This editorial will be longer than most, but it will address an important matter that I will never address in any depth again. Some will not have the courage to follow it closely and to the end. For your sake, my friend, I hope that you do.

About one out of every four persons possesses a particular kind of defect in his or her intellect that is worth understanding...as is the most effective way to deal with it.

Unbeknownst to me at the time, a gentleman in North Easton, Massachusetts, recently decided to publish, on an internet forum, a link to the Mega Genius Web site. He suggested to the forum's 815 members (and all the other non-member readers), "...at the very least, try the first series of [CDs]." He was merely sharing a resource that he suspected could be helpful.

That was a caring and civilized thing to do.

Although people continually send e-mail testimonials to me about how much they enjoy the editorials and how "The Mega Genius Lectures" has significantly improved their lives, 12 members of the forum responded to the man's message in a critical manner.

Most of their criticism revolved around their assumption that I must be arrogant; their opinion that I should be providing the lectures to the public for free; and their assertion that the Mega Genius Lectures simply had to be fraudulently unworkable.

As the storm on the forum intensified, the man from Massachusetts called my attention to the matter and suggested that I should read and respond to some of their conclusions. Having nothing to hide, I've decided to do so, publicly.

As intellectually proficient as the critics alleged themselves to be (while accidentally exposing their ignorance of modern IQ testing), they could have discussed the matter of the lectures rationally.

They could have deliberated whether it is possible to significantly increase a person's intelligence (which was scientifically proved decades ago). Or, asked customer service, through a prominent link on the second page of the web site, why the lectures are not free. Or, asked customer service for some testimonials from people who have actually heard the lectures.

That, however, was not their style.

First, let's address the allegation of arrogance.

The lectures are not about me, but about the hundreds of workable truths revealed within them.

Is the web site strewed with pictures of me? You might find three, taken at least 27 years ago, in the midst of the Web site. After two years, however, I just added a current photograph in my last Intelligence Briefing, and promptly received an e-mail that read, "Finally, a Mega Genius picture."

As one who has spent decades on stages and before television cameras, I didn't think that was overdoing it.

The definition of arrogance is: Exaggerating, or disposed to exaggerate, one's own worth or importance in an overbearing manner.

When Thomas Edison said that his incandescent lamp (light bulb) worked, and it did, that was not arrogance, because it was true. I have claimed nothing about "The Mega Genius Lectures" that is not true and easily verifiable.

I submit to the judgments of all those who know me well, or who have actually heard the lectures, on the arrogance issue.

Second, let's address the matter of whether I should be giving the lectures away, for free.

Let's see now. I researched and isolated a simple, workable, 3-step formula that anyone of at least average intelligence can use to skyrocket his or her intelligence

From beyond the top of the IQ scale, I have devoted considerable time to sifting through all my thoughts about practically every subject in this universe, and a few more outside of it. I have organized it all in an appropriate and easily understandable manner for others.

I have bought the electronic components to record and mass produce everything, recorded the 34 hours of substantive lectures, complied with all applicable laws of the land, obtained both a U.S. Federal Trademark and Service Mark (no fly-by-night operation), designed the finished products, procured the necessary help, supplies, and office facilities, and have made the lectures available around the world through an easily accessible web site.

In addition, I have already written and published an additional 47,000 words of advice in Intelligence Briefings on the few remaining subjects, for free.

Now a few critics who have been unable to contribute anything but faultfinding, and who have never heard a single lecture, are complaining and name-calling because I am not devoting even more of my own time and funds to place all the lectures in their hands, and those of everyone else in the world, for free.

Therefore, they have concluded that I am, "...a total and complete fraud." Pardon me, but I fail to see the logic, and am curious about just what meaningful contribution any one of them has originated and effected for the betterment of mankind lately.

I will, however, suggest one for them, and I will even meet them much more than half way: I'll give them an unprecedented 75 percent discount off the full published price of "The Mega Genius Lectures," in quantities of 10 or more, if they will then give them away to other people at no charge. They have written of their own charitable beliefs and of what they, themselves, sincerely would do if they could. Now we can know them...not by their words, but by their actions.

Incidentally, people always appreciate the value of something more if they have paid something for it. That's why items that you lend for free to others seldom come back in the same condition, if they come back at all.

Third, I'm not going to defend the Mega Genius Lectures, other than to tell you this: Since they were first made available in 2001, no one who has heard them--from any country--has ever expressed either to me or to customer service a single thought of dissatisfaction or regret. Every communication has been extremely positive and appreciative. True wisdom is a bargain at any price.

The lectures speak unequivocally for themselves.

Critics can deride me for my appearance, age, hobbies, or whatever they choose. That's nit-picking. The essence of their arguments is that the lectures can not possibly work. Those who have heard them vigorously insist that they do. If the critics wish to pick an argument, they can do so with the satisfied customers.

Now let's look at a different aspect of this matter of the forum. Not one of the critics had ever heard a single lecture. From their critiques, apparently only a few of them had even read one free Intelligence Briefing. Only one or two other critics seemed to have looked at any other parts of the Web site, at all. Yet much of their antagonism and condemnation was about me, personally.

You see, without listening to any of the lectures to find out what they really are, the only target that they have is me.

What they know of me, my life, my intentions, and the lectures is minuscule. Open-mindedness is the seed of understanding. Yet, they did not give me the benefit of any doubt. They were so sure.

Narrow-mindedness is the hallmark of ignorance. Yet they did not examine the matter with rational thoroughness. Instead, they promptly cranked up their high chairs and complained, reproached, blamed, and called me names, interspersed with obscenities...day after day.

Where is the justice?

One respondent even threatened me, suggesting that I should be shot. (If his aim is as defective as his logic, here I am.)

Prejudice: An opinion or leaning adverse to anything before sufficient knowledge. (Not a trait reflective of intelligence.)

Civil: Adequate in courtesy and politeness. (From the Latin "civilis," meaning kind or courteous.)

Civility: Courtesy, politeness.

Civilization: Refinement of thought, manners and taste.

Repeatedly, respondents supported their opinions with disinformation and false claims about what is actually on the Mega Genius Web site, with many facts twisted ever so slightly, but just enough to always imply something sinister and make a attractive butterfly appear to be a repulsive caterpillar.

One of those who crossed the line of common decency even deliberately, maliciously and libelously fabricated a defamatory statement that he alleged that I had said, and then published it as a quotation from me...a position that he is unprepared to defend in a court of law. (Sometimes lawyers come in handy.)

You see, no one has the unethical right to hold another living person up to ridicule by "defamation of character": In this case, by knowingly and falsely quoting me in writing as having said something that is injurious to my reputation.

Because society has decided that committing such an act is so uncivil, hurtful, and mean spirited, courts take the extra step of issuing judgments for punitive damages (intended to dissuade the person from ever committing such an act again) along with actual damages.

And he was not the only one who crossed the line of the law.

Besides not defending "The Mega Genius Lectures," I have no intention of defending myself in this Intelligence Briefing, either. It would be easy, but isn't worth my time and isn't necessary.

In the end, true justice will prevail. (Keep that thought in mind.)

Anyhow, most of the critics' allegations were so humorously irrational and rampant with assumptions that they were anything but threatening. The respondents obviously considered me to be a threat, though. One never wastes his time attacking someone or something that is not.

The point is that the surest way in the world to attract unjustified, uncivil, and prejudiced potshots from snipers in the shadows is to stand up in the light and do something well-intentioned and particularly beneficial for mankind. Then you will immediately attract criticism, like tsetse flies swarm to a cow.

The reason is intriguing. First I'll explain it and then show how it applies to the critics.

The inhabitants of this planet fall into three categories: let's call them groups "A," "B," and "C."

Individuals in group "A" constitute only about two percent of the population, but have a very specific and severe defect in one area of their intellect and, consequently, covertly have intensely bad intentions. May God help you if you have one as a relative. Satan could take a lesson.

Here are your murderers, rapists, most kidnappers and child molesters, and terrorists. Sometimes they look like Charles Manson with his swastika cut into his forehead, but, since the defect is in only one area of their intellect, they usually look and act no different from your next-door neighbor.

They are extremely tricky for someone uneducated in the subject to recognize. I could tell you all the details of how to do it, but it can get quite technical and that would be another Intelligence Briefing. You should intelligently identify them from the viciousness of their secret acts against others, whenever they are revealed.

Unless they are arrested for their crimes, group "A" members often appear to cope fairly well with life. It is those all around them who have the trouble.

They were born that way and do not change. Only when one of them is permitted to rise to a position of power does he drop his guard and reveal his evil intentions. Then the world finally begins to recognize another Hitler, Stalin, Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein. The well-intentioned person who ever turns his back to one of them should quickly dodge the dagger.

Most of these criminals are in prison though, aren't they? Not on your life!

A much smaller percentage is ever caught than law enforcement officials would want you to believe. And when they are apprehended, juries have to be persuaded to convict them. And then the prison doors revolve, and the criminal is often released, as happened repeatedly to Charles Manson in his early years.

In fact, there are millions of potential Charles Mansons on the loose today. They just don't look like him (Manson didn't cut the swastika into his forehead until after he was captured), and most have not committed the despicable crimes of which they are quite capable...yet.

Incidentally, you would be absolutely horrified to discover the intentions that Manson and his family members had when they were captured, in 1969. I would tell you the obscene and ghastly details of their plans, to make a grizzly point, but few people would ever finish this editorial.

Society would be stunned if it only knew how much better everything on this planet would function if just the two percent that comprise group "A" were accurately identified, and effectively and permanently confined, away from the rest of us. You can not imagine how much better life on this planet would be, for everyone.

Now let's look at Group "B," which constitutes about twenty percent of the population. They, too, have a very specific and serious defect in their intellect, but they act much less barbarously. Their defect is less confined to a specific area of their intellect and is essentially temporary. Although they frequently have bad intentions, they are much less severe than those of group "A," Usually their hidden intentions are also easier to discover.

Its members include white-collar criminals; fraudulent welfare and disability payment recipients; all scam artists; pimps; burglars; robbers; shoplifters; and habitual liars, for example.

Group "B" also includes less hard-core troublemakers, such as school bullies; vandals, drunks who pick fights; intoxicated drivers; those who commit spousal abuse; rumormongers; prostitutes; the suicide prone; reporters who relish violence, conflict and tragedies; those unfaithful to their marriage vows; and even many who are frequently ill.

You should intelligently identify them by either the trouble that they are in, or the trouble in their vicinity, however, they never commit the savage crimes of group "A."

Members of group "B" were not born that way. They are essentially normal people who have slid into clearly unethical behavior for either a brief or extended time. But they are nothing worse than that and should never be confused with members of group "A." There is a world of difference.

In brief, group "A" is actually and covertly at the source of the world's troubles. It's not plants, and salmon cakes, and wolverines that cause all the strife. It's a relatively small, but specific, class of extremely harmful-acting human beings. Through association with them, group "B" members accidentally become troublesome, and then, consequently, can cause extensive and pervasive trouble for others, knowingly or unknowingly.

Again, members of group "B" frequently change, often after they were a member of that group for only a short while. They are good people, who fall into group "B" and become temporarily troublesome. Almost all good people have slid briefly into this group themselves a few times in their lives, but, intriguingly, it only happened while they were associating closely with a member of group "A." In most cases, they just never knew that they were.

While a person is a member of group "B," he or she is usually confused or otherwise mentally distressed; or, continually depressed; or, frequently ill; or, dependent upon alcohol or heavy drugs; or, hostile and bitter; or, quite fearful; or, apathetic.

Life is frequently going wrong and the person doesn't understand why. It's as if bad luck is in the stars. As one group "B" member, who was also highly respected in a community, said to me years ago, "Nothing ever works out right." Then a few months later she committed suicide.

Many, but certainly not all, members of group "B" revolve through mental institutions, drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs, police stations and prisons. Many also revolve through psychiatrists' and psychologists' offices and are often "treated" with heavy psychiatric drugs to lower their awareness of their "demons" and to permit them to appear functional in society.

In an undrugged state, they see the cup as half empty and their luck as bad. They frequently dwell on negativity. Meanwhile, they secretly detest the benign and creative ideas and success of others.

You see, if others originated meaningful and workable ideas, and they didn't, they believe that would make the others more right in relation to them, and would, therefore, make themselves seem wrong. So, with insufficient knowledge about matters, they instinctively and promptly attack any progressive and innovative ideas and, particularly, the originators of them.

These are the relatives, friends, coworkers and acquaintances who will work together with you daily on an amiable basis, but then nonchalantly, and always with "your 'very best' interests at heart," attempt to invalidate your objectives and steer you from success. In other words, they shrewdly try to bring you down to their level.

If possible, they will "unintentionally" ruin your goals. Those naive enough to take such ill-intentioned people seriously will soon find themselves standing alongside them, with slumped shoulders, in a field of shattered dreams.

Any ambitious person who gets caught up with the prattle of Group "B" is on the road to failure. Separate yourself from them and their negativity. One can never reach the stars while he is still standing in the mud.

Celebrities are continually attacked by the news media for even their most minute flaws. False information about them is continually published. Hate mail is directed at them, daily. The primary source of their trouble is group "A" and, consequently, the secondary source is group "B."

Celebrities new to the limelight are often shocked and hurt by this bizarre behavior. Without an understanding of the matter, they are prone to also become group "B" members and, consequently, victims themselves of illness, accidents, depression, drug addiction, alcoholism and suicide. Consequently, their careers are often cut short.

Seasoned celebrities, however, seldom give such antagonism and hostility a second thought. Instead, they have intelligently learned to continue to do what they do best, for the benefit and enjoyment of the remaining 78 percent of the public.

Those in group "B" thrive on the discontent, disillusionment and failure of others. They can not be reasoned with. It is much more than that they have their minds made up. For them, while they are stuck in group "B," it is their way of life.

For example, for more than fifteen hundred years, Galen, the Greek philosopher and writer, was the unchallenged authority in his claim that the blood moved throughout the human body by a pulsing action of the arteries. It was not true, but the "educated" instinctively accepted it as a scientifically irrefutable fact. They would also have jeered at anyone who didn't agree with what everybody knew.

When William Harvey challenged that fact and disproved it, in 1628, Europe was enlightened. But most of those who were in groups "A" and "B" at the time were outraged at Harvey's momentous discovery, and staunchly refused to believe that the heart pumped the blood, no matter what. To them, even the proof meant nothing.

Finally, when the proof became incontrovertible, often they repeated the popular conviction, "I would rather be wrong with Galen than be right with Harvey."

Don't try to reason with the 22 percent who comprise groups "A" and "B." Picking at your toenails would be time better spent. What the members of group "B" really need is to be isolated from anyone in group "A," and to be disciplined to ethically get their act together.

Occasionally someone will criticize you endlessly, often behind your back. Usually they are a member of either group "A" or "B." There is a secret reason that they are doing that.

He has committed some unjustifiable and harmful act against you that he suspects you don't know about. Then he will continually complain about you to others to attempt to justify the act. His reasoning is that if he can make enough other people agree that you are bad enough, then he can consider that his harmful act against you was actually justified.

Of course, as soon as he makes you seem bad enough, he feels justified in committing more harmful acts against a person as bad as you. And, believe me, he does. Repetitive, insignificant griping about you, either to your face or to others, means that you need to find out what harmful thing he has done, that you still don't know about.

You'll know when you've discovered it. It wasn't that he forgot to feed the cat that day, which you had found out about. It's that he was really the one who strangled the dog that night.

The most intelligent and effective solution to handle anyone who criticizes you continually is to have them, and their secret evil deeds, thoroughly investigated. You can do it yourself, or you can even hire a private investigator. You would be surprised at the hidden evil acts a competent P.I. could uncover about them.

If you live a normal life, you will only occasionally be subjected to such continual criticism. And since much of it will be done covertly, often you won't even know about it, much less realize who is doing it.

If, however, you write a particularly successful book, make a name for yourself, or otherwise stand up and offer some meaningful and workable help to your fellow man, many of those in groups "A" and "B" will overtly and promptly lock and load, and place you in their cross hairs, regardless of your honest and benign intentions.

Where is the justice? Just wait; it's coming.

Watch out for group "A," but expect and disregard group "B's" foolish catcalls and potshots. Their guns report, but they fire blanks. Only then can you do your best for the other 78 percent, who are worth it.

Don't get paranoid about all this. Just learn to identify those two groups, don't associate at all with members of group "A," ignore group "B," and, if you must associate with group "B," keep a very close eye on them. And if you do that well enough, your life will automatically shift into a higher and far more rewarding gear.

Now let's look at group "C." Those individuals constitute that remaining 78 percent of the population, who have good intentions, are productive, conscientiously follow the laws of the land, enjoy good news when they can find it, pass it on, and sincerely wish you success. Most of them work truly hard to make all things go right, to the best of their abilities.

So, in brief, here is what we have. Group "A" is composed of extreme parasites on society, who secretly work endlessly and criminally to make things go wrong. Group "B" is composed of their temporary, involuntary and unwitting cohorts. That is the reason for much of the misery on this planet, and much of the stress and misfortune that is sure to pass by your doorstep, from time to time.

When it does, just notice who is lurking by your doorway and snatch in the welcome mat. Then you will never end up desperately searching for some self-help book called "Why Your Life Sucks and How to Unsuck it."

Now back to the critics. The good-hearted man from north Easton, Massachusetts, finally pointed out to his "friends" in the forum that he had already bought "The Genius Formula Series" of "The Mega Genius Lectures," which he had found to be "very enlightening."

Suddenly, all their criticism of both the lectures and me died abruptly...followed by only an apologetic, two-sentence whimper.

There had been much smoke (so that the many other forum readers could not see what the critics were really doing) and plenty of lightning (in an attempt to intimidate them and the man from Massachusetts, and invalidate me), and then, suddenly, only a stone-cold ember.

The simple truth was that all the criticism had been merely prejudicial opinions, uncivilly expressed, and not worth a liver spot on a warthog.

As they had squinted and peered down their long pointy noses at their keyboards, from within their imaginary ivory towers, all the critics had missed the most obvious and elementary factor, entirely: Just as the heart pumps the blood, "The Mega Genius Lectures" work.

Now here is the delectable Chantilly Cream on the Peach Kuchen. The Massachusetts man had already stated in his initial message to the group that he had previously bought and listened to "The Genius Formula Series" of lectures, and had added at that time that he couldn't wait to get the "Uncommon Sense Series" and "Whole Truth Series" of Mega Genius Lectures.

Behold! The critics had missed that, utterly.

They had seen that he had written, "His [Mega Genius'] answers to my questions were astonishing..." And they had seen his suggestion that they should, "...at the very least, try the first series of [CDs]." But they had entirely missed one sentence: "I did and can't wait to get the others."

In fact, he had already urged them to pursue the matter one time even before all this. This was his second attempt, although he had never received a dime from me. He had, however, received the wisdom from the first series of lectures.

So, after the critics had all assumed that they had read everything that was important in his brief suggestion, and had assumed that he had not yet heard any lectures, and had assumed that the lectures could not possibly work, and had assumed that they had understood everything worth understanding, they concluded that I had to be a fraud.

So, out poked their horns and they abruptly reacted like emotionally deluded bulls charging an imaginary crimson cape.

I feel sorry for the gentleman from Massachusetts, who was merely benignly verifying for them that "The Genius Formula" works.

Of course, what goes around comes around. As the most critical respondent subsequently wrote when he finally realized that the lectures worked for the man from Massachusetts, and the dim bulb above his head finally illuminated: "Ouch, what a burn."

Claiming authoritatively that it is scientifically and aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly doesn't happen to prevent it from occurring. Buzz! And those who are too smug to even entertain the possibility can even get badly stung.

Always remember this pearl of wisdom, that none of the critics knew: Neither anger, nor antagonism, nor hostility ever mixes with intelligent perception.

Now also understand that none of the critics are of group "A." They are all of group "B" (which gives one some vague idea of what group "A" is like).

Nevertheless, the critics are all basically good people, at least fairly well educated, scientifically oriented, and with higher than normal intelligence in some facets of their existence. Yet they have temporarily become unethically intentioned and, accordingly, jumped to numerous assumptions, without ever seeing what was right before their eyes.

That's what happens to those who fall into group "B." They are sure that they are seeing everything accurately, but their perception is diminished more than they would ever imagine.

In fact, there was no difference whatsoever between the critics' reasoning and that of those who erred with Galen, and the many "authorities" who later alleged that Thomas Edison was merely "a blue ribbon crackpot."

Times change, but the pitfalls of illogic do not. And one of the essential components of logic is that you must not have an opinion or leaning adverse to anything before sufficient knowledge (prejudice).

And, the critics have forgotten their manners that their mothers taught them.

Still, they did nothing worse than that, except for libeling me and leaping to the conclusion that I should be shot. Regardless, as one who understands why they did what they did, I sincerely offer every one of them my best wishes, from the bottom of my heart.

In the extensive process of offering honest, revolutionary, and workable help to those who have the abilities to see it for what it is, and to reach, I can not afford the luxury of reacting to the critics' assault by carelessly condemning, threatening, and libeling them, in turn...which would not reflect superior intelligence.

Except in the most superficial and momentary manner, I will never again address the subject of critics. My response is this Intelligence Briefing, and any and all critics should be directed to it. I have an extremely meaningful job to do for the other 78 percent, whose cups are not half empty, but half full.

Lastly, why do those in the 22 percent that comprise groups "A" and "B" so readily misperceive, then misunderstand, then misconclude, and then misjudge?

The only thing that they lack is sufficient truth. Its absence in their lives is their Achilles' heel. Unfortunately, however, that in itself is a tidbit of truth that they are too blinded by their own arrogance to see. They are certain they already know the truth.

The blind man who thinks he can see will see many imaginary things.

Consequently, they gradually and unwittingly condemn themselves to what seems to them to be a world replete with disillusionment, unfairness and injustice, Or, as one respondent in the forum described it in his criticisms of me, a world with "enough greedy, self-centered, inhumanity." Yet if they really saw enough truth, everything would look so much better and remediable.

This Intelligence Briefing is not intended to silence the critics. Those on that particular forum have already "dropped the hot potato" that they were so sure was a small delectable carcass. Rather, because they are group "B" members, this editorial will re-entice them to complain, insult, claim non-specifically that it is still all sinister, and further expose their bad manners.

That is what group "B" members do. That is their modus operandi: pick at, find faults, complain, ridicule, and try to tear down what works.

This planet is not really as depressing as it appears to the 22 percent, despite the sorrow that the news media continuously report, and then dwell upon.

Remember, for the antagonistic 22 percent, the cup is invariably half empty. So, they bitterly and reactively strike out at even a helping hand--through merciless mockery, sarcasm, threat, and libel--at what is well-intentioned, and workable, and extremely beneficial to their fellow man...and even to themselves, if they only reached instead of struck.

Do you see the truth? They live in their own little depressing corner of hell, which they continuously create through their own deficient perceptions and careless assumptions...and then their gavel resounds.

And therein lies the true justice that prevails.

Mega Genius

24 June 2003

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