by the way, there is a member of the BK inner circle, who sends out emails, posts blogs, and gets personally involved in many aspects of the Byron Katie internet PR machine.
His name is Stephen Mitchell.
He was even caught posting self PR on his own Wikipedia site. [
forum.culteducation.com]
He may have even posted on this forum as a internet sock-puppet in the early days...some clues there involving the Epistemology of all of this...gotta have to look back into the archive.
There are reports of emails Stephen Mitchell has sent out to people who are confused about BK issues, that have been deliberately confusing, and some have been shockingly arrogant.
For example, Janaki, who seems to be a genuine person, gave some info here about Stephen Mitchell.
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janakisstory.wordpress.com]
First off, the BK Valentine story written by Mitchell is fabricated Eye-Gazing Love-Bombing PR, as has been shown. [
forum.culteducation.com] (talk about clumsy attempts at amateur hypnotic word persuasion, that is almost as bad as the Mary Poppins reference, or the Neal Donald Walsch PR attempt).
But of course, Stephen Mitchell knew everything about Janaki beening literally wiped off the map by Byron Katie.
Janaki had been knocked to the ground, by BK and Stephen Mitchell.
The words she used about his message were "weird and perverted" and those words do capture what is going on.
QUOTE: "Dear Janaki, I thought you’d get a kick out of this. Love, Stephen"
Look again at that concise Zenlike phrase.
Get it? embedded words... "you'd get a KICK".
Does it give pleasure to KICK someone, after you've knocked them to the ground?
You wipe her business out, then you give her a KICK, and then you want to play Mind-Games about "love" with them, to hurt them even more?
Then you say you didn't mean to offend, to try to screw with them?
Of course he meant to offend.
You take someone who has looked up to their "guru" type person for many years, and now they have been ex-communicated, KICKED out of the group, and had their business wiped out, and knocked to the ground.
Then you send them some fake PR blog post, about how GLITTERING the LOVING EYES of the guru is, deliberately to Trigger that terrible pain of rejection in the person. That is very sicko stuff, sadistic even.
Its as if a husband dumped his wife for a younger model, and then sends the Ex an email photo of them in a hot-tub in the tropics with a Just Married sign..."thought you'd get a nice KICK in the teeth out of this...lovey dovey, Ex...no offense...".
Its a kick in the head when a person is down, literally "framed" inside BK Love-Bomb language, and also the passive-aggressive "no offense".
He thinks he is very clever, and he knows how to send a message, inside a message. Was its real intent to try and silence Janaki, with a "weird and perverted" mind-game?
"Dear Janaki, I thought you’d get a kick out of this. Love, Stephen"
"Dear Janaki, [BK love-bomb] I thought [you’d get a KICK] out of this. [BK love-bomb] Love, Stephen"
There are other examples like this.
Some other email messages from Stephen Mitchell will turn up, stripped of personal details, and then they can be looked at carefully. Also, various blog posts he's made.
No offense...we cool, right? Much luv.
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janakisstory.wordpress.com]
QUOTE"
Stephen Mitchell
At the time of writing this story, I received an email from Stephen. It contained a link to Katie’s Valentine newsletter, with the message: Dear Janaki, I thought you’d get a kick out of this. Love, Stephen
I noticed that in the newsletter he establishes himself as a connoisseur of eyes and an expert of spiritual masters. He could tell from their eyes that they knew The Great Secret. Upon looking into Katie’s eyes, he says, ‘But Katie’s eyes were even more glittering, I felt, even more ancient, and so beautiful that I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry with joy. The joy shining from them was something I had never seen before’.
When I received Stephens email, my thought was, ‘He is still hung up on the fact I once called him a spiritual snob’.
I responded with, Stephen, I wonder why you thought I would get a kick out of reading your story with Byron Katie and seeing the promotion of your new book. I thought it was weird and perverted that you sent me that email. Ever since Byron Katie monopolized the entire Work market with her certification program (especially in Europe), removed my profile from her website, denied people credits for my programs and suggests them to go elsewhere for workshops with The Work, I have had to cancel all workshops and training programs abroad. I have lost 80% of enrollment and thus 80% of my income. This is quite a serious matter. Perhaps you get a kick out of that. Janaki"
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/23/2009 02:54AM by The Anticult.