Re: Samuel Sagan Clairvision
Date: January 28, 2025 01:28AM
My friend told me about this forum after they inadvertently came across it while researching the school. They were curious to find out more about where I spend two weeks out of each year attending courses and meditating, as I have done for the last 15 years. They were concerned and distressed about these posts. I write because in my years as a student of this school, these have not been my experiences.
I have personally gotten a lot out of the school and haven’t experienced any of what’s posted in this forum. I have only found the school’s admin team and teachers to have more integrity and experience than a lot of the spiritual schools and teachers that are currently out there, places that I have personally encountered in my 40 years of exploring spirituality.
A couple years ago I had to take leave and skip courses at the school that I usually attend due to a death in the family. I did not experience any pressure to attend, and was only met with understanding and compassion. I received a full refund.
I am never pressured to attend courses. I am never forced to make donations to the school, to do work or labor, or to choose between the school and my family/friends. I simply attend two courses each year if I choose, pay the (very reasonable) fee to attend, and that’s it until the next year.
I have a longtime partner of 20 years that is not involved in the school. I am not pressured to leave him, and he is never pressured to join. I have other lifelong friends that aren’t in the school and likely never will be. I live a normal life, with other interests, spiritual and otherwise that are not connected to the school in any way. So the suggestion here that the school is as a cult leaves me feeling that the school is being misrepresented.
I actually find many of the postings here to be quite alarming because they are stating facts with no proof, backing or evidence. Statements that are harmful in themselves, misleading, and seem to be -at times- driven by a personal agenda beyond what’s being stated. I have not seen or heard evidence of the claims here. Not through my direct experience, not by those that I have met that have taken courses once, several times or over many of years.
I am also concerned because it is my opinion that many of these posts create false concerns among the friends and families of students that have been or may be studying with the school and receive a great deal. I am hoping to portray a balanced counter-viewpoint to some of the more outlandish and unsubstantiated statements made on this forum.
Honestly, I feel my relationships, my spiritual health, and my happiness have only been improved by the practices I’ve found in the school. They have enhanced a lot of aspects of my life in many ways, so I am saddened to see some of the posts here about the school, some of which seem to be aimed at hurting the school.
Too bad there isn’t a forum for people to share success stories. It would bring a greater perspective about what the school is actually like.