Extreme Celebrity Endorsement

 ‘Twould be too easy to bust on Scientology again and again for questionable celebrity endorsements.  So let’s give them a break today and talk about magic water.  At least I don’t think they spent a lot of time with magic water.

Hero of the skeptics and fraud debunkers, James Randi, exposed Popoff for the con man he was way back in 1986. 

https://wikisummaries.org/faith-healer-peter-popoff-is-exposed-as-a-fraud/

And not only did this not stop the idea of faith healing being quackery, Popoff is still chugging away.  People have short memories and remarkable ability to not do actual research when it comes to magic get rich (or healthy) schemes.  The initial debunked scheme was a hot reading technique, people volunteered written material regarding their ills, Popoff did his stand up routine where he claimed the voice of God was guiding him.  And God’s voice was actually his wife sending him radio messages.  Despite exposure, bankruptcy and what should have been a life of shame he simply repackaged and rebranded the con to Miracle Spring Water.  Which is still being sold now.  I’ve seen the commercials myself as recently as mid 2023, without searching for them on purpose.

Now these miracle spring water doses worked their miracles mostly on rural unscientific folk.  The miracle being separating themselves from more cash they couldn’t afford to lose.  Not exactly the breeding ground for a celebrity endorsement.  But the same as gematria where we had a phase when the grifting slowed down, others saw how easy it was and simply rebranded it.

And the end result of that was Kabbalah Spring Water.  Now Jews can join the Christians in magic water.  And somehow along the way, Madonna had gotten “into” Kabbalah.  So into it that —-

https://culteducation.com/group/1008-kabbalah-centre/11661-gulp-madonnas-10000-water-habit.html

she was admitting to spending $10,000 per MONTH on magic water with no magic.  There’s only so much attention to go around for the go to rich extravagances like the 4th mansion, second luxury yacht and exclusive golf club memberships.

The mere association of the words Kabbalah, Madonna and the phrases about magical spring water have already done their damage.  Instead of my cult education link a lot of the top hits are tabloid bs articles, hinting that although it’s kind of weird and pointless it’s OK for the rich and famous to part with their money as they see fit.  What’s not cool is the extra people, just by math, get that extra little psychological tickle that maybe they should try it out.  For about $60 for one bottle of not magical mineral water.