There is a looong, bizarre online exchange featuring Ben Mack, aka "Love" -- in a forum about a book called "Principia Discordia". It appears that Mr. Mack went to the forum in hopes of marketing his book, "Poker Without Cards". [www.principiadiscordia.com] He mentions Dave Lakhani at least once in that forum. In one of his initial posts, Mack says something
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Still more about "Dr." Ben Mack.... In November 2007, Mr. Lakhini wrote a blog,"Ben Mack Deconstructed by Dave Lakhani". I just did something very dangerous, I deconstructed a friend. Frankly, I'm not sure how things will turn out as a result of this but I did it because he is so misunderstood. And frankly, that is partly his fault. Ben lives out loud, he lives his
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LOL Penelope!!
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More about "Dr." Ben Mack.... Apparently on 1/31-2/1/09, Ben Mack held an "ESP BootCamp". (There's that term "Boot Camp" again.) Dave Lakhani was a speaker at that event. [ESP Boot Camp in Boise 1/31] ESP Boot Camp In Boise 1/31 = Free Seminar Teaches How to Earn $1,000 a Day as a Telephone Psychic Prior to the event, there was a (in my opinion
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It seems that Dave Lakhani has been very impressed with someone named Ben Mack. Such that he has worked alongside him, as well as commissioned Mack to write the "Afterword" to his book, "Subliminal Persuasion." Time to take a look at "Dr." Ben Mack. According to Ben Mack, Joe "Mr. Fire" Vitale is one heck of a guy! Joe Vitale has of course be
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Good point, Sparky. We've been honing in on Dave Lakhani, and Mark Joyner as well as others have popped up in relation to him. It gets a bit tricky because these guys often seem to be splashing around in the same pool. I guess we can see if enough information emerges to warrant a new thread. Thanks!
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An unhappy reader of Mark Joyner's "Simpleology" felt compelled to start a "discussion" of the book at Amazon: Is This Book A Scam? Is this book for real? Every review is five stars, and most of them appear to be from authors and people related to "simple ology." (from Patrick R. Bowman) Someone called "Hopefully Helpful" responds to this disc
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A little more about Kevin Hogan's "Boot Camp".... He says the "keynote speaker" is Mark Joyner. (Lakhani is also speaking there.) Let's take a little look at Joyner. As with Hogan and Lakhani, there's a lot of hype on Amazon. Thankfully that's not all you'll find. Here are some Amazon reviewers' comments/criticisms re Mark Joyner’s boo
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The Anticult, I find this quote from Lakhani to be a key phrase: "Your emotions are screaming" Is that really what we as consumers want? For our emotions to be "screaming"? Because of the various actions of a person SELLING things to us for HIS benefit? ($$$) Speaking for myself, that is NOT what I want. I don't want some manipulative sales guy "persuading&q
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QuoteThe AnticultIts interesting to read the book list that Kevin Hogan recommends. www.kevinhogan.com/kevin-hogan-books.htm The first book is called, The Conscience of a Libertarian by Wayne Allyn Root Notice he omits the full title: The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts I wonder if the following is true about Kevin
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QuoteChristaQuoteImthatDave SNIP This was all put into place as soon as I discovered that CAN was now a Scientologist run organization and before Stoic contacted Hypnosisnetwork. Dave Lakhani Dave, 1996 just called. It wants its breaking news back. He claims 27 years of cult expertise, yet Dave's just found out about CAN. Mind-boggling. I know, I know. I'm harping on this thi
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Human nature, Shadow. It ain't easy getting by in this world. So people look for ways to get ahead. Other people invent ways to get ahead, or more likely, ways that SEEM like they can put you ahead. You just need to shell out $$$ for this, that and the other product to get where you want to be. If unsuspecting consumers don't get what they want.... well, it's their proble
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Kevin Hogan's "Covert Persuasion" book has this subtitle: "Psychological Tactics and Tricks to Win the Game" Key words: COVERT TACTICS TRICKS Amazon shares this from the book's inside flap: "Covert Persuasion sounds like a secret operation because it is; when you master these techniques and put them to use, no one will even notice your tacti
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The other day I did some checking of Lakhini's website. A whole bunch of links weren't working. (Maybe that has since changed?) So I did a little checking of Kevin Hogan's website too. What a shocker, someone else has also provided a bunch of LINKS THAT DON'T WORK. The following links for testimonials on Kevin Hogan's home page DO NOT WORK as of this writing:
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Kevin Hogan keeps popping up in connection with Dave Lakhani. (Those two just love to give each other 5-star reviews on Amazon.) Hogan is holding an "Influence: Boot Camp" on March 10-13, 2010 in Las Vegas, and Lakhani is speaking there. The website is LOADED with info. Very confusing to try and take it all in. [www.kevinhogan.com] Price tag for the "Boot Camp"
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Here is an "underground secret society success interview" with Michael Lovitch (who says he has a Master's degree in Rhetoric): ["How To Generate a 7-Figure Worldwide Publishing Empire Without Any of Your Own Content"]
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The guy who runs the Exploring the Mind blog is Michael Lovitch, a "co-founder of the Hypnosis Network". [exploringthemind.com] Lovitch has just admitted that he is a buddy of Dave Lakhani. And it seems he is very concerned with defending his pal: "I know Dave's intentions were to help people and I really think he did. I welcome any additions to this posts that
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Yes, Lakhani has claimed he is a cult expert: "Sorry to disappoint you guys, but I took many courses on cult investigation while I worked in law enforcement, particularly satanic groups and conducted investigations. I've also instructed at the college level and have been an expert witness on cults, all of those things would qualify me as an expert. Not to mention the fact that I'
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Good show, Stoic! It'll be fantastic if the blog owner of "Exploring The Mind" listens to you and posts a WARNING about the Cult Awareness Network in a prominent place. I'd like to think that the blog owner will be just as concerned as Mr. Lakhani says he is about the problem with CAN... seeing as Mr. Lovitch felt it important to blog the interview with Mr. Lakhani. He
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It is unfortunate indeed that Lakhani's retraction about CAN appears in the comments rather than right next to the audio. That interview can be accessed without even seeing any comments. What if people simply don't click on the comments? Also, people would have to have the patience to read through a long, long string of comments to get to Lakhani's. His comment re CAN is the 86
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The Anticult says: "But once you find a few rats in their Stories, you know that when there are rats in open view, they are hundreds that can't be seen yet. And once a few rats are spotted, rest assured they are going to be up all night scrubbing the other rats off the internet." Just noticed: The company "Palm Tree Promotions" all of sudden does link to some
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Oh. My. God. The author of that article said, "...that James Ray could even think of doing such a thing is monstrous." Agreed. Thanks for the heads up.
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Mr. Lakhani to Rick Ross/Moderator: "Moderator, seriously? Can you demonstrate anywhere that I've suggested anyone use brainwashing techniques? Nowhere." A quote by Mr. Lakhani: "Use the concept of inconsequence to get people to take little actions that lead to bigger actions. When my mom joined the cult, they did not ask her to give up her life savings, become totally s
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Quotebuffman@helpme2times, People who are experts of persuasion in person are often terrible at persuasion in other mediums, like writing or website design. But if you truly earn $30k/day, you could afford one heck of a great web design firm! Perhaps he does, perhaps he doesn't earn that much--but still an interesting choice. One would think that you'd just hire an expert for the websi
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For the record.... I notice that someone has been tinkering with the content of Mr. Lakhani's "client" web page today. Earlier it said, "Our Featured Clients" at the top. Now it says, "Some of Our Past Clients". As if that will help mitigate part of the criticism of the page I voiced earlier?
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Mr. Lakhani claims that he is a hugely successful businessman, making up to twice as much in one day as the typical American makes in 2 years. So... one would expect to find an incredible array of "clients" on Mr. Lakhani's web page devoted to that. In actuality, there are some big problems with that client page. For example, some of the links are dead. Would not a reputa
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I am so sorry about Hans.
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That's funny, I don't find TAC to be "shouting". :-P
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QuoteImthatDaveHelpme2times Either you didn't bother read it or you are trying to mislead people. I have nothing to do with it at all, they are suggesting that you use my name to target Google Ad Groups, I have nothing to do with that site. The moment I see that kind of thing pop up in Google searches it gets reported to google. Dave Lakhani Wow, that there is some very black-and-white
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QuoteThe AnticultLook at this vile website, which reveals some of the affiliate tricks and scams they use on people, and is promoting the "Disguised Hypnosis affiliate program". www.disguisedhypnosis.com/affiliate.html www.disguisedhypnosis.com How To Unleash the Power of "Disguised Hypnosis"... And Instantly Master the Arts of Covert Persuasion and Hypnotic Mind Control
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