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MacReadyNew article from the ABC including audio interview:
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Interesting to note that whenever the interviewer asks Serge about some of the more bizarre elements of UM cosmology, he simple points the finger at other unusual spiritual beliefs to justify it. He also avoids a straight answer on the Leonardo da Vinci question.
After listening to the interview a second time i noticed something that AGAIN damages your integrity. See while you can spin your stories and responses to reporters who arnt really up with your more in depth theories you can easily skip your away around the topics.
What is noticeable is whenever questioned about the more "spiritual" side of your business you quickly justify yourself by bringing up other convenient natural medical treatments such as Kinesiology etc. What you are doing is trying to neutralise the reporter and listeners to make them feel more comfortable with your treatments.
So let me just fill in those new comers to this forum and any reporters out there. If you dig a little deeper you will find Serge arrogantly tell you that
ALL other alternative treatments including massage are not energetically good for you. This includes even mainstream massage. Of course your massage Serge is ok?!?! He will claim that all other treatments further suppress the bad energy.
To this extent you will find his followers, i mean devotees, i mean clients (phew got that right) burn and throw out all other books that even reference alternative medical treatments.
Serge you don't need an hour of the announcers time to explain yourself. Just be honest and you will clear things up for people very quickly.
I also loved in that interview how you also referenced gurus and native indians to dumb down the audience. Well serge, you let a good analogy get in the way of TRUTH. Because if you were honest with the announcer you would have told her that all the gurus and those who claim to be enlightened to be TOTALLY WRONG. Even the Dalai Lama gets a message in your interviews on your website.... you arrogantly declared him wrong too. Which brings me back to your God Complex. What makes you so right and everyone and i literally mean everyone so wrong???
I await your response.
And still we wait Serge... and still we wait Rebecca...
Anyway, moving on, with regards to the interview quoted above
The following bit was interesting and I won't clean up the language, because I want to demonstrate the bumbling, stumbling way in which Serge actually speaks:
Reporter: “How does a former Tennis Coach turn to live by this philosophy, because that’s what you are isn’t it a former tennis coach?”
Serge Benhayon: “That’s correct but you know millions of people read Eckhart Tolle don’t they? and he was a, he was a, drunkard on a bench who had a revelation and now he’s um you know got a readership of millions of people, the same came to D um Ron ah Donald Walsh who wrote Conversations with God… it’s nothing new, um you’re trying to equate something that doesn’t give me any qualifications”.
No Serge, she isn't trying to equate anything: you don't have any qualifications, and comparing yourself to other nobody's (in your words), who became somebody's that wrote books doesn't change that fact. But let's look at that a little further: you summarise Eckhart Tolle as a nobody drunkard on a bench and make the claim that the reporter is equating the fact that you are a former tennis coach turned philosopher to mean that you don't have any qualifications. Ok, let's look at Eckhart Tolle:
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At the age of 19, Tolle moved to England and for three years taught German and Spanish at a London school for language studies. Troubled by "depression, anxiety and fear", he began "searching for answers" in his life.[9] At age 22 or so he decided to pursue this search by studying philosophy, psychology, and literature, and enrolled in the University of London. After graduating he was offered a scholarship to do research at Cambridge University as a postgraduate student and was admitted there in 1977.
Hang on a minute, it sounds like Eckhart Tolle does have qualifications.
Now let's look at Neale Donald Walsch (who you call Donald Walsch - but let's not split hairs):
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Before writing the Conversations With God series, Walsch worked variously as a radio station program director, newspaper managing editor, and in marketing and public relations. In the early 1990s he suffered a series of crushing blows — a fire that destroyed all of his belongings, the break-up of his marriage, and a car accident that left him with a broken neck. Once recovered, but alone and unemployed, he was forced to live in a tent in Jackson Hot Springs, just outside Ashland, Oregon, collecting and recycling aluminium cans in order to eat.
Ok, so for arguments' sake let's accept your description of Neale Donald Welsch as a nobody, his biography seems a bit more impressive than just, now I'm a tennis coach, now I'm Genius incarnate!!! So why have you drawn this comparison with Walsch and yourself?
As usual the opposite of what you are accusing this reporter of is actually true, even in your bumbling, stumbling way, you have spun the original question which was actually aimed at understanding what led to your transition to a healer, but you have somehow managed to spin it into an underdog good prevails over difficulty story, whereby you somehow come out of it in the end have circumvented the need to even have credentials.
The problem with your illogical and falacious ramblings is that at the end of it all, you still don't have qualifications, you don't have a best selling book, and you haven't explained how these ideas magically sprung into your head.
Also, it is interesting to note, that the jury is still out as to whether Eckhart Tolle and his followers satisfy the recommendations of being defined as a cult in their own right: [
forum.culteducation.com]
And I also found this very apt comment on that post in reference to a similar type of logic employed by an apologist for Tolle therein:
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With all due respect, none of your points matter, nor are they logical. I'm not talking about other phonies, frauds, con-men, fake gurus and soul-snake-oil salesman, who certainly exist and perhaps your examples are accurate. Right now, I'm talking about Serge Benhayon (name changed by knowledge_is_king).
And for now Serge, you have missed the opportunity to explain how exactly these visions came to be inside your head - could it be that if you recounted your previous version that it came to you as a voice on the toilet that people would think you are crazy?
I leave the question for the reader to consider, what motivates a man who says he is just a nobody, to manipulate a conversation in this way, rather than to just be honest and tell the "truth"** that his version of "the way it is" came to him from a disembodied voice from within his own head.If he is happy to tell that story to the Universal Medicine "students" then why not the general public?
**(truth meaning the original version of events you have given students previously - not that I am saying that it is the real truth by any means)