Won’t link to his site, but wonder if anyone has thoughts or insight or anything on this guy. Heard him on the radio today, claims he graduated tops at MIT. He was pegging my BS meter. Google and WolframAlpha didn’t show much. He’s essentially a faith healer best I can tell.
This pretty much answers your question.
Ugh. His website is covered in shitloads of ® everywhere, and even his photos make him look untrustworthy.
Don’t trust anything with the word “holistic” in it.
I would also question any uses of “synergy,” “wellness,” “clinically proven,” and “naturopathic.”
So the only reason anybody stays sick is because their subconscious mind wants them to be sick? I guess is the pitch here?
Yeah. I just want to add: being a MIT graduate doesn’t make you a sensible or even necessarily an intelligent person.
I heard the same infomercial this morning. My eyes weren’t even fully open yet and already I smelled ‘scam’.
#1: Scant as reliable information on this guy is, three names keep popping up re this ‘modality’: Phillips, Guy Stibal and Vianna Stibal. Whether they’re confederates or competitors I have yet to determine. But the m.o. of theta healing makes the suspicion that one, or all three, of these folks had some previous encounter with Scientology, overwhelming. Which makes sense: in his pulp-fiction-writing days Hubbard was known to remark that there’s no money in science fiction or fantasy - the real windfall comes from starting your own religion. So it makes perfect sense that one or more of his momentary acolytes had the same light bulb pop on in their heads.
#2: Even by infomercial standards, the theta-healing radio program was patently foolish - the human condition was analogized as being just like a computer program (overloaded with junk files, etc). Interestingly enough, the words “theta” and “theta healing” were never uttered. I guess after seven years, enough negative feedback had generated to dictate going low-profile in the sales pitch to new fish.
#3: Apparently - given that my comment will be appearing seven YEARS after the last one - these folks are just cautious enough not to trigger investigation or prosecution (unless they were lying doggo these past few years until the coast was again clear). Thus far I have yet to encounter any former ‘students’ complaining that they were directed to disown their families or sign over power of attorney to their ‘instructors’.
#4: Know that old folk-wisdom that says beware of salesmen bearing two first names? This guy’s got THREE.
I heard the same infomercial this morning. My eyes weren’t even fully open yet and already I smelled ‘scam’.
#1: Scant as reliable information on this guy is, three names keep popping up re this ‘modality’: Phillips, Guy Stibal and Vianna Stibal. Whether they’re confederates or competitors I have yet to determine. But the m.o. of theta healing makes the suspicion that one, or all three, of these folks had some previous encounter with Scientology, overwhelming. Which makes sense: in his pulp-fiction-writing days Hubbard was known to remark that there’s no money in science fiction or fantasy - the real windfall comes from starting your own religion. So it makes perfect sense that one or more of his momentary acolytes had the same light bulb pop on in their heads.
#2: Even by infomercial standards, the theta-healing radio program was patently foolish - the human condition was analogized as being just like a computer program (overloaded with junk files, etc). Interestingly enough, the words “theta” and “theta healing” were never uttered. I guess after seven years, enough negative feedback had generated to dictate going low-profile in the sales pitch to new fish.
#3: Apparently - given that my comment will be appearing seven YEARS after the last one - these folks are just cautious enough not to trigger investigation or prosecution (unless they were lying doggo these past few years until the coast was again clear). Thus far I have yet to encounter any former ‘students’ complaining that they were directed to disown their families or sign over power of attorney to their ‘instructors’.
#4: Know that old folk-wisdom that says beware of salesmen bearing two first names? This guy’s got THREE.