Serge: Could one find answers concerning the meaning of life by accomplishing an NLPtraining from the angle of pre-sensory perception?

Wolfgang: There is a big difference between the search for well-being and the search for the ultimate or who you are. However, most people start asking themselves existential questions because they do not feel well. NLP offers a multitude of therapeutic tools which help to get rid of psychological limitations and it represents an efficient methodology of personal development enabling us to manage our life in a more satisfactory way, but it does not answer the ultimate question " who am I ? ".
At the age of 20 a great urge to penetrate the mysteries of life and death had arisen within me. NLP was a fantastic tool in that quest in the sense that it helped me to balance my psychic life so that I could challenge the psychic structures that concealed the secrets of existence. The way I am teaching NLP is based on my own experience, I offer NLP training that helps the participants in uncovering the mechanisms that mask the unified perception which I call "pre-sensory perception". Concerning your question about wanting to know the meaning of life, there exists only one answer: awakening. Nothing can be done to achieve it. Nevertheless, NLP training from the angle of pre-sensory perception can uncover the very core of what we call identity which I called "Original Belief." This "Original Belief" is the origin of all our emotional and mental structures that prevent us from being the living response to your question.

Serge: What made you discover your Original Belief?

Wolfgang: Bringing hidden belief systems the surface is part of every NLP training. We all carry with us a multitude of unconscious convictions that influence our lives in many ways. After having unsealed them, I found out that behind all these hidden beliefs there is yet another kind of belief that constitutes what we call "identity": the Original Belief. This work on myself was comparable to a detective's investigation since Original Belief, even more than all the other unconscious beliefs, does everything it can in order to hide its existence. NLP methods helped me greatly in this process of uncovering.

Serge: Can anybody enter this process?

Wolfgang: Basically, yes. But remember that the journey of uncovering the Original Belief is comparable to an expedition into a virgin territory. Nobody has been here before. It requires even more preparation, more effort, more skill, more attention and more directed work than ordinary expeditions. At the end we'll find an astonishing revelation of wondrous purity, similar perhaps to what explorers may experience within themselves when they have reached their goals. But there is, among others, one big difference: We'll remain in that experiential mode because we will have rediscovered our intrinsic nature.

Serge: Would it be possible to talk about the mental preparations that are necessary to do that work?

Wolfgang: Getting close to one's Original Belief requires a rigorous mental preparation because it challenges the sense that we're giving to our individual existence. NLP training is able to deliver all that is needed in that respect except for the most important inner attitude: great sincerity and honesty towards oneself. When we become exposed to the very foundations that constitute our identity, we get vulnerable to a feeling of immense pain. The intensity of the pain of this existential wound surpasses all the physical and moral suffering that we have ever had in our lives before. At some moment of this work we might have the insight that we have built up our whole life on a lie, in order to avoid the encounter with the pain of separation engendered by the birth of our separating identity when we were a child. Only the sincerity and honesty with ourselves will help us to advance and to penetrate deeper and deeper into the abyss that opens up within us. NLP procedures of mental management have shown their efficiency in this process. Here are some of them:
"Doing as if": mental gymnastics that allow us to instantly change inner states and logical levels of thinking;
"To associate and to dis-as-sociate": enables us to represent an experience as an actor or as a spectator; to be able to associate with an inner state of comfort at any moment and also to be able to dis-as-sociate from an unpleasant inner state at any moment; to be able to sharply define inner states (pleasant and unpleasant ones) and to pass from one to another intentionally and instantly; to be able to manage one's own inner ecology in order to avoid psychic damage; to be able to face all kinds of inner contradictions and to be able to overcome inner resistances, such as the rising of unconscious negative belief systems and to know how to retrieve a neutral or pleasant inner state at any moment; to be able to manage the process autonomously which also means to have the capacity to take completely one's responsibilities for the process. The group members assist each other in exhuming the Original Belief, but everyone decides for himself to what extent he wants to put himself into question.
NLP differs from other "have a pleasant life technologies" that circulate on the market of spirituality and personal development. The one who practices it does not only learn how to live a life that pleases him and how to master his life in a way that he succeeds in his personal and professional projects; he also learns how to manage particular mental procedures indispensable for the confrontation with himself on the most profound layer of his personality, which is the Original Belief.

Serge: What happens when someone has retrieved his Original Belief?

Wolfgang: Having exhumed it constitutes a good beginning. Then one has to develop a particular kind of attention and a particular kind of vigilance in daily life to become more and more conscious of the manifestations of the Original Belief. As long as we do not constantly live the non-tangible dimension of pre-sensory perception, Original Belief continues to influence us from beneath the surface without our being conscious of it. When we act and when we think there always is the hidden belief in the background, suggesting that we do have an identity which is different from what we perceive: the me-identity which perceives the other and the surroundings. Original Belief, principal element of identity, acts like a filter between pre-sensory perception (the void) and sensorial perception.
Let's suppose that the usual way of perceiving the separation between the perceiver and that which is perceived is not the only perceptual mode for a human being. When I engage in discovering the perception of non-separation, first I have to get to know how my mind creates that separation. To do that, I have to examine myself as often as possible, especially during conflicts and emotionally difficult situations: how do I react when I've been cheated? when someone else treats me with aggression? when there is more than one mishap during the same day? when I get to know that someone I love is dying or seriously ill? when I hear that my beloved has had a lover for a year without me knowing it? what are the fears, the apprehensions that I suppress in order not to feel them? This kind of observation of my emotional reactions gradually brings to light a malaise which is permanently nagging beneath the surface. It's the malaise of all malaises emerging from Original Belief. To become conscious of Original Belief means to uncover it without selfpity, instead of avoiding the encounter with it.

Serge: This is not happiness.

Wolfgang: You're right. This kind of work on oneself only makes sense if it is integrated in the quest of the ultimate. The search for happiness is not on the same logical level as the search for the absolute truth. The longing for happiness is one of the characteristics of identity in quest of...avoiding malaises. To confront oneself with the Original Belief does not mean to encounter a temporary suffering, but to encounter the chronic pain of separation. As long as we long for happiness, we oscillate between good and bad, between wellbeing and malaise. We are excluded from perceiving the very richness of lifehereandnow.

Serge: What is the difference between the work on oneself that you suggest and a successful psychotherapy?

Wolfgang: A well done psychotherapy (re)establishes identity. Awakening dissolves it.