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http://www.yelp.com/biz/diamond-bar-maum-meditation-walnut
0/14/2012
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For $150 a month, I think I'll pass. Personally, I believe that helping others in achieving spiritual happiness should be a free service, especially since this place claims to be nonprofit, is accepting donations, and the volunteers and members take turn bringing everyone snacks and whatnot.
The service is held in a one-story home. I was greeted by a really pretty Korean lady in her 30s, who has been managing this location for four years, and was served pomegranate tea by a Korean mother of two, who has been a member of this location for three years.
The free introductory seminar is held every Thursday night at 7:00pm, but the brochure I received from a Tustin juice bar was outdated and advertised Diamond Bar's free seminar as every Wednesday night at 7:30pm.
Still, the lady who greeted me requested I stay and she would be with me as soon as she's done with her current client.
I sipped away at the delicious tea, studying the living room several times while the Korean mother eyeballed me with a smile on her face making my wait a bit awkward so I struck up a conversation with her. About a minute into the conversation, I hear shouting from the hallway. I would later learn from the manager that all the ruckus is how the members practice letting go of their past.
I was seated on two cushions that were placed on a floor seating (my first and quite comfortable). Watched a few short clips on strangers exclaiming how awful their lives were until Maum Meditation made their lives sooo unexplainably great you've got to experience it yourself! Having studied advertising before, these commercials make me roll my eyes. I wanted more from my seminar.
At least give me a taste of "step 1" from the "7-step guided method of subtraction that allows you to become free of the limitations imposed by your past".
When it became clear that I would have to pay to get even a taste of the steps, I thought I could gain some inspiration from the manager's experiences. I wanted to know what made her start, what made her happy, what were some of the challenges she faced practicing Maum Meditation.
She argued that I don't need to know any of these things about her or anyone else and that I should only concern myself with my issues. Sharing is caring and it does help. A bit turned away from Maum Meditation, for now... It may tickle me fancy again
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Dangers of cultism in meditation- how I found myself in a cult, and how I'm recovering. Maum Meditation in particular. (self.Meditation)
submitted 2 years ago by maummeditation
Hello, throwaway here because I don't want to get killed lol (seriously though)
I joined this meditation thing called Maum Meditation. I still don't know much about cult-ism to correctly call what I'm thinking of, but it's basically a brainwashing group.
Kind of like a rotten onion, the outside seems perfectly normal but layer after layer as you get in deeper into its roots its rotten, basically. After some time they ask for "Sky Funds" to allow your ancestors to go to heaven from purgatory, about 1K USD.
But I think I should start with how the system works. There's 8 "levels" of meditation that gets progessively into the foundation of the cult, but there are three "extra special" levels "becoming born", "being your born entity" and a third one they just came up with. They come up with a new level every once in a while and the special levels after the 8 levels cost about 4K USD per person to attend to.
It's popping up in cities all over the world, but is having a hard time getting started. Please let your friends and lovers know about this cult and to stay away from it at all costs. They say that they are "science-based" with questionable UN and Ghandi awards but it's all just an illusion on the outside.
They routinely put spies to track their members (scary shit), check incoming members for electronic devices using the metal detectors, and is pretty much paranoid about getting caught with the media.
They also ask for you to give up all your life savings, quit your job, and give your life and body to the cause. Look up maum meditation cult on google, and you will see that any negative posts made, they have made sure to comment positively on it.
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[–]CastleArg 1 point 2 years ago
Thanks for drawing attention to this. A close friend was getting heavily involved with this (to the point of spending several months living with them in some sort of commune) and I was getting concerned, but unable to learn much about them as the "classes" were all in Korean, which I don't speak. I attended a couple of sessions and they seemed a lot more like a lecture than a meditation session, quite scary really. At the commune they would meditate for many hours each day, and eventually start working in Maum's farms (for free) as part of their spiritual betterment. I have been unable to find any useful information on the web that doesn't reek of being doctored. Again I could be missing out on information written in Korean.
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If you practicing maum meditation you would say “but I am getting amazing results”, “I can sleep better, I am more relaxed, I tried many other methods and only this feels right, or my relationship improved dramatically, or I felt something extraordinary” or similar feelings.
Yes, you are right, in the beginning some of us getting some results, and here is why- what’s happening with us during this meditation its nothing new, those techniques are used for over 200 years (studies are done and books are written by neuroscientist and psychiatrists Kathleen Taylo, Ivan Pavlov, William Walters and other scientists ).
A brief explanation – during this meditation our body goes through stress, because Maum Meditation is not a meditation that you sit quietly and suppress your thoughts, during maum meditation you are doing subtraction, you constantly in your mind bringing up your memories from the past (pictures) and mentally destroying them, also destroying your body, your friends, your family, destroying everybody and everything (as you progress in Maum meditation levels),
so during long hours of this kind destruction our body goes through stress and brain releases chemicals called Endorphins.
Endorphins are feel good chemicals our bodies release under pain or stress. They are considered the bodies own opiates. So we kind drugging our self during this meditation. And as we practice this method more and for longer hours per day,
the result of this mental stage we get is impaired mental judgment and increased suggestibility.
Basically our brain goes flat – “clean slate state”, and existing mental programming is replaced, by maum meditation helpers, with new patterns of thinking and behavior- our mind is reprogrammed to serve maum meditation group.
Once a person has been “reprogrammed” they often cannot think for themselves, and become intellectually as well as emotionally dependent upon Maum meditation helpers and leaders, a person starts trusting them completely, a person’s ability to question information and use critical analysis are eliminated.
We start going door to door to distribute Maum meditation flyers to recruit more members, start using food supplements Maum meditation sells us, and so on and on.
This state of mind is a reversion to an earlier state of evolution.
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In my opinion Maum meditation using mind control techniques, after receiving this new programming we passionately defend Maum meditation and their leaders, and we start claiming that we been “shown the truth”, “we will be saved”. . . or “this is amazing method”.
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So is Maum Meditation a cult?
A while ago I would said no way Maum meditation is a cult, everybody so nice and loving, no way I am in a cult. Now I can say- nobody ever joints a cult, nobody joins something they think is going to hurt them. We join a religious organization, some movement, a yoga class or similar, and we join with people that we really like.