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http://tharyn.me/37-things-that-might-happen-at-mindvalley-in-pictures/

tpp, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 05:43 (eleven years ago) link

aw, it just seems like a lame, probably super-expensive theater camp

emilys., Wednesday, 4 September 2013 07:42 (eleven years ago) link

dying:

http://tharyn.me/my-veggie-wrap-spiritual-experience/

tpp, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 07:42 (eleven years ago) link

do mindvalley have a camp at burning man? they should

tpp, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 07:46 (eleven years ago) link

"you might brainstorm with famous copywriters"

ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link

aw, thanks for posting those tpp

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link

decided to check back in on Zynnia

http://howtodocrowdfunding.com/

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link

When I'm not meditating, reading epic books, jamming to mashups, or painting, then I'm probably on my laptop in some tropical coffee shop making money.

socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 14 September 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link

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

brb, just going to change facebook cover photo.

'Understand, your daughter's addiction is not your problem' (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 14 September 2013 13:25 (eleven years ago) link

slightly off topic but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFotnBAOku0

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 16 September 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link

You can see me logging in for real!

i too went to college (silby), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 06:55 (eleven years ago) link

four weeks pass...

is this the right thread for being perturbed by SF's OneTaste?

http://gawker.com/my-life-with-the-thrill-clit-cult-1445204953

He is "The Developer" and the children view him with a deep susp (c sharp major), Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link

"Is this what Trudy and Sting feel like all the time?"

nickn, Thursday, 17 October 2013 02:48 (eleven years ago) link

holy shit

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 17 October 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link

he seems pretty cool with that bird trying to eat him

Spectrum, Monday, 28 October 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link

bird seems pretty cool being shackled to him.

Related: droppings would hit nose or outstretched finger

the rofflestomper (dandydonweiner), Monday, 28 October 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.amazon.com/DNA-Repair-528-Brian-Baxter/dp/B001MS7IQI/ref=pd_sim_m_5

the comments

Milton Parker, Thursday, 31 October 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link

so the brilliant philosopher-turned-insane guru guy i posted about in here before has a new website - alphaleonisastrology.com/

i can't bring myself to read it, just too unsettling, but i'm sure others with more distance from it will be able to appreciate it.

Merdeyeux, Thursday, 7 November 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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

Milton Parker, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link

1:08 - 1:14

|$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link

That rules

polyphonic, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:03 (ten years ago) link

Esther Hicks was born 1948 in Coalville, Utah. In 1980 she married Jerry Hicks, then a successful Amway distributor.

Dan I., Thursday, 28 November 2013 06:55 (ten years ago) link

and then she went in the vortex.

Very Gelb; thanks for asking. (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Thursday, 28 November 2013 12:45 (ten years ago) link

Bashar is a multi-dimensional extra-terrestrial being who speaks through channel Darryl Anka from what we perceive as the future. Bashar explores a wide-range of subjects with great insight, humor and a profound understanding of how reality creation occurs!

http://bashar.org/

|$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 6 December 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link

does bashar tell darryl to wear hawaiian shirts all the time?

call all destroyer, Friday, 6 December 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link

someone tried to landmark me at a party recently and i thought of this thread

Hungry4Ass, Friday, 6 December 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link

I watched Bashar speak for a good half hour or more once, and he does seem to have a sense of humour about what he's doing, or a kind of acknowledgement that it isn't necessarily legit, more of a "if you're the type of person who gets behind this kind of thing, here's some self-help stuff that works" deal.

nickn, Friday, 6 December 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link

xpost

this thread is your friend and honored that you think of it in times of need

it is also here for you should you ever require consultation on the subject of lava traction

Milton Parker, Friday, 6 December 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link

I read a book that synthesized the origins of est/Synanon/Landmark/etc and how those philosophies/organizations lead to a lot of those teen death camps (my term for them) where "troubled kids" whose parents have a lot of money send them to an island or the woods or whatever to be "straightened out." This book was interesting for a lot of reasons, but seeing the development of that seed of an idea that lead to a lot of the weirder and more aggro incarnations of expensive/dubious self-help was my favorite part. The book is Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids.

― I'm trying to think of all the ways I can inspire you (Abbbottt), Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:24 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

its cool how theres literally a gigantic Child Torture Industry where parents sign over a percentage of their guardianship to overseas schools where they can get away with treating "troubled" kids like they're in a russian prison while the one guy on staff who writes english well enough to impersonate them writes fake leters to your parents saying how awesome it is there. and its even cooler that its insanely well documented and still most americans are either indifferent, ignorant or openly approve of it

Hungry4Ass, Friday, 6 December 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link

yeah it's like extraordinary rendition for teens

socki (s1ocki), Friday, 6 December 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link

love the "whoa!" when he says how many people he's performed in front of @ 4:15

chilli, Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link

fyi i discovered Bashar via the latest (quite sublime) episode of:

High Maintenance - Very good web-series. Discuss.

recommended to all fans of this thread:

http://vimeo.com/79948720

|$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:19 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7oauQt8Y-U#t=2

shite rep (qiqing), Monday, 13 January 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link

haha fuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7oauQt8Y-U#t=2

shite rep (qiqing), Monday, 13 January 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link

Mom has a new guru. Thomas Hubl. His facebook page makes me facepalm unfortunately but hey my mom has always been into this stuff.

Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 January 2014 01:30 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

After finishing grad school I've been tentatively dipping my toe into applying for jobs in the "real world" outside of academia, and it seems like the entire world is like the people mocked in this thread! I don't understand how anyone in the private sector can get any real work accomplished through all the buzz words and double talk. It seems plain that it's a result of a whole class of managers and HR people who literally serve no useful purpose at all, but have insinuated themselves as parasites on the corporate system.

I know none of that is new or insightful, but I had always assumed that all that Office Space / Dilbert stuff was parody and exaggeration, but it seems that if anything it's understated!

Just the entire concept of "leadership" is such a transparent scam.

Dan I., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link

Thomas Hübl is a contemporary spiritual teacher, who practices mysticism in his own life, and also imparts it to others, in a manner that is entirely in keeping with the times. His work integrates the essence of the great traditions of wisdom with scientific knowledge and his own personal experience. His work, which he executes with uncompromising clarity, leads to the birth of new 'we-cultures'. He has the special gift of truly understanding people and being able to apply the timeless knowledge that has been revealed to him when engaging with them enabling people to gain a deeper dimension of self-awareness and responsibility.
This radical transcendence of the ego-centric world view opens the door to a depth of authentic expression, to service to the world, and to a focus on the absolute.
Thomas Hübl has devoted his life to the task of exploring awareness and supporting others in their quest for greater awareness. His work has world-wide resonance

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link

my mom gets visibly irritated when I refer to him as a guru. "He's a teacher!"

eh it's her life

Xp Yeh in corpland looking the part and telling everyone how awesome you are is a big part of the job. It stings for a while but that's just your pride fucking with you. I'm not very good at this bit of my job, is must be said.

DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link

three months pass...

caity weaver, ladies & gents:

http://gawker.com/this-mans-gaze-is-harmful-to-pregnant-women-1595615723

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link

I've been pronouncing his name wrong all this time.

polyphonic, Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link

*stares at u*

goole, Thursday, 26 June 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link

two months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/LWTvtp7.png

╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Monday, 8 September 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link

Wow, that's almost crippling stupid, including the bits where he goes on about teaching his kid all religions.

Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 8 September 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link

http://www.prweb.com/releases/consciousness-engineering/review/prweb12164279.htm

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...

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╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Friday, 12 September 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link

my god

goole, Friday, 12 September 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link

It'd be a neat study to track the different framings that hucksters have used to hawk their gnosis over the decades.

I doubt that each would use as many scare quotes, tho

Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Friday, 12 September 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link


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