Hello there. i am a man in his 20' that has been exposed to tolles work. my story is about 2 years long now. i won t say much. i am happy i have found this forum. accualy it s the first forum i register for. Some things about your experience really made me resonate with. Believe me for some time now i though i was alone out there. i though i have gone crazy and there was no way back.
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It was nice of you Sahara71 to leave out the part where he calls Mooji's feet hairy monkey paws.. That sounds racist to me. He also compares Mooji to Bob Marley (because he's also a Jamaican with dreadlocks?). Reminds me of the "coreism" guy who said in his video that Mooji should stop the guru-thing and do his reggae-thing or something (because he's a Jamaican with dread
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The Guardian has published a full length feature story on a New Age guru named Benhinho Massaro. Massaro has had massive success via his online videos. Persons affected by Moo videos may find this interesting reading. Here is an example: QuoteLukas Jansen (a pseudonym) stumbled upon Bentinho’s YouTube videos when he was 25, living at his parents’ house recovering from a period of heavy drin
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To bring my remarks back into context, I was replying to: Quotefacet No, it’s around the 20 mins in mark mentioning ego and then pertaining to the egoless state becoming a unified field. I’ve heard a few heralding this it is kind of a theme, Eckhart Tolle immediately springs to mind. The thing for me is that ego activity or not, we are all a unified field anyway, like it or not. Anything
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I can certainly see where you (facet and sig) are coming from wrt the red flags. Interesting to note that Shunya is a trained hypnotherapist and does indeed often speak in a hypnotic way. This leaves listeners more open to suggestion, and when in this state they get told about a coming end of the world, this is problematic. On the other hand, the state of the world and where it's heading
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Is there a place for me to discuss this? I was in two cultish groups that met most of the criteria for a cult, and most of the criteria for being run by a cult leader. The only things I didn't experience was sexual and physical abuse in one cult. And the other cult that did me the most harm, I also didn't experience financial abuse. But these two cultish groups did me a lot of h
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> You mean the part where he says "it's a great > joy to see everyone—those who are here for the > first time and those who are back after some > time—but it already feels like we are creating a > very magical energy field together"? No, it’s around the 20 mins in mark mentioning ego and then pertaining to the egoless state becoming a unified field. I’ve h
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Re: Mooji a cult? Posted by: RO () Date: May 01, 2019 09:13PM To this Forum...sorry for the length but this is a big deal for me to tell, WOW! I really hope that this isn't true. What I also hope is that myself and others are not just twisting his message to fit a narrative we want to believe! This is one of the only times I have told my experience and the first time fairly publicly.
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Well, Horowitz, Rob has published his email for anyone to contact him. Drop him a line. There was this interesting comment from below Rob's video: "every time I think of Mooji I see those pictures his sangha was adding on facebook(they are never honest or truthful, they only PLAY with you, triger you, they only want to find your weaknesses and play on them. Years of games, neve
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Check out the thread: Byron Katie (the Work) and Eckhart Tolle Legit?? Be Scofield wrote another excellent article exposing a spiritual fraud. She wrote a balanced report. This is thorough and comprehensive report. Be's article: What I find interesting is how so many of these fraudulent "teachers" use reverse psycho babble, NLP, mumbo jumbo to control people. Isabell
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Byron Katie: “Because if it hurts, it's your thinking that's hurting you.” Byron Katie: “Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.” Byron Katie: “Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be caused by another person. No one outside you can hurt you. That’s not possible. Only when you believe a story about them can you be hurt. So you’re
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I read the Be Scofield article. Bravo Be Scofield!
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Here is a link to the 75 page document written by Byron Katie's former employee 'Janaki'. This is the document mentioned in in the article by Be Scofield shared above. It is well worth a read.
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Domination Byron Katie a Case Study by Matthew Remski
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A new article by journalist Be Scofield October 24 2019 A Critique of Byron Katie's Work
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Dear Ananas This thread was opened with the question whether Mooji was a cult. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mooji a cult? Posted by: happytown () Date: March 24, 2017 05:45AM Hi does anyone have any information about Mooji? There are few things on here but nothing recent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Ananas, I have my own reasons why I don't go to the Mooji meetings anymore, but they don't lie in the quality of the teachings but as I said before in the fact that I don't appreciate the increasing worshipping towards the person Mooji as appropriate anymore. This is an aspect that goes towards cult and that I cannot support. Nothing is only black or only white and if you con
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MiedoFree : "But I truly think it's time for us to be guru-free and explore the Silence and our own Divinity, and Awaken with the help of Grace. We just have to want it badly enough, no?" Yes i agree we have to explore that silence that inner peace by ourselves.Any teacher can only be a reminder or lets say " This finger pointing to the moon " When you are ready for
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AS REQUESTED The Moderator of this site gave two strong requests yesterday that if people wanted to talk about Be Scofield, then please devote a topic to her. Don't use the "James Swartz -- What Is The Truth?" topic for another purpose, was the message. Okay. Here's the topic. When I started the James Swartz topic I'd researched this criminal fraud for over two
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Be Scofield has been doing one helluva job exposing the dark side of the guru business/Enlightement Industry. Which would piss off a lot of people. Anything that smears Be Scofield needs careful investigation -- all of us would want that if anyone were to do the same to us. When discussing how Moo influences people, many of us found it very helpful to read analyses of conversational tr
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Warnings Received and Heard -- Thank You First, many thanks to Valma, Sahara71, and Corboy for the above posts. Perhaps I should have been more clear. As of this moment, I've made no decision regarding Be Scofield as related to the rape charges or the "Hostile Sociopath" diagnosis. I've also called her "rant" sent to the Culture or Cult folks "alle
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Thanks, Sahara71, for checking the Culture or Cult website more closely. Now, as you know, the big question is, assuming that the founder(s) of this website are really after Be Scofield as a primary, or actual sole, "target," is what he/she/they have to say accurate? Is/are he/she/they correct in what they write about Be Scofield, or not? --Is Be Scofield guilty of, as a male,
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Be Scofield has announced that in November 2019 she will release a book titled Toxic Spirituality: Abuse, Denial and Delusion in New Age Culture. The chapter list is at QuoteByron Katie & The Work Mooji Abraham Hicks & The Law of Attraction Teal Swan Marianne Williamson & A Course In Miracles Eckhart Tolle John of God Agama Yoga & Tantric Abuse Scandals Mindfulness
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Here is an interesting video from Tony- this time for "Guru Purnima" - the special day set aside each year to celebrate con-artists, charlatans and God-botherers. First off, Tony says a lot of the usual stuff. It's incredibly boring, actually. At 10.30 things start to get interesting when Tony gives us a very long list of gurus that he admires. We hear of Christ, Buddh
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hello all, I've been reading this thread with interest. I never wholeheartedly fell down the moo-hole but I did meet him and go to a retreat in London. There were many red flags for me but still I went along with it, mostly because I was quite vulnerable at the time. His staff were the biggest red flag. They all seemed dissociated and not happy people. I couldn't understand the need
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Holy Mother Mary!!! That is just freaking scary, luckychrmm. I can just imagine the poor little school kids who may actually be subject to real abuse (as statistically, child abuse is a very common fact) being taught to say to themselves "I feel really unsafe, but that is only a thought." What is the world coming to? I despair.
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Oy. What he's a very naughty boy has written is in line with what I've seen in various 12 Step rooms. * It violates the 12 Traditions to proselytize within the rooms for anything or anyone outside of conference approved literature. This was to prevent meetings and vulnerable persons being preyed on. But this will not stop guru recruiters. One gal used Alanon meetings to recr
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To this Forum...sorry for the length but this is a big deal for me to tell, WOW! I really hope that this isn't true. What I also hope is that myself and others are not just twisting his message to fit a narrative we want to believe! This is one of the only times I have told my experience and the first time fairly publicly. I went to an M Silent Retreat in Zmar in May 2016. I had watch
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Quotecorboy To get where ET is, you need ego, and you need a large team of people skilled in marketing, PR and SEO...search engine optimization. Sure, everyone has an ego, don't they? Doesn't necessarily mean their actions are egotistical. Tolle may also be driven (at least in part) by a belief that his message will change the world for the better. That's at least the impression
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These days person does not become a high profile internet ubiquitous spiritual teacher by accident. The person has to *want* this. Two, there are vast numbers of teachers out on the internet and in the body, all competing for followers. Echart Tolle had to overcome all this competition to get where he is today. To get where ET is, you need ego, and you need a large team of people skil
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