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

and then obviously the whole "there for the whole world to see" part

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

oh no!!!

http://www.beingawesomeisawesomefest.com/

Being in the Being Awesome is Awesome fest is Awesome!

A GATHERING OF 100+ PEOPLE WHO ARE SELF-DECLARED AS AWESOME.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q

saw a really amazing doco on tv a couple of years ago called 'beyond our ken', about an aussie self-help org called kenja. they looked pretty innocuous on the surface - their technique was basically just one-on-one meditation - but it slowly unwrapped the seedier stuff like unstable people getting kicked from the group disappearing, and the leader getting charged with sexual assault against female group members (including teen girls). it peaks with him snapping out of charming leader type into volcanic rage at the filmmaker for ten minutes - it's incredible to watch. the guy shot himself ten days before the doco's premiere at the melb film festival. maybe more actual cult material than the rest of this thread but def worth seeing.

Nudism and orgone energy have sure come a long way since the 1920s!

kept on noticing how much the cute girl in the above vid was talking about working with "leaders" or "really smart people" over and over (and obv how awesomeness fest is invite only)--like i gather this is designed to *look* like it appeals to management types who are really striving (tho probably actually takes advantage of ppl who are a lot more desperate). like if ron donald worked for an internet marketing company.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:53 PM (1 minute ago)

otm, its almost like Awesomeness Fest is more of an advertisement for Mindvalley instead of a legit annual conference

― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:58 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

get the feeling that these people really believe theyre associating w/the best minds of their generation, in general they seem to believe everything, deep self delusion as con idk

yeah that's otm

really wonder who isn't "in on it" tho. it all seems like they've culted each other out somehow. the whole vibe/ideology of it is so seamless, like i find it hard to believe that even the ringleader awesome guy is like "heh these suckers, ok bring on the chicks"

but i dunno much about cults i guess

there's probably a double consciousness at work

really wonder who isn't "in on it" tho. it all seems like they've culted each other out somehow. the whole vibe/ideology of it is so seamless, like i find it hard to believe that even the ringleader awesome guy is like "heh these suckers, ok bring on the chicks"

i was just sating this to deej. imo everyone learns from everyone else how to behave... i seriously think there might not be anyone meeting behind closed doors going "ok here's how you screw people"

yeah that's otm

really wonder who isn't "in on it" tho. it all seems like they've culted each other out somehow. the whole vibe/ideology of it is so seamless, like i find it hard to believe that even the ringleader awesome guy is like "heh these suckers, ok bring on the chicks"

but i dunno much about cults i guess

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:14 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i think it's gotta be 100% self-deluding if this is your full-time job

this is pretty off topic, but Ariel White is in a few of these ppl's youtubes:

http://www.tantratheater.tv/index.html

o_O

grady for design alone you really should have put some kind of warning on that link

lol

okay that is literally the most disgusting thing i have ever seen on the internet.

and i've seen tubgirl

This evening I had the bittersweet honor of giving a Eulogy. My dear friends Kim Heil and Chris Rubino died in a car accident on their way home from a Cuddle Party TM lead by Valerie in Joshua Tree on Feb. 16th 2009.

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i feel like the human mind is complex and can sustain two seemingly contradictory beliefs at once, or perhaps in alternation, while repressing the cognitive dissonance. so maybe some of these folks _both_ understand they are ripping people off _and_ believe they are helping people.

i think they just think they've found an awesome way to make money and feel great and avoid asking hard questions

lmao chuck going all media crit on shaq

lol sry romg thread

A Goddess discovers her energetic lingam in this personal narrative written and performed by tantra teacher Ariel White and directed by Kamala Devi of the San Diego Tantra Theater Troupe

Lingbert. In India, "ling" means penis (big or small).
― Akansha, Thursday, June 22, 2006 7:35 AM (5 years ago)

i cant even:

Michael McClure AKA "Eco Elf" is an environmental comedian, writer, speaker and shaman. He often builds the set and runs the lighting for the show.

well it depends on the nature of the scheme. i'm sure some are like that, but others -- especially those who propose to have discovered methods of levitating or "quantum jumping" or whatnot -- probably are aware, at some level and on some occasions, of the nature of what they are up to. but they've built their professional life in such a way that they can avoid being forced to confront this.

xxpost

u think? i dunno, ppl are super deluded about a lot of thigns i guess

like im not sure i believe that on some level every cult leader/organizer is aware they're misleading ppl. i think ppl can convince themselves as well as they can convince others.

HE LEARNED PHOTOGRAPHY IN ONE WEEKEND IT IS REAL

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ll-lGmNjwmM/TL4bkxfwogI/AAAAAAAACAY/6CuwUuDm_xo/s200/TT+10+Brande.jpg
Goddess Brande Faris opened the show with her sultry voice and original song, "Hello & Welcome to Tantra."

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ll-lGmNjwmM/S5qGeIog4CI/AAAAAAAABhA/iXzSepnpBII/s1600-h/P1050080.JPG

http://oi39.tinypic.com/219qa6v.jpg

headexplode.gif

lol i was gonna post that

i cant even:

Michael McClure AKA "Eco Elf" is an environmental comedian, writer, speaker and shaman. He often builds the set and runs the lighting for the show.

― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:48 PM

dying

nooooo am0n i resisted posting that!

'shaman' nonchalantly tacked on to the end of the list of titles

i consider myself a nice person and i can generally get by in social situations but i srsly dont think i could spend 10 minutes in the company of these people

~a booya~

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+cult+of+motivational+speakers&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=A8W&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&source=hp&q=awesomeness+fest+cult+&pbx=1&oq=awesomeness+fest+cult+&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=5659l8233l2l8630l17l17l0l0l0l14l453l4250l0.5.9.1.2l17l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=20d79f0a81e4895c&biw=1241&bih=581

http://www.ecoelf.com/EcoElfTantraTheater.JPG

xp mission accomplished, maybe someone will stop by

Jim
05 March 07, 8:12pm
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Mike
05 March 07, 8:41pm
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Brian
17 September 08, 9:57am
“two tiered affiliate system.”
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there u go s1ocki

Isn't that the classic pyramid scheme.

welcome, hoos.

we've been expecting you.

http://www.webpublishingblog.com/the-secret-the-law-of-attraction-affiliate-program-mlm-pyramid-scheme.htm

i'm in the camp where these people are intentionally manipulating people. when i first saw this stuff seemed like they were pretty legitimately using psych tactics to get these results. it's not hard to come up with this shit, you just have to be completely and unrepentantly sleazy to want to do this to other people.