The Train
Imagine this. It’s 1:34 am. A moonless night. For whatever reason (every story needs to start with an unknown trauma behind you), you are beside a railway track, just a foot or two to the side.
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Tags: Expose, Flaw, Get Rich Seminars, Law of Attraction, LOA, Scams, self-help industry, The Secret
Rhonda Byrne has written a follow up to The Secret, called The Power. In it she claims to have discovered “the most powerful force in the universe” and that her readers will develop the ability and skills to manipulate this “Power” to make all their dreams materialize. The power she is talking about is “the power [...]
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Tags: Expose, Flaw, LOA, Rhonda Byrne, self-help industry, The Secret
Stumbled across these resources who are also following the James Arthur Ray fiasco in much greater depth than I am, and with far more analytic process. Check them out!! Read the rest of this entry »
The jury of the James Arthur Ray trials heard from relatives of all three families impacted at the Sedona “workshop” today.
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Tags: James Arthur Ray
By now you’ve probably heard that James Arthur Ray was found guilty of three counts of negligent homicide. He was found not guilty of manslaughter, which reflects intent. Instead, he’s essentially guilty of basic stupidity: he should have know better. And because he should have, and didn’t do anything to prevent three deaths. He will be sentenced on Tuesday.
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Tags: Get Rich Seminars, James Arthur Ray
Meryl Davids Landau, author of the new spiritual women’s novel, Downward Dog, Upward Fog, writes an article asking the ultimate (I’m being facetious) question: Does the James Arthur Ray Trial Mean There’s No Law of Attraction?
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Tags: Flaw, James Arthur Ray, Law of Attraction, Oprah, Scams, self-help industry, Wealth and spirituality
Like many others, I’m avidly following the case of James Arthur Ray. Whatever the courts find will have an impact on the billions of dollars currently being “earned” by the Law of Attraction gurus. Okay, so it might just make a tiny dent in the big picture. While I think the likes of Canfield, Robbins and Katie are avidly glued to their sets, I don’t think the typical student is even aware.
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Tags: Anthony Robbins, Byron Katie, James Arthur Ray, Law of Attraction, LOA, Robert Kiyosaki, self-help industry
Well, today is my birthday. Today is the day that I turn 46. Today will also mark the beginning of my blogging about my own process.
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Tags: bankruptcy, Get Rich Seminars, James Arthur Ray, Law of Attraction, LOA
Did Japan get what was coming to them? After all, they’ve obviously spent a lot of time preparing for earthquakes, especially apparent when a 9.0 earthquake does very little structural damage.
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So, you believe in the Law of Attraction, eh (Yes, I’m Canadian)? So you think all you have to do is “conceive it” to “receive it.” The more clever amongst you might even throw in a dash of “doing,” stating very knowingly that attraction without action delivers only a fraction. So, my friends, get out your motivational vision boards and slap this image up. The Vancouver iconic mansion Casa Mia now happens to be on the market for a mere $10.5M. Canadian that is.
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