It is very likely that James Ray financial system is more sophisticated that Werner Erhards in that article, as that was from years ago. They have really refined these techniques, and all it takes is a meeting with experts in the field, which are referred by others.
For example, James Ray could have simply hired the same financial experts that Tony Robbins or others use. And again, those are the legal methods of asset protection.
Perhaps money got funnelled into the real estate investment company of his brother?
Who knows, only experts can figure that out.
One interesting follow up point.
There is a picture on the Droid site, at a James Ray seminar. Modern Magick [
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Some have commented that is looks like the set is bigger than the audience, and that the room is not full.
Sorry to be contrary, but that is not correct, and is a mistake.
That is deliberate and very very carefully designed and planned. There are no empty seats, that could be a "sold out" seminar.
These are not the giant LGAT's, but the smaller ones, even the biggest LGAT seminar Gurus also have more exclusive smaller LGAT seminars with a few hundred people, sometimes even less, as it creates more intimacy and power, for one-to-one upselling. Those seminars are CRAWLING with sales people, there could be more than 20 salespeople there.
There are 7 rows of people, with more than 25 across. So that is over 200 people.
That is an ideal turnout for that kind of seminar.
If the ticket was a mere $1000, that is 200K, plus much more in upselling.
Modern Magick is listed at $5,695 a person. With 200 people that is 1.2 million dollars on tickets. The "staff" is not paid, that all goes to James Ray's companies. They also upsell the hell out of people, and they spend thousands more.
So its a bad bad mistake to think that seminar is undersold, it is not. Its sold-out. They keep the numbers in a couple of hundred people on purpose, so they can be more personal with people, and move them to the next level of seminars, coaching, and money extraction.
Note that the majority of the audience are women. Also note the rapt attention James Ray is able to create, with the intent focus of EVERYONE in that audience except one person.
Many of those people are in deep trance states right in that photo. [
saltydroid.info] Notice how James Ray is relaxed, leaning forward..he is doing trance induction and group conversational hypnosis and persuasion at that moment.
The images and the set-up are PRECISE. There are large screens on both sides just out of the image, which are designed for powerful persuasion purposes, of course. The same way they have huge images in Times Square, for persuasion power.
That is not expensive, its just a projection sheet and some very bright lights. The entire set-up is paid for by a couple tickets!
There is a rope barrier at the front of the stage that seperates James Ray from the audience, which is deliberate to keep people away from him, to make him seem more elevated and VIP.
James Ray is playing to the sun image with the caption, "The Dreamer and The Dream" which is related to a powerful hypnotic technique he does in his seminars.
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Also notice his last name is RAY and he uses the image of the sun all the time, as in a Ray of light.
But he also plays to the "dark side", with the image of the moon and Modern Magick. This is the beginning of where many of Death Ray's senior followers get lured to the dark side, he is pitching it already at that seminar.
Its not about Black Magick, its about creating deep trance-states in people. You go into the mythological "content" mumbo-jumbo just to create TRANCE, which makes people highly suggestible. Its very unfortunate that most people don't know that. Its a basic technique.
For those who have studied these methods for quite some time, that setup at the photo above is extremely professional and powerful.
James Ray contructed a very focussed and powerful group hypnosis and persuasion "chamber" right in the hotel ballroom. The seating is contained DELIBERATELY, notice every chair is touching the other chair. There are no empty seats, people are DELIBERATELY crammed together like sardines, like they were in the death lodge.
You can't sit at the back of the room, and put your feet up, or go get a coffee. You are locked into that group seating structure, and can't get out of your row without disrupting everyone, so people don't leave. Sound familiar?
If you tried to go to the bathroom or use the phone, you would be met at the back of the room by someone like Megan and given the 3rd degree about what you were doing. These people understand all of these techniques, which have been around for decades.
Its a very bad mistake to underestimate these seminar Gurus like James Arthur Ray. James Ray didn't think ANY of that up at all.
The guy COPIED (in NLP, modeled) the top LGAT seminar people in the world who have refined these LGAT hypnosis techniques to the highest levels.
Obviously he would also COPY their financial systems behind the seminars too.
In NLP they have what is called modeling, which just means COPYING.
James Ray copied the most powerful LGAT techniques on earth, which were developed by others, but can be copied. He also would have copied their financials, as can be seen in what has happened.
The people walking into that Modern Magick deep influence hypnosis chamber don't stand a chance with that set-up. They are trapped, as they don't know what is happening to them. For someone with training in this area, you would NEVER get into that sardine can set-up, being bombarded with visual and audio for days at a time, with sleep and food deprivation, room temperature, conversational hypnosis and the other 100 techniques, done in precise order.
At best, you would sit at the back, out of the group, making notes, taking breaks on your own schedule. But they WILL NOT ALLOW that in these highly organized LGATs. They force you to comply and sit where they force you to sit, and do what they tell you to do, or they will KICK YOU OUT, and make an example of you in front of the group.
They don't care, you ain't gonna get a refund, no matter what they say about refunds. Try to get a refund for an LGAT seminar these days, its almost impossible they have so many tricks in the contracts.
James Ray precisely copied and refined the most effective and powerful LGAT seminar techniques in the industry from others who had designed and tested them for decades.
Of course he also copied and modeled their financial protection techniques, to make certain the millions were instantly drained and protected, simply by hiring the same experts used by others.