yikes, there is a new book,
Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul's Potential by Michael Bernard Beckwith
This is pure New Thought. He even lists the New Thought writers, and he also lists Osho, and many others.
The bottom line with this book is the old Christ Consciousness gag.
That is, you can literally have the exact same superhuman powers as Jesus Christ, if you believe you can, and attain Spiritual Liberation, which is called Ascension by others. (of course it takes years to learn this, so you have to take dozens of courses at his church for years to learn this).
Marianne Williamson wrote the forward, but its strange. All she says is that to her he has always acted like he is for real and believes what he says. That is curious, as it leaves a window for her, in case things go sour for him. She will say, hey, he was always nice to me.
But he begins the book, by saying its written with blue type, as blue = Christ Consciousness.
(that is your first test).
Even in the introduction to the book, he says there is no room in this book for him to explain Life Visioning, so buy his 6 CD set.
People bought this book, as they want The Secret, and he opens by selling you a CD set. Very smart, as he knows most people don't read past page 20, so sell quick. That is excellent salesmanship.
Then he says he ORGINATED Visioning, which is obviously false. All his New Thought guru's did that, that is what its about. So that is the first false statement in the book.
He then states he was a drug dealer, selling weed across the USA, and got off on a technicality.
On the way out of court, he used his mind power to get a weather vane to point straight at him, and that was his sign from God/Universe. (not kidding).
I guess the wind never changes directions where he is from.
(that is your next test, if you believe he moved a wind weather vane with his mind, then you are the kind of person he wants! Literally, that is a screening process, he will lose half his audience right there, but that is ok with him, he doesn't want people who ask for proof. He wants people who believe he moved a wind weather vane with his mind, because he said he did. If you believe that, you'll believe basically anything else he tells you.)
Then it goes from there, hundreds of pages of blue type, in a tiny font that is hard to read.
But of course, there is no room to explain Visioning, so people better buy the CD set. (that is upselling).
Oh, the book also says he is one of the Foremost Spiritual Leaders, and he also writes songs with the wife, and the book is full of these too.
This guy is a raging egomaniac.
How is it possible for people to not see through this? By page 7 of the book, warning flags are flying all over the place.
The New Thought system this guy is selling is extremely dangerous, it wrecks people's lives, if you really try to make it work.
It seems that many people have to learn by the school of hard knocks, which is why these folks make out like bandits.
If a person is smart, they would be wise to stay far away from the Rev Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith.
(notice he dropped his unaccredited "Dr" surname title for the book).
(the people from his church are going berserk promoting him on Amazon, will this stuff ever end? Nope)
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www.amazon.com]
Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul's Potential by Michael Bernard Beckwith
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words; 1st edition (November 11, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1582701997
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/17/2009 08:19AM by The Anticult.