Welcome, if you're coming here with a well developed interest in meditation.

Depending on your level of meditation practise, we could understand if you were intensely curious about NLP, or a little annoyed that, as upstarts, we may have underestimated what it takes.

Our aim is to offer this freely, and to let you judge what it is worth. But we do ask you to consider the processes we suggest. Actually, we challenge you to do them.

Dr James H Austin's massive investigation "Zen and the Brain" was a major starting point for us. He's a dedicated and sincere Zen practitioner, and a highly regarded neurologist.

However, he doesn't mention much about trance or hypnosis, which we think may provide a key to investigating the meditative state. A third of the foundations of NLP is based on the work of Dr Milton Erickson, the leading medical hypnotist of last century. So NLP provides an extensive understanding of the theory and practise of trance. For example, koans and a lot of sudden enlightenment can be described through NLP processes.

NLP suggests that there can be many descriptions of one phenomenon, and that the more descriptions you have, the closer you get to the truth. We say that NLP may provide another very effective and practical description of meditation. While Buddhism has almost three thousand years of experience in this state, the ancient meditators didn't know what we do about how the brain works.

The linguistics heritage of neuro-linguistics says, however, that you can never describe reality with total accuracy. NLP says: the map is not the territory. Zen says: The mountain is the mountain, the mountain is not the mountain, the mountain is the mountain.

The Zen view is far deeper in the way that it seeks to truly understand us and our place in the universe.

NLP offers great facility in moving through the initial stages, and of being able to adjust and re-establish our meditative practise.

We find ourselves at the cross roads of two sets of understanding about the nature of humans and the universe, Buddhism and NLP, and can't resist the challenge of being engaged as they mingle.

Our aim is to make meditation more available and more regularly accessible through NLP techniques. It is also to bring the extraordinary gift of Buddha's enlightnment to those who are seeking it.

We recognise the buddha-nature in everyone, and this is our attempt to encourage its enlightenment.