Comments on: Peak state

By: John Leav

John Leav — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:55:51 +0000

Those paranoid of cults have their own personal problems to work out. The naysayers are so insecure that they fear leaving their apartments lest someone on the street persuade them to commit mass suicide. This fear or insecurity is the limiting factor for many and Tony Robbins does nothing more than provide a forum to break through a few personal boundaries and try some different stuff. He is a little wacky on god and I don’t quite get the fascination with a made up spaceman but the guy will have you jumping to your feet and thinking big positive thoughts. The high lasts about month and more power to him for the show he puts on. It’s a good one but you have to leave your own hang ups at the door if you want to cop the buzz.
To be worried about indoctrination is ridiculous. Especially when these comments come from people who know nothing about the subject except what they read on some lame post.

Go– most love it.

By: setor

setor — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:45:44 +0000

I WOULD LOVE TO READ YOUR BOOK BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS NOT FOR TOSE OF US WHO DO NOT HAVE CREDIT CARDS TO BUY IT…..WELL IT IS A GOOD BOOK AND CONGRATS FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT

By: Andrew Ferrier’s Blog » Blog Archive » Virtual Conferences and Video Content

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:32:18 +0000

[...] However, not everything it’s used for involves cats falling off trees as per You’ve Been Framed, or actors fooling people. One of the best uses has been the huge amount of compelling video that’s been released free from conferences this year. I’ve absorbed tens of hours of it this year, on subjects as diverse as life coaching from legend Tony Robbins (Alexander Kjerulf has been to one of his seminars, and I want to go too), the marketing of spaghetti sauce, and curing aging. ‘Catch-all’ conferences such as Gel, TED, and LIFT have all got in on the act. This, of course, is an alternative to physically travelling, and will surely produce more super-star conferences that attract bigger names, bigger audiences, and grow in stature. [...]

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:16:13 +0000

Alex: Thanks for the tip – I found a great link on LGAT at http://skepdic.com/lgsap.html. You’re exactly right, some of the same methods are used in cults to indoctrinate people. It’s not the tools that matter though, it’s the intention. If TR used the tools to make me a christian or a scientologist or a moonie that would be bad.

Frank: I agree, a TR seminar is an extreme form of entertainment – and it is HIGHLY entertaining. But I disagree with your point that we shouldn’t “trick” ourselves into being happy.

I believe that there is no fundamental difference between false and real happiness. That in many ways, the happiness I feel is more a result of what is inside my mind than of external events.

So if I (or TR) can fool me into feeling happy, energetic and confident, that’s real. Or real enough to work.

As your rightly say, If it helps it’s OK, and it has certainly worked on me :o)

By: Frank Schophuizen

Frank Schophuizen — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:15:27 +0000

NLP is a technique to “fool” your mind and body by deliberately bringing yourself in a mental state. Music at the malls lures people into a mental state to buy things. Brain washing works. Mass hysteria works. Sects do it. Political campaigns do it. Advertisements work this way (if they work). The lotery does. Fobia are mental states that fool our good judgements. Entertainment helps us relax and feel good.

What TR does is an extreme form of entertainment, playing with people and people’s minds. If it helps it’s OK; if it is entertaining it’s OK. But exactly the same manipulative techniques do drive fanatism and terrorism, they make people torture others, and has brought us many black events in history.

Let’s be happy because we are happy, not because someone twisted our minds into happiness.

By: Alex Farran

Alex Farran — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:30:09 +0000

> Because being among 10.000 people who are totally fired up, happy, energetic
> and who are constantly high-fiving, encouraging and hugging each other feels
> really, really good :o)

Sounds like a cult indoctrination. I’m really really sceptical of TR. There’s no doubt he’s an effective speaker, but he pushes any old pseuodoscience (and that includes NLP) at his seminars. Look up LGAT (Large Group Awareness Training) for an overview of this kind of ‘motivational’ technique.