[Neurons] Meta-States, the New Book, More Info.

[Dr. Hall]

L. Michael Hall

Re: More about the New Meta-States book

 


Several have written already to ask about what's new about the new book and
what would one get to purchase this book if one already has one of the
earlier editions.

 




                    A strong focus on resilience.  While Dr. Hall has told
the story of discovering the Meta-States model in his Resilience Project
(1991-1994), the new book tells the fuller story of that discovery.  In
addition, there's a full chapter on resilience as a set of meta-states.

 

                    The nature of meta-states.  The new book more fully maps
out the nature of meta-states in order for people to understand what they
are working with and out to work with these meta-structures.

 

                    The diagraming of meta-states.  Due to the importance of
having a visual-digital representation of a concept as abstract as our
self-reflexive consciousness, there is a new chapter on the diagraming of
meta-states.

 

                    Fluid and dynamic logical levels.  In recent years the
Meta-States Model has re-formulated the old idea of "logical levels" in NLP
showing that each logical level is at the same time every other logical
level.  The new Meta-States book shows the dynamic nature of the layering of
levels of thoughts-and-emotions ("logical levels").

 

                    Meta-Dimensions.  With the introduction of Meta-States
as the third meta domain in NLP, sub-modalities were discovered to be a
meta-domain, meta-modalities by which we edit our movies.  The next
development is the list of four Meta-Dimensions into which are the scores
and scores of meta-questions. 

 

                    A Classic.   When all of the previous copies of
Meta-States sold out and the decision to reprint the previous edition or to
create a new updated version, we decided also that we would publish it as a
hardback book-as a classical textbook of the Model that launched
Neuro-Semantics.

 

                    The Process of meta-stating.  In the eight years since
the last edition and the more than 100 presentations of Meta-States, we have
streamlined the meta-stating process itself.  So in this new book there's a
new chapter on this as well as the incorporation of the many finer
distinctions within this model.

 

 

Table of Contents of the new Meta-States Book

 

Preface


Foreword


 

Part I: Meta-States Discovery


1.    The Aha! Moment


2.    Discovering Meta-States





 

3.    Transcending Strategies and States


4.    Introducing Resilience: The Meta-State that Began it All


5.    The Meta-States of Resilience


 

Part II: Meta-States - Modeling Self-Reflexive Consciousness


6.    Defining Meta-States


7.    Diagraming Meta-States


8.    States #101: The Foundation for our Higher States


9.    The Higher States: Up the Levels of Your Mind


10.  The Nature of Meta-States, Part I


11.  The Nature of Meta-States, Part II


12.  Texturing States: Qualifying States for Higher Quality


13.  The Meta-Stating Process


 

Part III: The Meta-States Model and Theory


14.    Meta-States as a Model


15.    NLP Precursors of Meta-States


16.    Transcending to Higher "Core" States


17.    Meta-States Epistemology


18.   Meta-Stating as Framing


19.   Meta-State Principles and Interfaces


20.   Meta-Dimensions


 

Part IV: Specific Meta-States


21.    Dancing with Dragons and other Meta-Muddles


22.    Unleashing Potentials with Meta-States


 

Appendix A     Journaling States


Appendix B     Four NLP Meta-Domains


Appendix C     Meta-States Books


Appendix D     The Matrix and Mind-Lines Models


Appendix E     The Diamond of Consciousness


Glossary


Index


Bibliography


 


                                                

 




Announcement of a New Book

Publication Date: Oct. 15, 2008

Meta-States (2008) Third Edition 

$45 Hardback, 400 pages

 

 

 

META-STATES - THE BOOK

 

 


>From its discovery in 1994, The Meta-States Model, as a model, has been

revolutionizing the field of NLP.  And no wonder-Meta-States explains the
magic of NLP.  So, without a thorough understanding of the Meta-States
model, you cannot really understand NLP.  And why is that?  Precisely
because the "magic" of NLP occurs at meta-levels.

 

Yes, the power of NLP occurs by recognizing the movies we play in our mind,
and that the code we use to create and change our movies are in the
representational systems (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc.).  Yet even
the ability to recognize those mental movies of the mind requires a
meta-jump-the ability to step back from one's thinking to recognize the form
or the structure of the thinking.  And to work with the cinematic qualities
of those movies requires yet another meta-move.  And these are meta-states.

 

This begins to answer Dr. John Grinder's question, "Why the proliferation of
Meta-States?"  The answer is this: 

"NLP is not fully understood, appreciated, or utilized without the
Meta-States Model.  Meta-States are all of the higher frames of references,
frames of mind, beliefs, understandings, etc. that govern our filters on
reality.  That's why the proliferation of Meta-States."

 

The Meta-States Model is a model about the uniquely special kind of
consciousness that human beings have-self-reflexive consciousness.  This
refers to the way our minds reflect back onto themselves.  We not only think
and feel, but we think about our thinking, we think about our feelings, we
feel about our thoughts, we feel about our feelings.  And we do not do this
just once or twice, but again and again.  This is the infinite regress or
progress that allows us to climb the ladder of meaning as we draw
conclusions, invent beliefs, abstract level upon level to create the "world"
of representations and understandings that make up the Matrix of our mind.

 

The Meta-States Model began within a modeling project as Dr. L. Michael Hall
was mapping out the structure of resilience.  Now in the new edition of
Meta-States he tells the story of that project and the discoveries he made
about resilience and about the meta-states that make up resilience.

 

Dr. Hall has completely rewritten the text of this new edition of
Meta-States (2008) so that it reads like an entirely new book.  So even if
you have a coyp of the original book, this new edition updates and expands
the model.  As an academic presentation, Meta-States explores the NLP
background, the early explorations into self-reflexivity by Korzybski and
Bateson and the epistemology within it.

 

There are four sections in this new edition of Meta-States (2008):     

            Part I:    Meta-States Discovery (chapters 1-5)

            Part II:   Modeling Self-Reflexive Consciousness (chapters 6-13)

Part III:  The Meta-States Model and theory (chapters 14-20)

            Part IV:  Specific Meta-States (chapters 21-22)

 

The Meta-States Model is not merely a single pattern within NLP, but a
meta-model itself, and the most extensive one in NLP.  It is a model that
maps out self-reflexivity and which provides a way to model experience.  Via
the Meta-States Model, Neuro-Semantics came into being.  Meta-States has
remodeled NLP models and patterns:

 

NLP Patterns                          Models                        Books

 

Sleight of Mouth Patterns                            Mind-Lines
Mind-Lines (1997, 2005)

Sub-Modalities
Meta-Modalities               Sub-Modalities Going Meta (1997)

Modeling
Meta-Levels                       NLP Going Meta (1999)

 
Neuro-Semantic Modeling (2000)

Time-Lines                                                       Time-Lines
Adventures with Time-Lines (1997)

Meta-Programs                                              Meta-Programs
Figuring Out People (1997/ 2007)

Personality
The Structure of Personality (2001)

 

 

Meta-States also not only was the first model within the field of
Neuro-Semantics, it is also the model that keeps invigorating
Neuro-Semantics with new models. 

 

Neuro-Semantic Models
Books

The Genius or Flow Model
Secrets of Personal Mastery (1999)

Frame Games - The Game Series
Winning the Inner Game (1999, 2006)

Systemic NLP      - The Matrix Model
The Matrix Model (2003)

The Meta-Coach Training System
Meta-Coaching, Volumes I, II, III, IV

The Crucible
Unleashed (MC, Volume III)

                              

 

The new edition of Meta-States-the book will be available about October 15.
It is a hardback book, 400 pages, and will retail at $45.00 USD.  But order
it now or before October 1 - and get it for just $30 (you can also order
extra copies as Christmas gifts!).

 

 




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