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

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My passion is to help children learn the simple and wonderful ways that they can easily love themselves, one another and enjoy their special lives!

god i just want to find some way to crush these people and remind them of our shared and complete insignificance. starting with the kids.

call all destroyer, Friday, 3 February 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link

weird uncomfortable passive-aggressive interlude from his girlfriend who clearly wants to get married to him

Mordy, Friday, 3 February 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link

i think what ppl might be missing on this thread, is that all of this shit, ALL OF IT (or at least all of the shit i find the most fascinating) is about ponzi-style affiliate link selling and weirdo SEO shit underneath a veneer of "awesomeness"

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link

(maybe you're not missing it, but when you veer to "actual" self-actualization stuff it's getting away from what i find the really unique thing going on here)

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link

so its not about harnessing my hidden potential by tapping into the unused psychic energy powering the cosmos

the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link

question mark

the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link

does anyone actually make money from affiliate-SEO-link-baiting whatever stuff? and if so, who do they make the money from? where does this SEO money come from?

Mordy, Friday, 3 February 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk4yqqRSBeY

have you ever gone on a date w/ someone who you knew was a terrible match, but they were very pretty to look at?

#YOLO #NAMASTE (D-40), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link

i just laughed @ her bad joke b/c shes hot :(

#YOLO #NAMASTE (D-40), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link

in the valley of the mind

Mordy, Friday, 3 February 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link

ponzi-style affiliate link selling and weirdo SEO shit underneath a veneer of "awesomeness"

No yeah I spotted that with all those fake wordpress blogs someone posted and the guy with his business "expanding and contratcing" and etc - its just weird cybergrifting innit. It is fascinating that there is so much of this - surely the centre cannot hold?

thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link

i think the elitism and appeals to elitism are my favorite part tbh

call all destroyer, Friday, 3 February 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link

The money comes in from the linkbait sites hosting AdWords ads or Amazon affiliate links or some other such crap that pays per click. The scammer gets juice through SEO on a bunch of interconnected spam sites and tries to get up in the rankings for some profitable google search or other, their sites get clicked on in Google searches, people come to the site, inevitably click an ad, and the scammer makes a nickel.

The WP Mage fellow up at the top is the most obvious example of the SEO shit itt.

tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link

my uncle has been CFO for half a dozen diff startups and either his last or most current one is an SEO firm.

i wonder if i should ask him about these ppl... only thing is i have no clue where to start :\

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link

i think the elitism and appeals to elitism are my favorite part tbh

― call all destroyer, Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:49 PM (20 seconds ago)

v otm

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link

I once thought for a second that I wanted to get a executive coach. That was a weird second.

Jeff, Friday, 3 February 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link

Ariel is an Energy Healer and Sexual Empowerment Coach working with women, men & couples since 2005. Here she describes her experiences as a guest at the Mindvalley Team Retreat in Langkawi in 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znTpE23btwY

(99 views)

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link

kept on noticing how much the cute girl in the above vid was talking about working with "leaders" or "really smart people" over and over (and obv how awesomeness fest is invite only)--like i gather this is designed to *look* like it appeals to management types who are really striving (tho probably actually takes advantage of ppl who are a lot more desperate). like if ron donald worked for an internet marketing company.

call all destroyer, Friday, 3 February 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link

does anyone actually make money from affiliate-SEO-link-baiting whatever stuff? and if so, who do they make the money from? where does this SEO money come from?

― Mordy, Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:44 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what silby said, and what i think is the most fascinating is the guy selling a $1500 package to create websites that i think just sell that same package and give you an affiliate cut

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link

so these guys are basically just suckling at the teat of amazon + google?

Mordy, Friday, 3 February 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link

Born in the American mecca for health, Boulder, Colorado, Ariel began her path of holistic healing and conscious exploration.

call all destroyer, Friday, 3 February 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link

oh boulder, colorado must be blushing right now

call all destroyer, Friday, 3 February 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link

that, plus suckers get affiliate cash from selling these guys' stuff

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link

has anyone explained yet how all this stuff relates to BH Ideas?

Mordy, Friday, 3 February 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link

yeah on further investigation, WP Mage is not selling you a way to build up an SEO linkbait network, he's selling you a way to become an affiliate marketer for WP Mage. Which is slightly different! More pyramid schemey.

tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link

kept on noticing how much the cute girl in the above vid was talking about working with "leaders" or "really smart people" over and over (and obv how awesomeness fest is invite only)--like i gather this is designed to *look* like it appeals to management types who are really striving (tho probably actually takes advantage of ppl who are a lot more desperate). like if ron donald worked for an internet marketing company.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:53 PM (1 minute ago)

otm, its almost like Awesomeness Fest is more of an advertisement for Mindvalley instead of a legit annual conference

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link

yeah on further investigation, WP Mage is not selling you a way to build up an SEO linkbait network, he's selling you a way to become an affiliate marketer for WP Mage. Which is slightly different! More pyramid schemey.

― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:58 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's what it looks like to me... right?

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 3 February 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago) link

has anyone explained yet how all this stuff relates to BH Ideas?

― Mordy, Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:57 PM (54 seconds ago)

i think BH Ideas/megacycles are artfully clowning the way a lot of this plays out on social networking sites and how depressing it gets the more it trickles down.

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link

unless i misunderstood your question?

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link

yeah confirm s1ocki xp

tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link

no, for sure that was my question. but all the people he's interacting with who are also looking to connect -- are they these people? more desperate versions of these people? like, there's a hierarchy, right? with the attractive looking people at the well-designed website mindvalley on top and BH connects kinda working around the dregs at the bottom?

Mordy, Friday, 3 February 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link

is mindvalley really a front for a bond villain who surrounds himself w/ beautiful women à la on her majesty's secret service?

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link

no, for sure that was my question. but all the people he's interacting with who are also looking to connect -- are they these people? more desperate versions of these people? like, there's a hierarchy, right? with the attractive looking people at the well-designed website mindvalley on top and BH connects kinda working around the dregs at the bottom?

― Mordy, Thursday, February 2, 2012 5:01 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, if i had to guess, i would say whoever is behind Bill is fascinated with the way that that ideal elitism has trickled down to the lost souls trying their best to just figure out facebook let alone how SEO marketing or Personal Growth products work

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link

and then obviously the whole "there for the whole world to see" part

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/TcAnD.png

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:12 (twelve years ago) link

oh no!!!

http://www.beingawesomeisawesomefest.com/

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link

Being in the Being Awesome is Awesome fest is Awesome!

thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link

A GATHERING OF 100+ PEOPLE WHO ARE SELF-DECLARED AS AWESOME.

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:24 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:24 (twelve years ago) link

saw a really amazing doco on tv a couple of years ago called 'beyond our ken', about an aussie self-help org called kenja. they looked pretty innocuous on the surface - their technique was basically just one-on-one meditation - but it slowly unwrapped the seedier stuff like unstable people getting kicked from the group disappearing, and the leader getting charged with sexual assault against female group members (including teen girls). it peaks with him snapping out of charming leader type into volcanic rage at the filmmaker for ten minutes - it's incredible to watch. the guy shot himself ten days before the doco's premiere at the melb film festival. maybe more actual cult material than the rest of this thread but def worth seeing.

the Landshark Forum (haitch), Friday, 3 February 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link

Nudism and orgone energy have sure come a long way since the 1920s!

Aimless, Friday, 3 February 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link

kept on noticing how much the cute girl in the above vid was talking about working with "leaders" or "really smart people" over and over (and obv how awesomeness fest is invite only)--like i gather this is designed to *look* like it appeals to management types who are really striving (tho probably actually takes advantage of ppl who are a lot more desperate). like if ron donald worked for an internet marketing company.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:53 PM (1 minute ago)

otm, its almost like Awesomeness Fest is more of an advertisement for Mindvalley instead of a legit annual conference

― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:58 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

get the feeling that these people really believe theyre associating w/the best minds of their generation, in general they seem to believe everything, deep self delusion as con idk

lag∞n, Friday, 3 February 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link

yeah that's otm

really wonder who isn't "in on it" tho. it all seems like they've culted each other out somehow. the whole vibe/ideology of it is so seamless, like i find it hard to believe that even the ringleader awesome guy is like "heh these suckers, ok bring on the chicks"

but i dunno much about cults i guess

Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, 3 February 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link

there's probably a double consciousness at work

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 3 February 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link

really wonder who isn't "in on it" tho. it all seems like they've culted each other out somehow. the whole vibe/ideology of it is so seamless, like i find it hard to believe that even the ringleader awesome guy is like "heh these suckers, ok bring on the chicks"

i was just sating this to deej. imo everyone learns from everyone else how to behave... i seriously think there might not be anyone meeting behind closed doors going "ok here's how you screw people"

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link

yeah that's otm

really wonder who isn't "in on it" tho. it all seems like they've culted each other out somehow. the whole vibe/ideology of it is so seamless, like i find it hard to believe that even the ringleader awesome guy is like "heh these suckers, ok bring on the chicks"

but i dunno much about cults i guess

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:14 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i think it's gotta be 100% self-deluding if this is your full-time job

call all destroyer, Friday, 3 February 2012 04:19 (twelve years ago) link

this is pretty off topic, but Ariel White is in a few of these ppl's youtubes:

http://www.tantratheater.tv/index.html

o_O

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago) link

grady for design alone you really should have put some kind of warning on that link

call all destroyer, Friday, 3 February 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link

lol

⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 3 February 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link


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