September 13, 2026

"Alongside his 'hypno-coaching' business, Curtis runs a series of spiritual retreats across America. For years he had dreamt of 'financial freedom' and used to touch wads of cash he kept in a bowl..."

"... in the hope that this would bring him wealth. Now he has an apartment in Tribeca, New York, on the street where he always wanted to live. And spends his summers on a superyacht. He has attained the reach and affluence he’d been trying to manifest for many years.This month he will publish The Book of Possibility, positioned somewhere between self-help, spirituality and what Curtis calls 'science.' 'Your inner vibrational world shapes your external reality,' is its message.... Curtis is a classic hunk, with cut biceps and a swoosh of grey hair. Before he answers a question, he likes to shut his eyes and press two fingers to his temple. "

From "Jim Curtis on life with Jennifer Aniston: 'I feel real partnership'/Hollywood’s favourite new self-help guru — and Jennifer Aniston’s boyfriend — tells Megan Agnew how he manifested his way to abundance" (London Times).

27 comments:

planetgeo said...

One thing I've noticed in life is that it's a lot easier to manifest your way to abundance if you just hang around people with a lot of money and not a lot of brainpower. The biceps and the swoosh of any kind of hair also helps in that milieu.

Dave Begley said...

He manifested his way to abundance by getting into Jennifer Anniston’s pants!

Iman said...

“There’s a sucker born every minute…”

Temujin said...

Someone should introduce him to Gwyneth Paltrow. I think they'd have a lot in common. He sounds like a cheap version of Tony Robbins. Wherever Tony Robbins sits in your universe, this guy is below that.
Hypno-coaching? Hilarious.

Ann Althouse said...

He can't help it if women want to give him money.

Peachy+2 said...

Run Jennifer... run.

ChrisC said...

Comment of the week, Dave.

Dave Begley said...
He manifested his way to abundance by getting into Jennifer Anniston’s pants!

PrimoStL said...

Self-absorption - The couple.

JAORE said...

Iman has it almost right. But in today's interconnected world it every "second". Or quicker.

Willie Sutton would ignore banks and focus on Hollywood today.

Jamie said...

I know you can catch a still frame of anyone that will send an untrue message, but WOW, does that still of him make me think Alistair Crowley!

Probably not helped along by my recent podcast history of exploration of New Thought and New Age. Where is Crack when I need him?

Lazarus said...

Psycho cybernetics, EST, neurolinguistic programming. We were already machines trying to program and reprogram ourselves back in the 1970s.

Lazarus said...

I remember when the supermarket magazines had Jennifer Aniston on the cover every week and a story about who she was dating, and men all over America were terrified that they might be drafted to be her next boyfriend. Is she still big news in the supermarket press? Did she change, or did the magazines go out of business?

Lazarus said...

Sooner or later "hypno-coaches" usually get #MeToo'ed.

Dave Begley said...

ChrisC

It’s only Sunday! I”m here all week.

Joe Bar said...

Whoa. That dude looks like Creepy McCreepyface.

PrimoStL said...

This guy screams Nexium cult. He and Jennifer are probably torturing Allison Mack in their basement.

Michael McNeil said...

That's very amusing, presenting a magical monetary philosophy similar to views held by the American Indians of California's far northwest—the Yurok, Karok, Hupa and others—who unlike most Native Americans knew, understood, and dealt in private ownership, even of land, big-time.

Famed anthropologist A. L. Kroeber (father of sci-fi author Ursula K[rober] LeGuin) put it thusly, in his monumental ethnography, Handbook of the Indians of California [1925] (still in print!): {quoting…}

Much the same holds of wealth. Money is prized and establishes influence everywhere in California. It certainly counts for more in private and public life among the average Californian people than among the tribes of the plains or the settled and unsettled tribes of the southwestern United States. But whatever its influence in southern or middle California, that influence is multiplied among the Yurok.

Blood money, bride purchase, compensation to the year's mourners before a dance can be held, are institutions known to almost every group described in the present work. The northwesterners alone have measured the precise value of every man's life or wife or grief. Every injury, each privilege or wrong or trespass, is calculated and compensated.

Without exactly adjusted payment, cessation of a feud is impossible except through utter extirpation of one party, marriage is not marriage but a public disgrace for generations, the ceremony necessary to the preservation of the order of the world is not held. The consequence is that the Yurok concerns his life above all else with property. When he has leisure, he thinks of money; if in need, he calls upon it. He schemes constantly for opportunity to lodge a claim or to evade an obligation. No resource is too mean or devious for him to essay in this pursuit. {…}

The persistence with which the Yurok desire wealth is extraordinary. They are firmly convinced that persistent thinking of money will bring it. Particularly is this believed to be true while one is engaged in any sweat-house occupation. As a man climbs the hill to gather sweat-house wood—always a meritorious practice, in the sense that it tends to bring about fulfillment of wishes—he puts his mind on dentalia [i.e., Indian money]. He makes himself see them along the trail, or hanging from fir trees eating the leaves. When he sees a tree that is particularly full of these visioned dentalia, he climbs it to cut its branches just below the top.

In the sweat house he looks until he sees more money shells, perhaps peering in at him through the door. When he goes down to the river he stares into it, and at last may discern a shell as large as a salmon, with gills working like those of a fish. Young men were recommended to undergo these practices for 10 days at a time, meanwhile fasting and exerting themselves with the utmost vigor, and not allowing their minds to be diverted by communication with other people, particularly women. They would then become rich in old age.

Direct willing, demanding, or asking of this sort are a large element in all the magic of the Yurok, whatever its purpose. Saying a thing with sufficient intensity and frequency was a means toward bringing it about. They state that at night, or when he was alone, a man often kept calling, “I want to be rich,” or “I wish dentalia,” perhaps weeping at the same time. The appeal seems to have been general, not to particular or named spirits.

Magic is therefore at least as accurate a designation of the practice as prayer. How far the desires were spoken aloud is somewhat uncertain, the usual native words for “saying” and “thinking” something being the same; but it is very probable that the seeker uttered his words at least to himself. The practical efficacy of the custom is unquestionable. The man who constantly forced his mind and will into a state of concentration on money would be likely to allow no opportunity for acquisition to slip past him, no matter how indirect or subtle the opening.

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john mosby said...

Sensitive New Age Guy = Sociopathic Woman-Abuser. She will one day be going around the talk shows describing how he turned her into a constantly frightened codependent. CC, JSM

Josephbleau said...

“ 'Your inner vibrational world shapes your external reality,' is its message....”

That was my long ago schizophrenic ex wife’s problem. For same people reality shapes their inner world.

William said...

I didn't read the article, and, in any event, it sounds like the kind of relationship whose real nature will only be revealed years later.......A lot of women, even very successful women, fall into pimp/ho relationships. Mostly singers though, comediennes tend to have mistress/worm relationships with their partners. Anything you read now has been carefully vetted by their pr people.......

Clark said...

I knew her mom. I met her once when she was a high school kid on her way out the door for an evening in Manhattan. I have a soft spot for her. She occasionally appears in my dreams. Ordinary dreams; nothing strange or creepy. I always enjoy encountering her there.

Levi Starks said...

If you’re manifesting yourself into abundance are you not also manifesting some other poor wretch into poverty?

Howard said...

I like the idea of manifesting once destiny. 54°40' or fight

mccullough said...

Crack is right about those who adhere to New Age bullshit.

Aggie said...

Well. I think she deserves better than this bullsh*t artist, that's for sure. Good old Hollywood.

Jeff said...

While she is still pretty attractive, Aniston at 57 is 7 years older than Curtis. If he's really as wealthy as he pretends, he could do a lot better. Probably in it for the bragging rights.

JAORE said...

I recognize she is a very attractive woman, certainly fit. I also think she's a serviceable actress.
Not once have I paused and thought, "Wow, she is really smart".
This did not move that needle.

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