John, I am a first year psychology undergraduate. I recently came across Frogs To Princes in the college library and was fascinated. I've read it about four times now. Unfortunately my psychology course does not involve examination of NLP in any significant way (infact it's not even mentioned in my psycholinguistics book) I am somewhat dismayed because I really like the idea of NLP. I see it as a progression of Carl Roger's work and a part of the human potential movement. So it's a visual thing, and that visual thing is the process I do to know that I like it. My communications and language professor told me that NLP was not really recognised in the academic field and he hadn't heard of you or Richard Bandler. So I'm interested.. what is your reaction to all of this? What is the situation of NLP in relation to academic psychology? I hope to do a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Do you think I will ever be formally exposed to NLP in the same way I have been to say, the work of Carl Rogers, Skinner or Freud within the context of my course? Why? Stew Albert (an associate of Timothy Leary) wrote that "Leary both charmed and frustrated us Yippies who wanted to blend a soulful socialist political revolution with the alluring sounds, colors and styles of the cultural revolution that was exploding out of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury and bringing about dramatic changes in the appearance and ambitions of America's youth." How aware were you at the time of the creation of classic NLP of this "cultural revolution"? Noam Chomskey is probably one of the most well-known figures of the American left. He defines himself in the tradition of anarchism, a political philosophy he summarizes as "seeking out all forms of hierarchy and attempting to eliminate them if they are unjustified." He especially identifies with the "labor-oriented anarcho-syndicalist current of anarchism." Does this have any particular meaning to you? Why?