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Of course, it was my own fault. I stuck my nose out checking into something and then – POW! – Google started sending me traffic I didn’t want.

Now to begin with, my blog was simply an ordinary one – talking about my life experiences as I was pitching my self help books – Go Thunk Yourself stuff. As I was also studying marketing (publishers don’t market, authors do), I got in with some very interesting Internet Marketing coaching guys and exposed them as scams over a year or so. And somewhere in the middle of it, I found out exactly how scammers work and why. It’s all written up in my “Get Your Self Scam Free”, which is under that link and also a free online course to get scams out of your life.

Meanwhile, I was continuing my research, looking for anything on Christ Consciousness (even though I had already republished Bucke’s “Cosmic Consciousness”) – when I found Finer Minds and Burt Goldman’s Quantum Jumping – and blogged about it.

How the scam links started

Then I started getting traffic from Google for “quantum jumping scam”. Only because I had been blogging for the year before about a scam I had fallen into – and then made a single post about Quantum Jumping. Just as an experiment, I created a blog post which said, essentially, that anything can be considered a scam. And posted a presentation on this on Slideshare and Scribd. Then I followed this up a couple weeks later with another post saying essentially the same thing, that people who fall victim to these are the “Get Rich Quick addicts”. And meanwhile Google had pushed me up their ranks for “Burt Goldman Scam” and “Quantum Jumping Scam” so now I get regular traffic which can’t really be turned into any sort of sales. There is simply no affiliate sales program for this.

From an SEO point, this is just an interesting nuisance. Now Google has me “above the fold” for more than half a dozen related pages. So I get a fair amount of regular traffic which goes nowhere. I have links back to their site and to my own books (like “Get Your Self Scam Free”) but it’s not worth my time to take all these pages down – so I just watch them. I did have a conversation with their marketing people after they emailed me. And carefully explained that this was a natural outgrowth of Google search, that if I took my pages down, Google would simply elevate some others there. At least I didn’t really think Goldman’s stuff was a scam.

And I told him that other clients of theirs, like Silva Life Products, don’t have that problem – simply because they have been running affiliate programs for years. The affiliates have taken these top areas and route people back into sales. You can convert any Google keyword: “[product] scam” into actual recurring sales if you employ affiliates to do so.

So I keep these pages up partially out of good will toward these people I’ve never physically met, and partially out of curiosity. (And no one has made it worth my while to invest the time I’d need to take these down.)

Don’t worry – most of the stuff out there is scammy

It’s still my considered opinion that the bulk (97%) of all Internet Marketing is bunk and BS. But I can say this as I’ve been scammed and put all my metaphysical training to work uncovering why people get scammed to begin with. And when you read these sites like Burt’s – you’ll see that someone is hyping up what they are really delivering just so you are going to buy it.  If you take the scam-free checklist and apply it to any of these self-help sites (or anyone trying to sell something to a popular audience) and you’ll see the repeating pattern of sales pages. There are a handful of regular points which are used in Marketing to entice you to buy their goods. And until you get Scam Free, you are going to continue to fall for it over and over and over.

Those people who cry “I wuz scammed!” just don’t know how scammy they are themselves. I mean, if you keep doing the same things over and over, yet expect different results each time, you are scamming yourself.

I’ve helped people (with no personal gain in it at all) to get their money back from scammers – and those days are long over. One point I found interesting is that they each had to completely change their outlook on themselves and how they approach life. Once they “got over being scammed”, only then could they logically and methodically get out from under that scene they had created. A real learning experience for all concerned. While I don’t work with refunds at all anymore – I wrote the basics of scamming all up in a small book so people can quit getting themselves scammed.

Were you scammed by Burt Goldman? Then get the book or just do the free lessons I linked above. And learn the lesson you set out for yourself. You can actually live a much better life when you finally do.

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I’ve been struck recently to the constant problems people face in getting their view of how the world should run as they see it on the inside to what should be, in their opinion, showing up on the outside.

Manifestation, in the view from “The Secret” DVD, is really a lower “harmonic” of what we are talking about here. But the two are so closely related that they are just practically the same set of steps.

The earliest and most clear manual on this came from Christian Larson, and his bestseller “Ideal Made Real“. And my recent (continuing) studies of Levenson’s Sedona Method are simply a finer development. (As are most things I’ve found with Levenson – he simplifies concepts down to primary applications anyone can use.)

So I dug out my old copy of Larson to see what he had said back there in the 1920′s.

And there’s this fascinating tidbit which combines what we know of the Golden Rule (giving before you can get), but is also reminiscent of Wallace Wattles’ “Science of Getting Rich” (taking care with each little bit).

To give does not mean simply to give money, unless that is the best you have; but rather to give your own service, your own talents, your ability, your own true worth and your own real self. The man who lives a real life at all times and under all circumstances is giving his best and the very best possible that can be given.

A real life truly lived in the world is a power, and the person who lives such a life is a power for good wherever he may be. The presence of such a person is an inspiration and a light, as we all know. The man who loves the whole world with heart and soul, and loves without ceasing is doing far more for the race than he who endows universities, and will receive a far greater reward.

We must remember, however, that such a love is not mere sentiment. Real love is a power and will cause the person who has it to do his very best for everybody under every possible circumstance. That person whose heart is with the race will never be satisfied with inferior work. He will never shirk nor leave the problems of life to somebody else; he will go in and push wherever something good is being done, and he will constantly endeavor to render better and better service where ever his field of action may be.

And that is probably closest to what I see as the necessary balance a person has to maintain. You see the ideal intellectually inside you and work to bring this to the outside through your actions – and manifestations. Reach too high in the ideal and you risk frustration. Accept too low in the actual and your life is wasted.

However, Larson continues in this vein – as if reading my thoughts (through a time warp):

On the other hand, when we have faith in people we help them to have faith in themselves, and the more faith a person has in himself the fewer his mistakes and the better his work. When we have faith in everybody and are constantly expecting the best from everybody we create wholesome conditions in our own minds, conditions that will tend to develop the best in ourselves; that person, however, who has no faith in others will soon lose faith in himself, and when he does there will be a turn for the worse in his life.

So this tends to prove what I had discussed with a friend – as I mentioned I was in the middle of this post as a subject. He reminded me of what Huna has as a primary principle – that “There are no limits.” So as you demonstrate faith in others and expect them to have faith in you, as you give your best and expect the best from others, there is no inside and outside.

This is also known as integrity.

So when Hermes Trimestigus said something (on that mystic Emerald Tablet) down the lines of “as above, so below”, which has also been translated to mean “as within, so without” – there is not so much as an iota difference in actuality.

But where we can use this balance is in seeking to ever raise the high limits we’ve set for ourselves as a goal.  This, then, brings new realities to ourselves and to our surrounding world (which are arguably one and the same.)

Old habits die hard, I imagine.

Try this and see – and let me know what you think.

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