anything if you ask me.”

Personally, I hope John has not missed out on his own personal genius due to that. So with this post to the Neuro-Semantic e-group, I now put forth this ongoing Invitation to Dr. Grinder—

Dear John: You are invited to come to the 3-day “Accessing Your Personal Genius” in Brussels in July of this year as my personal guest. If you wonder why all the “proliferation of meta-states” and can access the sensory-based F1 know-nothing state, then come and see for yourself. If you want to see and experience how the higher levels are “psychologically compassing and governing” then check it out.

Well, that was in 2003 and John did not show up. So I sent out the invitation to him in 2004, but again, John did not show up. And so I now make the invitation an ongoing one— worldwide, and not only to my presentations of APG, but to any of the 160 Neuro-Semantic Trainers who are licensed to Train and Certify APG.

But will John Grinder show up?
Will he come as our guest and explore the merits of Meta-States on its own terms?

I hope so.  But of course, only time will tell