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The one great thing that makes David DeAngelo stand out is his ability to get other masters to speak at his seminars.

David DeAngelo might have a few insights of his own (which he observed in naturals), but he mostly seems to just read from other books.

Seriously...he stands on the stage and reads. And it sounds like someone reading.

He also has a habit of repeating every title and every heading, for example...

Sexual...Confidence. Sexual Confidence.

blah blah blah

Transition Vulnerability.... Transition...vulnerability.

blah blah blah

So, again, the value in the program is mainly from the inspiring and entertaining speakers who are not David DeAngelo. No offense to David, but he's not a naturally gifted speaker. His stance seems stiff and mechanical, his jokes are sometimes a bit funny, but memorized, and he reads the speech. Even when he's not reading his speech, it seems stilted.

He probably realizes this about himself, which is why he culls the guest speakers.

I think David DeAngelo was trying to synthesize all the little insights into an organic whole. I don't think he succeeded.

Oh, and here's something I really hate about this program.
The one reason you would want to invest in this is to transform yourself.
Aside from the book recommendations which are great books, (but you don't spend this much money to get someone's book recommendations), and aside from the guest speakers, and aside from DeAngelo just reading a bunch of text at you, there are EXERCISES.

David DeAngelo in this program had some "profoundly" life-altering exercises (as he put it). And I believe him. The problem is, he just rushed through all these exercises, basically reading right through them, pausing briefly (like, 1 or 2 seconds) for punctuation. I mean, seriously, here's David DeAngelo racing over the words, "inhale through your nose exhale through your mouth inhale through your nose exhale through your mouth, and imagine blowing tension out...powerful visual (by the way, I remember Ross Jeffries teaching this like ten years ago, and in the video of Jeffries' seminar you could see young David DeAngelo, lol). Exhale any ill feelings toward yourself or others. In your imagination, open up your heart and allow that to envelope everything and everyone around you." Then he finally pauses for 3 seconds. So basically, he didn't lead the exercise, he just read the exercise quickly, then suggested that if we do the exercise it will improve our life. By the way, I've read variations of that exercise from numerous, non PUA sources.

So I'm starting to think that I could charge a thousand dollars for a seminar.
There's gotta be enough suckers to invest in it.
Then, I'll just tell them about my favorite books, which ones changed my life, and I'll actually lead them through some exercises from Anthony de Mello's books.

So, overall, this isn't bad.
Even though I said all the above, the material is good (though second-hand knowledge).
There's a lot to digest, a lot of contradictory advice, and there's not much of a theme tying everything together (which is I guess to be expected from a program called "Mastery").

His Approaching DVD set has Mystery, Tyler Durden, Will, Craig and a couple other guys. It's a decent DVD set but it's 5 years old. It's not nearly as up to date as what you get with revelation currently and in my opinion not nearly as good. Again, the speakers don't display any kind of system or method (mystery discusses the M3 model but you don't need to buy the program for that as you can get it anywhere online for free), they basically give tips on things you can do or say to women. They're not bad tips but picture a new PUA student walking straight into a set, facing the group, speaking quickly, leaning in and reciting the tip they learned from the DVD. In the end they're going to get blown out because they're not doing the other important things properly. Granted DYD does have a body language program but why the heck buy 5 different DVD programs to get the info (and arguably worse, less organized info) than what you get with a single revelation book or DVD package. Bottom line: DYD will give you tips (ie don't face the group with your body), revelation will teach you WHY the tip works (ie value differential). I'd rather learn WHY something works then blindly memorizing a list of tips to pickup women. Just my honest opinion after seeing what both products have to offer.