Copyright © 2005, 2006 by William R. Mistele. All rights reserved.
A Pop Quiz for Magicians, Parts I-XIII (from Intro to Magic 101), Plus FAQ and Bio (at the end)
(Somewhat on the lighter side as in
humor and satire; but be careful what you wish for. The intent is not to inspire but to encourage
people to think and also to laugh.
Often individuals take sides or start with assumptions or a point of
view and perspective. On the other hand,
any fledgling telepath knows right away that there are many points of views and
alternatives with most questions. Or, as the higher spirits like to point out,
“It all depends on how you ask the question and for whom the answer is
intended.”)
Note 1: See also the separately posted Talk
Show Radio broadcast from the
Note 2: These pop quizzes belong to a
class held at the
Included along with the actual quizzes used to facilitate classroom
discussions are interviews, radio talk shows, debates, field trips, a mid term
exam, various brief evocations, poetry contests, and conversations between
students and professors during office hours and during independent studies.
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ARE TRUE ABOUT MAGIC?
Magic is the highest wisdom on earth.
Magic is the highest science on earth.
Sex magic is the highest magic on earth.
Magic and science produce the same results. They just use different methods.
Magic has been kept secret from the public and is highly restricted during this divine dispensation because of the way it was abused during previous civilizations.
There are two tests for studying magic—1. You must be convinced that you can correct whatever mistakes you make along the way and 2. You believe you are pure enough to avoid abusing your power. (If you are not bothered by making mistakes and abusing your power, then these two points do not apply. Instead refer to the classic text, The Final Test if the Dark Side is Your Quest.)
Ninety-seven per cent of the
magic practiced on earth is “pretend” magic. The only genuine test of magic is
if you have used it to significantly transform the world in a positive
manner. (Note: Generally speaking, house
rules do not award points for using magic to destroy things. It is too easy, there is too much of that
kind of activity, and so we have decided to acknowledge only creativity.)
Magic is the study of how to
make the best choices in life.
To be a magician you have to become a
spiritual being. Your commitment must be
absolute so you carry no doubts. And
there must be a place within your spirit which is free of all fear. (From The Undine Osipeh).
WHICH IS THE MOST LIKELY
QUESTION OR
COMMENT PEOPLE WILL MAKE ABOUT YOUR STUDYING MAGIC
Is there any money in it?
You mean you’re pulling rabbits out of hats?
Shouldn’t you be looking for answers in the Bible?
Can you use it to find a sex partner?
Didn’t magic go out of
fashion five hundred years ago when people gave up trying to turn lead into
gold?
Will you do my natal chart
for me? How about read my palm?
I always knew you were weird.
THE HERMETIC MAGICIAN FRANZ BARDON EXPECTS STUDENTS TO ACCOMPLISH WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING?
Develop a level of concentration so that like the movie director Steven Spielberg they can imagine an entire movie unfolding before their eyes including all of the characters’ actions, feelings, and words.
Develop the concentration of an advanced Zen Master who can stop all thoughts from appearing in his mind at will whenever he wants and for as long as he wants.
Develop the level of vitality of a sixth don Aikido master, a grand master of Tai Chi Chuan, or an advanced yogi.
Develop a level of psychological analysis and self-understanding equivalent to having several Ph. D’s in psychology.
Develop mastery over the electric fluid so that you can keep your flashlight working when the batteries go dead.
Be able to dissolve all negative energy from a magical attack simply by placing your hand in a bucket of water.
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS TRUE ABOUT TELEPATHY?
Telepathy involves reading the exact thoughts occurring in another’s mind as they happen.
Telepathy never involves reading the exact thoughts in another’s mind as they are occurring. Instead, telepathy is art—as in any form of translation, there is always a degree of difficulty and always an element of interpretation.
The best way to begin practicing telepathy is by transmitting and receiving sensory impressions involving smell since smell gives the strongest sensations.
In telepathy, a single impression sent from a spirit can be received/perceived in either visual, auditory, or sensory sensations and can contain the equivalent of volumes of books.
The best way to begin practicing telepathy is by sending a little white ball of energy from your forehead to your partner’s forehead containing a single impression you wish to communicate.
Telepathy, like all magic, entails a lot of listening and a little technique. (Peter Beagle)
You have to establish a “listening silence” before anything will happen. (Eugene Gendlin)
Join your mind and the mind of another so they are one and you won’t have a problem with communication or interpretation. (Bagoloni—earthzone spirit)
The best way of learning
telepathy is to practice turning on and off an electric train using a galvameter hooked up to a plant and an electric switch.
And now
for a word from one of our spiritual anthropologists: “Though she and I
sometimes speak aloud with words for the sake of dramatic effect, no thought or
image is needed when we communicate. She
speaks as a harpist communicates moods through the touch of her fingers on the
strings of her harp--but the strings are my nerves and the moods she creates
are a flow of love from her heart into my own.” (from
the undine Istiphul)
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING INDICATES THAT MAGIC IS REAL AND STILL HAS AN ACTIVE ROLE TO PLAY IN OUR WORLD?
A team of scientists consults with you for a $30 million contract they have with Boeing Aircraft for developing an antigravity engine for airplanes.
The CIA consults with you on why their death ray device works using only a radionics diagram of a machine rather than the actual machine.
The Pentagon consults with
you on their secret experiments for strengthening the steadily weakening
After taking a course on “remote viewing” with a former CIA operative, you can now “locate” your car keys when you misplace them.
Your cat and dog come when you call them telepathically.
You sell your “dragon slaying sword” from your on-line role playing game for $800 on eBay.
You discover you can turn on an electric train from anywhere on earth by sending a telepathic message to a plant hooked up to a galvameter and the electric train switch.
Steven Hawkin consults with you because astrophysicists still can not locate ninety-five per cent of the matter in the universe that is missing and that emits no radiation detectable by scientific instruments.
The company stock (Netease [ADR]) you bought that runs Chinese on-line role playing magic games doubles in value netting you a cool ten grand.
Like the Televangelist, Pat Robinson, you convince yourself that you can control the direction of hurricanes.
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WOULD BE A SUITABLE STORY INVOLVING NATURE SPIRITS?
A sylph falls in love with a human poet and assumes the form of a woman to be his lover. But she later falls victim to the racial and religious bigotry of that society.
A male magician falls in love with an undine who “borrows” the body of a human woman to become his lover—things may or may not work out in this one.
A powerful magician wagers that will is greater than love in attempting to take possession of one of the queen of undines.
One of the highest ranking female sylphs tries to outsmart a powerful wizard who has managed to encase her in a jar.
A powerful salamander (also called a genie) becomes attached to a lamp and is forced to grant wishes. (Aladdin)
An advanced gnome enjoys
bargaining and trading rare magical items with human magicians down through the
ages.
A man suspects that his
lover, though possessing the form of a woman, may actually be a mermaid who was
traded for a human child. As the man
probes deeper into this mystery, he discovers ancient forms of magic that lead
into the mysterious realms of nature spirits.
ASSIGN THE FOLLOWING KINDS OF BEINGS TO THEIR CORRECT DESCRIPTIONS--SALAMANDERS, SEALES, UNDINES, GNOMES, SYLPHS—
They seize each moment with zeal in order to dissolve the obstacles blocking their path to fulfillment.
For them each moment is a magnetic sea containing the dreams and the taste of ecstasy--each moment arises from and resonates with the love sustaining all life on earth.
They are able to transfer their astral bodies at will into a human woman or into a seal.
For them, anything in physical existence is constantly transforming, solidifying and dissolving again--in each moment matter and emptiness are flowing through each other like water being poured into water.
These beings enter each moment seeking to attain and to abide in complete harmony.
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ARE TRUE ABOUT THE GREAT WHITE BROTHERHOOD?
It is an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan that promotes Aryan supremacy.
Is a male oriented secret society that gave rise to the Masons and the Rosicrucians.
Is a group of white magicians who socialize together on the inner planes in extravagant virtual reality temples that they take turns creating through their power of visualization.
Recently changed its name to the Great White Personhood in order to be more politically correct.
There is no Great White Brotherhood. Any mature magician is in direct contact with Divine Providence and has no need of joining a group in order to accomplish his work.
No, the Great White
Brotherhood is the group of magicians who work
directly with Divine Providence and are also know as Brothers of Light because
they have penetrated into the sphere of the sun.
Due to a still classified
altercation with the Illuminati, a
number of the Ascended Masters composing the Great White Brotherhood have now
moved on to better things. Therefore, the Great White Brotherhood is proud to
announce it is now accepting applications from earth plane masters to fill
these openings. Think of it! An officially certified Ascended Master
ranking can now be yours. Simply
submit a one page essay on “Why I Should
Be Called an Ascended Master” to
any occult publishing company that publishes our works.
No, the Great White
Brotherhood, whether real or not, is part of a conspiracy (probably invented by
the Theosophists) to delude spiritual seekers into believing that there really
is some masterful group of high initiates on the inner planes. The purpose of setting forth this delusion is
to seduce the innocent into giving their attention, time, but mainly money to those who claim to speak on behalf of
the Great Delusion.
It does not matter in the least if there is
or is not a Great White Brotherhood. The
point is that for just a little time and money you too can join with those
(who no doubt are con men who believe their own con) who speak for and work with the GWB and share in this
self-deception, group delusion, and neurological dysfunction—I mean, where is
their brain during all of this?
Announcement:
We at the Great White Brotherhood would like to say that we do
not mind others making fun of us. We
love humor and a well written satire.
And furthermore we officially recognize that even blasphemy is one of
the rights of free speech guaranteed in a democracy.
The Great White Brotherhood,
whether real or not, may be construed as a “safety net” for spiritual
practitioners. In other words, if you
should pursue the great enterprise of raising your consciousness through a rigorous
magical and spiritual training system, the Great White Brotherhood will be
there for you should you run into serious problems.
Neat, huh? Should you fall off the high trapeze that
circles the earth from the heights of akasha, down below are those who have
ascended before you and who are ready to catch yah. Well, don’t count it. Come to think of it, I am noticing all this
blood and guts, bone and broken skulls lying around down here on the circus
floor.
(looking up
at the trapeze)
I wonder if perhaps those
spiritual adventurers would have been a little more careful, perhaps practiced
a little more diligently, if they had known that the floor where you end up if
you fall is so hard?
No, we demons would like to
put in a word here. We would just like
to say that we “sell protection” from accidents, you could call it spiritual
insurance. That’s right folks. Keeping your feet on the ground is always
advice most profound and we have found that by meeting your own needs first you
will remain safe and sound.
So
don’t go climbing ladders up to heaven when it might be best to lay away a few
treasures first here on earth. So many
people think of us as the enemy. No,
No. We are just friendly and our job
description reads clearly: Wherein and wherefore the Great White Brotherhood
may not be able to catch someone falling from a spiritual height (due to
previous spiritual commitments), you are hereby commissioned to protect and
uphold the journey of those who are heaven bound.
Understand now? We are the keepers of the gates of
reality. And before you use one of those
spiritual keys to escape, you will have to get past us, for we also have a deep
respect for the law of gravity—for responsibility, limitation, karma, and
restriction. That’s right. Before you ascend you have to first
comprehend the purpose behind the “descent” that delivered you here. To put it simply, before you can tight rope
walk high among the clouds, you have to first learn to
walk with your feet on the ground.
“Q” from the TV series, Star Trek, was introduced into the
script through the influence of the Great White Brotherhood. The Brothers wished to keep alive and revive
a public image worthy of their celestial notoriety and so used dramatic
conflict to portray their inner plane activity.
This is in the same way that Marvel
Comics has kept alive mythology through its outlandish heroics and
villainy. In both cases, the goal is to
prime the pump within the astral body so that the imaginations of the masses
can still contemplate spirituality.
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WOULD MAKE THE BEST THEME FOR AN OCCULT NOVEL:
You are an advanced magician who has attained immortality through your practice. But to remain immortal you must avoid having love affairs with women. You fall in love with a young girl, get her pregnant, lose your immortality, die by guillotine, and your daughter ends up being an orphan.
You become the high priest of Atlantis but with all the distractions and commotions you betray your true love and so end up whining and complaining through all your subsequent incarnations on earth about how guilty you feel. (Dweller on Two Planets) You also later renounce your occult writing and become a Christian.
You decide on a lark to
accomplish a magical incarnation by enticing a lunar spirit to incarnate as a
human girl. But you quickly lose interest in this incarnated spirit once
she is born and move on to other things including your cocaine addiction.
(Moonchild by
Abandoned on a remote island by a relative who has stolen your political power and position, you attain justice in the end by utilizing the dark arts of magic. Having restored the balance, you now renounce magic and get back to ordinary living. (Shakespeare’s The Tempest)
A magician gets trapped under a stone by his lover. A king, due to pagan influences, mates with his sister to produce a son who later destroys his kingdom. Your best friend and head of your armed forces has sex with your wife and then carries her off to his own kingdom. But out of guilt she decides to become celibate and enters a monastery. There is an additional side quest involving some sort of religious relic, a cup or something, that apparently possesses the same magical powers as a cauldron in Celtic mythology; but the king who holds this cup has been wounded in a part of his body that should not be mentioned in polite company. (The Death of Arthur)
Having acquired all wisdom of your age you remain doubtful of God’s existence. So you sell your soul to the devil to find out if there is a God but later all is forgiven because your quest for the truth is sincere. There is also a young girl who gets screwed in the process. (Goethe’s Faust)
A vampire forces a writer to listen to his coming of age story. (Interview with a Vampire by Ann Rice) You later renounce your occult writing and become a Christian and decide to write the young Christ’s coming of age story.
IN THE AUTHURIAN LEGENDS, KING ARTHUR’S LIFE DEPENDS ON THE ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING RIDDLE—WHAT DO WOMEN DESIRE FROM MEN? WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SHOULD BE THE ANSWER:
Women desire that a man be
sovereign over them.
No, not sovereign. Women are happiest when men are in control and tell them what to do. But then again when have women ever wanted just to be happy?
What women want most from men are money and the status that goes with it. Some want children and a few want sex.
Women want the man’s strength and power to join with their own to make a home. And in that home they want love to flow without barriers or boundaries through body and soul.
Women are waiting for a lover who is wise, strong, and tender to discover their secrets, to taste their bliss, to ravish their hearts, and yet who will let them be as wild and free as the sea.
Women desire to give and
receive love with a man in a way that makes the world new.
You think there is an
answer? Story: A guy finds a lamp on a
beach and rubs it and a genie (usually a salamander) appears and offers him one
wish. The guy says “I hate flying and
boats but I want to visit
You have heard of reverse
engineering—take a finished product and then figure out how it was made?
OK. A wise man said that in dealing with
women you should try to create the best possible conditions for enticing the
woman into giving you what you want. And
then you just have to wait and see what happens.
Expectation? Get rid of it because it has nothing to do
with the results. Transcend your
personal desires and needs that drive you to demand a specific outcome. Learn to delight in the spontaneity of the
unexpected as it happens because “one of Life’s greatest secrets is that She is
full of surprises” and I might add that Her surprises
are sometimes good and sometimes bad.
OK.
If the above is what a wise man would say about how men should treat
women, what does this tell us about women?
It tells us that women are willing to give
men what men want if you learn to play Nature’s way—something is not caught
until it is in your mouth, your claw, or your paw; and the seed does not sprout
unless it is buried in the ground with the right soil and water around and the
sun above calling out in a voice of golden light, eternal and bright, “‘Arise
and come forth’ for your time has come.”
What?
You want an interpretation?
OK. You do what you can to prime
the pump but then you still have to act with absolute authority that is
nonetheless a hundred per cent natural.
Just say it straight out:
Women want multiplicity engineered by synchronicity. Too intellectual? Try this: Women want an endless variety of
simplicity carefully supervised by spontaneity.
What?
You still don’t understand what is at hand? OK.
For those men who just don’t have a clue about what women want I will
tell you: You have to first steal her mind before you
can get a piece of her behind.
Don’t
fool yourselves. There is nothing simple
about it. Why Moses had to use a male
female breakdown in communication to kick out his explanation of why life is
the way it is. Male female—it is the
stuff of mythology. What does the most beautiful women in the universe want? She wants the man with the most creative power
in his hands. Why? Because with him at her
side there is nothing that can not be made new. And that is what genders do—they produce
something new.
Wait,
wait. I am receiving the answer to
another pop quiz question. Question:
What would you like God to say to you when you get to the pearly gates? Answer (obviously a man): I would like God to
greet me warmly, shake my hand, and say, “It was simply incredible the way you
seduced and loved that woman. You are a
credit to all men everywhere.”
You see, it is not about trying to please
women or make them happy or what they want.
No. Your relationship to a woman
is actually a function of a dialogue you have with God in which you wrestle
with God for a blessing in order to entice Him into revealing the secret of how
to love a woman.
But then again, to be completely honest, God
Himself does not have a good track record when it comes to loving and being
loved by mankind. Actually, His track record is very, very bad. In fact, his historical failures have been
far in excess of his successes.
Or, as God said to Balaam who complained
that he was troubled his whole life by the beauty of women, “First become the love you seek like a mighty river flowing from out of
yourself. Then you shall have all that
you desire.”
Wait. Wait.
I am receiving part of the broadcast from Talk Show Radio. Rachel’s song (sung to melody of Scarborough Fair):
The
softness of a woman’s skin
Is a
night without end—
Each
woman in her heart remains,
Forever
remains a virgin,
Dressed
in robes of silence,
Surrounded
by the night’s cold,
She
waits for a lover with the eyes of dawn
At
his touch begin birds their songs;
His
hands and arms warm her skin,
Her
body rises to meet him
And
the ache in her heart with a kiss,
The
ache and pain dissolve into bliss.
Like
the earth with the sun above
I
shall give him all of my love
And
he to me as the sun
We
shall love till we are one.
Wait. Wait. Another broadcast
from Talk Show Radio:
Connie:
To
touch a woman’s skin, you have to understand, it is not about being a man. It is not about taking command. Sure, there is your burning urgency. But the woman is not there for your
emergency.
To touch a woman’s skin you have to become like a
child again. It is about trust and love
and tenderness and the wonder of flowing from one moment into another.
In touch you communicate a message that you are there
for her and that you care for her and that skin against skin your life and hers
flow as one unending stream, that is, at least in the moment the two of you are
sharing the same dream.
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS MOSTLY LIKELY TO BE A REINCARNATED MAGICIAN:
Howard Stern, the reincarnation of the famous Chinese Poet Li Po as well as the great Zen Master, Duga, for his well-known contribution to radio talk shows by virtue of his tenacious, life long attempt to answer the Zen question, How does a man get through puberty? (And how can you knock a guy who is getting paid two hundred million dollars by satellite radio to rant on like a broken record about sex and the curiosities of puberty?)
Bob Guglioni, the founder of Penthouse Magazine and the reincarnation of Sir Isaac Newton, for giving ten million dollars out of his own pocket in the 1970’s for the research of nuclear fusion, a non-toxic alternative form of energy. ($10 million in 1970 with appreciation and inflation is about $140 million today).
Hugh Heffner, the founder of Playboy Magazine and the reincarnation of both Virgil and Goethe, for being the first to racially integrate television in the U.S. as well as publishing the first writings of virtually every major American writer for thirty years. Net worth—probably $205 million.
Bill Gates (the reincarnation of Sir Francis Drake and Genghis Khan), Using cut throat monopolistic practices, he has virtually stolen $900 billion from the rest of the world by forcing other nations to “outsource” computer operating systems to the U.S. for twenty years. However, he has now founded the largest charity in the history of mankind worth $24 billion. He uses this charity to raise the living standard of poor people around the world so they can afford to buy computers with his operating system.
Marilyn Monroe, for finally
embodying what in her previous incarnation as the man Casanova (as well as the
author, Ovid, during the Roman Empire) he/she sought to capture--the perfection
of every man’s desire. (Her net worth
wasn’t that much. Her value is more a
cultural icon thing.)
Reminds me of the five
wizards sent into Middle Earth from
No, the spiritual vision of Netzach is that of a beautiful, naked woman. Every magician is required in his training to master the intricate complexities and the subtle nuances, the sensual tonalities and the full emotional spectrum of vibrations hidden within this vision.
IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR MAGICIANS TO HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT USING MAGIC TO WIN A LOTTERY. THIS MONEY COULD BE USED FOR A GOOD PURPOSE. YOUR BEST RESPONSE--
A magician, especially one
having mastered the cosmic letter “k,” is able to take possession of any
treasure on earth if it serves his spiritual purpose. Kind of like George
Washington requisitioning privately owned boats in order to cross the
No matter how sacred your purpose, you are not permitted any extravagances or short cuts, kind of like the instructions the head of Mossad gives his agents on secret missions—“I want a receipt for everything—and no prostitutes or no lap dances.”
Using magic to win a lottery is like stealing money from the poor to give to the poor—what kind of Robin Hood would do that?
States lotteries are “non profit” activities used to fund education and other public institutions. Individuals spend money from their own pocket to buy tickets which offers them hope when their lives may have no hope. And groups of investors buy tickets in large numbers balancing risk and return. To use magic to gain a favorable outcome would be to undermine all these honest and legitimate efforts. In other words, you generate a bad karma—you will have to pay back at some later date every cent that you take.
If you do win, the state gaming commission, the FBI, the CIA, the mafia, and other interested parties or outraged individuals will want “interviews” with you because they will find out.
There is no problem
winning. After all, magicians are superior to other people and everyone
will understand that you are going to use this money for a noble purpose. And although magic is intended to create
wealth and not just take it out of one person’s pocket and put it into another
person’s pocket as a lottery does, magicians are still superior to other
people. This is because part of a
magicians training is in being a pickpocket as well as thieving in general. I
mean who can steal thoughts, feelings, vitality, and dreams like a magician?
Let’s review. “Some of the worst things imaginable have
been done with the best of intentions.” (Jurassic
Part II) What if demons are in
charge of awarding the winning ticket in some lotteries. Well then, you would be invading their turf,
won’t you? Kind of like wearing the
wrong colors in the wrong part of LA.
No for
lotteries but yes for casinos.
Casinos, unlike lotteries, are “for profit” enterprises and someone is always
trying to cheat them. This cost or loss is figured into their daily
operating expenses. (See the movie Cooler for how casinos are fighting back
to prevent magicians from cashing in the chips).
Actually the stock market is
the traditional arena where criminals, honest investors, and reincarnated
magicians fight to see who will win and who will lose. (See David Swensen’s
book, Unconventional Success. Swensen, a
reincarnated magician and recognized financial adept, has doubled the total
endowment of
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING
NON-MAGICAL ACTIVITIES WOULD YOU ALSO CONSIDER FOR UNDERWRITING YOUR SPIRITUAL
PURPOSES? (I MEAN, WHY GO TO THE BOTHER OF DOING MAGIC WHEN SO MUCH MONEY
IS AVAILABLE THROUGH NON-MAGICAL MEANS)
As church treasurer, you write out checks to yourself, cash them, and then paste your church’s name over your name on the checks. Then you Xerox copies of these checks and place them in the church files so they look like normal church expenses. ($1.2 million—treasurer of First Lutheran Church of Grosse Pointe who lives down the block from me)
Work with an appraiser, a
buyer, and a seller to gain loans for more than homes are worth and then pocket
the cash the bank pays the seller. ($30 million—a
Persuade the head of a few
trucking companies to accept kickbacks for issuing fake invoices for work never
done in relocating a number of buildings in your city for urban renewal. ($8
million which he then blew in casinos—City Controller of
Gift stock and stock options
to zoning commissioners, city management, local and
state officials for an indoor gulf course while selling the stock to the public
and transferring the balance to your off-shore accounts. ($65 million—Skyland Park Management Company,
Charge one per cent per year
on the balance of accounts you invest for others until you manage $1 billion
dollars and receive $10 million a year for your trouble. (some successful financial advisors).
As an unlicensed financial
advisor, issue false financial statements to your clients showing they are
getting 20% return on their investments while you gamble away their money in
day trading. Meanwhile use new client’s
money to make payments to older clients. When the judge asks you to explain,
say “I thought that is what banks did—they take one clients money and give it
to other clients.” (
Pray for money when you need
it. You may receive a check from your insurance company after your house
burns down but, hey, you got the money, didn’t you? (a
man in
Money is never a
problem. It always comes shortly after you pray for it. And when it
no longer comes? Time to die. (a Wiccan in the state of
Forget prayer. Set up an
on-line pornographic pay for view website. The world wide revenues for
all such sites are currently $150 billion a year. Shouldn’t part of this
money be used for “the Lord’s work?”
There are countless ways of getting hold of individuals’ financial data to make withdraws from their checking accounts and charge their credit cards. Think Internet. Why it will be at least another seven years before adequate security is in place to prevent this. The window of opportunity is there. Even without your participation, figure $300 billion will be taken from the innocent in the next seven years. Shouldn’t some of this money “be going to the Lord’s work?” Oh yes, by the way, consider travel packages to nations with no extradition.
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT IN THE DEMONIC MANUAL OF HOW TO RUN A “CON,” THAT IS, SCAM PEOPLE OUT OF AND/OR DESTORY THEIR MONEY, FAITH, HOPE, LOVE, TRUST, INTELLIGENCE, AND WILL POWER?
One of the best cons is a Ponzie scheme—be as generous and reward as much as you can for small actions in the beginning until the mark becomes “hooked” before taking what you want from them.
The supreme con, beyond all other cons, is always accomplished by convincing yourself first beyond all doubt and with total sincerity that what you are doing is right and will be of the greatest benefit to others. (To beat these guys you have to do a thorough background check and in-depth analysis of their purposed actions. But that still won’t help if your weakness is deluding yourself).
The best method is the “soft sell”—you get others through their own incentive to freely “give you” whatever it is you want from them by virtue of your friendship, your sincerity, the way you trust them, and the deep emotional bond you have form