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Received a text this morning from an ex-UMer. (yes it does happen and with even more frequency these days I hear) I would like to share it with you;
Have you seen the new UM format?
Looks like "the One" is trying (ha!) to make UM
more legit?
Bit too coincidental for me in light of the RMRC lies.
SB taught us to be "honest".
Think HE must just be a slow learner!
I'm afraid I don't waste my time on the UM site, so I can't reply to that question, as for the honesty bit, I'm still laughing.
I can always count on UM news to give me a huge, hearty and healthy dose of laughter+
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treefern
Received a text this morning from an ex-UMer. (yes it does happen and with even more frequency these days I hear) I would like to share it with you;
Have you seen the new UM format?
Looks like "the One" is trying (ha!) to make UM
more legit?
Bit too coincidental for me in light of the RMRC lies.
SB taught us to be "honest".
Think HE must just be a slow learner!
I'm afraid I don't waste my time on the UM site, so I can't reply to that question, as for the honesty bit, I'm still laughing.
I can always count on UM news to give me a huge, hearty and healthy dose of laughter+
I didn't want to waste to much time on their site either, but did have a quick look and there has been a radical rewrite of the 'home' and 'about us' pages. Seems Serge no longer wishes to talk of his former tennis coaching career and how "successful" he was.
The grammer and use of punctuation hasn't improved either.
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treefern
Received a text this morning from an ex-UMer. (yes it does happen and with even more frequency these days I hear) I would like to share it with you;
Have you seen the new UM format?
Looks like "the One" is trying (ha!) to make UM
more legit?
Bit too coincidental for me in light of the RMRC lies.
SB taught us to be "honest".
Think HE must just be a slow learner!
I'm afraid I don't waste my time on the UM site, so I can't reply to that question, as for the honesty bit, I'm still laughing.
I can always count on UM news to give me a huge, hearty and healthy dose of laughter+
I didn't want to waste to much time on their site either, but did have a quick look and there has been a radical rewrite of the 'home' and 'about us' pages. Seems Serge no longer wishes to talk of his former tennis coaching career and how "successful" he was.
The grammer and use of punctuation hasn't improved either.
There may have been a bit of a re-write but the lies about Serge's pre-UM financial success are still in the general 'About Us' page, not the 'About Serge' page. However, I did find this absolute howler from the latter page:
"He is not and never has been one who hides and or holds himself in abstruse reality or in the confines of a fortress that is buffeted by his many patients and or students."
Hahahahahaha!!!! Serge the alleged multi-reincarnated genius, the 5th degree initiate, the World Teacher from Shamballa sent to Earth by the Heirarchy to save humanity, who has butchered and distorted the English language in order to baffle and beguile his vulnerable followers, definitely doesn't hold himself in an abstruse reality. Not at all. And he certainly doesn't hide away in a fortress buffeted by his students, unless you count the multiple love-blogs, which have been established in order for misguided devotees to both sing his praises and defend his lies and sleazy, criminal conduct so that he doesn't have to take responsibility for his own actions.
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COncerned Partner
Little Xmas gift for us pranic folk.
In the last 2 weeks I have heard of 3 people coming out of the cult by themselves. From all accounts 'committed students' and practitioners too.
Good to hear. I spoke to one who said "OMG I cant believe I thought all that stuff was real. It's bizarre! I feel really embarrassed at how I was going on and what I was thinking"
It shouldn't be embarrassing of course. They went in unsuspecting thinking they were learning healing or getting something at a time when they needed it. No one suspects that there is an agenda and a group may be a cult. Who the hell knows what a cult is? I sure didn't till this thing hit me in the head. So for anyone else thinking about hanging up the boots, it isn't your fault. It's just one of those things that happens. If you can get out and move on and forgive yourself because there's nothing to be ashamed of, the quicker you can get your emotional and mental life back and join us less than perfect pranic folk in our simple enjoyment of the unknown.
Happy Christmas.
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[www.lewrockwell.com]
The Exoteric and the Esoteric
Every religious cult has two sets of differing and distinctive creeds: the exoteric and the esoteric. The exoteric creed is the official, public doctrine, the creed which attracts the acolyte in the first place and brings him into the movement as a rank-and-file member. The quite different creed is the unknown, hidden agenda, a creed which is only known to its full extent by the top leadership, the "high priests" of the cult. The latter are the keepers of the Mysteries of the cult.
But cults become particularly fascinating when the esoteric and exoteric creeds are not only different, but totally and glaringly in mutual contradiction. The havoc that this fundamental contradiction plays in the minds and lives of the disciples may readily be imagined.
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As in the case of all cults and sects, a particularly vital method for moulding the members and keeping them in line was maintaining their constant and unrelenting activity within the movement....Every night one of the top members lectured to different members expounding various aspects of the "party line": on basics, on psychology, fiction, sex, thinking, art, economics, or philosophy.
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Characteristic of the cult (from Hare Krishna to the "Moonies" to EST to Scientology to the Manson Family) is the dominance of the guru, or Maximum Leader, who is also the creator and ultimate interpreter of a given creed to which the acolyte must be unswervingly loyal. The major if not the only qualification for membership and advancement in the cult is absolute loyalty to and adoration of the guru, and absolute and unquestioning obedience to his commands. The lives of the members are dominated by the guru’s influence and presence. If the cult grows beyond a few members, it naturally becomes hierarchically structured, if only because the guru cannot spend his time indoctrinating and watching over every disciple. Top positions in the hierarchy are generally filled by the original handful of disciples, who come to assume these positions by virtue of their longer stint of loyal and devoted service. Sometimes the top leadership may be related to each other, a useful occurrence which can strengthen intra-cult loyalty through the familial bond.
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Characteristic of the cult (from Hare Krishna to the "Moonies" to EST to Scientology to the Manson Family) is the dominance of the guru, or Maximum Leader, who is also the creator and ultimate interpreter of a given creed to which the acolyte must be unswervingly loyal. The major if not the only qualification for membership and advancement in the cult is absolute loyalty to and adoration of the guru, and absolute and unquestioning obedience to his commands. The lives of the members are dominated by the guru’s influence and presence. If the cult grows beyond a few members, it naturally becomes hierarchically structured, if only because the guru cannot spend his time indoctrinating and watching over every disciple. Top positions in the hierarchy are generally filled by the original handful of disciples, who come to assume these positions by virtue of their longer stint of loyal and devoted service. Sometimes the top leadership may be related to each other, a useful occurrence which can strengthen intra-cult loyalty through the familial bond.