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by bitwize 4287 days ago
Tony Robbins came immediately to mind when I read this because it looks like the mechanism of Robbins and other Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT) seminars is to use the psychological bonding effects of shared harrowing experiences to separate people from their money. Read up on James Arthur Ray for a particularly crooked (and lethally careless!) example of such underhanded manipulation.