In recent years, a kind of spiritual pyramid scheme with a hidden nature, a short cycle, and high profits has spread throughout the country. This type of MLM is often cloaked in legality, in the name of "self-improvement" and "spirituality", through some carefully set courses, psychological suggestion and other techniques, so that the students feel that their communication skills have been greatly improved, their souls have been sublimated, and the spiritual control of the students has been realized, and finally the "students" actively or passively help these trainees to "pull people's heads" and help the organizers to collect money.
What is a spiritual pyramid scheme.
It refers to the behavior of some illegal training institutions and information consulting companies that use psychological suggestion, hypnosis, etc. to control students under the banner of "spiritual training" and "leadership training".
The difference between it and MLM is that it no longer relies on traditional hierarchical rebates to drive sales, but through the best way, so that students can obtain great spiritual satisfaction, and take the development of students as the most important goal in life.
How to judge MLM and spiritual MLM.
To determine whether it is a pyramid scheme, it is necessary to see whether the following circumstances are met: the first is that you must pay or pay the entrance fee in disguise, that is, you can only get the qualification to calculate remuneration and develop your downline after paying the money. The second is to directly or indirectly develop the downline, that is, to "pull people to join", and form a hierarchy in a certain order. The third is that the upline calculates remuneration from the sales performance of the downline directly or indirectly developed, or calculates remuneration and rebates based on the number of personnel directly or indirectly developed.
There are many professional terms in spiritual MLM, and if you notice these words, then you need to be vigilant. For example: Beibu Gulf Investment, 1040 Project, Capital Operation, Private Mutual Wealth Management, Consumption Rebates, Franchising, Profit from Clicked Advertising, Consumption Pension, Overseas ** Original Stock Investment, Static Income, Dynamic Income, Direct Referral Award, Layer Push Award, Management Award, and Reporting Award.
The propaganda channels of spiritual MLM are also abundant. The offline courses of spiritual MLM are often relatively hidden, with high privacy and confidentiality, and are often disseminated through Moments, WeChat groups, ** accounts and online Himalayan broadcasts.
Course features of MLM.
One is to let people talk about their painful experiences and private things. Through chatting, people continue to talk about their own experiences, increase the emotional level of the victim, constantly immerse the victim in the pain of the past, and lay the foundation for the course of **.
The second is to keep shouting slogans during class, and through constant repetition, let these slogans enter the heart and mind, and achieve the spiritual way.
The third is to create "human trust" and "active students", where trainers will let their internal staff pretend to be students, actively ask questions in various communities, and how to provide magical feedback after listening to the class.
The dangers of spiritual pyramid schemes.
The first is to endanger the training of the spiritual pyramid scheme, which is carried out through well-designed courses, advocating extreme idealism and individualism, greatly undermining the current mainstream ideology and undermining the core values of socialism. In particular, some MLM organizations have overseas backgrounds, and once they are used by foreign hostile forces, it is easy to induce incidents, which will directly affect them
Second, it endangers social stability. This kind of spiritual training destroys people's psychological and social cognition, and can easily cause the victim to develop depression, anxiety, and other psychological problems, and even lead to mental illness in serious cases, and the behavior becomes extreme, which can easily cause family breakdown. Causing mental trauma that is difficult to **. What's more, in the name of physical and mental emancipation, they engage in mass fornication activities, which seriously violates social morality and causes social problems.
Third, it endangers economic development. The cost of this kind of training is often tens of thousands of yuan or even tens of thousands of yuan, and some institutions even require students to pull in the number of people, develop offline, and recruit students, presenting a situation of viral development, and a large amount of funds are invested in unknown accounts, which seriously endangers economic and social development.
Sunshine Direct Selling Company reminds everyone to consciously enhance their awareness of prevention and vigilance, and not to fall into the cage specially prepared by "spiritual pyramid schemes", no matter how good the disguise is, they can not hide the essence of deception, as long as they are not superstitious about the so-called authority and well-known, they can have a pair of discerning eyes to see the essence of pyramid schemes.