After having spent a large amount of money on a two-day workshop, the only change that I experienced is that I have less money than before and wasted a whole weekend.
Vishen spends most of the time talking about himself, how rich he is an that his brain works much better than yours. He wants to reprogram your brain. Not even Donald Trump has such a big ego as Vishen. He seems to ask himself everyday "Why can't everybody be as great as I am?".
The scary thing is that not only he thinks that he is a kind of Messiah, most of his audience believes that too. I felt like I was in a kind of sect and that Vishen was a kind of guru who tried to brainwash the audience. It reminded me of reports of Scientology.
Vishen has the goal to teach 1 billion people until 2050 and that is something that should really scare us all.
I have a strong character and can't be brainwashed easily, but many people attend courses like that only because they are going through a difficult time in their lives. Those people are very vulnerable and very easy to influence. Vishen uses their situation and makes them buy more and more expensive courses without really helping them.
It's like selling beauty products to a very ugly person by promising that she can be a supermodel if you buy her products.
Even if you think that his advice may help you, you really should not spend and money of that. For your money you only get the same stuff again and again that is also available for free in his Youtube videos. Do you really want to pay money to someone just to hear how great he is?
I wonder if all the famous people he mentions all the time know that he uses their name to promote his way of thinking. It's pretty sure some of them would sue him if they knew.
He also often tells stories and afterwards says something like “I do not know if this story is true, but…” That really makes you wonder how much of what he tells you really is true. It is just immoral to take money from desperate people for telling them lies.
Vishen's goal is not to improve your life. He just wants your money. You should buy his courses and his books and - in case you are really successful one day - join his 'tribe' called “A-Fest”, which connects people with big egos like his.
In fact you - as a normal guy - are only interesting for him if you pay him money. Otherwise he would never even spend a minute with people who are not millionaires. He spends a lot of money every year on memberships in exclusive networking clubs, that would never allow people like me or YOU as a member. He make great efforts to be separated from normal people like you and me.
It is totally legit that people love to make money and become rich. I want to become rich, you want to become rich and Vishen also wants to become rich. The problem is that he tries to become rich by making false promises. It's like selling and expensive "wonder drug" to a cancer patient, although you know that it will not help him.
If any of your friends plan to order any of Mindvalley's courses, please warn them! There are a thousand ways to spend your money much better.
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend
