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

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I had a loooong talk with my mom about this thread on Saturday -- she is trying to write a book, and she goes to a lot of "conferences for writers" (that's what she calls them) and they are full of aspiring life coaches and self-help hucksters in addition to regular people trying to sell memoirs about their crazy lives. She's very aware of this panoply of potential weirdos/predators, but has made a few questionable "friends" along the way. She's kind of a curious restless person (anyone who knows me knows that this sounds familiar) and I think she goes there to peoplewatch as much as anything else. She has also made some alright friends and people who are genuinely interested in what she's doing and whatnot.

tl;dr --> my mom is into this shit (like this thread is, not like involved)

has this been posted?

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

vishen otm?

replace "fox news" with "mindvalley"

ha ha we so need an mindvalley IRE thread in a similar vein to the google+ google plus googleplus invites thread.

cool story vishen

She's kind of a curious restless person (anyone who knows me knows that this sounds familiar) and I think she goes there to peoplewatch as much as anything else. She has also made some alright friends and people who are genuinely interested in what she's doing and whatnot.

I feel like I'm a lot like this and sometimes I worry I'll get sucked into something that tweaks my specific idiosyncrasies. Then again, I don't really have the kind of money to get too deep into these kind of things...

Does make me think about the whole "stare not long into the abyss" thing. I already own The Power of Now, perhaps its already too late for me XD

Yeah, I think some people are just wired to find this sort of peoplewatching interesting, and it can get a little scary if you get too close. I was checking in with her to tell her about Vishen and the gang, but also to make sure that her radar was still functioning. She has gotten herself into a bit of a pickle before, and was doing a lot of work for free, and it was getting in the way of her relationships with other people (namely me).

I think it's interesting to vicariously experience these different states and mindsets in other people ... it's like exploration, satisfies a kind-of curiosity. Problem is actually getting too deep with it which is more dangerous with social stuff.

i enjoy people watching, but a far as loons like these the internet is abt as close as im confortable getting, theres a big diff between watching and interacting, actually relating to these fools would be p depressing imho

Yeah, that's some dark territory to get into. Like imagining how a crazy person thinks ... it's really weird and unsettling.

Yeah, my mom is a bit of a danger-seeker/tourist, I think. It's weird, but I totally get it.

these guys and their insular weird culture depress me!

*pops champagne to inaugurate 10th year of posting on message board*

haha

also:

I don't think it's actually that weird to compare how these people are fucked up to how we're all fucked up, like aren't we all part of a big cult called...america

― iatee, Friday, February 3, 2012 8:09 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not you, of course, s1ocki

NORTH america iirc

the human cult

it's like we're all subscribing to some sort of cult of personality

i am

the

I'm waiting for the full commune experience to totally commit to my relationship with the ILX cult.

Laura Lucy Lynn La Lechera

At your service. We're here to help you.

If you are interested in the full commune experience you can come live in my home and pay my mortgage for me. I will cook whole grains and vegan foods in exchange. Namaste.

― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, February 6, 2012 2:09 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

lol

Sorry, cooking is my charge. I cannot help with this "mortgage" because I don't believe in money.

has this been posted?

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

― the emancipation of me-me (tpp), Monday, February 6, 2012 5:29 AM (3 hours ago)

looool "Heather" wants to bone down on Vishen so bad

srsly way to play it cool heather

you have some golden balls

hey guys did you know that Right now, the average level of energy on Earth is around 207... but the level we should aim for, however, is 500 and above? and that 500 is the vibration of love?

^^this website is the first i've seen to mention Dr. Emoto's AMAZING water crystal experiments*:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_dmYT83ZKY

lol cool art but not exactly science, bro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto

*my ex-gf was a yoga instructor and kind of sucked up a lot of fringe new-age stuff as a result-- dr. emoto's water crystals is the one that i remember the most

It took me almost all day to get through this thread. I think I am about 100 NLP videos away from being one of these people.

Namaste!

namaste homo!

i don't like how that video implies that marlee matlin can hear what that bitch is saying

no masto

nosante

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fucking emoto man

i have friends that have been insisting since 2005 or so that they can "break clouds with their minds"

you just have to get in touch with your inner cloud

*my ex-gf was a yoga instructor and kind of sucked up a lot of fringe new-age stuff as a result

Hey now! There's definitely overlap between "people who teach yoga" and "people who suck up fringe new age stuff" but correlation /= causation.

yes sorry didnt mean to imply that

ps namaste!

everyone gets sensitive when their particular cult is impugned

tbh the better ones have hats and not mats

http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/rob-sanders/hat/256/Hat-fez-icon.png

oh, i'm mostly just super-grumpy about the "What the #$*!" crowd and wish they would all go do Nia or Trance Dance or something and leave yoga alone aleready :D