When Zoë Lescaze decided to become an expert sharpshooter, she’d never so much as picked up a handgun before. Three days and a series of visualization exercises and mantras later, the New Yorker was ready for action. But this was far from your typical woo-woo meditation session. Lescaze reached her goal using neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP — a radical form of hypnotherapy that claims to alter behavioral patterns and thought processes. Her journey from mild-mannered science and culture