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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Don't wear your tin foil hat to bed.

Sorry to bring you another quasi-rant today.

I went to check out other blogs about this supposed Burt Goldman Quantum Jumping scam and found a doozy – over at Skepacabra. And unfortunately, this “mjr256″ (real name missing from his blog) seems to be more about tearing stuff apart rather than the pursuit of truth – or at least workable truths.

And unfortunately, his slip is showing in the post I linked to above. He’s so skeptical, I don’t know that he knows how the Scientific Method is applied – while he can claim that there is no “scientific” basis for anything that he levels in his sites, particularly Quantum Jumping.

On this blog, I’ve covered why and how it doesn’t work – and how it can easily be made into a scam.  I just disagree with this author’s approach to the subject – since he doesn’t seem to understand that the way you treat others is exactly how you are going to be treated – whether you “believe” in the Golden Rule or deny it. (If you look around for proof, then you’ll find plenty of it – if you simply deny it as a truth, you’ll also be perfectly right. But those who take advantage of it will live far more comfortable, even prosperous lives.)

Such debunkers are no experts in living or in life and so should be taken with a large grain of salt before  you base your lifestyle choice on what they write.

So, here’s the rant-du-jour:

There is a problem with your critical analysis of this – mainly that it’s one of the easiest things to believe = nothing. And criticism really just involves your world with more criticism.

Look, you probably believe in the Government and all that it’s done for you. Well, that belief won’t hold up under your own Baloney Detector Kit. The government is a scam which doesn’t work. Yet people (are forced to) believe in it.

As far as scientific studies, I love the one which said 50% of all scientific studies contradicted the other 50%. (And your baloney detection kit wasn’t applied to their own example of Global Warming, which is disproved by the correlation between sunspot data and recorded temperatures.)

With beliefs, you build your own belief system around you. People cherry pick all day long and only accept things which support their mental habits up to that point. No one is really wrong in this – it’s the way we’ve been set up. Politics is great for blind-siding people this way – by only giving them data which they can use to support their own views.

The conspiracy theorists (like your tin hat above) are constantly ragged on for this – since they are compiling data and proposing conclusions the rest of us would rather not agree with, and so, Believe.

(Like that popular FBI show about UFO’s – “I believe.”)

While you diss people who suspend disbelief, you also diss just about everyone in that category. When you go into a movie theater, if you don’t disbelieve reality for the hour or so of that money, you won’t enjoy it. All scientific method is based on having an open mind about the result – and running impartial tests with double-blind studies to show what results can be achieved.

By blinding and rigidly holding on to only a single set of beliefs, you live in a very boring and increasingly dangerous world – since only you are the one who isn’t evolving and can’t even get your car fixed when it breaks (because you can’t let go of the belief that it’s running just fine.)

Hyper-critical reviews of a subject are great for getting your blog to the top of the standings – particularly if you do it first. However, it doesn’t mean you are actually providing anyone else with any valuable information.

Belief what you will, disbelieve what you will. Doesn’t really matter in the final outcome, does it?

What you and everyone around you is looking for won’t be found by being critical of the entire world around you. These people are known as “bitter” and usually have few true friends. (Who wants to be criticized all the time?)

Treat others as you would like to be treated.

That’s a challenge – if you can suspend your beliefs long enough…

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Are Quantum Jumping or Sedona Method actually scams? NO. Yes. Well, maybe…

But why do people think they could be?!?

You can get scammed by about anything in your life, including this blog.

While making myself an expert on scamming by spending the last couple years ferreting out data in order to get out from under some unscrupulous Internet Marketing ripoffs — one lesson came home:

If you don’t get what you want or expect, you think it’s a scam.

The trick is that your own thoughts are traitors (as Shakespeare put it). If you think you can’t do something, you can’t. If you think something doesn’t work, it doesn’t. (See Earl Nightingale’s “Strangest Secret”.)

Sure, a very, very, very small percentage of people  did actually make it. As well they had some odd-ball, non repeatable successes when people fell into a rich niche no one else had particularly found. But the majority who were sold by these ripoff artists could not get their refund – the statistics were something like 1 in 10,000 actually made it.

Sedona Method and Quantum Jumping both work – if you want them to and are willing to see them through. In fact, using Sedona release techniques on Burt Goldman’s methods will actually make them work better – well, they can if you want them to.

And you can also get their touted results just by just sitting in a chair and being quiet – or taking a long walk in the woods. Doesn’t make them scams and it doesn’t prove they aren’t.

The basic underlying problem is that people want more and better stuff in their lives. And when they don’t get it, it’s a scam.

Well, here’s the basic: Life is basically a Scam.

Why? Because at the highest level of philosophy and spiritual awareness on this planet, from time immemorial, they’ve all held that life is basically an illusion. And that concept explains all thought, and mental process, and human condition below it.

Everything around you, you’ve put there. And everything that comes into your life, you make show up. And all the “scams” out there (name any number of them – higher education, government, military-industrial complex, corporations, environmental extremists, terrorism) and you’ll see they all have that same underlying situation – you made your self the “unwilling” effect of these guys. Because you wanted it that way.

Politics and government (along with their mainstream media flunkies) run scams all the time. Health care is scam upon scam, as are the politicians trying to “reform” it. This latest “H1N1″ virus didn’t come from swine, but it lowered pig prices. And it is shorter and affects people less than the regular flu – but who is paying for all this air time the “TV journalists” are giving it and how about the price of those inoculations we are all supposed to be getting? More tax dollars wasted – but being taxed is a scam, too, isn’t it? Both recent presidents were scams – even if you voted for them.

The list – just – goes – on.

You don’t get what you expected or wanted – it’s a scam.

You actually can get anything you want in life via any method or technique. You can make any of these work. And you can make them all fail. Your choice.

But of course, you can also say that what I write here is simply a scam, can’t you?

All the tests you take in school don’t prove anything. All the diplomas on the walls don’t prove a thing to anyone. All the money in the world doesn’t make you happy. People are going to believe what they want, what aligns with their other thoughts.

Like Patrick Swayze said, “The only think you take with you is your Love.”  This is what Charles Haanel was mentioning in his “Master Key System” – that Love is a primal element and creates everything else around it. And his methods, those 24 lessons, were quoted by “The Secret” – which is also held by some to be a scam.

The bottom line is what you believe and what you think. Above that is how much Create, how much Love you hold in your life. And those determine the quality of this illusion called life and living that we exist in.

So, again, it’s all your choice – and yours alone.

Scam, fame, or fortune – life is what you make it.

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Here’s the Powerpoint that matches – enjoy:

And – the podcast (5:23):

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