James Ray Charged with Manslaughter
Filed under: General Topics, Headline, Just Wow, Public Speaking
I just watched this video of Brad Brian, who is one of the Attorneys for James Arthur “Death” Ray. There are a few things that just stand out to me.
- For a guy that taught people how to have “harmonic wealth” the fact that he doesn’t have the $500,000 to post for bail reinforces his status as a phony. Even his attorney said: “He’s not a wealthy guy.” So, Death Ray was teaching people how to become wealthy, but he wasn’t wealthy himself, he just put on a facade and pretended to be wealthy.
- Attorney’s will say douchebaggy things to defend their clients. This attorney says that there was no crime, this was an accident. Sorry hoss, but 3 people died in the sweat lodge that your client organized, accident or no accident when people die there is definitely a crime somewhere.
- Larry King is represented by the same agent that represented Death Ray, and Larry King promoted Death Ray back when being associated with him was a good thing. Even this little performance by Death Ray’s defense attorney is nothing more than a publicity stunt to try and influence the potential jury pool.
- Don’t believe people with 3 first names, or 2 first names for that matter.
Here’s the video, in case you want to watch it.
I think the thing that really disgusts me about this whole thing is that Death Ray’s attorneys are talking about $5 million being “unconscionable” as in “oppressive, not right, exceptionally unfair” and so on.
You know what I think is “unconscionable?” That 3 people died while Death Ray was in charge. 4 people when you include Colleen Conaway who died at a different event that Death Ray was running in San Diego.
After watching the video again, it seems like Brad Brian, the attorney, is wanting the same people that Ray almost cooked to death to pony up the bail money for their wealth gooroo to get out of jail.
Unbelievable.
Don’t believe the hype.
Over the years I’ve spent lots of money looking for “spiritual growth” and “spiritual guidance” etc. I’ve read lots of books by people like Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins and other big name people, yet they all seemed phony to me. I just had the feeling that they were just rehashing other people’s writings.
Now that I’m older and maybe a little wiser, or at least better versed in public speaking, I’ve realized that those big name gooroos are nothing more than information marketers with a product funnel. They create product that they need to move and clear out so they can create more product and so on. Very few, if any of them, really care about your personal or spiritual growth.
Your Mileage May Vary
If you want some really good motivation, read “Poor Richard’s Almanack
If you really, really need help, find yourself a licensed and medically trained psychiatrist, or a psychologist and get professional help. At the very least, find a Bible based church and get spiritual guidance from a pastor. Although I’d classify myself as a “work in progress, ” both licensed professionals and spiritual guidance from a pastor have worked for me.
Seriously.
Awesome video about “The Secret”
I came across this video on a different website, and it was just too good not to repost. It’s no secret that I think the book and infomercial “The Secret” and the “Law of Attraction” is all a load of malarky.
Let me count the ways…
Featured in “The Secret” book/ infomercial are a bunch of people like James Arthur Ray, David Schirmer, Joe Vitale, Bill Harris and others.
- Yesterday, February 3rd James Arthur Ray, aka Death Ray, was arrested for killing 3 people at a sweat lodge in Arizona. Death Ray was charged with Manslaughter, which is unintentional homicide.
- David Schirmer appears to be a fraud addict. He has been featured on many different news channels for his tendency to take people’s money and not delivering on his promises. David Schirmer is also notorious for being a stock broker/ advisor that can’t seem to pick any winning stocks.
- Bill Harris sells something called “HoloSync” or maybe hollow stink??, that was required reading during the Death Ray seminars. Apparently, these $300 CDs that he sells are done much better by other people and they only charge $49. Harris also acts like a big d-bag.
- Joe Vitale, sells you among other things, photocopies of pictures of Russian dolls and wants to convince you that the photocopies have some kind of mystical power, just like the real dolls do. It’s the Law of Attraction at work.
- Medellin living This is the blog of a lady named Holly that lives in Medellin Colombia and is learning about the language, culture etc.
- The Wired Blog A technology blog in Spanish
- Boston Globe pictures Pictures from The Boston Globe.
- Camels and Chocolate. This is an interesting travel blog with lots of cool pictures. Methinks if you have a travel blog, you have to have pictures like these.
- Everything Everywhere. This is an interesting site. It looks a little busy, but I do like the picture slider and the little “Where’s Gary?” feature at the top.
- But You’re like, really pretty. I like this site for the cartoons. I think they’re clever.
- Fat Cyclist. This is an exercise blog. I liked it because it goes in line with my Fat Trail Runner site. The difference, is that the fat cyclist has lost weight, and I only seem to find it everywhere I go.
- It does no service to anyone but the person selling you that report or whatever it is. The “creator” of the PLR, who probably purchased the PLR themselves from somewhere else, is the only person that gains anything with PLR.
- All you’re doing when selling PLR is repeating what other people have said. Sure you can make money at it, but why would you sell out your soul like that?
- To me, PLR means you don’t care enough about the market to create your own content.
- Find something original about a market, it’s OK if you can’t find something original, just find some PLR stuff.
- Take the original or PLR content you found in step 1 and run it through a text spinner.
- Relabel the product that came out from the spinner as PLR and sell it.
Given that Death Ray was in “The Secret” and all of the shenanigans that have ensued from a lot of the people featured in that infomercial, I feel it’s appropriate to post this nice video created by some folks from Australia.
I’m not sure why, but Youtube is being janky with loading embeded videos, so please be patient, or click here to watch the video on youtube.
The video features both Schirmer and Death Ray, which in my opinion is just a really nice bonus.
Cool blogs from the bloggie awards
I’m going to make it to South by Southwest Interactive this year. Well, God willing I will. Anyway, I was reading up about it, and discovered something called the bloggie awards.
These awards are given out every year at sxswi and they’re apparently a big deal. I’ve been blogging since 2005 and had never heard of them, but that’s neither here nor there. Here are a few of the blogs that I liked that were nominated for a wards this year:
Those are my faves from the list.
Rehashed Marketing Sucks
There’s another name for rehashed marketing, and it’s PLR. PLR stands for “Private Label Rights” which is essentially a product that the seller/ creator gives you permission to put your own name on, and sell it as if you were the one that wrote/ created the content.
No matter what name you give it, PLR sucks. Let me tell you why.
I’ve used PLR, so I’m not sitting on the edge bashing it for no reason. I’ve used it, but discovered that I needed to modify it a lot in order to make it make sense.
This is what I believe is the production process for some PLR packages that are out there:
As always your mileage may vary, but why would you go through the hassle or rewriting content that you’ve already paid for? Anyway, I just needed/ wanted to say something about this.
Maybe there is some good PLR content out there that I just haven’t found, but I doubt it.
What has your experience with private label rights products been?
Defined by what you do
Does what you do define you? Does what I do define who I am?
Why should it?
Why should it not?
Can we really expect the UPS guy to never turn left when he’s driving his personal car?
Why not be defined by what you love instead of by what you do?
Or just be defined by who you are?
Your employment is just that and it doesn’t have to define you or who you are, unless you want it to.
This video was shot over the period of one year, while that kid was travelling around the world. I also happen to like the song a lot.