Wow, I just read through that astrology thread. Go astrologers!!! xxxoxxx It turned out to be quite a resource, through which I found that Medical Observer article [
www.medicalobserver.com.au] as well as a few more snippets of first hand stuff. I have to say I found all of it distressing. The UM damage to date is much worse than I thought. The induced eating disorders, the restrictions on exercise and preparing food for children (?!), the followers identifiable in public by their poor complexions and frailty, the 'bad entity' riddled husbands, the magic pillow cases, the rationale of 'clearing all of men's negativity energy' through Esoteric Breast Massage, and the woman who described EBM as 'the most horrible thing I've had in my entire life'. !!!!
Plus the medical professionals going into bat for Serge, either oblivious or callously dismissive of the obvious harm being done, as well as abandoning their dignity, their credibility and their accountability. Including disregarding Leonardo Pythagoras Benhayon's lack of formal qualifications or membership of a professional association which would require him to prove his accountability. Plus the Medicare fraud -- the sheer obnoxious audacity of getting Medicare coverage for unproven, unpleasant, blatantly, piss takingly exploitative quackery. I recognized names among Serge's apologists from 7 years ago as well as faces in the videos. The core apologists are still hanging in there, either beholden to the group via coercion or blackmail, or they really do believe Serge's bullshit. Why wouldn't they I suppose, when Serge believes it himself.
The extent of this insanity and destruction floors me.
One good thing though, is that the truth is trickling out. I just wonder how on earth they suppressed it for so long. I'll say it again -- the disappearing blogs, the cleansing of posts from the UM site, the fact there are so few first hand accounts, even on the net, when the abuses are so obvious -- this wall of silence -- points to coercion. Corruption and coercion.
And paranoia. I left this thread for five hours and it had 500 hits. I doubt we can put that down to Macready getting into a clicking frenzy. The astrologers noticed changes to UM related sites after they mentioned certain details in their thread. Yes, UM is paying attention. A lot of attention, whether it be to Rick Ross or media coverage or a group of astrologers poring over SB's chart. They're attempting Scientologyesque PR blitzing and damage control. If they have so much integrity, what are they so afraid of? Hm?
They doth protest too much, methinks.
If you're reading UMers, you have nothing to be afraid of. I don't personally know anyone on this site. We're a small group of concerned, but disparate and diverse contributors apparently scattered across several continents. We're sharing information and providing support for those hurt by your actions. The world isn't against you or Uncle Serge. We're here because we're trying to make sense of how UM got to be so out of control, and working on how we might prevent more harm and repair the damage done to health, personalities, relationships and families. I won't condescend to speak for everyone else here, but personally, I'm not here to attack and damage you. I'm urging you to to examine your actions and the consequences of those and to behave with accountability. We want all at UM to be healthy and enjoy satisfying and fulfilling lives. We want them to recognize and attend to the wellbeing requirements of their children. There is no conspiracy at work here, apart from the obvious one, our open conspiracy against harm. That's what those like me and many more who'll pick up after us are prepared to go into bat for. Unlike you, we're not defending a proven professional liar and abuser and his rancid distortion of healing, we're going into bat against harm and for what's left of the good name of healing. Even then, it won't be us that bring you down -- it'll be the truth, and more people learning the facts about your dangerous deficit of integrity.
Now, to business.
Corboy said:
'We gotta examine the UM recommendations on food from a dieticians perspective.'I can help here, although I'm not a professional dietitian, I have studied nutrition. It's not just the calcium deficiency. I don't have all the details of Serge's dietary recommendations (please submit more info anyone, by PM if you like), but from what I gather from the first hand stuff -- and the way Uncle Serge looks, it's a fairly general state of malnutrition. It appears he's encouraging limited food intake to start with. Fasting?
The low blood sugar alone from nutritionally inadequate meals, poorly spaced meals and fasting can lead to light headedness, mood swings, poor concentration, dizziness and fatigue.
Inadequate intake of protein will lead to muscle wasting, including degeneration of internal organs. Inadequate B vitamins found in grains, meats and certain veges contribute to low blood sugar, hormonal imbalances and neurological symptoms, including nerve disorders such as abnormal sensations like numbness, pins and needles, insomnia, cognitive impairment and mood instability. Insufficient antioxidants compromise immune function. Insufficient minerals lead to problems with bone and connective tissues, neurological function, immune function…Insufficient essential fatty acids and fat soluble vitamins contribute to poor immunity, poor cell integrity, poor nerve function, deterioration in skin and connective tissue. Getting the picture?
Add that to Serge’s silly 9-3 anti-entity sleep prescription, and you’ve got cognitive impairment (reduced brain function) due to sleep deprivation (5 hours is not enough), plus cognitive impairment, mood disorders and lowered resistance to illness from malnutrition. The resulting physical weakness and difficulty in thinking straight curtail rational and critical faculties and decrease psychological defences. That's why Amway and Landmark do those long conferences that go all day and all night allowing participants little to no sleep, little water and little food -- it enhances the thought reform process. In UM's case the combination also lowers resistance to guruistic negative entities. Further, long term malnutrition and sleep deprivation can damage fertility and immunity, increase suseptibility to degenerative disease, and cause degeneration of connective tissue, bones, gums, teeth, skin, organs and organ function. Children will get sick recurrently and growth and brain development will be compromised.
I could bang on for ages about the dietary restrictions alone. And I could bang on again about how irresponsible, sorry, criminal it is for health practitioners to advocate Serge's nonsense.
Macready said:
Likewise, the vomiting and convulsing no longer seems to happen anymore. At least it didn't at the workshops I attended, but I do know others who have experienced it firsthand. I wonder how much of it may have been psychosomatic? If people have considerable unresolved emotional and/or psychological baggage stemming from past trauma, combined with a level of fascination (or belief) in the ideas Serge presents, them submitting to the 'healing' techniques could pssibly produce such effects.Yes. I haven’t worked this out yet, and it’s an area of neuroscience that’s not yet well understood. My opinion is it’s a hypnotic technique that bears reasonably consistent results. From my experience, I don’t think it has any occult/psychic or spiritual aspect to it. I think that because I was able to reproduce it in myself and others repeatedly without any sense of epiphany/revelation/wisdom/euphoria/nirvana or numinousness. I was genuinely interested in the technique as a phenomenon and undertook it with an open mind, followed the instructions, but it had no more transcendent quality to it than a run around the block or an aerobics class. Personally, I’d rather go for a swim down at Wategos, which is far more transcendental and healthy than a woo woo catharsis session with Serge in some stuffy room.
Ah, I can just hear the UMers convincing themselves I'm a pranic individual, too entity ridden to see Serge's luminous truth and beauty. Whatever. Chardonnay anyone?
I mention neuroscience because I’m pretty sure it’s an hypnosis technique that could probably be tested and documented in a controlled environment. I'm supposing the success of it is requisite on the subject suppressing conscious thought and self inducing a trance state. I’ll have to look it up, but Louise Samways talks about similar phenomena in Dangerous Persuaders I think, and Charles Lindholm in his book on charisma, talks about techniques for inducing ‘collective effervescence’, basically to heighten suggestibility in subjects. It’s also in keeping with all the cults that include altered states of consciousness as part of their arsenal of techniques for psychological manipulation. In Soka Gakkai, they use chanting, the Pentecostalists speak in tongues, Aum Shinrikyo used drugs and electronics, and Uncle Serge lays on the hands and talks you into inducing a state of receptivity/passivity.
Do you know of any better references Corboy? I wish I had time to research this properly.
Macready said:
I have to wonder, in cases of women who have experienced sexual abuse in their lives, whether this sort of 'treatment' (and the questionable ideas behind it) might actually be compounding the core issues instead of addressing them, especially if legitimate psychological counseling is being forsaken in favor of EBMs.
I don’t wonder Macready. EBMs are medically worthless and duping vulnerable women into disclosing traumatic events and then subjecting them to this crass indignity is reabusing them. Reabusing them again if it means they are forsaking legitimate therapy, and reabusing them one more time if they lose faith in the healing professions and are subsequently reluctant to seek proper therapy. All because of Serge’s perverse whim to circumvent established therapeutic safeguards. EBMs are not a therapy, they're a violation, and they stink.
Again UM apologists, stop enabling this travesty.
Ugh.
Nighty night all. Keep well!
And thanks Rick Ross for giving us this space, these wonderful resources and the vital moderation services.