The law of attraction “gurus” like to purport that all you have to do is look around you and you will see how abundant nature really is.
Archive for the ‘On Wealth Seminars’ Category
A lot of comments on my blog have been in reference to Byron Katie.
On the flip side, there’s been a resounding silence on the others, including Jack Canfield, James Arthur Ray, T. Harv Eker, and the “abundance” of Law of Attraction gurus out there. What’s up with that? Any ideas?
Remember this famous quote?
Morpheus from the Matrix: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
“At 10 p.m. (Eastern) next Tuesday, June 29, ABC 20/20 will air an hour-long special devoted entirely to James Arthur Ray, magical thinking, and the oft-overlooked dangers of the New Age.” See Steve’s Shamblog for more information, and tune in (on all levels, folks!).
I just finished reading a fictional novel by Kathy Reichs, called Death du Jour. It’s a really well written mystery novel based on a character is a forensic Anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who divides her time between Montreal, Quebec, and Charlotte, North Carolina. (K. Reichs is also a forensic anthropologist, PhD, who divides her time between Montreal and Charlotte.)
Not too sure yet how the following all fits into the (f)Law of Attraction, but here it goes anyway … Read the rest of this entry »
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Remember Willy Loman?
Willy Loman is the protagonist of Arthur Miller’s famous play, Death of a Salesman. Remember him? Anyone?
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May
The Universe and the Ego
Here’s a link to an excellent blog that captures the essence of what I think is wrong with many of these “woo woo” get-rich gurus who like to bring in metaphysics and spirituality to argue their case. In it, LaVaughn makes the case that the universe does not exist to serve your ego. That thought, in and of itself, should be enough to stir some into a type of awakening.
CBC’s Marketplace (Canadian Television) just did a secret video recording of one of Robert Kiyosaki’s Get-Rich-in-ReaEstate seminars. The short version is this: Go to a two-hour free info seminar and get sold a three-day seminar for only $1,000 BUT if you sign up in the next two hours it’s only $500. At the three-day seminar event, from the get-go you are told that there’s is NO WAY that you can ever learn all real estate trade secrets, and that if you are really and truly committed to your wealth (and you’re a loser if your not) you can expect to spend anywhere from $12,000 to $45,000 in the Kiyosaki educational system. Then, still in day one, you are challenged (and remember only winners take quick and decisive action) to call your credit card company and increase your spending limit to $100,000. After all, it doesn’t cost anything to ask.
There’s an article on today’s CNN website called “Good, bad and ugly self-help: How can you tell?” by By Jason Hanna, (CNN Living, December 7, 2009 1:18 p.m. EST). It talks about the unregulated multi-billion dollar self-help industry and suggests that there are a few tell-tale signs of things to look for in identifying the bad and the ugly. “Self-help is a multibillion-dollar-a-year unregulated industry in the United States, according to John C. Norcross, professor of psychology at the University of Scranton.” Norcross goes on to say that
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