(I taught in Finland and the Netherlands last year.)

I only teach when someone (or enough people) ask… and if it’s out of town, classes only happen when someone hosts one (that could change, but that’s how I’ve done it since 2000).

Happy to tell you how to do that if you’re inspired… drop me an email.

-S

I hate writing LOL, but I actually DID LOL reading your last comment.

And, again, thanks for the feedback about things *seeming* the same… I’ll definitely have to take a look at the writing (which I haven’t done in quite a while).

The easiest answer I can give to “how do I know” is this:

a) As you can tell, I’m more than available to chat (both online and offline)so you or anyone else can do your due diligence and see if what I’m saying/doing is the same/different as what’s been done before.

b) For the meditation course, there are a number of “tastes” you can get at no cost — an introductory chat, an interview or 2, and 2 of the practices (which include feedback and Q&A from seminar participants)

c) Give it a whirl. I make everything available without any financial risk whatsoever, and with a nominal time-risk. I often say, “you can’t know what something is, or what the value of it is, BEFORE you’ve tried it,” so I try to make it easy and risk-free to try it. There’s no commitment required to experience what I’m doing. I’m not asking anyone to change their name, sell their house, leave their job, or get a new haircut… the meditation course is some CDs that you can listen to at your own pace and the Quantum Wealth class is, for now, a weekend.

Oh, FWIW, check out http://advancedmeditation.com/blog/hows-your-i-am-ing/ for some comments from people who’ve experienced the I AM Course.

And, as I’m sure you’ve gathered, I don’t want you… only your non-existent inner child, your made-up ego, and your fictitious subconscious

I stumbled upon your blog and thought: ‘Wow, this guy is verbalising my thoughts!’ And in such a sophisticated and articulate language, what can I say, sometimes the package is more seductive than the content (advertising guys know it well) but in your case it was pure pleasure and yummy, organic food for thought. I was on to something. But then the way you worded and presented your ads for Wealth and Meditation classes/workshops/courses - well it reminded me of, we know who.
NOW, how on earth am I, the poor seeker, supposed to know the products are actually not another ‘Inner Child Instant Pain and Confusion Eradication Technique’?! If you have been through a million disappointing promises, you end up questioning if you even have an Inner Child

I realise the market is what it is. People like what they like. If they spend $$$ on Deepak Chopra promising them intoxication with love and happiness Rumi-style endorsed by Oprah… If you build your cafe next to Starbucks you are going for a sure thing because they do their research well.

But what about us? The Disappointed, The Frustrated, The Not-So-Easily-Trusting-No-More? If I didn’t read your blog I wouldn’t know (not that I do know - never been to any of your workshops ) that you MIGHT be a genuine help.

“Sometimes the language used by two different things can *sound* the same because it’s describing a similar result, but the method and path can be very different.”

I don’t know why (according to recent research even women’s intuition is no longer reliable - not to mention the brain) but you seem genuine. But how should I know if you use the same language? OK so you will get all the DC devotees, but what about me? Don’t you want me?

Please don’t ask me to write it for you

A.x

I don’t think for a moment that any of the OUTER RESULTS I experienced had anything to do with any “realization” I had. And the difference between what I’m doing and what others are doing is based on that:

They promise that there are specific inner causes that reliably lead to specific outer results.

I think, and teach, that this notion is… what’s the technical term? Complete nonsense.

What we can affect, with great reliability, is our inner experience… we can find clarity rather than confusion, ease rather than stress. And from that, we can more readily find steps that could move us in the direction we intend. Whether we get to “what we want” (and I have a LOT to say about how we’re usually quite confused about what *that* is), has MUCH more to do with luck, randomness, chance and, if you believe in it, fate, than most of us (and ALL of the “manifestation” teachers) would like to admit.

And, finally, the methods of affecting our inner experience are NOT by “focusing on what we want” or imagining the future, or breathing heavily, or meditating, or changing the feng shui of our bathroom… but, instead are about understanding specifically HOW and WHY our minds are able to, and almost built to, turn simple situations into problems that feel like life and death.

One book I recommend is “Stumbling on Happiness,” which posits the following simple “how to be happy” technique: Find people who have what you think will make you happy. When you meet enough of them to discover that you were mistaken (because they’re no happier having what you want), and if you can get over the idea that you’re special (”Well a million others got what I want and *they* aren’t happier, but *I* will be different!), then you’ll drop the fairy tale and discover genuine contentment.

Now, with regard to marketing the same way as they do… can you be more specific?

I’ll say in advance that it’s an ongoing challenge to find the best way to make this information available… On the one hand, if you want people to RESPOND to something you are offering, they need to believe you can give them what THEY WANT. Otherwise, they simply go somewhere else.

The challenge is that what the potential client believes they want isn’t necessarily what they want (in fact it rarely is). And it can be tricky to communicate that.

In other words, let’s go here: People want to be happy. They think that more money will make them happy. You know it won’t. Do you call your class:

a) “Money Won’t Make You Happy”
b) “The Secret of Money”

Both classes are the same… when people attend you “pull the rug out from under them” and show them that the desire for more money won’t give them what they want… but understanding WHY they thought that it would can, surprisingly, lead them to feeling happy, first, without a change in their financial situation… and from that clarity, if they still want to, say, get a better-paying job, they have a better chance at finding and taking steps that could lead in that direction than when they were stressed and confused.

I can tell you, from experience, nobody signs up for “A” …which is why the book I mentioned, above, is called “Stumbling on Happiness” and not “Your Brain is Wired to Make You THINK You Know What Will Make You Happy, But You’re Wrong!”

Also, I’m NOT engaged at all in the classic model of: Sell the basic course (my Quantum Wealth class has no fixed price, for example), as a way of getting people to buy the more “advanced” and expensive course (when what’s taught in the basic course doesn’t work)… and then the next and the next and the next.

And, the other teachings deliver a “feeling” (which is actually a thought) in the present (”Oh! I feel like I could be a millionaire”) and can only proven in and by the future. e.g. “Do this visualizing and AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE you’ll get what you want.”

What I’m offering has nothing to do with some impossible promise for an imagined future. And I don’t have or need “advanced” courses.

Sometimes the language used by two different things can *sound* the same because it’s describing a similar result, but the method and path can be very different. It’s one thing to say, “I can help you get rid of that pain — here’s an aspirin” and “I can help you get rid of that pain — Hey look you’ve been taking aspirin to deal with that splinter!”

And sometimes, it’s necessary to go back and re-write (I haven’t looked at that page in about 6 years, so maybe now is that time).

Last but not least, thanks for the conversation!

And if that weren’t enough, I found myself in an incredibly easy and satisfying relationship with a woman I’d been crazy about for years (who wanted nothing to do with me prior to then).

Having a happy and fulfilling relationship may not seem like it has anything to do with some unusual understanding of money but, as you’ll soon see, it undeniably does.

I’m also glad to report that since that time things have only gotten better, more satisfying and more effortless. My income is passive (I don’t need to do anything to receive it), and is significantly greater than my expenses (so I use the difference to support charities and acquire other income-producing assets)… and the wedding in October 2003 was a BLAST!”

Steven, is there any chance that the success you were bestowed with had nothing to do with the sudden ‘realisation’ but was more to do with your predetermined fate, your highly developed intelect, luck, great opportunity coming at the right time to the right person, the astrological constellations aligning perfectly or some other random event? Because if you’re saying that you discovered the secret to a better relationship with money and you are the only legit guru (or anti-guru if you prefer) then how are you different from Joe Vitale, Eckhart Tolle, The Secret people etc. This is a true question, I have an enquiring mind

the only thing is, i am a hornet with a ’still confused’ identity of my being a hornet of that nest.

meaning, i believe that TS like thing (law of attraction) is possible… but i am not believing IN IT till i see results in and around my life.
precis of the above: both are stories(for me) - that it works, and it doesnot.

so… i can make peace with you.

love/b.

Please do not confuse us with scientific facts.

BTW, I’ve been thinking a LOT about Scarlett Johansen and… oh, wait, there’s the doorbell! It MUST be her!