A number of Western Traditionalists and Westernized Sufists have fostered art movements. Evola was an early participant in the Dada movement. Rene Guenon influenced the aesthetic theories of many Traditionalists. Guenon was introduced to Sufism by a Swedish artist, Agueli. Guenon influenced Frithjof Schuon. Gurdjieff had ideas of his own regarding music and dance. Small excerpts from a
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c-barb wrpte I also want to share my own analysis of the situation having spent my first 18-20 years in the church and almost as long searching for the answers before I really began to understand the words of the Bible, without the elaborations and taking out of context done in Struthers. Anyway, I have spent many years researching mass hypnosis in various places and forms and, whether you b
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The 'Bad Beliefs and Fraudulent Faiths' Website disappeared suddenly last year. It was a valuable resource, it's 3 investigative chapters are quoted below: Post 1: FRIDAY, 15 APRIL 2011 Universal Medicine (and a world of associations) "Little has been written about Universal Medicine other than by those who lead the movement, or those considered to be part of "
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Long before modern methods of narrative trance induction were invented, many people in different parts of the world devised ways to structure social gatherings to ensure fixed and focused attention. Dim lighting, focused on the authority figure, one way communication, confusion, a state of arousal (eagerness to follow the rules, fear of making a mistake and being banished, using unplaceable a
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For a compare and contrast on how someone can change from a shy and talented young person into someone who runs a personality driven inner circle, get and read Secret Germany:Stefan George and His Circle by Norton (the surname is pronounced “gay-org-uh”) " This book can feel painful to read. George discovered early that he had homosexual longings, and lived in a place and time wher
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Cult 'Ecstatic Experience' as an Unprovable, Enjoyable Aesthetic Response--and Cult Exit and Recovery as Aesthetic Experiences that are Enjoyable, Emancipatory--and the Emancipatory Dimension is What Is Proveable. This essay is fascinating. And.. Exit Counselors who have a connection with art and play will find this a huge help. People may have an ecstatic experience that proves n
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With regard to the licensing questions, if you have the time to post, you have the time to find out the location and hours of your local legal clinic and ask about how the law applies in your state to whatever situation concerns you. For a start on researching patterned language, make the time and see this. Both of these give citations already available. Now, interested readers must then
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Corboy, thank you for sharing the previous informative post and references. The section about the difference between metaphysics and pseudoscience really strikes a chord for me, and possibly other readers as well. Where the Byron Katie approach intersects with metaphysics and spirituality, or rather where Byron Katie has implied and explicitly associated such an intersection, is where I think
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My section about the School on Wikipedia just got deleted. I don't know if it was because I quoted content from this page (JJ's story) or some BK supporter deleted it. 5 minutes later... I just added a truncated version of the information on the School with no quoted text and it also got deleted immediately. OK now everything i added has been deleted. It's either a BK support
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QuoteRyan64I attended a Landmark forum two weeks ago and new nothing of what it was. This is the letter I wrote to my boss after the weekend Dear Friend, First, I do want to thank you for inviting me to the Landmark Forum. I have an even stronger connection to myself, my higher self, to spirit, to the Universe and to God. I had all of my beliefs questioned and put to the test, told that
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I attended a Landmark forum two weeks ago and new nothing of what it was. This is the letter I wrote to my boss after the weekend Dear Friend, First, I do want to thank you for inviting me to the Landmark Forum. I have an even stronger connection to myself, my higher self, to spirit, to the Universe and to God. I had all of my beliefs questioned and put to the test, told that they were
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Hello everyone, I've spent the last two years communicating the "anti-cult" message within evangelical Christian communities, specifically addressing a hybrid spin-off group from the Shepherding Discipleship Movement and Extremes of Christian Reconstruction about a decade after getting out of one. After exit counsel from a person that Dr. Paul Martin called "one of the bes
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if anyone wants to see an example of almost completely patterned BK thought, check this one out. She posted under the posting name Jennifer Ironstone Its typical in many of these thought-reform systems, that certain people get totally enmeshed into it, and literally start to mimic almost the exact language patterns of the leader. Her language is an almost exact clone of Byron Katie. Fasten
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QuoteThe AnticultBut if a person is involved in a thought reform systems for 15-30 years, you don't come out of it in a few months. It must be very confusing to not know one's thinking has been patterned by another. Its probably easier to jump from one thought-reform system, to another one. Undoing years of false beliefs, and twisted thoughts that have been programmed in...wow... Yeah
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That is deep Byron Katie mental patterning, and mental programming language. Like when people get into the BK thought-reform system, they start to sound like her in language..mimicking the same phrases that she uses? This one could have been written by BK herself... QUOTE: "it is only about expressing something that used to be afraid to express itself. It is no longer afraid, that is
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genez: (like in - Gene Kelly.. Gene Autry.. and, Gene Krupa) end genez i thought i was going to have to bring up bob thieme on culture ex nihilo but i have been afforded this lovely segue. and it is pure thieme. who wants hear what bob thieme thought of pop culture? i do! i do! NOT... bob was always wallowing in the past and finding a "doctrinal" commendation in the big bands an
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So, they are back to the the "game" sh*t. You'd think they might have learned, but NOOOO. Werner must have slipped in the back door. Here is somthing from Amazon on Carl Fredrick's vomit-inducing book from the 1970s which has been, (surprise surprise), reissued, to which some wag ( ;) ) added the following review. Ellen Est; Playing the Game* the New Way
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