Posts Tagged ‘death’

Death Sucks, and We Forget That It’ll Happen to Us Too

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Life | Jan 25, 2012 | Tags: cancer, caring bridge, death, dying, health | 4 Comments

One of the greatest days of my life was last October when I found a dear friend from my teenage years on Facebook. I had been looking for Chris on Facebook for over four years. Through my high school years we had many adventures that were capped off with following U2′s Joshua Tree tour from ...Read more.

Magical Thinking Can Kill You: 2 Dead, 19 Hospitalized After Paying $9,933 for Seminar

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Beliefs, Influence, Media, Movies, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Spin | Oct 13, 2009 | Tags: back end marketing, back of the room marketing, bob tzu, death, duhism, get rich quick, get rich seminars, jack canfield, james arthur ray, law of attraction, magical thinking, michael beckwith, rhonda byrne, self help, self help book, self help guru, self help seminars, seminars, shelf help, sweat lodge, t harv eker, the secret | 7 Comments

Magical thinking can kill you. Now it’s been proven. After James Arthur Ray, self proclaimed ‘self help expert’ and one of the stars of the book and movie The Secret charged 70 participants $9,933 each to attend a sweat lodge event, two died, 19 went to the hospital and the ‘law of attraction‘ will never ...Read more.