Hi John You offer two questions: "...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?" Yes, of course, we will at some point publish the set of such variables - we are still mapping them from their intuitive position onto an explicit map. There are several books between us and this work. Your second question is, "All of NLP application appears to me to be manipulation of abstractions.  The effectivess of which is measurable.  Is this true from your perspective?" Well, we aren't quite sure what you intend. We argue strongly in Whispering that the domain over which NLP application is defined is representations - pure and simple. Now, insofar as representations are abstract, it would follow that NLP application is the manipulation of abstractions. When you add the phrase - the effectiveness of which is measurable - we will assume that you are pointing at the crystal clear constraint in NLP applications that while the representations that are the leverage points exploited by NLP are not observable, the effectiveness of the application is tied firmly to observables - observable behavior ranging from the subtlest of breathing changes through the obvious eye movements to grosser forms of behavior - in other words, unless there are observable correlates of the internal representations that are the focus of these applications, we are blind pilots. Do we guess correctly what you intended? Carmen and John