i am currently reading this book for an upcoming paper i'm writing, and this book is not working for me.  the first 40 pages or so talk about what a fabulous person ken wilber is and how he finally made it to boulder.  i enjoy reading personal information in so-called self-help books; in fact i think it's necessary for the author and reader to develop some sort of rapport.  but, as far as i'm concerned, this bit of info has nothing to do with the title of the book and could have been left out.  and i'm halfway through the book and i still can't get the connection between nlp and aqal, how the two are supposed to work together.  maybe if i read on, it will eventually get mentioned, but maybe it's that i'm still stunned that mcnab uses a flippin' quote from a spice girls song as one of his keys to using nlp.  apparently you have to 'know what you want, what you really, really want'.  i'm like, is this joker serious??? 

if i remember correctly, isn't this guy a founding member of the integral institute?  i just ask, because maybe it's that i've gotten used to reading wilber and his style of writing, as well as the writings of others like sri aurobindo, and i just feel like the overall quality of this book is several notches below what i'm used to.  i realize that this is a self help book oriented towards the general public, but even so, at least in the section i'm in, it's nothing more than a bunch of acronyms (like t.e.a.) and how they can apply to different models of communication.  the thing is, it seems all circular to me.  i will continue on and maybe change my tune a bit, but right now, i don't see the integral applications at all, and think the whole thing is a waste of ink.