Modern medicine is the greatest grifter pseudo science gimmick..The truth is no one can heal us but us ourselves. Everything is pretty much placebo effect. Modern medicine and what u call science (scientism to be more precise) has killed more people than all the self proclaimed gurus. When we become our own authority and connect to the divine spark inside of us, thats when true healing takes place. So lets not make big claims about anyone. We can surely share our experiences, opinions and perspectives humbly, and let people decide what resonates with them.
Did you publish the Dispenza piece? I know some people that have been harmed at his retreats and then been left high and dry. He introduces some meditation techniques that can truly destabilize folks and upend their lives.
I haven't published the Dispenza piece yet, but it's on my radar. I want to finish out the Osho series first so I could have an established framework. He is a complete fraud in my opinion.
I work with populations who have often had destabilizing experiences like this. I'd love to hear more about what you've witnessed in terms of this in this community!
I made sure I kept my discernment listening to this.. but as you mentioned, critical thinking requires viewing all evidence..
Medical medium wigs me out, he looks like he's very sick to me. Joe Dispenza on the other hand, I have had profound experiences with doing his meditations, but I understand what you're saying. Not everyone does.
A friend of mine went to his retreat and ended up collapsing in the airport, she was completely ungrounded and couldn't think, move or talk.
Her husband contacted Dr Joes people but they didnt even reply.
I don't want to throw all this stuff away as I have so much that's happened that has been in absolute alignment with these people's claims.
However, now I am grounded I see much more clearly what's simply a product being sold, and what is actually life changing.
This is such an intelligently written piece, and I hope a lot of people really take the time to read and consider the important things you're bringing to light here.
You're 100% correct - these people are all so similar, and use the same playbook over and over again. Creating that false sense of connection via false vulnerability (either their own or through testimonials of others), making those wild claims that give hurting/desperate people hope, blaming industries/entities that people already feel hurt and harmed by (playing into the fact that many of our institutions ARE deeply corrupted/incapable of providing true care or answers) then selling a 'cure' that is both forcing people deeper into the idea that if they perfectly control THEMSELVES they can create a perfect outcome and into the idea that if the program doesn't work that it was the fault of the user because one can never quantify or qualify if you were 'doing it enough' or 'right' because the cure is always something metaphysical/internal. It sounds empowering - just perfect yourself that thing you have control over! - but it's actually just more of the system wrapped up in crystals.
At the end of the day, these people often claim to be counter to the system, when they are in fact fundamentally and foundationally the system itself.
They are telling people that their problems are being CAUSED by something inherent to their humanity - their thoughts, reactions to the system/harm, their human vulnerabilities, their bodies - and that the solution is more hyper vigilance in self control and self focus, more individualism and more self policing. It's convincing people to be AGAINST themselves under the guise of self care/knoweldge.
It clouds their eyes from seeing systems, complexity and the reality of being human, and blocks them from taking the steps that would actually allow them to EMBRACE and work WITH their humanity - which is the ACTUAL solution.
The worst part is that these people rob their followers of their lives - and oftentimes the short lives they have left to live. They drive people into these protocols and away from spending time with loved ones, or appreciating what they do have - and they drive others into a state of losing years of their lives over this fixation on purifying themselves instead of actually living.
Just gunna leave this fact here, the scientific method was created by Rockefellers hijacked modern medicine away from nature based remedie, and installed the scientific method as a way to measure it. Current vaccines don’t even follow this protocol. Grift is one thing but emerging science is another.
I was wondering about your thoughts on Gabor Mate’ who I initially was drawn to due to some alignment with my thoughts on addiction on subject he may actually have some merit to speak on since he is a registered GP who worked with addiction and homeless population in Canada. He also preaches that you can get cancer by your thoughts, proven by some case studies he mentions in his books of people who have a certain “cancer personality”. Among those are ovarian cancer patients of whom, I am one myself, I can’t tell you how many people asked me what I am surpressing to have caused my own cancer. Gosh I wish I could get my cells to divide at will so I could get them to stop too! Although he preaches slowing down he is teaching everywhere, writes lots of books, does podcasts all over the world and has now added his son to the platform who also has no actual degree on any of the subjects they teach. If you have already touched upon his dubious claims I apologize. Thanks.
Joe Dispenza wrote an entire book detailing the neuroscience of everything he speaks on. The only problem is no one wants to read it because it’s less than exciting when you are ready to manifest a new you, already!
But it’s there and details extensively the science behind meditation and his methods so to lump him into this category of grifters is when he has studies that prove accurate is to say you don’t actually like to do research.
People have to have discernment and when they don’t have it or use it or cultivate it, it’s always someone else’s fault.
Just discovered you and was eager to read your advice. I recently read a blog post by someone who used to work with Chopra and now he detailed how he hoped to find exoneration in the Esptein files and found only incrimination. Glad he finally woke up, but I was also thinking... yeah, you made money riding his coattails, and did not want to see.
Anyways, I will be back to read up on the various guru scams. Years ago, I read a book called Guru Papers, that I felt was a very effective expose.
Now, to this particular piece. It left me disappointed. You seem to know little about alternative medicine, and push a very mainstream perspective that is IMO quite unreasonable. People pursuing some alternative modality unwisely are not likely to listen to somebody who embodies the hugely biased "quackwatch" attitudes.
I'll give a counple of example, so that I am not just pelting you with vagueness. (to be continued in a few minutes)
You say: "Actual healthcare experts recognize that illness rarely has one “root cause.” They don’t oversimplify the healing process, and they don’t present any treatment as the ultimate cure-all. Legitimate medical practitioners rarely make grandiose, sensationalist claims. They rely on evidence-based practices and a comprehensive understanding of wellness to provide responsible care."
This is upside down. There is plenty of deception in conventional medicine, and the huge loss of trust suffered in the last years happened for a reason. The docs rarely look for roots of illness, and are happy to just treat symptoms. They push all sorts of dangerous meds, esp. on kids and older people, and “evidence based medicine” seems to be a code word for “I follow what they tell me; if I did not, I’d be censured.”
I advocate using both systems, and both with skepticism and supplemented by one’s own research and sharings from other patients who have gone before. They often know best what works and what doesn’t.
It’s pointless and deceptive to exhort for peer review. Most conventional docs are biased against, and ignorant of, alternatives, and their journals will certainly not accept, and much less pass through peer review, such articles.
You say: “Wellness grifters are typically ignored or not taken seriously by experts in their field because they lack the advanced degrees or relevant qualifications in fields like physics, biology, or medicine.”
Well, so are legitimate docs or other modality providers who cannot be credentialed and/or pigeonholed. There is sooo much hatred and bias against other modalities... and this goes hundreds of years back, even when regular doctors were killing people left and right with mercury and bloodletting. Despite evidence that much historical alternatives were much gentler plant medicines, homeopathic sugar pills (at least they did not endanger you!) and commonsense cures passed down by generations of midwives, folk healers and domestic medicine manuals.
I would gladly take advice from regular docs on detox, but they are ignorant of those techniques or outright dismissive. Will conventional medicine spend money on researching this? Of course not.
I think the truth is more like this: conventional medicine excels at acute care. If you have a chronic disease, you are on your own. Beware, learn to recognize false signals, but also keep looking. The cure you are looking for may already be out there, but mainstream medicine would not know because it’s not looking, and because if it found it it would lose patients and profits.
I’ll give you one example. Recently, I realized that I had a tiny cutaneous horn growing on the back of my hand. I am pretty well versed in self-treating when it comes to skin ailments, and so I applied some ozonated glycerin to it. It sloughed off in 12 days, and the remaining crusty and slightly inflamed spot is healing further. It will be all gone in another week. It is a pleasure to see the smooth healthy skin emerging. What would a dermatologist do? Cut it our or burn it out, with resultant pain and scarring, plus possibly send it out for a biopsy. All this unpleasant and costly to-do for something I have healed easily and painlessly at home, with a remedy costing a few dollars. I also have herbal and other modalities at my disposal costing nothing. But I am currently learning to work with ozonated glycerin, and it may well turn out to be the easiest way for actinic keratosis and other common skin blemishes.
This is the way of the future -- personal skills plus judicious use of internet as the first step. Using experts where they can be of best use as needed.
Anyways, perhaps this can be of use to other pilgrims on the healing path. Blessings.
Thank you for this, I like the angle you took on it. I wrote about what to look for before joining "relationship skills/spiritual communities" here, it dovetails with your work. I’d love your thoughts on it or anything you think I missed: https://blueflowering.substack.com/p/on-evaluating-relationshipspiritualgrowth
This is very thorough. And well written. And NONE of it applies to Anthony William and to use his face as the main image is unethical since you only mention celery juice as a minor example.
I have been able to see grifters coming from a mile away my entire life. They're obvious for all the reasons you list.
I dare you to try celery juice for two months as suggested on an empty stomach. And tell me it's a scam. It has saved me from total burnout recently.
Anthony doesn't do this for money. He makes everything free that he can. He's the opposite of everything you have described here. I have both healed myself with his protocols and sussed him out thoroughly.
Be better. Don't lump everyone in the same category unless they actually deserve it.
Absolutely spot on! I re-stacked one of your articles yesterday and mentioned the book Cosmic Voyagers about the insidious ongoings around Osho, Muktananda and Sai Baba. As someone who has been all around the alternative space and healing circuit for 33 years, I have come across so much of this it's hard to believe. Bad gurus (sic) up the wazoo! Shining the light on this problem and the hijacked new age is crucial, if we want to salvage the best of teaching and healing to assist humanity in transitioning from these shadows into true light. Thank you for doing this work - it's not fun, I know, and one gets so much kick-back (I've had plenty of that too), but this is important and I'm grateful you're doing it now. I see people being derailed and misguided all the time by these false systems and detrimental teachings. I've even helped clear and save lives of many who have been seriously damaged, mesmerised, hypnotised and dangerously harmed by them. 🙏💙
I really appreciate this article. I consider myself a holistic psychiatrist, but I'm really reconsidering if I want to be at all associated with the world holistic for the reasons you described. I actually just wrote a substack article about some of my angst about the whole holistic health world. I think so much of this all comes down to people chasing trends to make money.
There are many different types of cults. Religious cults, health cults like this example, political cults etc. They all use the same tactics and it's the same spectrum of outcome for those stuck in it. It's hard to leave, and that's deliberate. I really hope more of us can become aware of it.
Modern medicine is the greatest grifter pseudo science gimmick..The truth is no one can heal us but us ourselves. Everything is pretty much placebo effect. Modern medicine and what u call science (scientism to be more precise) has killed more people than all the self proclaimed gurus. When we become our own authority and connect to the divine spark inside of us, thats when true healing takes place. So lets not make big claims about anyone. We can surely share our experiences, opinions and perspectives humbly, and let people decide what resonates with them.
Yes, thank you for saying this before me.
Did you publish the Dispenza piece? I know some people that have been harmed at his retreats and then been left high and dry. He introduces some meditation techniques that can truly destabilize folks and upend their lives.
I haven't published the Dispenza piece yet, but it's on my radar. I want to finish out the Osho series first so I could have an established framework. He is a complete fraud in my opinion.
Looking forward to reading that!
I work with populations who have often had destabilizing experiences like this. I'd love to hear more about what you've witnessed in terms of this in this community!
I made sure I kept my discernment listening to this.. but as you mentioned, critical thinking requires viewing all evidence..
Medical medium wigs me out, he looks like he's very sick to me. Joe Dispenza on the other hand, I have had profound experiences with doing his meditations, but I understand what you're saying. Not everyone does.
A friend of mine went to his retreat and ended up collapsing in the airport, she was completely ungrounded and couldn't think, move or talk.
Her husband contacted Dr Joes people but they didnt even reply.
I don't want to throw all this stuff away as I have so much that's happened that has been in absolute alignment with these people's claims.
However, now I am grounded I see much more clearly what's simply a product being sold, and what is actually life changing.
Celery juice lol
This is such an intelligently written piece, and I hope a lot of people really take the time to read and consider the important things you're bringing to light here.
You're 100% correct - these people are all so similar, and use the same playbook over and over again. Creating that false sense of connection via false vulnerability (either their own or through testimonials of others), making those wild claims that give hurting/desperate people hope, blaming industries/entities that people already feel hurt and harmed by (playing into the fact that many of our institutions ARE deeply corrupted/incapable of providing true care or answers) then selling a 'cure' that is both forcing people deeper into the idea that if they perfectly control THEMSELVES they can create a perfect outcome and into the idea that if the program doesn't work that it was the fault of the user because one can never quantify or qualify if you were 'doing it enough' or 'right' because the cure is always something metaphysical/internal. It sounds empowering - just perfect yourself that thing you have control over! - but it's actually just more of the system wrapped up in crystals.
At the end of the day, these people often claim to be counter to the system, when they are in fact fundamentally and foundationally the system itself.
They are telling people that their problems are being CAUSED by something inherent to their humanity - their thoughts, reactions to the system/harm, their human vulnerabilities, their bodies - and that the solution is more hyper vigilance in self control and self focus, more individualism and more self policing. It's convincing people to be AGAINST themselves under the guise of self care/knoweldge.
It clouds their eyes from seeing systems, complexity and the reality of being human, and blocks them from taking the steps that would actually allow them to EMBRACE and work WITH their humanity - which is the ACTUAL solution.
The worst part is that these people rob their followers of their lives - and oftentimes the short lives they have left to live. They drive people into these protocols and away from spending time with loved ones, or appreciating what they do have - and they drive others into a state of losing years of their lives over this fixation on purifying themselves instead of actually living.
Thank you again for sharing this. <3
Telling people their illness is caused by something inherent to their humanity -- this is so well said!
Just gunna leave this fact here, the scientific method was created by Rockefellers hijacked modern medicine away from nature based remedie, and installed the scientific method as a way to measure it. Current vaccines don’t even follow this protocol. Grift is one thing but emerging science is another.
https://principia-scientific.com/how-rockefeller-created-the-business-of-western-medicine/
Thank you, Oprah, for Dr. Oz, Suzanne Somers, and Deepak Chopra. Fakes, all of them.
I was wondering about your thoughts on Gabor Mate’ who I initially was drawn to due to some alignment with my thoughts on addiction on subject he may actually have some merit to speak on since he is a registered GP who worked with addiction and homeless population in Canada. He also preaches that you can get cancer by your thoughts, proven by some case studies he mentions in his books of people who have a certain “cancer personality”. Among those are ovarian cancer patients of whom, I am one myself, I can’t tell you how many people asked me what I am surpressing to have caused my own cancer. Gosh I wish I could get my cells to divide at will so I could get them to stop too! Although he preaches slowing down he is teaching everywhere, writes lots of books, does podcasts all over the world and has now added his son to the platform who also has no actual degree on any of the subjects they teach. If you have already touched upon his dubious claims I apologize. Thanks.
Joe Dispenza wrote an entire book detailing the neuroscience of everything he speaks on. The only problem is no one wants to read it because it’s less than exciting when you are ready to manifest a new you, already!
But it’s there and details extensively the science behind meditation and his methods so to lump him into this category of grifters is when he has studies that prove accurate is to say you don’t actually like to do research.
People have to have discernment and when they don’t have it or use it or cultivate it, it’s always someone else’s fault.
Just discovered you and was eager to read your advice. I recently read a blog post by someone who used to work with Chopra and now he detailed how he hoped to find exoneration in the Esptein files and found only incrimination. Glad he finally woke up, but I was also thinking... yeah, you made money riding his coattails, and did not want to see.
Anyways, I will be back to read up on the various guru scams. Years ago, I read a book called Guru Papers, that I felt was a very effective expose.
Now, to this particular piece. It left me disappointed. You seem to know little about alternative medicine, and push a very mainstream perspective that is IMO quite unreasonable. People pursuing some alternative modality unwisely are not likely to listen to somebody who embodies the hugely biased "quackwatch" attitudes.
I'll give a counple of example, so that I am not just pelting you with vagueness. (to be continued in a few minutes)
You say: "Actual healthcare experts recognize that illness rarely has one “root cause.” They don’t oversimplify the healing process, and they don’t present any treatment as the ultimate cure-all. Legitimate medical practitioners rarely make grandiose, sensationalist claims. They rely on evidence-based practices and a comprehensive understanding of wellness to provide responsible care."
This is upside down. There is plenty of deception in conventional medicine, and the huge loss of trust suffered in the last years happened for a reason. The docs rarely look for roots of illness, and are happy to just treat symptoms. They push all sorts of dangerous meds, esp. on kids and older people, and “evidence based medicine” seems to be a code word for “I follow what they tell me; if I did not, I’d be censured.”
I advocate using both systems, and both with skepticism and supplemented by one’s own research and sharings from other patients who have gone before. They often know best what works and what doesn’t.
It’s pointless and deceptive to exhort for peer review. Most conventional docs are biased against, and ignorant of, alternatives, and their journals will certainly not accept, and much less pass through peer review, such articles.
You say: “Wellness grifters are typically ignored or not taken seriously by experts in their field because they lack the advanced degrees or relevant qualifications in fields like physics, biology, or medicine.”
Well, so are legitimate docs or other modality providers who cannot be credentialed and/or pigeonholed. There is sooo much hatred and bias against other modalities... and this goes hundreds of years back, even when regular doctors were killing people left and right with mercury and bloodletting. Despite evidence that much historical alternatives were much gentler plant medicines, homeopathic sugar pills (at least they did not endanger you!) and commonsense cures passed down by generations of midwives, folk healers and domestic medicine manuals.
I would gladly take advice from regular docs on detox, but they are ignorant of those techniques or outright dismissive. Will conventional medicine spend money on researching this? Of course not.
I think the truth is more like this: conventional medicine excels at acute care. If you have a chronic disease, you are on your own. Beware, learn to recognize false signals, but also keep looking. The cure you are looking for may already be out there, but mainstream medicine would not know because it’s not looking, and because if it found it it would lose patients and profits.
I’ll give you one example. Recently, I realized that I had a tiny cutaneous horn growing on the back of my hand. I am pretty well versed in self-treating when it comes to skin ailments, and so I applied some ozonated glycerin to it. It sloughed off in 12 days, and the remaining crusty and slightly inflamed spot is healing further. It will be all gone in another week. It is a pleasure to see the smooth healthy skin emerging. What would a dermatologist do? Cut it our or burn it out, with resultant pain and scarring, plus possibly send it out for a biopsy. All this unpleasant and costly to-do for something I have healed easily and painlessly at home, with a remedy costing a few dollars. I also have herbal and other modalities at my disposal costing nothing. But I am currently learning to work with ozonated glycerin, and it may well turn out to be the easiest way for actinic keratosis and other common skin blemishes.
This is the way of the future -- personal skills plus judicious use of internet as the first step. Using experts where they can be of best use as needed.
Anyways, perhaps this can be of use to other pilgrims on the healing path. Blessings.
Thank you for this, I like the angle you took on it. I wrote about what to look for before joining "relationship skills/spiritual communities" here, it dovetails with your work. I’d love your thoughts on it or anything you think I missed: https://blueflowering.substack.com/p/on-evaluating-relationshipspiritualgrowth
Well-said.
Parasite cleanses. Disease/diet protocols. Timelines for “healing.” Naming themselves “healers”🤮
This is very thorough. And well written. And NONE of it applies to Anthony William and to use his face as the main image is unethical since you only mention celery juice as a minor example.
I have been able to see grifters coming from a mile away my entire life. They're obvious for all the reasons you list.
I dare you to try celery juice for two months as suggested on an empty stomach. And tell me it's a scam. It has saved me from total burnout recently.
Anthony doesn't do this for money. He makes everything free that he can. He's the opposite of everything you have described here. I have both healed myself with his protocols and sussed him out thoroughly.
Be better. Don't lump everyone in the same category unless they actually deserve it.
Absolutely spot on! I re-stacked one of your articles yesterday and mentioned the book Cosmic Voyagers about the insidious ongoings around Osho, Muktananda and Sai Baba. As someone who has been all around the alternative space and healing circuit for 33 years, I have come across so much of this it's hard to believe. Bad gurus (sic) up the wazoo! Shining the light on this problem and the hijacked new age is crucial, if we want to salvage the best of teaching and healing to assist humanity in transitioning from these shadows into true light. Thank you for doing this work - it's not fun, I know, and one gets so much kick-back (I've had plenty of that too), but this is important and I'm grateful you're doing it now. I see people being derailed and misguided all the time by these false systems and detrimental teachings. I've even helped clear and save lives of many who have been seriously damaged, mesmerised, hypnotised and dangerously harmed by them. 🙏💙
I really appreciate this article. I consider myself a holistic psychiatrist, but I'm really reconsidering if I want to be at all associated with the world holistic for the reasons you described. I actually just wrote a substack article about some of my angst about the whole holistic health world. I think so much of this all comes down to people chasing trends to make money.
It's a cult.
There are many different types of cults. Religious cults, health cults like this example, political cults etc. They all use the same tactics and it's the same spectrum of outcome for those stuck in it. It's hard to leave, and that's deliberate. I really hope more of us can become aware of it.