❀ the cult of: ➥motivational speakers ➥life coaches ➥personal growth gurus ➥new-age charlatans ➥AWESOMENESS FEST

yes, he was a townie. dad still lives a little outside town.

http://www.bigdreamgathering.com/

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Some of the people who have posted their BIG dreams in the past have…

scored a contract with a major shoe company
gone to Africa to help children living in poverty
launched businesses to sell art on-line
written books
transitioned into jobs they loved
launched non-profit organizations
run marathons
sent truck loads of school supplies to Africa
met new friends and made great contacts

^^ this thing had some local meeting and a friend went and they had some bizarro religion thing going on too

THEOSOPHY!

it is my big dream to run a marathon

ok great start running

great thank you big dream!

btw still trying to figure out if sending a "truck load" of school supplies to Africa makes any sense when there is an ocean

haha wait theosophy is still a going concern

http://theosophy.org/

i mean

http://i.imgur.com/dX5Yg.jpg

Something called "Bodhi Spiritual Center" is taking over a church across from our apt. I just googled it and the first auto complete was "Bodhi spiritual center cult."

LL, The Tower of Invincibility is amazing.

For some reason I thought the School of Practical Philosphy was related to theosophy but I can't find a link after reading up. Still...it's kind of all the same?

I have a picture of myself in front of it on facebook, i think? i look totally invincible.

I know an older couple who are/were theosophists (we've fallen out of touch now). The gentleman once tried to heal my friend's sore ankle with energy manipulation that involved holding his hands over her foot and shin, after which my friend swore she thought it'd helped.

Our friendship started to go downhill faster after that.

This is an awesome chart mapping the invincibility and world peace

http://www.invincibility.org/summary_chart.html

Impenetrable explanation here http://www.invincibility.org/index.html

feel like this belongs here
http://buyseech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tajska-2.jpg

but seems less skeevy somehow

I bet Colin Cowherd (the single worst human being to ever appear on-camera on ESPN, including OJ) eats this shit up.

4 hour work week is prob more skeevy in its own way

The "lifehacking" stuff (Ferriss) does seem related.

Can we start an ILX cult and buy a beach/lake house somewhere and decorate the rooms thusly?
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6107/6354959663_370ab6c550_b.jpg

i could take some issue w/the over coordination of that green but yes basically im in

cmon you know you love it
look at how much inner peace these people have
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6059/6354960929_c2808bda05_b.jpg

I bet Colin Cowherd (the single worst human being to ever appear on-camera on ESPN, including OJ) eats this shit up.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:29 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

excellent connection imo

There Will Be Blood Conversation Pits

no i do basically love it im sayin its just slightly over done, small complaint xp

when this thread is a lil further along can we poll some of the terms & neologisms coined in this field.

a book i am writing about how husbands and wives can divorce and yet stay the best of friends makes me want to cry my eyes out

schlump you were otm about grad school, btw, it totally feels like a cult, too. at least in the humanities.

a book i am writing about how husbands and wives can divorce and yet stay married

lol colin cowherd otm - bet you that dude makes a little $$ on the side doing motivational speaking

i wish i could remember exactly how my former roommate phrased her central Landmark metaphor--something about building a foundation for a house that she used for every real-life situation. Mordy, do you remember anything about this?

look we really just need to get into this business so we can retire to our own island and work 4 hours a week

ha the dirty lil secret behind all this shit is no one is making any money, it all an illusion via credit card debt

otm-- also a little suspect that a lot of these people seem to be constantly moving around from continent to continent like 21st century grifters

http://imgur.com/wfDFK

theres def a bunch of overlap w/the global traveler culture, people brainstorming abt how to stay in thailand forever etc

horseshoe otm this sounds more and more like academia

http://i.imgur.com/wfDFK.jpg

that landmark forum stuff is creepy, def the dank toilet of the motivational speaker rabbit hole

man, its the headwaters

theres def a bunch of overlap w/the global traveler culture, people brainstorming abt how to stay in thailand forever etc

― lag∞n, Thursday, February 2, 2012 12:27 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also central tenant: escape

Landmark Forum

chawkee : )

xpost: ^^^truthbomb

holy shit this thread

amazing stuff

nice to see fairfield, IA come into the mix. everybody calls them the "floaters".

i believe greg brown wrote a song about it.

Pleased to see local ChILX hero Alan Salami itt.

― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:53 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tell us more!!

otm-- also a little suspect that a lot of these people seem to be constantly moving around from continent to continent like 21st century grifters

― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, February 2, 2012 12:26 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just gonna drop by here and say that among all the stuff gr80 sent me in the last couple of days, this was the thing that jumped out at me the most.

for instance, the video of the guy who claimed that he moved to the remote thai jungle to... become an internet marketer?

most of these dudes seem like they're always one step ahead of the law/their creditors/angry people they've scammed.

or try reading through the endless list of awesomeness fest speakers or attendees or whatever this is:
http://www.awesomenessfest.com/meet-the-tribe/

do a ctrl-f for "serial entrepreneur." or just count the mentions of all the businesses these people have started and "removed themselves from" or "moved on" from.

also do a ctrl-f for "honey badger" and tell me if you understand what that phrase means. is it some sort of code or

You can sing "Death and the Maiden" by the Verlaines with "Alan Salami" instead of "Death and the Maiden" and it will make you laugh. That is one thing.

the name "alan salami" is funny enough on its own, it really doesnt need any help

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