If Not Hell then what?

[pocaracas]

Do I have to tell you, again, the inherent problem with the A/S/K method?

Talk to the one who implimented it. The only thing I can tell you is that it works.

The guy is dead... can' talk to him.
Though, in all fairness, I have to tip my hat to his ingenuity on how to get people to self-manipulate.

But I can talk to those people who still fall for it.

You claim that it works.
It works in your mind, to your eye, to you.
It is indistinguishable from you convinced yourself that it works.
It is indistinguishable from being brainwashed.
It is indistinguishable from it's all in your head.
It is indistinguishable from someone made it up and you fell for it.

And, of course, it has no substantiating evidence, except for your saying so.
You fell for it... so deeply, so profoundly that you are incapable of stepping back and seeing it for what it is.
An idea that was planted long ago, took root in your mind and now you want to spread it to other minds.

Not my mind!
Knowing all of this, why would I subject myself to such self-brainwashing?
Would it ever work, given my awareness of what it is?