Thread: Stephen Laberge

Originally Posted by Ev

Guys, if you think that 2000$ is a lot of money you are looking at this from a very simplistic standpoint. You arent looking at this from the economic standpoint.

Let's see the breakdown:
For the working class they have books and some tapes. + there are free forums on the web. This takes the most amount of time but is dirt cheap.

For the better off people there are all of the above options + nova dreamer. All together this may save quite some time but still less than the cheap version.

For the very rich folks they have all of the above + the seminars. I wouldnt doubt that the ability to ask questions directly to laberge or whoever else is running those seminars would be very helpful. Potentially such seminar may make up for dozens of LD/induction experiments....
Now why was I talking about the economic standpoint? For people making 6-20 $ an hour spending 2000$ on a seminar and 500$ on nova dreamer will seem ridiculous. People making 20-60$ an hour may think about it. And for people making 100+k a year it's very affordable.

Now think about it again. If Laberge is to teach LDing in person who would he prefer to teach? Lets say there's 2 classes of 20people a day.
Would he make this affordable and teach 40 middle class people or jack up the prices and teach 40 rich people? While middle class people may be good students, if the rich kids would succeed and actually like lucid dreaming LaBerge may count on some donations/grants/whatever else financial aid he may get from them...
This is what capitalism is all about.... $$$$
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That's all true... but the point that people keep ignoring is that there are CHEAP books by Laberge that the $6-$20 dollar an hour people can afford. This idea being constantly pimped in this thread that Laberge only caters to the rich is wrong.

Originally Posted by Ev

People actually pay that amount of money for a shitty seminar!?
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If you could afford it, are you saying you wouldn't spend that much to spend 10 days on a beautiful tropical island learning about lucid dreaming? You must be high and mighty!

Well I agree that he has to make a living

Call it capitalism, call it greedy, underhand, catering to the rich or making a living, but you can lucid dream without parting from so much as a dime. I think everyone knows that.