Did you look at the full review where he writes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/...GjsLICuceAjl4nHWE/edit#heading=h.w2x6yyfaehin
Let me tell you something: when I realized I'd been conned, I didn't feel Love (88%) Positivee thoughts (86%), or Harmony (86%).
All of these numbers are in fact exploiting what's called survivorship bias, which means they are only reporting results from people that successfully completed the course.
Participants that drop out are ignored.
How many people drop out? At the time that page was written (after FC1 and FC2), the rate was 28%, according to the numbers published on
this talk from 2015.
The latest numbers reported are consistent.
So when you read that 70% of the participants reports PNSE, the actual number of people who payed for the course and reported PNSE is actually 70% of that 70%, which is 49%.
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Thanks to this self-selection bias, they can exclude most negative outcomes from their reports, and ensure that only the reports from the people that are satisfied with the course ends up factored in.
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Jeffery is asking, half way through the course, to change the meaning of the world "happiness" when they are answering the survey.
While for the first two months "happiness" was... well, just happiness, from that moment on, happiness become a form of fundamental wellbeing that may even not include happiness at all.
What's really happening here is that Jeffery is manipulating participants to affect the data reported.
He is asking participants to change the way they are answering questions on a survey that is designed to monitor a progression, half-way through an experiment.
Every honest scientist would throw away the data after that.
But it's much worst that that. It's not just an obvious malpractice: it is deliberately designed to skew the data in a more positive outcome for the course.
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In an even more problematic way, the same process of redefinition happens to the idea of awakening.
It seems like there are two very different types of "awakenings" mixed together in FC.
The first one, I'd call it the grandiose-marketing-awakening.
This is the awakening people are sold before joining FC, via the marketing material.
And those who caught just a glimpse, found something indescribable... something beyond the limitations of the self. An awakening into a persistent state of inner peace and wellbeing. A state of flow, joy and ease.
The music and the images give a even more impressive idea of this "awakening".
But as people join FC, they are gradually and progressively told a different story.
They are slowly and cunningly introduced to the idea that actually... awakening may not be that great thing.
This new type of awakening, which we can call the subtle-shift-awakening, is in fact so subtle that often participants are not even sure if it happened or not.
One one side, you have the awakening of people who felt their life completely changed (to the point, Jeffery says, that they choose to change their name). On the other, an awakening where no one really noticed any change, and where not even the awakened one is sure if something happened or not.
How can these two very different experiences been mixed-up under the same name?
Well, that's the trick. The grandiose one is used to market the product, the subtle one is used to more easily convince people that the course worked.