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before I picked up MJ's TMF , I was DONE with self-help books.
I think we all know why, everything that MJ's speaks of, everything you notice if you actually think about it.
from the regurgitated useless advice to the unrealistic unreasoable promises...
I got TMF just because so many people (with real results to their names) recommended it.
at first I was skeptical: "another self-help book about getting rich and about freedom?, yea sure", but - Here I'm
anyway I can't believe MJ's books are categorized as "self-help books", self-help is a CULT! and that's why:
according to CULT RESEARCH - Characteristics Associated With Cults:
The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader, and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
- people based their whole decsion making on what "Jim Rohn said" or "Tony Robbins preched"
Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
- "if you can't manifest a mansion, a harem of babes and 100M$ that's on you! how dare you question the laws of the universe!
- if you fail, it's never the system, it's because you somehow screwd up.
Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, or debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
- Sleep as little as humanly possible, Mediate 2 hours a day, invision your gloruious future, chant affirmations and never have free time to question whether or not this is doing anything.
The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (e.g., members must get permission to date, change jobs, or marry—or leaders prescribe what to wear, where to live, whether to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).
- dress like a winner, hang out with winners, forget your lousy friends and family (unless you can get them on the guru train aswell), eat this, do that, a fixed recepie of how to live your life.
The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and its members (e.g., the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar—or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
- just the reason you are reading this self-help book makes you a better human than the rest of the low-class slugs who roam this earth, they don't strive to self-develop, you are better, we are an elite group of people who try to better themselves and everything around them.
The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders, or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).
- the guru is not an official finance advisor or anything of the sort, he is just a "life-coach", able to tell you anything without consequences
The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (e.g., lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).
- leave your family behind, throw away those friends of yours etc'
The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and control members. Often this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
- if you fail to adhere to the guru's teaching you are basically giving up the "light", you choose to live a sad life.
Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
- how many times does a guru write a new book and encourges you to spread the gosple while never doing any real maintenance on the "current members" group?
The group is preoccupied with making money.
- the guru sells 12 books, 4 conventions a year, 3 courses etc' but you never seem to get anything out of it other than being hyper-motivated for a week or so.
Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
- you wake up a 5AM and do nothing but reading, listening and watching what the guru has to say, preach and tell you.
Thanks for reading, and I'm sure some of you noticied the eerie resemblance of cults and the self-help industry.
This is just a general overview since I'm sure you can connect the dots yourself if you were part of the self-help movement in anyway way shape or form.
I think we all know why, everything that MJ's speaks of, everything you notice if you actually think about it.
from the regurgitated useless advice to the unrealistic unreasoable promises...
I got TMF just because so many people (with real results to their names) recommended it.
at first I was skeptical: "another self-help book about getting rich and about freedom?, yea sure", but - Here I'm
anyway I can't believe MJ's books are categorized as "self-help books", self-help is a CULT! and that's why:
according to CULT RESEARCH - Characteristics Associated With Cults:
The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader, and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
- people based their whole decsion making on what "Jim Rohn said" or "Tony Robbins preched"
Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
- "if you can't manifest a mansion, a harem of babes and 100M$ that's on you! how dare you question the laws of the universe!
- if you fail, it's never the system, it's because you somehow screwd up.
Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, or debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
- Sleep as little as humanly possible, Mediate 2 hours a day, invision your gloruious future, chant affirmations and never have free time to question whether or not this is doing anything.
The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (e.g., members must get permission to date, change jobs, or marry—or leaders prescribe what to wear, where to live, whether to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).
- dress like a winner, hang out with winners, forget your lousy friends and family (unless you can get them on the guru train aswell), eat this, do that, a fixed recepie of how to live your life.
The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and its members (e.g., the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar—or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
- just the reason you are reading this self-help book makes you a better human than the rest of the low-class slugs who roam this earth, they don't strive to self-develop, you are better, we are an elite group of people who try to better themselves and everything around them.
The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders, or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).
- the guru is not an official finance advisor or anything of the sort, he is just a "life-coach", able to tell you anything without consequences
The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (e.g., lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).
- leave your family behind, throw away those friends of yours etc'
The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and control members. Often this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
- if you fail to adhere to the guru's teaching you are basically giving up the "light", you choose to live a sad life.
Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
- how many times does a guru write a new book and encourges you to spread the gosple while never doing any real maintenance on the "current members" group?
The group is preoccupied with making money.
- the guru sells 12 books, 4 conventions a year, 3 courses etc' but you never seem to get anything out of it other than being hyper-motivated for a week or so.
Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
- you wake up a 5AM and do nothing but reading, listening and watching what the guru has to say, preach and tell you.
Thanks for reading, and I'm sure some of you noticied the eerie resemblance of cults and the self-help industry.
This is just a general overview since I'm sure you can connect the dots yourself if you were part of the self-help movement in anyway way shape or form.
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