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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Yyi_7oXUQ

fuck

polarity is a choice

Documentary about the est guy is available on netflix streaming right now

ughughughughugh It's personal now. So my facebook friend & former boss at a horrible lead generation company just posted this in all fucking earnestness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-OcweEUOrg I already wrote an angry comment, but thought better of it, knowing it would only serve to illustrate my spiritual blockages & lack of desire for abundance. Thankfully this thread is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-OcweEUOrg

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/05/01/the-lost-girl.html Just remembered this creepy article about Rose of the World

holy shit emilys. that video is a masterpiece of the genre.

its so good i want to believe its a parody.

I hate how he says "utilize" so much.

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The Starseed Sypher video is also amazing.

Friend linked video sincerely. What do I do with this. I'm traumatized. Om pants.

"I don't even remember how I found the internet. I just stumbled onto it one day."

"It's how you live... that turns you into a juggernaut. If you want to be able to manifest your deepest desires...your most urgent goals..." (shots of the audi)

(shots of nike tennis shoes)

OMG Emily. You seriously know him?

Fuck, he's so much worse that the two guys I know that I've posted here. Wow.

no no no ick no I do not know the dude. This woman I know (who used to be my boss at this telemarketing job) linked it. She always tended slightly to new agey crap, but I always figured she'd go in for brainwashing a little less obvious. It's troubling because she is actually kind of cool, despite a slight aura of unstableness. It's like..ugh, WHY

She's always had this dewy-eyed fervor to her that kind of freaked me out. On a separate note, her twin sister went missing in Houston while on some kind of self-discovery roadtrip a few months ago. It sounds like she wanted to disappear, but it's still pretty scary since she is a woman traveling alone.

yikes

http://i.imgur.com/OXLARl4.jpg

lol/0_0

He's like a large boy.

hahahahaha otm

http://i.imgur.com/sg3nESA.jpg

http://jonathanbudd.com/products/

each box contains a smaller and smaller box

http://jonathanbudd.com/wp-content/themes/idesignpassion/images/products/paid-media-secrets.jpg

the hat

i want a FRONTLINE episode about these people

i am totally obsessed with them and yet i still do not understand what they do and how they do it

lol @ "google"

got a feeling that there's probably not that much money at stake. but maybe that's more of a hope.

http://jonathanbudd.com/products/comment-page-1/#comments

SEO people are the scum of the earth. Biggest bullshit artists of the entire Internets era.

each one of those commenter urls... jesus...

http://stacyzahn.com/about-stacy/

this thread has 1600+ answers and i still want to know WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY ALL LIKE THIS. WHY.

know what gets me is e-book or webinar type "products" that are depicted as boxes, paperbacks, or spiral bound books. or a pile of a combination of those things!

Why is Jonathan Budd wearing a fedora while he does the breaststroke?

It's literally all affiliate marketing pyramid schemes, goole.

Lol dumb revive I should click my bookmarks more often.

still want a FRONTLINE episode on these bozos

thanks, silby

So it turns out I know a lifestyle coach - sad story, really. This is someone who lost their job in finance and now really, really believes in being a lifestyle coach.

All this rhetoric about personal development and well-being and living to your full prosperity co-exists, quite naturally, with a view that anyone fallen on hard times is a loser who doesn't deserve sympathy.

Oh, and in the books this person studies/preaches from, which I have read chunks of, there are sections about how to kick a drugs habit or help a family member with one, how to deal with suicidal thoughts and self harm ... none of which is written by an accredited psychiatrist or doctor.

I think this guy mainly just does a kind of feelgood, dramatically-presented business consultancy, but shit, I got a bad feeling when I turned up nuggets like 'Thinking makes you suffer' and 'Understand, your daughter's addiction is not your problem'.

lifestyle coach?

I'd like to acknowledge that this book sounds turrble while also delicately floating the notion that accredited psychologists and doctors don't strike me as having a track record of being any more otm wrt addiction than anyone else

motivational speakers life coaches personal growth gurus new-age charlatans of 250 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx575de46Dc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg

floating the notion that accredited psychologists and doctors don't strike me as having a track record of being any more otm wrt addiction than anyone else

You mean literally no better than anyone else? Really?

Don't think I can buy that tbh

No doubt there are problems with the professionals, but hmmm don't want these vague problems to kid us into thinking that they're no better than some of the people talked about on this thread

aa folks are neither psychiatrists nor doctors yet have a better track record treating addiction hmm

Right, no, they're just people with lots of training and experience in how to help people with addiction

and even wrote a "big book" about it --- despite having no accreditation! nb the experience is all hands on. the only coursework is showing up to meetings and the only certification is your chip.

I'm as anti-charlatan as anyone itt and I'm totally in favor of evidence-based medicine. It's on that basis that I'm not on board with the notion that a medical degree is proof against quackery, especially in the case of addiction. Dependency is a separate question and one where the clinical model is 100% relevant.