Thanks run forest run. What a bunch of hypocrits. Banning people 3 years for one aggressive comment while drug dealing shamans are worshipped. Even though I don’t like to call cannabis a drug because it has helped many as a medicine, it is against the 4 regs. If one sits on the high guru chair, I think the minimum they can do is respect the 4 regs. I would gladly watch an exorcism movie ver
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I ask myself a question. Is there truly hope for people who have developped such faith than they are willing to ingest a guru’s toenails with a glass of water that was used to wash their feet? Is this truly spiritual life? What a very strange system of worship? I think the gods have a very good sense of humor. But guess what? We can either play these stupid games in exchange for some bliss or
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I am a new member and have seen some similar posts to my experience. My sister became involved in New Ageism around 2018 and I heard about it through her husband who contacted my family out of concern she was disappearing to weekend retreats with people he did not know. Over the past three years she has been to group sessions with a man who has followers who pay him to channel light language, as
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That must have not been a shaman at all. The shaman, REALLY wouldn't do that because they are here doing their activities to help others kickstart and go through their psychic-spiritual processes in order to ascend to higher consciousness and better (more harmonious) living. Definetely not the work of a shaman, but definetely the work of an imposter. The only possibility of such ac
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Teal ‘spiritual catalyst’ - unfortunately the only catalyst here is emotional manipulation. Wether they were aware of what they were doing or not (that is Teal and Blake), videos were more often littered with careful edits surrounding various on camera emotional breakdowns that still kept the crying bits in, cut shortly before restarting. This technique helped ‘Teal’ gain her following online
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Shadows Across The Moon: Outlaws, Freaks, Shamans And The Making Of Ibiza Clubland Helen Donlon Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa Book by Anthony D'Andrea voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Global-Nomads.Techno-and-new-age-as-transnational-countercultures-in-Ibiza-and-Goa-by-Anthony-DAndrea.pdf
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Bakkagirl , I do appreciate what you are saying, - that it is held over your head that if you don't attend, you won't receive work. Also, that when you ask questions about the program itself, answers are vague to nonexistent. The course description is just as vague in the private sector. Nobody knows what they are buying. To have that held over your head at work threatens your ve
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Re: Mooji a cult? Posted by: Sahara71 () Date: September 19, 2018 06:18AM I read some of the stuff written here on Cult Education via the link you posted and all I can say is: Wow! I probably need to do a lot more reading about all this kind of thing! Trance Induction: I knew that watching Moo's videos on YouTube made me feel relaxed and I thought there was something just a li
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One person's well researched assessment of singing bowls. Quote Posted Jan 05, 2016 #1 Singing Bowls - Separating Truth from Myth “We have come to an age where it is very hard to know which is truth and which is deceit” - Bangambiki Habyarimana When we survey the sound instruments used in today’s Sound Therapy practices or sacred sound programs no one instrument has o
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It is unethical for any meditation instructor to push his or her religious or political preferences at you. Deep trust is elicited during meditation instruction, and boundaries are lowered. An instructor is professionally and morally obligated not to exploit this, no matter how 'loving' his or her intentions. Native Americans regard Don M Ruiz as a Plastic Shaman - a fake. G
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Topic: James "Flaming Eagle" Mooney - New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans Forum Phoenix Goddess Temple mugshots Quotebout 8 results (0.45 seconds) Search Results Web results Council revokes Sedona Temple's permit - Sedona Red Rock News ... redrocknews.com/news/13-top-news/6634-city-council-revokes-sedona-temples-permit Mar 5, 2012 - City staff asked council to
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Thank you Corboy, I read some of the stuff written here on Cult Education via the link you posted and all I can say is: Wow! I probably need to do a lot more reading about all this kind of thing! Trance Induction: I knew that watching Moo's videos on YouTube made me feel relaxed and I thought there was something just a little bit 'addictive' about them. I couldn't put
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Buddhism Buddhist Buddhistic Dharma Ayahuasca Cultural Appropriation Plastic Shaman Here is something for people to ponder if they want to combine their buddhist commitment with ayahuasca. Buddhist ethics (aka precepts) warn against stealing. Many persons who are native americans are deeply troubled that ayahuasca has been commercialized. If one takes cultural appropriation seriously,
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We Asked a Veteran Peruvian Ayahuasca Shaman About Dumb Tourists Ayahuasca Tourism Is Ripping Off Indigenous Amazonians Some groups are pissed about the influx of Westerners visiting the Amazon to dress up like the indigenous people and bastardize their rituals. Crappy Ayahuasca Shamans Can Kill You
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To to the devotee, only utter adoration is the acceptable response. The devotee is in a world where there are no limitations, no history, eternal time for the devotee believes in and has surrendered to a person who is a Person beyond time, beyond history, beyond good beyond evil, beyond catagories, beyond morality. There's no outside to this. None. Not for the devotee. Evidence as
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The Alstads did a service when they published Guru Papers. That became the earliest self help guide for people who were grievously wounded in Guru led groups. Here are some earlier articles on this message board that may be helpful. I highly recommend obtaining the book by interlibrary loan so you can read the entire chapter and see if other gurus you know are mentioned. In a later
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Why You Will Never Get a Traditional Ayahuasca Treatment (Excerpt) QuoteAyahuasca, Means and Ends The first difference lies in the role that ayahuasca plays. Locally, it is tool that the healer employs to enter the world of the spirits, channel the chants he receives from the spirits into his healing, and capture information about the illness of the patient and the medicine the patie
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This website is owned by Native Americans who are concerned about appropriation of their traditions. This discussion began back in 2007. Some URLs cited may now be dead links. (google cache) (Google search done 6:13 AM 07/16/2017 search terms"gabriel cousens" "lakota") QuoteGABRIEL COUSENS, M.D. | - Tree of Life Center Us treeoflifecenterus.com/gabr
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Here are excerpts from an interesting article. Is Maum's creator one of many Korean self made saviors? QuoteSouth Korea’s leading cult expert is Tark Ji-il, a professor of religion at Busan Presbyterian University. When I reached out to him, he said that as a person of Korean descent, this would be a “very meaningful study” for me. It has been for him as well, though for a differen
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.Friends, this is a must-read. was a self-help guru. Here’s why you shouldn’t listen to people like me. I learned the hard way that the people trying to solve your problems often need help the most. Updated by Michelle Goodman Jan 23, 2017, 8:00am EST Quote"Deepak Chopra is a fraud". This is what I was thinking as I lingered 20 rows back, waiting for Bree, my boss, to fini
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Re: gaslighting. The name of the movie is "Gaslight." Ingrid Bergman was in it. You can watch it for free on the internet. They do much of this in LE. The people who recruited me into LE leaned toward the metaphysical, (not all of them do), and would refer to gaslighting as "Coyote Medicine," in an attempt to legitimize it as spiritual. There are probably dozens of term
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This excerpt from Daniel Shaw's essay is worth a closer look. Depending on the context, one can substitute "batterer", "dictator" "captor" for "cult leader". Quote"... from a psychoanalytic perspective, the cult leader unconsciously experiences his dependency needs as so deeply shameful that a delusion of omnipotence is developed to ward o
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From a discussion on New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans forum. Discussion of Trinity de G's background.
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One comment and some discussion on Tribes net Quote tribes » health & wellness » energy awareness » topics » rising star truth, andl ack of... topic posted Mon, July 14, 2008 - 8:24 PM by thomas Share/Save/Bookmark I'm sure very few know\ derek o'neill is being sued for what he has done and continues to do. here is a link you should read--you should also know this person w
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Trinity has the website back up Main focus in promoting upcoming events in Peru. Although he also features video testimonials from people who attended the Washington events. In my opinion, these people were exploited for profit. The website still lists the same team members. I don't know if they are in Peru with him. Dylan Guss, the 23 year old logistics guy, says he is in Peru.
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Shamans and Charlatans: Assessing Castaneda's Legacy (small excerpt) Quotes The Teachings of Don Juan introduced thousands of psychedelically-inclined readers to its mysterious sage, the deserts of Mexico were subsequently inundated with droves of ?Don Juan seekers? determined to find, and be enlightened by, the elusive sorcerer. Anthropologist Jane Holden Kelley reports the harass
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Wow. That is great. Paolo Roberto is bad news but he is like a worshipped cult leader to many of his followers. I wonder how you could do that when those churches affiliated with PR are not even legal to start with? YES YOU ARE RIGHT (HERE IS WHAT HAPPEN )...CHURCH LIKE THE ONE IN VANCOUVER CANADA ...ONLY DEAL WITH PAOLO ROBERTO .AND HIS WIFE NONATA ..THEY DO NOT WORK WITH ANY OTHER PADRIHOS HE
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Quotedabcult I was alarm when I went to Santo Daime ceremonies for the so called "illumination works "was practice and this with total NEW COMERS to Santo Daime Very very scary Spirits of the Astral using the Daime sessions to possess the body of participants IT DID LOOK LIKE ROSEMARY BABY POSSESSIONS)....and the Paulo Roberto ....and his son ...and in some sessions in the US and in B
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Dear Gaile ...you are not diverting the thread ...on the contrary ...you are pointing out some of the dangers ....as most people do not have a clue of that medicine and all it can do ...good and bad ...Our Santo Daime experiences can bring clarity to what could be a tragedy in the making I was alarm when I went to Santo Daime ceremonies for the so called "illumination works "was
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I would like to give a little background. I have been a moderator of the Ayahuasca forums for twelve years (and a member a few years longer) and (besides living for several years with Amazonian Indians, being a member of the Santo Daime church, and being a member of a network of academic researchers who study ayahuasca from many different angles) have had a front row seat for many people's
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