When I first came out with this stu

When I first came out with this stuff, I was savagely ridiculed," Ross
said. "I was called every name in the book and accused of the worst things. I
was really angry for a while. Very pissed off. But gradually the argument
went from 'Is this real?' to 'Should they be doing it?'"
And that is why every guru owes at least a pledge of allegiance to Ross
Jeffries. He laid the groundwork. It's also why every time new teachers pop
up, Ross tries to shoot them down; in a few cases, he has even threatened to
reveal a young competitor's online seduction activities to his parents or
school administration.
Worse than Mystery, in his mind, was a former Speed Seduction student
named David DeAngelo. Originally, DeAngelo called himself
Sisonpyh—hypnosis spelled backward—and worked his way into the
Speed Seduction hierarchy. But the two of them had a falling out when
Ross supposedly hypnotized a girlfriend of DeAngelo's into fooling
around with him.
According to Ross, DeAngelo had brought the girl to him to seduce. It
wasn't uncommon, he said, for students to bring him women as a sacrifice
of sorts. According to DeAngelo, Ross was in no way given permission to
touch the girl. Whatever the case, the result was that the two stopped
speaking and DeAngelo set up a rival business called Double Your Dating.
It was based not on NLP or any other form of hypnosis, but rather on evolutionary
psychology and DeAngelo's principle of cocky funny.
"You know, my cheapjack imitator David DeAnushole is having his
first seminar in L.A.," Ross said. "The guy is so fucking good-looking and
well-connected in the nightclub scene it just astounds me that people think
he could ever understand their situation and the difficulties they encounter
in dealing with women."
I made a mental note to sign up for the seminar.