The Mystery Method course handout
Sure, there is Ovid, the Roman poet who wrote The Art of Love; Don Juan, the
mythical womanizer based on the exploits of various Spanish noblemen;
the Duke de Lauzun, the legendary French rake who died on the guillotine;
and Casanova, who detailed his hundred-plus conquests in four thousand
pages of memoirs. But the undisputed father of modern seduction is Ross
Jeffries, a tall, skinny, porous-faced self-proclaimed nerd from Marina Del
Rey, California. Guru, cult leader, and social gadfly, he commands an army
sixty thousand horny men strong, including top government officials, in-
telligence officers, and cryptographers.
His weapon is his voice. After years of studying everyone from master
hypnotists to Hawaiian Kahunas, he claims to have found the technology—
and make no mistake about it, that's what it is—that will turn any responsive
woman into a libidinous puddle. Jeffries, who claims to be the inspiration
for Tom Cruise's character in Magnolia, calls it Speed Seduction.
Jeffries developed Speed Seduction in 1988, after ending a five-year
streak of sexlessness with the help of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP),
a controversial fusion of hypnosis and psychology that emerged from the
personal development boom of the 1970s and led to the rise of self-help gu-
rus like Anthony Robbins. The fundamental precept of NLP is that one's
thoughts, feelings, and behavior—and the thoughts, feelings, and behavior
of others—can be manipulated through words, suggestions, and physical
gestures designed to influence the subconscious. The potential of NLP to
revolutionize the art of seduction was obvious to Jeffries.
Over the years, Jeffries has either outlasted, sued, or crushed any com-
petitor in the field of pickup to make his school, Speed Seduction, the dom-
inant model for getting a woman's lips to touch a man's—that is, until
Mystery came along and started teaching workshops.
Thus, the clamor online for an eyewitness account of Mystery's first
workshop was overwhelming. Mystery's admirers wanted to know if the class
was worthwhile; his enemies, particularly Jeffries and his disciples, wanted to
tear him apart. So I obliged, posting a detailed description of my experiences.
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At the end of my review, I issued a call for wings in Los Angeles, asking
only that they be somewhat confident, intelligent, and socially comfortable.
I knew that in order to become a pickup artist myself, I would somehow
have to internalize everything I had seen Mystery do. This would happen
only through practice—through hitting the bars and clubs every night until
I became a natural like Dustin, or even an unnatural like Mystery.
The day my report on the workshop hit the Internet, I received an
e-mail from someone in Encino nicknamed Grimble, who identified him-
self as a Ross Jeffries student. He wanted to "sarge" with me, as he put it.
Sarging is pickup artist jargon for going out to meet women; the term evi-
dently has its origin in the name of one of Ross Jeffries's cats, Sargy.
An hour after I sent him my phone number, Grimble called. More than
Mystery, it was Grimble who would initiate me into what could only be de-
scribed as a secret society.
"Hey, man," he said, in a conspiratorial hiss. "So what do you think of
Mystery's game?"
I gave him my assessment.
"Wow, I like it," he said. "But you have to hang out with Twotimer and
me some time. We've been sarging with Ross Jeffries a lot."
"Really? I'd love to meet him."
"Listen. Can you keep a secret?"
"Sure."
"How much technology do you use in your sarges?"
"Technology?"
"You know, how much is technique and how much is just talking?"
"I guess fifty-fifty," I said.
"I'm up to 90 percent."
"What?"
"Yeah, I use a canned opener, then I elicit her values and find out her
trance words. And then I go into one of the secret patterns. Do you know
the October Man sequence?"
"Never heard of it, unless Arnold Schwarzenegger was in it."
"Oh, man. I had a girl over here last week, and I gave her a whole new
identity. I did a sexual value elicitation, and then changed her whole time-
line and internal reality. Then I brushed my finger along her face, telling her
to notice"—and here he switched to a slow, hypnotic voice—"how wherever I
touch ... it leaves a trail of energy moving through you ... and wherever
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you can feel this energy spreading ... the deeper you want to allow your-
self. .. to feel these sensations ... becoming even more ... intense."
"And then what?"
"I brushed my finger along her lips, and she started sucking it," he ex-
claimed triumphantly. "Full-close!"
"Wow," I said.
I had no idea what he was talking about. But I wanted this technology.
I thought back to all the times I'd taken women to my house, sat on the bed
next to them, leaned in for the kiss, and been deflected with the "let's just be
friends" speech. In fact, this rejection is such a universal experience that
Ross Jeffries invented not just an acronym for it, LJBF, but a litany of re-
sponses as well.
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I talked to Grimble for two hours. He seemed to know everybody—
from legends like Steve P., who supposedly had a cult of women paying cash
for the privilege of sexually servicing him, to guys like Rick H., Ross's most
famous student, thanks to an incident that involved him, a hot tub, and five
women.
Grimble would make a perfect wing.
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One such response from Jeffries is, "I don't promise any such thing. Friends don't put each
other into boxes like that. The only thing I'll promise is never to do anything unless you and I
both feel totally comfortable, willing, and ready."
I drove to Grimble's house in Encino the following night to go sarging. This
would be my first time in the field since Mystery's workshop. It would also
be my first time hanging out one-on-one with a stranger I'd met online. All
I really knew about him was that he was a college student and he liked girls.
When I pulled up, Grimble strode outside and flashed a big smile that I
didn't quite trust. He didn't seem dangerous or mean. He just seemed slip-
pery, like a politician or a salesman or, I suppose, a seducer. He had the
complexion of barley tea, though he was actually German. In fact, he
claimed to be a descendent of Otto von Bismarck. He wore a brown leather
jacket over a silver floral-print shirt, which was unbuttoned to reveal an
eerily hairless chest thrust out further than his nose. In his hands was a
plastic bag full of videotapes, which he dumped into the back of my car. He
reminded me of a mongoose.
"These are some of Ross's seminars," he said. "You'll really like the DC
seminar, because he gets into synesthesia there. The other tapes are from
Kim and Tom"—Ross's ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. "It's their New
York seminar, Advanced Anchoring and Other Sneaky Stuff"
"What's anchoring?" I asked.
"My wing Twotimer will show you when you meet him. Ever experi-
enced condiment anchoring before?"
I had so much to learn. Men generally don't communicate to one air
other with the same level of emotional depth and intimate detail as most
women. Women discuss everything. When a man sees his friends after get-
ting laid, they ask, "How'd it go?" And in return, he gives them either a
thumbs up or a thumbs down. That's how it's done. To discuss the experi-
ence in detail would mean giving your friends mental images they don't re-
ally want to have. It is a taboo among men to picture their best friends
naked or having sex, because then they might find themselves aroused—and
we all know what that means.
So, ever since I'd first started harboring lustful thoughts in sixth grade,
I'd assumed that sex was something that just happened to guys if they went
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out a lot and exposed themselves to chance—after all, that's why they called
it getting lucky. The only tool they had in their belt was persistence. Of
course, there were some men who were sexually comfortable around
women, who would tease them mercilessly until they had them eating out
of their hands. But that wasn't me. It took all of my courage to simply ask a
woman for the time or where Melrose Avenue was. I didn't know anything
about anchoring, eliciting values, rinding trance words, or these other
things Grimble kept talking about.
How did I ever get laid without all this technology?
It was a quiet Tuesday night in the Valley, and the only place Grimble
knew to go was the local T.G.I. Friday's. In the car, we warmed up—listening
to cassette tapes of sarges by Rick H., practicing openers, faking smiles, and
dancing in our seats to get energetic. It was one of the most ridiculous
things I'd ever done, but I was entering a new world now, with its own rules
of behavior.
We walked in the door of the restaurant—confident, smiling, alpha. Un-
fortunately, no one noticed. There were two guys at the bar watching a base-
ball game on television, a group of businesspeople at a corner table, and a
mostly male bar staff We strutted to the balcony. As we pushed the door
open, a woman appeared. Time to put what I'd learned to the test.
"Hey," I said to her. "Let me get your opinion on something."
She stopped and listened. She was about four foot ten, with short,
frizzy hair and a marshmallow body, but she had a nice smile; she would be
good practice. I decided to use the Maury Povich opener.
"My friend Grimble there just got a call today from the Maury Povich
show," I began. "And it seems they're doing a segment on secret admirers.
Evidently, someone has a little crush on him. Do you think he should go on
the show or not?"
"Sure," she answered. "Why not?"
"But what if his secret admirer is a man?" I asked. "Talk shows always
need to put an unexpected twist on everything. Or what if it's a relative?"
It's not lying; it's flirting.
She laughed. Perfect. "Would you do the show?" I asked.
"Probably not," she answered.
Suddenly, Grimble stepped in. "So you would make me go on the show,
but you wouldn't do it yourself," he teased her. "You're not adventurous at
all, are you?" It was great to watch him work. Where I would have let the
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conversation wane into small talk, he was already leading her somewhere
sexual.
"I am," she protested.
"Then prove it to me," he said, smiling. "Let's try a little exercise. It's
called synesthesia." He took a step closer to her. "Have you ever heard of
synesthesia? It will enable you to find all kinds of resources to accomplish
and feel the things you want in life."
Synesthesia is the nerve gas in the arsenal of the speed seducer. Liter-
ally, it is an overlapping of the senses. In the context of seduction, however,
synesthesia refers to a type of waking hypnosis in which a woman is put
into a heightened state of awareness and told to imagine pleasurable imp
ages and sensations growing in intensity. The goal: to make her uncontrol-
lably aroused.
She agreed and closed her eyes. I was finally going to get to hear one of
Ross's secret patterns. But as soon as Grimble began, a stocky, red-faced
jock wearing a pocket undershirt marched up to him.
"What are you doing?" he asked Grimble.
"I was showing her a self-improvement exercise called synesthesia."
"Well, that's my wife."
I had forgotten to check for a wedding ring, though I doubted minor
inconveniences like marriage mattered to Grimble.
"Go disarm the guy," Grimble turned to me and hissed, "while I work
on the girl."
I had no idea how to disarm him. He didn't seem quite as laid-back as
Scott Baio. "He can show you the exercise, too," I said wanly. "It's really
cool."
"I don't know what the fuck you're talking about," the guy said. "What
is this thing supposed to do to me?" He took a step closer and leaned his
face into mine. He smelled like whiskey and onion rings.
"It tells you whether... whether..." I stammered. "Never mind."
The guy lifted his hands and pushed me backward. Though I tell girls
I'm five feet and eight inches, I'm actually five foot six. The top of my head
just reached his shoulders.
"Stop it," his wife, our former sarge, said. She turned to us. "He's
drunk. He gets like this."
"Like what?" I asked. "Violent?"
She smiled sadly.
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"You seem like a great couple," I said. My attempt to disarm him had
clearly failed, because he was about to disarm me. His red drunken face was
two inches from mine and yelling about ripping something.
"Pleasure meeting you both," I squeaked, slowly backing away.
"Remind me," Grimble said as we retreated to the car, "to teach you
how to handle the AMOG."
"The AMOG?"
"Yes, the alpha male of the group."
Oh, I see.
Four days later, as I sat at home alone on a Saturday afternoon watching
the videos Grimble had given me, he called with good news. He and his
wing, Twotimer, were going to meet Ross Jeffries at California Pizza
Kitchen for an expedition to the Getty Museum, and I was invited.
I arrived fifteen minutes early, selected a booth, and read through
printouts of seduction board posts until Ross, Grimble, and Twotimer ar-
rived. Twotimer had black hair gelled to the texture of a licorice vine, a
matching leather jacket, and a snake-like quality. With his round, babyish
face, he looked like a Grimble clone who'd been inflated by a bicycle pump.
As I stood up to introduce myself, Ross cut me off. He was not the most
polite person I'd ever met. He wore a long wool overcoat, which flowed
loosely around his legs when he walked. He was thin and gawky with gray
stubble and greasy skin. His hairline was a receding mop of short, unkempt,
ash-colored curls, and the hook in his nose was so pronounced he could
have hung his overcoat on it.
"So what did you learn from Mystery?" Ross asked with a sneer.
"A lot," I told him.
"Like what?"
"Well, one of my sticking points was knowing when a girl was attracted
to me. Now I know."
"And how do you know?" he asked.
"When I get three indicators of interest."
"Name them."
"Let's see. When she asks you what your name is."
"That's one."
"When you take her hands in yours and squeeze them, and she
squeezes back."
"That's two."
"And, uh, I can't remember the rest right now."
"Aha." He leapt to his feet. "Then he's not a very good teacher, is he?"
"No, he was a great teacher," I protested.
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"Then name the third indicator of interest."
"I can't think of it right now." I felt like an animal backed into a corner.
"Case closed," he said. He was good.
A short waitress with blue nails, a touch of baby fat, and sandy brown
hair arrived to take our order. Ross looked at her, and then winked at me.
"These are my students," he told her. "I'm their guru."
"Really?" she asked, feigning interest.
"What would you say if I told you that I teach people how to use mind
control to attract any person they desire?"
"Get out of here."
"Yes, it's true. I could make you fall in love with any person at this
table."
"And how's that? With mind control?" She was skeptical, but bordering
on curious.
"Let me ask you something. When you're really attracted to somebody,
how do you know? In other words, what signals do you get from yourself,
inside, that allow you to realize"—and here he lowered his voice, slowly pro-
nouncing each word—"you're ... really... attracted... to ... this guy?"
The purpose of the question, I would find out later, was to make the
waitress feel the emotion of attraction in his presence, and thus associate
those feelings with his face.
She thought about it for a moment. "Well, I guess I get a funny feeling
in my stomach, like butterflies."
Ross put his hand, palm up, in front of his stomach. "Yes, and I bet that
the more attracted you become, the more those butterflies rise up from
your stomach"—he began slowly raising his hand to the level of his heart—
"until your face begins to flush ... like it is right now."
Twotimer leaned over and whispered: "That's anchoring. It's when you
associate a feeling—like attraction—with a touch or a gesture. Now, every
time Ross raises his hand like that, she gets attracted to him."
After a few more minutes of Ross's flirtatious hypnospeak, the wait-
ress's eyes began to glaze over. Ross seized the opportunity to toy with her
mercilessly. He raised his hands like an elevator from his stomach to his face
every few seconds, smiling as it made her blush every time. The dishes she
was carrying were forgotten, balancing precariously on her weakening arm.
"With your boyfriend," Ross continued, "were you attracted right
away?" He snapped, freeing her from her trance. "Or did it take time?"
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"Well, we broke up," she said. "But it took a while. We were friends
first."
"Isn't it so much better, though, when you just feel that sense of
attraction"—he moved his hand up like an elevator and her eyes began to
glaze again—"right away for someone." He pointed to himself, which I as-
sumed was another NLP trick to make her think he was that someone. "It's
incredible, isn't it?"
"Yes," she agreed, completely oblivious to her other tables.
"What was wrong with your boyfriend?"
"He was too immature."
Ross seized the opportunity. "Well, you should date more mature men."
"I was just thinking that, about you, as we were talking." She giggled.
"I bet that when you first came to the table, I was the last person you
thought you'd be attracted to."
"It's strange," she said, "because you're not my usual type."
Ross suggested they get together for coffee when she wasn't working,
and she jumped at the opportunity to give him her phone number. His tech-
nique was so different than Mystery's, but he seemed to be the real deal too.
Ross let out a loud, victorious laugh. "Well, your other customers are
probably getting angry. But before you go, I'll tell you what. Why don't we
take all those good feelings you're having right now"—raising his hands
again—"and put them into this pack of sugar"—he picked up a sugar pack
and rubbed his raised hand on it—"so that you can carry them around with
you all day."
He handed her the sugar pack. She put it in her apron and walked away,
still beet red.
"That," Twotimer hissed, "is condiment anchoring. After he's gone, the
sugar pack will remind her of the positive emotions she felt with him."
As we left the restaurant, Ross ran the exact same routine on the host-
ess and collected her number. Both women were in their twenties; Ross was
in his forties. I was floored.
We pressed into Ross's Saab and headed to the Getty. "Anything you
want from a woman—attraction, lust, fascination—is just an internal pro-
cess that she runs through her body and her brain," he explained as he
drove. "And all you need to evoke that process are questions that make her
go into her body and brain and actually experience it in order to answer
you. Then she will link those feelings of attraction to you."
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Sitting in the back seat with me, Twotimer scanned my face for a reac-
tion. "What do you think?" he asked.
"Amazing," I said.
"Evil," he corrected, letting a thin smile creep over his lips.
When we arrived at the Getty, Twotimer turned his attention to Ross. "I
wanted to ask you about the October Man sequence," he prodded. "I've
been switching around a few of the steps."
Ross turned to him. "You understand that these things are very bad?"
As he spoke, Ross wagged a finger at Twotimer's chest, over his heart. He
was anchoring again, trying to associate the notion of badness with the for-
bidden pattern. "There's a reason I don't teach them at my seminars."
"Why is that?" Twotimer asked.
"Because," Ross answered, "it's like giving dynamite to children."
Twotimer smiled again. I could tell exactly what he was thinking—
because, in my mind, the word evil was anchored to that smile.
"Darwin talked about survival of the fittest," Twotimer explained to
me as we walked through the museum's collection of pre-twentieth century
art. "In earlier times, this meant that the strong survived. But strength
doesn't help one get ahead in society today. Women breed with seducers,
who understand how to trigger, through words and touch, the fantasy
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