The Huffington Post is owned/run by Arianna Huffington, and she is a follower of John-Roger, Guru of MSIA, Movement_of_Spiritual_Inner_Awareness.
MSIA is basically the same as these other large new age religions, sects, cults...
HuffPo's Dangerous Quacks, Hacks and Cultists - Huffington Post
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So guys like Michael Beckwith get a totally free hand at Huff Post, so does "Dr. Alex Benzer".
It seems that Alex Benzer is actually Ali Binazir.
So there is no actual "Dr. Alex Benzer", that is a concocted name. Unless Ali Binazir legally changed his name. Did he?
Did Agape and Michael Beckwith or his PR reps hire and pay/barter/trade with Elite Communications LLC (aka Alex Benzer aka Ali Binazir), to write that PR piece about Beckwith? It seems very likely.
Worse, no person should EVER and that means NEVER, go into a "hypnotherapy" session with a so-called hypnotherapist who will not even tell you their real name! Who does not post their licensing information on their website, and who's "story" is so full of holes its pathetic.
Why?
Because if you go for hypnotherapy smoking/weight issues, when you are under hypnosis, they can put ALL SORTS OF JUNK IN YOUR MIND, and you will NEVER KNOW IT.
They can put Suggestions about you coming back for Life Coaching, Dating Coaching, and can do basically anything to you, and you'll never even know he did it. He can condition you to feel good about spending 10's of thousands of dollars on his coaching, for example.
These guys do that ALL THE TIME, they call it sales and persuasion.
In reality, its MIND-RAPE, akin to a criminal drugging someone and then date-raping them.
Except this kind of mind-rape is not illegal, so they have no problem doing it, and getting away with it.
These guys put you in a deep trance in minutes, and then rape your mind with their Suggestions that you don't even know about, are NOT aware of, and that you don't want.
Its that serious.
Please, anyone who reads this, NEVER EVER attend any kind of session whatsover, in person or on the phone, with any type of "hypnotherapist" who also is into "Persuasion", like this. You have no idea of what they will do to you, or what suggestions they can slip in. It happens too fast, and you may not even be conscious, and they may even do it symbolically, so you can't see it.
You can see it in this thread, some blowhard hypo-persuasion salesman, coming in ranting about their alleged degrees, and pointing fingers at others...and in minutes you find out they are using a fake name, and are weaving a complex web of deception right from the start. Truly pathetic and without a shred of personal decency or honesty.
Its all about "persuasion" to them, and they are used to dealing with the naive public who is totally ignorant.
They are not used to dealing with trained people who can see exactly what they are trying to do in seconds. When that happens, they freeze like deer in the headlights, and don't know what to do. They are busted red-handed.
WATCH OUT.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Stay far far away from Michael Beckwith, and those who are doing his shilling for him.
And Alex Benzer aka Ali Binazir the "hypnotherapist" gets the lowest possible rating one could give, lower than an F-, avoid at all costs.
And please stay away from any so-called hypnotherapist persuader who is going to screw around with your mind, unconscious and belief systems, without your awareness of what they are doing, or even that they did it.
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More alarming is the site's relationship with Russell Bishop, like Arianna Huffington a disciple of the culty Movement for Spiritual Inner Awareness and its worshipped leader John-Roger. Bishop co-founded the employee development firm Insight Seminars with John-Roger; Insight shares a "Spiritual Director," John Morton, with the religious group and at one point its headquarters was monitored by John-Roger via widespread listening devices, according to a Los Angeles Times exposé.
Arianna Huffington has forced her staff to attend Insight retreats, according to insiders.
She's also installed Bishop as HuffPo "Senior Editor at Large." Bishop's role, an insider tells us, is mainly to recruit bloggers to the Living section and shape its tone; it's this same Living section that contains the pseudo-medical articles Salon's doctor, and a great many science bloggers, complain about. This, perhaps, explains why the section has so many MSIA true believers.
Indeed, Huffington's relationship with MSIA — she is an ordained "Minister of Light" in the group and loads her iPod with guided MSIA meditations — might also give a clue as to why her website has such a heavy focus on alternative treatments.
According to Life 102, a memoir by disaffected ex MSIA member Peter McWilliams, John-Roger discouraged traditional medical treatments, often "healing" people with his own spiritual powers. After McWilliams got sick in Africa, apparently from parasites, the guru advised him to go to a self-described "nutritionist" rather than a real doctor. When he did visit a real doctor, John-Roger admonished him:
When I told J-R about my rapid healing thanks to Western medicine... he told me it was just "a coincidence" that I started getting better within twenty-four hours of taking the prescription. "The natural way was working, and you would have gotten better at exactly the same time because what cured you was the natural medication. The prescription drug just polluted your system, now I've got to work on taking all the toxicity of it out of your system."
Now, thanks to the Huffington Post, we can all question Western medicine in this manner.
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