www.OMvana.com
www.DormioApp.com
www.SilvaLifeSystem.com
www.PhilosophersNotes.com
AwesomenessFest.com
We're a publisher. Do I practice Chakra Healing? No. But Our job is to publish an authors work and Alternative healing has a huge following in the USA. Penguin books publishes 100s of genres - including many of the same here. Publishing companies need to cater for a wide audience.
You are not only preparing [publishing] it. You are creating it, marketing it, and billing for it.
Are you seriously going to try to bullshit us here? You are trying to shift blame regarding the efficacy of these products onto the authors (like Burt Goldman, "the 85-year-old man who jumps across universes" as your sales page puts it), which is obviously one of the very reasons you license authors to be the face of each of these products (the other reason is because people would rather trust personalities instead of companies).
If you really cared about "reaching a billion people with enlightened ideas" you would not be selling this BS...
To understand this, read the work by socialogist Paul Ray. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cultural_Creatives
Now we cater for the Oprah audience - the cultural creatives. And have a crazy loyal following.
What makes things false are empirical studies.
I'm cool with people catering to that market, but I think there's a fine line to walk between selling stuff that's maybe not really that useful, but makes people feel good about themselves, and snake oil. Yoga is probably beneficial for people; 'alternative healing', maybe not so much, in many cases.
I guess you can make the argument that people are going to buy that stuff in any case, but that's kind of going against the idea that you're making the world better, which was a very nice statement in the actual article.
I said your products are BS, not that meditation is BS. The Buddha's teachings are free, he preached his Dhamma to kings and peasants alike.
You've basically resorted to ad hominem because you know you are peddling scams, and you can't argue that.
And showing statistics proving there is a market does not change the nature of your business. That is analogous to me saying it's okay to sell illegal drugs because people buy illegal drugs.
http://www.quantumjumping.com "Interdimensional quest for a better you"
http://www.silvalifesystem.com "Silva Method of Mind Control"
http://www.chakrahealing.com/products "Is a weakness in your 7 Chakras sabotaging your reality?"
http://www.loveorabove.com "ARE YOUR VIBRATIONS HELPING OR HURTING YOU?"
http://www.modernqigong.com/ "“HOW A DISASTROUS FALL PUT ME ON THE PATH TO A MIRACULOUS HEALING THAT SCIENCE COULD NOT EXPLAIN… ”"
These products cost hundreds of dollars. Essentially, they are a serious bastardization of Eastern concepts (I wonder what kind of karma that is creating for you, Vishen?), which in all reality, are available for free, and certainly not dressed up in this way... this is spiritual fraud at worst, misleading useless bullshit at best.
I find it insulting they think they are moving the "human race forward", when it's obvious the exact opposite is happening here. You are exploiting gullible "New Age" people who think anything out of the ordinary can fix their problems, especially when it's Eastern™ AND backed by Science™!
Seriously, this is an abuse of the "mysteriousness" of the East, and the "authority" of Western Science.