Greg Simmons & Burklyn Business School

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Greg Simmons & Co from Burklyn Business School

Werner Erhard?s est training (Erhard Seminars Training) may have influenced the Burklyn Business School, RSE and other popular seminars. The Burklyn Business School founded in 1978 seems to have been sold and renamed ?Excellerated Business Schools/Money & You?. One can still attend this ?school?.



GREG SIMMONS

Quote - In 1978, he attended the Burklyn Business School in Vermont. After graduating from business school he was a marketing partner in several business ventures, culminating with the founding of SuperCamp, a residential accelerated learning program for teenagers?

In 1985, Greg became the marketing partner with Robbins Research Institute (RRI) in Del Mar, California.

http://www.mulaideguisepublishing.com/about-us.php


Quote from RSE: Greg - He has been a student in these teachings since 1982 and an appointed teacher since 1998. He has a degree in psychology and postgraduate studies at the Burklyn Business School. He has been the marketing director of RSE since 1990.

http://www.ramtha.com/teachers/greg_simmons.asp



BURKLYN BUSINESS SCHOOL & EST

Marshall Thurber and Bobbi DePorter were founders of the Burklyn Business School for Entrepreneurs in Vermont.


About Bobbi DePorter:

Quote ? ?In 1978, DePorter and Thurber opened the Burklyn Business School in Vermont. The school taught in six weeks what other schools taught over the course of two years.

During this time, Ms. DePorter studied with Bulgarian professor Dr. Georgi Lozanov, known in his own country as the father of accelerated learning. His teachings became a major influence and underpinning in Ms. DePorter's endeavors. Shortly afterward, an unexpected financial roller coaster ride caused her to lose her home and most of her possessions?

Bobbi DePorter survived, and so did the business school. Shortly thereafter, she and an associate created a program for youth pattered after the business school?a program that would help kids discover their greatness and learn skills to succeed in today?s quantum world. "All at once I understood. I was here to help kids, to make this happen for them. That was my spark, my personal aha." In July of 1982, SuperCamp opened its doors.?

http://www.iqln.com/LifeLine.asp


Bobbi DePorter co-founded SuperCamp with Eric Jensen and Greg Simmons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCamp



About Marshall Thurber:

Quote ? ?A list of his students includes such success stories as Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, the founder and creator of Paul Mitchell hair products, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry?s ice cream, Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese, Tony Robbins, Harv Eker, and Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad).?

http://www.positivedeviantnetwork.com/marshall.html


Quote: ?The name Burklyn was later changed to ?Excellerated? to reflect the excellence and acceleration their teaching approach reflected and when ownership was transferred from Marshall to DC Cordova. ?Bobbi DePorter continues to develop her SuperCamp/Quantum Learning organization.?

Marshall became student and prot?g?e of Buckminster ?Bucky? Fuller in 1977, and Bucky was one of the instructors at the Burklyn Business School.

Quote: ?Eighteen months after the death of our mentor Bucky Fuller in 1983, Marshall turned over the rights and ownership of Money & You, the Business School for Entrepreneurs, and all the other educational programs to DC Cordova.?

http://www.excellerated.com/History_More.pdf


According to ?Excellerated?, the business school was founded in 1978 with DC Cordova as the current owner and CEO.

http://www.excellerated.com/index.php/6

http://www.excellerated.com/



About ?Money & You? (MAY), Mar 15, 1989:

Quote: It was conceived in America in the 1970s by Marshall Thurber, a lawyer who turned property developer and then ? under the influence of Dr Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome and ?synergy?, and Werner Erhard (Jack Rosenberg), inventor of ?est? ? motivator.

In 1984, he handed over MAY to Robert Kiyosaki?

As co-owner of the Excellerated Learning Institute, he?s principal instructor to all the independent MAY seminars in the United States, Canada and Australasia?

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1 ... 56,4919790


Psychologist Louise Samways, author of ?Dangerous Persuaders? warns about the potential harm with personal development courses such as ?Money & You? (pdf pages 36 ? 38).

http://www.louisesamways.com.au/pdf/Dan ... uaders.pdf



In the acknowledgements for the success of ?Excellerated programs?, the Business partners mentioned include Greg Simmons, Robert and Kim Kiyosaki etc.

Some of the Teachers, Masters and Mentors acknowledged were Buckminster Fuller, Sai Baba, Werner Erhard, Anthony Robbins, Terry Cole-Whittaker, Jack Canfield etc.

http://www.excellerated.com/acknowledgements.pdf



In 1981, the founders of the Burklyn Business School - Marshall Thurber, D.C. Cordova, Bobbi DePorter, and Greg Simmons, produced an event high in the late summer mountains of northern California, at Kirkwood Meadows, named The Future of Business.

This event featured Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller for one full-week of lectures and advanced-learning exercises centered on ?The Future of Business?.

http://www.radicalchangegroup.com/radic ... ideo-1981/

(Greg Simmons was probably a marketing partner with the Burklyn Business School.)


Werner Erhard, founder of est training and Buckminster Fuller were friends.

http://wernererhardfoundation.blogspot. ... d-and.html


Graduates from Werner?s est include Robert Kiyosaki and Tiger Woods? father!

http://www.erhardseminarstraining.com/?page_id=25



GREG SIMMONS & ROBERT KIYOSAKI

On BTO?s Ask Dr Greg (July 17, 2008), Greg Simmons discussed Robert Kiyosaki, his ?good buddy? a long time ago at the Business School. They were associates and colleagues for about 4 to 5 years, before Robert became a famous author.

http://www.beyondtheordinary.net/gregsimmons.shtml


In Physics of Change Jan 2009, Greg Simmons recommended buying Robert Kiyosaki?s Cashflow game to help one become sovereign!

http://www.physicsofchange.com/newsletter109.html


However, Robert Kiyosaki is controversial, similar to JZ?

Quote from John Reed, an outspoken critic of Robert Kiyosaki:

Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of the dumbest financial advice books I have ever read. It contains many factual errors and numerous extremely unlikely accounts of events that supposedly occurred.

Kiyosaki is a salesman and a motivational speaker. He has no financial expertise and won?t disclose his supposed real estate or other investment success.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad contains much wrong advice, much bad advice, some dangerous advice, and virtually no good advice.

Over time, I have received numerous reports that Kiyosaki is primarily a creature of Amway (now Quixtar) and other multi-level marketing organizations. Reportedly, his books were not selling until he allied himself with that crowd. Then the volume of sales to those MLM guys made him a ?best-selling author,? which caused normal non-MLM people to think the book must be good.

http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html


In the February 2003 issue of SmartMoney magazine, Kiyosaki backed off his claim that his "rich dad" was a real person, instead saying, "Is Harry Potter real? Why don?t you let Rich Dad be a myth, like Harry Potter?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad

(I?ve attended ?Money & You? and Robert Kiyosaki?s seminars. Kiyosaki highly recommended joining a multi-level marketing company such as Amway?)



GREG SIMMONS & PUBLISHERS OF ?I AM RAMTHA?

There is a book called ?I am Ramtha? (1986) published by Richard Cohn and Cynthia Black of Beyond Words Publishing.

Quote from Richard Cohn on Page 5 of ?I am Ramtha?:

?At the Burklyn Business School, where my wife Cindy and I met, the director, Greg Simmons, had always maintained that successful business required unlimited thinking, and living with integrity. Greg had also been the person who introduced us to Ramtha. So it was only natural that we call upon him in developing this publishing venture.?


Beyond Words Publishing (RSE/Ramtha is not mentioned?)

http://www.beyondword.com/about/people


Quote: In 2004, the company was struggling and considered filling for bankruptcy protection until a new investor was brought on board.[8] That year Beyond Words had its first big success, after more than 250 titles to their name, with Masaru Emoto?s Hidden Messages of Water.[8] The book sold enough to make the New York Times Best Seller list and sold a total of half a million copies.[8] The company started a partnership with publisher Simon & Schuster?s subsidiary Atria Books in 2006.[8] That same year the company had a dinner party where one of the commentators from The Secret DVD convinced the group to watch the video, which led to the publication of the book, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.[8][9] By March 2007, the book had become the top seller on Amazon.com as well as listing on The New York Times bestseller list, and had 1.75 million copies in print.[8] That month Simon & Schuster ordered an additional 2 million copies in what was their largest reorder in their history.[8]

Both Cohn and Black took a New Age class at the Burklyn Business School in California, which helped lay the foundation for starting Beyond Words.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Words_Publishing


In conclusion, the Burklyn Business School has been influential.

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intresting how rse is influenced from modern buisness and not so much from a 35000 year old worrier. at the end of 1990ies when i came ramthe teached mostly in the new age terms .Bobbi DePorters word: 'quantum ' came later so jz again read a book. her stuff also reminds me how cse presents itself.

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As mentioned above, Greg Simmons recommends his friend, Robert Kiyosaki from the Burklyn Business School.

Here?s an interesting video of the sales tactics used and Kiyosaki?s comments.

Marketplace - Canada?s Investigative Consumer Show

Jan 29, 2010.

Quote:

Robert Kiyosaki, best-selling finance author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, has spun-off his book into a self-help empire of TV shows, board games and investment seminars ? a string of which are scheduled across Canada. But rumblings are being heard from the hundreds of hotel ballrooms across North America where Kiyosaki's Rich Dad seminars are staged. The complaints? That initial Rich Dad sessions focus less on education and more on marketing and upselling further sessions that cost up to $45,000.

Marketplace investigates these concerns using hidden camera and reveals the aggressive sales tactics used, where participants are urged to increase their credit card limits after being pressured to spend tens of thousands of dollars on advanced courses.

Erica Johnson asks Kiyosaki directly: what?s really going on? Are Canadians being lured by the Rich Dad name to spend money on weekend workshops that seem really designed to sell them more workshops?

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2010/road ... /main.html


Perhaps Marketplace should also investigate RSE.

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I wonder if all these people who thirst after money will end up in money hell. As JZ/R says those who do not get over their addicitons such as smoking end up in smoker's hell where they have millions of cigarettes but don't get the rush from nicotine from smoking. Just kidding!