The Best Enlightenment That Money Can Buy!!!
There are, of course, all kinds of commercial ventures whose sole goal is to speed you on your way to Enlightenment. These are not fly-by-night operations but have literally tens or hundreds of thousands of adherents worldwide. They also offer many testimonials and the backup of scientific authority.
Greatest Opportunity for a Price Awards Go To:
Active 'Transcendental' Meditation 2000
TM Sidhi Program and Yogic Flying
and then read
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the TM Sidhis but Were Afraid to Ask
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From Centerpointe Research Institute - now this is really cool. Using their patented sound technology they'll take you to depths of meditation that you'd normally have to work for 20 years to get. It'll stimulate the creation of new neural pathways, bring inner peace, improve your memory... hell, it'll even make you live longer. And it's used by over 70,000 people in 62 countries!!! Free demo tape. The intoductory level costs around $160 (Plus, if you order now, you'll receive 5 additional FREE bonus Holosync® soundtracks and other FREE bonuses worth $127.88). Complete with a 365 day money back guarantee. The next 12 levels cost about $300 each (FAQ) . And if you're short of time "You Can Experience An Amazing 6 Months of Growth in Six Days" at one of their retreats for "only $1895".
Now I can't tell you if this is for real or not. Quickly searching the net I didn't find the program being slammed in a major way. But look at the cost - the entire program, without retreat in almost $US 4,000. Big bucks.
On the other hand, grasshopper, answer me this. If you found a way to genuinely improve the lives of people at a modest cost (well, if you can afford an Audi, it's a modest cost) how would you market it? Particularly in America where they've heard it all before? And you, logically, need to make the CDs, pay staff, run the support lines and not starve to death yourself. How would you do it? Hey, this is America! If they didn't pay for it, they wouldn't think it was worth anything!
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Enlightenment Masters Training Course 2001 with Lawrence Noyes - $US 1400 for the 10 day course plus $US 425 for bed and meals. Sounds like big bucks, but if you know what Corporate America would charge for a business course of this duration you know this is dirt cheap.
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Enlightenment Intensive Retreats from the Spiritual Enlightenment, Love & Friendship Foundation, Inc. Assoc. as taught by Jack Wexler - the not for profit S.E.L.F. Foundation.
Best quote from their FAQ page:
Can I get enlightened in a weekend? Yes. Some people succeed in as little as a weekend. Others need more time. But everyone that participates in an Enlightenment Intensive Retreat expands their self awareness, understanding and their relating abilities.
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Enlightenment Intensive Retreats
Bhava in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Barry and Emma McGuinness in England
Sammasati with Fiona Murphy in Vancouver B.C.
Radical Awakening with Ramana
No Walls Living with Reinier
Enlightenment Intensives with Tathagata Pitaka
Enlightenment 101 by Donald Schnell at The Babaji Foundation
...they're everywhere you look!
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Question: Why does this remind me of the diet industry? If someone actually had a solution we would all be thin and fit and the industry would be out of business. Similarly, if the Enlightenment industry could bring us all to Enlightenment, the industry would die a natural death. Why don't I know even one Enlightened person?
