Structure of Magic Vol. I

     The best way to describe this book is to present the quotes from Virgina Satir, Gregory 

Bateson, and Milton Erickson, MD



     "It would be hard for me to write this preface without my own feeling of excitement, 

amazement and thrill coming through.  What Richard Bandler and John Grinder have done is to 

watch the process of change over time and distill from it the patterns of 'how' process. They seem 

to have come up with a description of the predictable elements in a transaction between two 

people that make change happen.  Knowing what these are makes it possible to use these 

consciously and have useful methods for inducing change.  Now the knowledge of the process of 

change is considerably advanced." - Virgina Satir, International teacher of Family Therapy, author 

of "Peoplemaking" and "Conjoint Family Therapy"



     "It is a strange pleasure to write a preface for this book, because John Grinder and Richard 

Bandler have done something like what my colleagues and I attempted fifteen years ago.  Grinder 

and Bandler have confronted the problems which we confronted then and the result is this series. 

 They have tools which we did not have - or did not see how to use. In this first volume Grinder 

and Bandler have succeeded in making explicit the syntax of how people avoid change and 

therefore how to assist them in changing." - Gregory Bateson, author of "Steps to an ecology of 

Mind".



     "The Structure of Magic I" by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of 

the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients.  In reading this book, I learned a great 

deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them." - Milton H. Erickson, MD, 

world's leading authority in Medical Hypnosis, Psychiatrist, Founder of the Techniques of Brief 

Therapy.



The back of this book is well appendiced and complete with bibliography tompoint the readers in 

the direction and sources of the author's research.  For those who claim to know the origins of the 

author's research, it is, quite simply, spelled out here.



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