"Do not be alarmed by the immense gap between the variables alluded to in our work and their deploymen in the New Code games. You have not been provided with adequate examples and most certainly adequate experience to discover that connection. We did not (as we stated in the text) attempt in Whispering to elucidate either the set of design variables we referred to nor the structure of New Code games." Hello John and Carmen. I just today discovered this website and the existence of your book.  I will read it very soon. Until that time I do have a couple of questions born of my past 6 years with NLP and the above statement. Why not?  I would love to understand your reference and those made by Bandler in my NLP trainings about the many variables used to create NLP models.  As far as I have been able to determine, these variables have not been published.  Do you intend to publish this part of the work? Now, the most interesting question that I have had is this:  All of NLP application appears to me to be manipulation of abstractions.  The effectivess of which is measurable.  Is this true from your perspective? Thanks John