what beckwith is selling on his website reminds me of porn. they sell similar things, for this amount of money a month you get to see all of my latest videos and other stuff, for a low price of this a month. there is no difference between beckwith and a porn star.

he is a shuckster, making money is one of his big aims. what about helping people, what about giving freely, giving with faith that what you give will return to you a thousandfold. that is what he teaches in his books, to give and know it will return. and yet in real life, he is doing the opposite. he is selling himself and his teachings.

he has a huge ego, is narriccistic. who is he to put that huge pricetag on his sermons, talks, teleconference calls. for a low price of $14.95 a month, and $149.50 annually you will get one inspiring weekly download plus special recorded events and a monthly teleconference and whoo hoo, you get to interact with other members on a community board, which by the way could be free like this one, but i guess he is selling it, including it in his package, what a nice guy. and he is saying there is already over 35,000 members enjoying this. hmmm, that adds up to a lot of money.

and of course it doesnt end with this 149.50 price, he is selling an endless supply of other programs and talks. decide for yourself what you think of this great visionary, dr, rev. i am passing on him and sticking with those who dont seem so money hungry.

and by the way none, not a single unity, religious science, new thought church i looked up charges for any of their sunday sermons, talks, or anything like what he is doing. no wonder why he left religious science affiliation, probably so he could sell his talks and recordings. once again the person does not match their message, what they preach. he has a lot of titles and awards and preaches giving and helping humanity, but he does it only for a price. how sad.

To whom it may concern:

The topic of this thread is "Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith."

Please keep the focus on this subject/person.

Just to clarify a point about the links in this thread between Michael Beckwith, and how some other names became involved.
As a matter of fact, the main person involved has a link to a precise persuasion technique being used by Michael Beckwith, in a link below.

Early in this thread, an "article" in the Huffington Post that was advertising and doing viral marketing for Michael Beckwith and Agape was brought forward. [forum.culteducation.com]
The article was called:

Michael Bernard Beckwith: A Spiritual Teacher for Our Times [www.huffingtonpost.com]
by "Dr." Alex Benzer, Tao of Persuasion, Tao of Sexual Mastery, hypnotherapist

A couple of days later, a poster calling himself "dralexbenzer" came and posted in this thread. [forum.culteducation.com]

Immediately some serious questions came up. For example, is there such a person as "Dr. Alex Benzer"? Is he really an MD as he is advertising himself as?
Some basic research turned up some interesting information, namely that in fact there is no "Dr Alex Benzer" licensed or registered. Clarification of that point was requested, and nothing came forward.

More public research showed that in fact the website under the name "Dr. Alex Benzer" was in fact registered to a person named Ali Binazir, which info was previously posted at this link. [forum.culteducation.com]
The publically accessible WHOIS Registrant for THETAOOFDATING.COM was listed as
Registrant: Elite Communications LLC
Administrative Contact: Binazir, Ali

This was posted on Dec 28 2009.
On that same day, that Registrant info was changed from Ali Binazir to Alex Benzer. "Record last updated on 28-Dec-2009." So the name Ali Binazir was purged from the WHOIS record after it was exposed.

It turns out that Alex Benzer and Ali Binazir are the same person, and there is no information about Alex Benzer, but there is information about Ali Binazir.
So why the tricks?
Why the attempts at misdirection and the Tao of manipulation?

At the same time, Alex Benzer (Ali Binazir) is selling products with some very disturbing material in them, some from the persuasion salesman Dave Lakhani, who is being discussed in the thread on James Arthur Ray, who uses the same techniques.

Dave Lakhani, "Dr." Alex Benzer aka Ali Binazir [forum.culteducation.com]

So here you have Michael Beckwith, a post new age prosperity preacher from The Secret, telling people he can heal kidney disease, and that cancer is melting away by the power of his words.

Then you have a "Dr." Alex Benzer writing and probably being hired to write shill articles for Michael Beckwith and Agape. But either hired or a true believer, doesn't matter, as he is using manipulative persuasion techniques in the article/advertising he wrote promoting Michael Beckwith.
And Alex Benzer considers himself a master of hypnosis and persuasion, meanwhile he can't even seem to tell the most basic truth that in fact his real name is Ali Binazir.
If he legally changed his name, or Alex Benzer is a fake media name, then just admit it.
But why try to hide it?
He came into this thread trying to trumpet his alleged credentials, when in fact they cannot be verified unless he divulges his actual name, which had to be found by searching around. That is called conscious deception.

At the same time Alex Benzer (Ali Binazir) considers himself a master of persuasion, and is using manipulative techniques and trance-hypnosis techniques to promote Michael Beckwith.
They are both linked with Dave Lakhani, who is an expert in covert persuasion techniques.

So in fact, Michael Beckwith is an expert in those same persuasion techniques they are selling, but he CONCEALS those persuasion techniques, and just tries to market himself as a prosperity preacher.
Meanwhile, the persuasion and hypnosis techniques sold by Alex Benzer (Ali Binazir), and Dave Lakhani can actually expose some of the techniques being used by Michael Beckwith.


Right here, Alex Benzer (Ali Binazir) shows an example of the persuasion techniques used by the REV DR MICHAEL BECKWITH doing a technique he calls..
VOCAL VARIATION EXAMPLE: [www.taoofpersuasion.com]
VOCAL VARIATION EXAMPLE: REV DR MICHAEL BECKWITH [www.thetaoofdating.com] www.thetaoofdating.com/persuasion/BeckwithSample.mp3

Expect that link to be removed too, in about 5 minutes. They don't want the public to know they are consciously using PERSUASION techniques to manipulate their audience. Beckwith is not going to be happy when he finds out that Benzer/Binazir is exposing a technique he uses. Now they are really going to scrub their websites.


On the same page, he has information about the persuader Dave Lakhani
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QUOTE: "We weren't supposed to be pushy, or demanding. And nobody had really taught us anything about persuasion -- what my colleague Dave Lakhani calls "the art of getting what you want."
[www.taoofpersuasion.com] "Dave Lakhani is the best selling author of Persuasion: The Art of Getting What You Want. He is widely considered one of the top experts in the nation on persuasion, influence, mind control and creating a cult following. ... Dave's unique background of being raised in a cult for more than 10 years was the impetus for him to begin studying persuasion, human influence, and mind control."
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There it is. This is why Alex Benzer (Ali Binazir) was absolutely flipping out and presumably making a stink. These manipulators are TERRIFIED when people actually expose what they are doing to people.
Is it an accident that both Alex Benzer (Ali Binazir) and his "colleague" Dave Lakhani began posting here? Of course not.
Why is Alex Benzer (Ali Binazir) so afraid? What is he afraid of?
He is supposed to be a world-class master of hypnotic persuasion, and one can see his attempts at covert persuasion in his article promoting Michael Beckwith.

They are terrified that the public will begin to see past the hype and smoke and mirrors of Michael Beckwith, and instead start to see the precise covert persuasion techniques that Michael Beckwith is using to create a "cult following" around his personality.


Why are these so-called masters of covert persuasion such intellectual cowards? Are they so used to manipulating an untrained audience who swallows their persuasion techniques without noticing anything, that they cannot cope with people who can see their techniques?
They seek out an audience who is untrained in any of these areas, and naive, and they misdirect them, persuade them, manipulate them, mislead them, and exploit them financially.

The reality is that once you see these levels of conscious deception, its game over, the sale is over. Once you see someone trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public repeatedly, then they have knocked themselves out.

The intellectual cowardice is only surpassed by the moral cowardice.

Nice work discovering that Alex Benzer/Ali Binazir and Dave Lakhani are "colleagues." Makes perfect sense.