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Originally Posted by impaul99  So what you're saying is that Steve doesn't really believe in Subjective Reality or IM. He simply realized that there are a lot of stupid people (like myself, in your opinion, since I'm a believer), who will come to his website and generate more traffic for him if he writes about this type of thing. So, in order to make more money he went against his moral values and now writes articles about lies just out of greed. This is your analysis of the situation?
I would then guess that authors like Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, the makers of "The Secret", the makers of "What the Bleep Do We Know", the author of "The Disappearance of the Universe" etc. are all also such crooks who made up this big pile of crap to sell to stupid people to make money.
The singer Jewel is also full of crap since her and her mother believe in Intention Manifestation. In fact there are probably hundreds of other authors in the self-development industry who are in the same boat.
This is a very convenient conspiracy theory. However, what if you're wrong? |
I personally wouldn't say that they're total crooks. But some, or most of these people, are in this because of the money that can be made with selling such theories. And you always have to pay
huge sums for their seminars.
But people want to hear stories like these because they make them feel better and even empower them to a certain degree. Although rarely to never to the degree of the promises.
The authors may believe, in varying degrees, into their own theories but I'm sure some of them privately don't totally subscribe to them. Or maybe they just don't care about the inconsistencies and flaws because they're just like their followers (or Mulder). They want to believe.
There's one sure thing though: The best way to make money yourself is still to sell 'the secret to get rich' to others
