Mind Games
Mind Games

<p>What if you could hypnotize yourself into a better you? Or&hellip;. secretly hypnotize others into giving you anything you want?</p> <p>That&rsquo;s the promise of NLP, which emerged in 1970s California and then took over self-help&hellip; in spite of its connection to a gruesome unsolved murder in the late 1980s .&nbsp;</p> <p>NLP is the secret sauce connecting life coach Tony Robbins, Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort, pick-up artist Ross Jeffries, as well as NXIVM, the most infamous sex cult of the 21st century.</p> <p>Journalists and best friends Zo&euml; Lescaze and Alice Hines investigate the controversies behind NLP, put the techniques to the test on themselves, and ask the ultimate question: is mind control real?</p> <p>Mind Games tells the story of NLP and its crazy cast of disciples, including the fake doctor who invented it at a New Age commune, took it to Fortune 500 boardrooms, and whose gruesome murder trial did little to stop its rise. The biggest mind game of all? NLP may actually work.</p>

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