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What Is Mysticism?

The mystic finds the eye of the needle and enters into the realization of the Kingdom of Heaven within.

What Is Mysticism?

More and more people have been asking me lately "What do you mean by the word mystic?" There seems to be quite a lot of blurry, confused notions and outright misconceptions about the word. And yet, it is perhaps one of the most important words pointing toward a fundamental truth about who we are at the soul of matter. Mysticism is about how we can come to live within the fullness of our true nature.

In a very real sense, because mysticism concerns the essence of life, it is audacious to even try and define it. Words are insufficient, often in the way of understanding. That to which the word "mysticism" refers, is a quality of presence that is quite literally beyond and before any words. Still, and like others, I feel compelled to try and come as close as I can to pointing toward something that speaks of our original nature. I beg pardon in advance for the terrible insufficiency of language and the limits of my own mere glimpses into these realms of an endless sacred mystery. Still, let me try.



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A mystic is one who, above all else in life, desires to know, not in the intellectual sense of knowing, the deepest Truth of existence. A mystic is one who senses more to life than making a living or being of service in the world although these things are both necessary and good. The mystic, however, is looking beyond an exclusive or preoccupied focus on these survival or self-actualization to something more. He is looking to discover the deepest truth of our being as incarnate souls; to understand our greatest potential as reflections of God; to realize our wholeness within the ground of all. The primary interest in life for the mystic is to discover truth, to know God, to see into mans whole nature. The mystic sees all of life as an abundant opportunity to discover, realize, and express the Divine.

Mysticism springs from an insatiable curiosity for understanding the essential questions of life: matters of God, creation, the infinite and the human potential for knowing truth. The mystic is in reality the ultimate scientist who, looking beyond the apparent or obvious in all matters, asks, "Is this that I am seeing reality or the illusions that stem from fear?" "What existed before this sense of reality?" "What existed before my mental constructs, my beliefs, my self identity?" "Who is this that observes and is self-reflecting?" "What is at life's very source?"

Mysticism: Why it’s so often misunderstood

Mysticism is terrifically misunderstood by mainstream culture. It always has been. Many people incorrectly think mysticism is some kind of odd occult or a mystic someone who studies magic or renounces life and goes off to live in a cave. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The reason this has often been confused though is not so surprising. The mystic is one who undergoes a radical shift in conscious understanding and that often looks, sounds, or seems very mysterious to our accustomed ways of thinking and being.

The mystic consciously enters into the sacred journey that all the world's great religions speak of in various ways. Some call it becoming awakened, enlightened, or born again. It is an inner journey that requires a deconstruction of the conditioned illusions of separation so that the true freedom of living can emerge. It is the true meaning of being born anew. It is the process and realization of letting die our stale and conditioned habits and beliefs so that we may live in the fullness of each new moment of creation. It is the understanding that conditioned patterns, belief systems, and memory are not living, but dead moments already. It is the realization that true living can only be lived in a freedom that moves with the current of creation, forever open to each moment teaming with new potential.

To let go the illusions of ego identity and stand naked before our true original nature, often requires a removing of oneself from typical ways of living and thinking at least for a time. In the sacred literature, this is often referred to as entering the wilderness, facing the dark night of the soul, annihilation of the ego, or dying to oneself to be born again. It is a process of fundamental transformation of conscious understanding that the mystic takes on. The journey it takes to successfully deconstruct the layers of conditioning that block true awareness, and what emerges from this inner journey of realization or awakening can often look and sound very mysterious, if not down right confusing, to the uninitiated and linear mind. But in truth it is the deepest meaning upon which all the world's great religions have their original foundation. It is the journey to discovering and experiencing direct relationship with/as God or the source of all creation. It is each individual soul coming to directly know itself within the divine. It is the fulfillment of our purpose, "I and my father are one."

Great Mystical Teachers of the Present and Past

Throughout all of history, mystics have been our way showers, those who go before, those who see beyond, those who seem to so often speak in riddles. They are those who have "lifted the veil" of worldly illusion to experience a deeper truth and wisdom of Being. The mystic is not so much concerned with survival as with coming to realize the full potential of being. The mystic is seeking direct realization of truth even within a dynamic of evolving mystery. The mystic finds the eye of the needle and enters into the realization of the kingdom of heaven within.

Every religion the world over, both of the east and west, orthodox and liberal has at its origin the way-showing wisdom of one or more great mystics. Indeed, all the men and women throughout recorded history who have had the greatest spiritual integrity and direct authority are rightly called mystics: Jesus of Nazareth was a true mystic, as was Gandhi, Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, William James, Thomas Merton, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramakrisna, Lao-tse, Shankara, Vivikananda, Abraham, Job, Carl Jung to name a mere few. There are scores more of men and women poets and artists.



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Commonality amongst the World’s Mystics

If you study the life of past mystics you'll find they share several things in common:

First, they all speak of an induction or of a need to learn/realize a new level of understanding. They all speak of a fundamental shift in consciousness be it called awakening, realization, divination, or being born again.

Second they all tell of making a journey into and through a despair process of being "undone" as the precursor to this fundamental shift in consciousness, be it through experiencing 40 days and nights in the wilderness, starving under the boddhi tree, facing the dark night of the soul, or the hero’s journey. There is a journey of metamorphosis that all mystics have undergone in some way.

Third, it is an inner journey that must be taken up and navigated alone. This is a hallmark of the mystic’s realization: The reason the journey must be alone is because that which must be faced, seen, and surrendered in order that something new can emerge, is only possible through sustaining the fear and despair process of being alone and meeting the ultimate and fundamental fear of "non-being" and annihilation.

Fourth, they all seem to realize the frustration of being misunderstood by those who have not yet been through the awakening journey -- "those who have ears to hear, let him hear." A great deal of the mystical writings are devoted almost exclusively to the fact that fundamental spiritual truth cannot be understood by the intellect nor correctly put into words. Forever, the great spiritual teachers have tried through the insufficiency of words to point toward that which can ever and only be experienced and known on a level that is before and beyond the mind. This is something unfathomable to those who have not yet had this breakthrough revelation - and particularly so in our contemporary culture that has become so overly reliant and blinded by the limiting paradigm of the scientific method that forever reduces our understanding of intelligence to that which is sensory, measurable and linear in nature. Life isn't only or always linear. In fact it rarely is, except in man-made constructions and habituated uses of the mind.

The Mysterious Language of God

There is literally a new language/understanding that accompanies spiritual realization. The same old words now have entirely different, deeper layers of meaning and significance within the framework of spiritual realization. In fact no words can encompass that which has been realized. That is why when the words of our world's great mystics are heard through the common language of those who have not yet made the mystic's journey, they are invariably misconstrued and misused. That is why Jesus was crucified. It is why we have "religious wars." And it is why we have so much religious politic and prejudice corrupting a universal truth that one has to enter into alone.

That is why we see so many people, wrongly, trying to "practice" their way into spiritual realization with all sorts of dogma, belief systems, religious structures, postures, and prayers. The reason these things don't work is because the need to grasp something, the very mechanism of the mind that needs to hold on to anything for its salvation, is the very thing that has to be let go of!

It's an odd sort of reverse psychology with a double twist. The path to spiritual realization is completely antithetical to what anyone would call a path at all. It is always the subtle paradoxical opposite of what one tries to see, know, find, understand. That is why so much of it sounds like riddles. That is why I say it is a fundamentally different language. That's as close as I can come to pointing toward finding your way. Realize that we’re talking about developing an ear for a completely foreign language. Start listening into the unfamiliar, the unclear, the uncomfortable, the not-knowing. Start living in not-knowing anything, not any thing! From there, the new language of knowing emerges like one of those 3-d picture puzzles where the image is embedded within and is more than the dots.

Listen in a new way, and not so much for new things…. a key.

The word mystic at its root stands for that which cannot be named, that which is forever before the naming, source. The word also hints at the path to spiritual realization, that is, to become capable of going into a terrain that is beyond the mind before the naming, separate from any belief, any identification or security, and opens through a sense of awe for the great mystery.

The Call to Remember

The mystic is really anybody who seeks to experience above all else, the direct expression of God/Source/Being in one’s life. He or she is anyone with the deep desire and courage necessary to look - and see - beyond the obvious conditioning of our manufactured world view; to see beyond the illusions of our self-created identities, and find what lies forever before and all around us, as the One that is All. The path is one of surrendering all that we currently hold on to as belief, identity and intellect. What emerges is the full expression of being within the language of love.

In my new book called: "Remembering Who You Really Are: The Journey of Awakening to Soul," I provide a very exposed and intimate account of the process of undoing that is the precursor to realization. My hope is that by offering such a close look at the confusing process of giving up identity and belief to a larger wholeness, that I may provide others with a tool for hearing and seeing the language of paradox that opens the gate to spiritual realization. That is the mystic's way. It is the way for anyone who truly and deeply sees all of life as an abundant opportunity to discover, realize, and express the Divine.

Forever is the dance of awakening to find Love, here, in the eternal moment of living.

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Ronda LaRue is an emerging spiritual author/mentor living in Ojai, California, USA. Ronda works from a novel and contemporary approach to the ancient tradition of one-on-one sacred apprenticeship for facilitating radical transformation., healing wholeness, and direct Self-Realization.

Her book "Remembering Who You Really Are", is a contemporary classic on the journey to true self Realization and Wholeness. (available from Amazon.com) See more about her private retreat programs at http://www.OjaiSoulArts.com or order her book at http://www.rondalarue.com By Ronda LaRue
Published: 11/25/2006

The Ten-Million-Dollar Man

HOW ENTREPRENEURS LEVERAGE CHARACTER BASED NARRATIVES,
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TO TEACH OTHERS THE SECRETS TO THEIR SUCCESS

This paper will explain how using Captology Tom Long became The Ten-Million-Dollar-Man, allowing him to ethically make more money than he believed he could, say goodbye to his salaried job and live a life full of the joy of helping others.

Captology may provide the firmest path to balancing the world’s hegemonic influence yet conceived. Captology is disseminating a vocabulary that illuminates persuasion to a broader audience. In the wake of this knowledge we will see major ripples in our social infrastructure, perhaps recreating, at least impacting, the role of the dominant elite. My hope is that the dominant elite becomes a kinder, gentler world force. Focusing on sustainability will help ease the transition into whatever new popular ken we find ourselves evolving as we more fully adopt computer technology.

In the recent past, simply discussing good for all mankind could have been labeled as Communistic, Socialistic or some other demonized label that can evaporate both financial and kindred support. Now is a special time of support for using technology for mass good. Additionally, as society incorporates more and more computers, the role of computers in persuasive technology is certainly worthy of discussion. Even more worthy of consideration is how we can leverage this new capability for global sustainability. Positive future possibilities are discussed in Human Computer Interaction and Utopian Studies conferences. Detailing positive steps to these ends is important. Captology helps contemporize and focus the field of persuasion.

Persuasive ’07 gives voice and forum to a discussion of persuasion while broadening the base of those studying persuasive technologies, especially those using these technologies to help humanity. Historically, persuasion has generally only been studied by those who sought to make more money or control more people. In 2006, Amazon lists 28 books published on persuasion or influence. To put that in perspective, in the 1980s, a total of 8 books on persuasion and influence were published. Persuasion is a more popular topic than ever before. Effective applications of Captology may expedite Rotary Club International’s goal of drinkable water for every human on Earth, more easily facilitate a global engagement of humanitarian concerns and decentralize news reporting.

Persuasion is being taught through home computers via the Internet. Micro sites like The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab’s www.Captology.tv and Blair Warren’s www.BlairWarren.com shed revelatory light on persuasive technology through their teachings. Easy access to their insights is breeds a more media-literate user. Captology.tv simplifies and easily demonstrates many academic constructs, such as the role of character-based narratives or recursivity in specific persuasive technology. In a less formal way, BlairWarren.com details tactics of applied persuasion.

More visited sites that teach Captology include Mark Joyner’s www.Simpleology.com Tellman Knudson’s www.MyFirstList.com and Michelle Fortin’s www.CopyWritersForum.com. A distinction can easily be drawn between Joyner’s Simpleology that is intentionally persuasive to educate visitors on personal sustainability versus Knudson’s and Fortin’s sites that teach tactics of online persuasion as a means to help their visitors better persuade broader audiences. Furthermore, we can find sites like Vivian Glyck’s www.JustLikeMyChild.com where she uses techniques of Captology to raise over $30,000 for an African hospital and both increased the sustainability of the hospital and the lives of those who depend on its services. Who else knows a non-profit that could use $30,000 in fundraising?

Techniques articulated in Captology may be leveraged for both personal and societal sustainability. However, I question the sustainability of Captology as a field of study. Is Captology an academic discipline or just a relative label like criminology? Imagine a Nazi criminologist seeking to understand non-compliance. She began with the terministic-screen that law-breakers are wrong. Today, we would be more likely to study her notes either in psychology, anthropology, or social studies rather than in criminology. The notes of a Nazi Criminologist might better reflect the strategies of hegemonic resistance than a taxonomy of law breakers. Is Captology an inter-disciplinary discourse, or a subset of a study such as rhetorical analysis, information ecology, media studies, or human-computer-interaction?

Computers As Persuasive Technology is a broad subject, begging a definition of persuasive technology. Compounded in the notion or persuasive technology is our ability to identify persuasion. What if persuasion that looks like persuasion is really third-rate persuasion? With what certainty can we identify persuasive technology? If state-of-the-art persuasion is invisible to us, then what is it we’re studying?

A similar problem confronts criminology:

“However, for as long as criminology has been a field of study, it has always been haunted by the theory of ‘the competent criminal.’ For obvious reasons criminologists (and psychologists and socialogists, etc.) only study failed criminals—that is, those persons whose criminal acts led to their conviction and to punishment. If there is a group of people out there who commit crimes and are not caught and live happily ever after, then criminology is not a study of criminals but of incompetents, bumblers, fuckups and should instead be called fuckupology.”
--Larry Beinhart, Wag The Dog pg xxx



From a memetic perspective, the greatest threat to the survival of Captology is over-specialization. Evolution has shown us that isolated species that evolve a fit to a specific mirco-environment often don’t survive relative minor changes to their environment. Captology shows evidence of evolving away from both academia’s rhetorical analysis and academia’s advertising research, and even further away from influence as studied by practitioners of online persuasion. As the language of Captology becomes increasingly incompatible with other studies of influence, the insular effect may prove grave.

In preparation for writing this paper, I conducted six depth interviews among non-academic experts in online persuasion. None of the six were familiar with the term Captology. When I asked what key fundamentals they expected to be taught through Captology, all six expected Robert Cialdini to hold a central role. Five expected xxx’s Scientific Advertising to be a seminal book. Four expected the Zeigarnik Effect to be prominently discussed. What I found through Google Scholar is minimal overlap between scholarly references of Captology and Robert Cialdini and zero overlaps to Captology and either Scientific Advertising or the work of Dr. Bluma Zeigarnik.

Furthermore, for the sake of sustainability, I propose the acronym CAPT be changed from computers as persuasion technology to computer-aided persuasion technology. This change not only mirrors the pre-existing Consumer Research acronym CATI, computer-aided telephone interviewing, but also more accurately reflects the concerns of this discipline, the use of computers for intentional persuasion. However, the current acronym works well from an information ecology perspective, aligning Captology with a McLuhanian media ecology perspective. From the current acronym it is easy to discuss computers as a mechanism contributing to the ongoing production of culture, but this reading of Captology doesn’t appear aligned with the work of the field.

On the one hand, the study of computers as persuasion technology can be read as suggesting the existence of non-persuasive technology, or at least technology whose existence is at times inconsequential. This precept is challengeable. Within academia, Mathematicians label The Butterfly Effect as describing the phenomenon of an unknown minute catalyst transforming a system from one ordering system into another that is scientifically notated using a radically different schematic. Outside academia, some New Age rhetors describe The Gaia Theory as Earth as a living organism in The Universe where all matter is energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, so nothing is outside of us and everything is an essential component. Both cosmographies challenge inconsequentiality.

On the other hand, the study of computers as persuasion technology can be read as the study of the affect of computer technology on culture. Some of the most suasive effects of computers happen in the absence of computers, more specifically, because populations don’t have equal access to appropriate computers. For instance, when rug manufacturers began programming their weaving machines, creating some of the earliest computers, mass production efficiencies brought down the average price of rugs in the late 19th Century. Weavers who wove their rugs by hand were persuaded to take less for their products than they had previously because buyers had less expensive alternatives produced by computer-aided technology. A comprehensive study of the impact of Computers As Persuasive Technology would include these ramifications, and brings us closer to general social studies.

At first glance, Computer-Aided Persuasive Technology may sound as though it were a subset of rhetorical analysis because Persuasion has traditionally fallen within academia’s Rhetorical Analysis. If this be the case, let’s pitch-in and buy Captology’s tombstone and inscribe the epitaph: “I told you I was sick.” Rhetorical analysis is like Latin, they both study dead languages. Sure, Latin is the study of the ancient dead while Rhetorical Analysis is the study of the recently dead. Dead? Yes, dead. Rhetorical Analysis is the study of extant texts, the corpses of live acts of persuasion. But dead in a biological way, also.

Rhetorical Analysis’ overspecialization has created an intellectual island that is drifting further and further away from mating with the most fertile ideas on persuasion. How can I assess the fertility of an idea? By how fast the meme is propagating. Media Studies includes coverage of popular ideas and constructs, also known as Pattern Integrities or Memeplexes. Rhetorical Analysis doesn’t appear to discern a difference between mimesis and memetics, nor distinguishing genetic mimicry from live mimicry, nor discerning mimicry from biological entrainment. If these dynamics are suasive, then unconsciously adopting physical gestures is systemically transformative, creating a form of dialectic on a biological level. In this case, simply using any computer, regardless of content, will affect our behavior, but persuasion doesn’t exist without intent. Just because gravity has an affect on me doesn’t make it persuasive.

An advantage Captology has over Rhetorical Analysis is in testing for what elements truly make something persuasive, confidently expanding the knowledge of persuasion through replicable quantitative research.. An advantage Captology has over many academic disciplines is the accessibility of testing. The fluid dynamic of online activity, allowing for not only more cost-effective testing than in any other medium, but for an environment where tests can be run without the need to label them as tests, thereby circumventing the need for human-test-subject approval. If Captology can leverage ongoing testing to create predictive constructs, then Captology has migrated itself from a soft science to a hard science.

I don’t mean to entirely dismiss Rhetorical Analysis. There are some very sharp tools to be found in Rhetorical Analysis, and Rhetorical Analysis has helped many academics construct persuasive arguments. However, the tools being created by non-academic teachings surely outshine attempts at applied Aristotlean rhetorical construction. Non-academic persuasive teachings tend to address a specific audience with a common persuasive goal. For instance Neal Strauss’ book The Game describes online communities set up to teach men how to persuade women to sleep with them. Another relatively large online community studying persuasion surrounds folks learning how to use computers as persuasive technology to aid their entrepreneurial efforts. Perhaps the largest group of online communities teaching forms of persuasion is activist sites seeking political change. Excluding the theories and tactics advanced by these groups would be like academic mathematicians excluding the developments of probability created around the analysis of mortality tables to aid in the pricing of insurance for the bright, wealthy men who took tea at Lloyds of London, back in the day. Insurance provided sustainability for small business owners which allowed for a redistribution of wealth that challenged the dominant elite of the time. The path to global sustainability may not be visible to us presently. Excluding contributors to our field because they aren’t like us will weaken the health of our field. For Captology to maximize its contribution to the field of persuasion, we must include the best and brightest ideas as quickly as possible.

How do we ascertain the state-of-the-art in persuasion, especially as it relates to computers? I can Google persuasion and see the results of their logarithms, or I can check on Amazon and see what’s selling there. However, if I had a vested interest in perpetuating a meme, e.g., Captology, I would employ common search engine optimization techniques, like producing an event that uses many of the key words I want to be associated with the meme I was promoting and asking colleagues to link to my page(s). Persuasive ’07 uses many of the tactics commonly employed by search engine optimization practitioners. Human Computer Interaction uses search engine optimization as a descriptor of spamming for monetization as it relates to boosting, hiding a cloaking.

However, many entrepreneurs employ search engine optimization tactics as means to increase the likelihood of sustainability for their micro ventures. Many have developed techniques that few would classify as spam in any taxonomy. Today, when I Google “persuasive,” Captology.Standford.edu comes up third. Is monetization the key distinction between the increased search results of Captology and the spamming tactics employed by an entrepreneur? Where can I learn about online persuasion techniques like search engine optimization, from non-academic persuasion teachers who often self-identify as Information Marketers.

The likelihood of Captology’s sustainability will likely be greatly increased by covering the techniques applied and taught in non-academic online persuasion communities. Coverage of these techniques would breathe vitality into this young discipline by introducing the technology of independent persuasion experts into academia.

I imagine some scholars arguing that bridging academia with independent persuasion experts would replicate academic Advertising Research. Formal Advertising Research investigates the efficacy, and paths for determining efficacies, of sponsoring mass media. Even when Advertising Research studies online advertising, they are only observing what they see through their screen of advertising. Some of the work of the greatest persuaders of the 20th Century is not studied in their filed. Edward Bernays, and the work he did for The United Fruit Company, his persuasion gets pushed over to “public relations” and Carl Rove’s work as a Direct Marketer is not encompassed by the academic study of advertising. Yet these men have wielded some of the greatest and most orchestrated forces yet known in subtle persuasion.

Independent is a key distinction above, because organizational structures look different without oversight. Oversight and gatekeeping are inherent in sponsored environments. While independent is a key distinction here, perhaps entrepreneurial is a better descriptor. Somebody independently wealthy may not have to conform to successful practices of sponsored environments, but nor do they need to create behaviors that lead to sustainable finances. Financially successful entrepreneurs are free of many institutional gatekeepers, and their methods have yielded systems that are, at least in the foreseeable future, sustainable. In order to create their sustainability, many of these business people have proven proficiency in utilizing technology persuasively. They were applied scientists who split test many elements of their websites. Often, the wider and more long-distanced their anticipatory strategy, the more successful they have become.



In 2005, John Reese had the first entrepreneurial million-dollar day, where a sole-practitioner launched a new product and persuaded enough folks to buy that he exceeded one-million-dollars in revenue. Since then, several solo-entrepreneurs have had million-dollar days. What do these online launches have in common? Jeff Walker helped strategize almost all of their online marketing plans, using recursivity and character based narratives to build and sustain interest in a new product launch. This coupled with an organization of joint-ventures and affiliate marketing made accessible via the Internet has turned several smart business people into multi-millionaires.

The common template, the Jeff Walker construct, is where an information marketer tells their story of how they first started making money at a specialized skill, often a form of computer-aided persuasive technology. The new product launch typically takes seven days in which the target audience grows to know the information marketer, not dissimilar from the lesson at Captology.tv/ node/159. However, Walker’s construct details an optimal cadence, quantity of events and subjects he’s found required to launch a successful new product. Recursivity is employed through the character based narrative of how this new product leverages previous skills to make possible what had previously been inaccessible. Every product sold in this construct comes with a 100% satisfaction guarantee or 100% refund. How many brick & mortar retailers offer that kind of guarantee?

How well does this construct work? In 2006, Mike Long had a $10,000,000 launch using the Jeff Walker Product Launch Formula.

The influx of successful new entrepreneurs from this training is not replacing the vanishing middle-class in America, however, the audiences generated that are hungry to learn the nuances of media manipulation is not inconsequential. More and more, small bands of people will be able to create sustainable financing for themselves or the non-profits of their choice. The tools that used to be relegated to the wealthy and those controlling large budgets are now suddenly much more readily available.

Academia has shown me a bias against money. I have had a tutor in online persuasion for the past semester, Tellman Knudson. I met Tellman eighteen months ago when he was broke. In the last twelve months he has netted over six-million-dollars and every purchase has been backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee or a 100% refund. I was told that if this teacher worked in non-profit, I could study with him for credit, as a directed independent study class. First I was asked if I was paying for the class. I asked why this was important. It was explained to me that if I was paying a teacher through a non-accredited program, the class couldn’t count. I explained I wasn’t paying, not even a dime. The following week I was told no to my request for independent study because my outside teacher was using his skills for making money. In the mean time, I’ve learned how he has engineered squeeze pages with a 90%+ average opt-in, how he uses the following thank-you page to sell a wide variety of $97 digital products and how he constructs down-sells and up-sells to maximize his profitability. Armed with this knowledge, I can see myself as financially sustainable, able to leave my dependence on academic sponsorship. This newfound confidence and independence inspires me to teach others computer-aided persuasive technology.

At minimum, I have deeper understanding and broader overview of persuasion. As Blair Warren teaches in his One-Sentence-Persuasion: “People will follow you anywhere to the extent you encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears and help them throw rocks at their enemies.”




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