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Deepockets Chokya, who bills himself as "a guru Americans can relate to," puts it all together in this hilarious parody The Seven Spiritual Laws of Making Big Bucks: A Practical Guide to the Self-Righteous Amassing of an Obscene Fortune. From the "Law of Pure Greed" to the "Law of Helping Others to Reap Their Bad Karma," Chokya takes spiritual money-making to its mercenary height. Funny as it is, this book is also disturbing in its accurate portrayal of religious hucksterism.
Try to imagine the nastiest, most power hungry, selfish, conceited and least compassionate human being you’ve ever had the misfortune of crossing paths with, writing a spiritual self-help guide. This is Deepockets Chokya. He deftly twists every spiritual concept, from karma to the illusory nature of time and space, to support his devious vision. God is, we learn, not only uncaring, but also mean, lazy and incompetent. We have become so inured to the charlatans that saturate the media — from psychic phone "friends" and televangelists to astrology hotlines and new age healers — that we often forget that snake oil peddlers are merely following the age-old spiritual "Law of Never Giving a Sucker an Even Break."
This book is at once frightening and hilarious. In the politically correct climate of these times, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Making Big Bucks is refreshing in its irreverent perspective. Deepockets Chokya (a pseudonym, of course) is the reviled leader of the human impotential movement. He is the pseudonymous hack writer of more than eleven hundred worthless pamphlets on how to get rich quick, pick up girls, lose weight, cure cancer, clear your sinuses, get rid of your acne, grow hair, make your cellulite disappear, enlarge your penis, enhance your breasts, increase your vocabulary, and be immortal. Some of his best-selling titles include: Swindling the Elderly, How to Hypnotize Total Strangers to Do Your Bidding, and Creative Flatulence. Wanted in twelve states for fraud, he continues to flaunt the law by regularly appearing on TV talk shows and teaching seminars on how to pay off judges when you’re in trouble with the postal inspectors.
Ppb; 88 pages.
Try to imagine the nastiest, most power hungry, selfish, conceited and least compassionate human being you’ve ever had the misfortune of crossing paths with, writing a spiritual self-help guide. This is Deepockets Chokya. He deftly twists every spiritual concept, from karma to the illusory nature of time and space, to support his devious vision. God is, we learn, not only uncaring, but also mean, lazy and incompetent. We have become so inured to the charlatans that saturate the media — from psychic phone "friends" and televangelists to astrology hotlines and new age healers — that we often forget that snake oil peddlers are merely following the age-old spiritual "Law of Never Giving a Sucker an Even Break."
This book is at once frightening and hilarious. In the politically correct climate of these times, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Making Big Bucks is refreshing in its irreverent perspective. Deepockets Chokya (a pseudonym, of course) is the reviled leader of the human impotential movement. He is the pseudonymous hack writer of more than eleven hundred worthless pamphlets on how to get rich quick, pick up girls, lose weight, cure cancer, clear your sinuses, get rid of your acne, grow hair, make your cellulite disappear, enlarge your penis, enhance your breasts, increase your vocabulary, and be immortal. Some of his best-selling titles include: Swindling the Elderly, How to Hypnotize Total Strangers to Do Your Bidding, and Creative Flatulence. Wanted in twelve states for fraud, he continues to flaunt the law by regularly appearing on TV talk shows and teaching seminars on how to pay off judges when you’re in trouble with the postal inspectors.
Ppb; 88 pages.