Its very interesting, the analysis of Dave Lakhani. His name came up in the context of other sleazy covert persuaders like Alex Benzer (Ali Binazir) [
forum.culteducation.com] and James Arthur Ray, and Michael Beckwith from The Secret.
Dave Lakhani was basically chosen at random to analyze. He tries to make you believe he is teaching people about cults, covert persuasion, and how to protect themselves from getting exploited, but it doesn't hold up to analysis. As at most, he reveals only a few techniques that can be found from better sources. And at the same time is running many manipulative patterns to try and make money off you, by luring you into expensive private Inner Circle coaching. And only a small amount of research into his claims, shows that basically none of them stand up to factual reality.
They are made up marketing stories and fabrications. That is how these guys play the game, concoct big fat fake marketing stories, and try to sell it to the public. It seems to not occur to them that such extensive bullshitting is eventually going to be exposed, and then backfire.
But one could pick at random from the huge amount of other similar players out there, nd get the same results. If one looked into Kevin Hogan more closely, it would get far worse.
Dave Lakhani is very closely tied to Kevin Hogan ideologically.
Kevin Hogan has written that he believes that hypnotic suggestions have to be SEEN to have come with a "good intent" or they won't be accepted by the unconscious. This is why he and Lakhani constantly harp about their alleged "good intent", and try to persuade you they are holier and more pure than Mother Theresa, to try and get your unconscious to accept their suggestions. Its a conscious tactic to manufacture instant rapport.
At the same time, Kevin Hogan actually says he believes that selfishness is good, which is the same as Greed Is Good.
Kevin Hogan is an aggressive and manipulative salesman, that is what he does. He's not even that accomplished at "hypnosis", its more just about him using every trick out there to try and sell stuff.
For example, his book...
Through the Open Door: Secrets of Self-Hypnosis (9781565547858): Kevin Hogan, Mary Lee Labay
That book is very very poor, with not much about self-hypnosis in it. The only chapter with a little meat is on pain relief, and that is written by a guest writer, the rest is bad fluff, literally 5th rate photocopies of other's material, if that. They throw in some basic NLP taken from some intro books.
Of course on Amazon, they have their standard shill reviews, but there is one honest review from someone who actually has some knowledge, and sees Kevin Hogan for what he is.
A sham.
All Kevin Hogan is able to do is try to convince people to buy his stuff.
He tells you if you are fat, he can make your thin, if you buy his stuff.
Kevin Hogan is going to take more looking into.
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Through the Open Door: Secrets of Self-Hypnosis (9781565547858): Kevin Hogan, Mary Lee Labay
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www.amazon.com]
No secrets here, February 26, 2002
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I found this book disappointing, and I think the title is misleading. The book contains a lot of NLP exercises and visualisations, a lot of exercises from what you might call the list-making school of self-help, and a remarkable amount of extraneous advice such as the advantages of having your hair coloured as you get older and a truly astonishing section on investment advice (in a book on hypnosis?), but very little solid information on self-hypnosis techniques. In general I found the inductions sloppy and too short, with little or no trance-deepening or testing, and while they use some hypnotic language, there is almost no advice on how to actually speak the inductions. As for solid instruction on induction, deepening, testing of trance, ideomotor techniques, hypnotic language, anchoring, post-hypnotic suggestion etc - forget it. If these techniques occur, they are used in passing and not explained.
Furthermore, the writing style is poor and often unclear, and the book does not appear to have been proof-read - far too many typos and spelling/grammar errors - all of which contributes to the general impression of a sloppily written book slung together in a hurry.
A personal objection of mine is that the book also promotes an unhealthily self-obsessed philosophy; altruism, it seems, is A Bad Thing. The authors do not appear to realise that there is a vast and profound difference between giving and being taken! It comes as no surprise to find a reference to Ayn Rand in the bibliography.
... I think there is much better information available on the web, much better presented, and for free. I certainly didn't learn any secrets from it.
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