See also the previous threads, e.g. “Eckhart Tolle -- Comments From Someone who Knows Him”:
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A bit more about the misconceptions that Eckhart Tolle spreads: Tolle used to suffer from severe anxiety and depression. One day he had a moment of especially deep crisis. He was ready to end his life. He kept thinking (I'm paraphrasing): "I can't live with myself anymore." But then, he suddenly wondered: "Who is this self that can't live with myself? Do I have tw
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Hi Ime223, You are good as you are. Smoking or not, you're good. "Having an ego" or not, you're good. And everyone has an ego. Even Eckhart Tolle has an ego. He still responds to his name. He still knows in which body's mouth he needs to put the food he eats. He may have had a shift of perspective that allows him to recognize that he is not only the body-mind, but that
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First forgive me for my bad English. I hope that you will understand me. I was always very shy guy, very self critical and anxious. At the end of high school i started smoking and drinking alcohol and went into slight depression. To let go of depression i found on net some practices like Law of Attraction and Eckhart Tolle teachings. I already felt slight guilt because of destroying my body with
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Yea Tolle has no ashram nor does R.Sphira orAdyashanti as far as I know....I am sure they figure the risks are to great. Jk NAVOIDED THE GURU ROle like the plauge.. Look at Da ADI free John his places really had some scenes going on... So it goes how MOOJI DOES IN THE END WHO KnOWS...HIS POINTING IS POWERFUL. Use like a tool and be greatfull for the help he can provide...
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I am very grateful of this site. It's been useful in my recovery from "new-age" bunk and learn more about cults. I took an "Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction" course a while back. It was somewhat helpful, but lately I have been getting e-mails from my teacher about Don Miguel Ruiz spiritual sabbaticals. I didn't think much of them and deleted them. Now I have bee
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Very constructive criticism of Mooji’s Is-ness or E. Tolle’s present moment in video: Ego’s Game - What Eckhart Tolle & Mooji Won't Tell You :) What was said at 44:0-45:10 in this video is the truth for me, it’s also basic stuff for everybody who may be on a spiritual path: to shape your ego/conditioning, work on yourself and simultaneously be present/conscious, and meditate, get into
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After reading the above post I feel compelled to tell my story also, albeit seems a very different experience. From the original Wiseowl post, I find it a real shame that someone who has clearly been on the same journey as my wife and I with Pete and Nikki, and probably sat in a lot of the same group/coaching sessions, has had such a different experience. I will bullet some of the things Wi
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Friends, here is a contrast with where we were in 1987 - one of the songs that was in our culture. 1987. People were dying of AIDS in public, in First World countries. The crack epidemic began in the 1980s, destroying entire communities, spiritually and psychologically hitting hardest at poor people, especially people of color. With no internet, no cell phones, thousands of peop
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Why Are Portraits of John of God and Gloria Steinem Beside Each Other at Omega Institute? QuoteSo “John of God” used fake healing to gain access to women he would sexually assault. Two somewhat-related things come to mind: 1) A personal memory about how one of the cults I was in overlapped with the John of God cult. Endeavor Academy QuoteRemski provides the Wikipedia art
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In this Zmar Portugal satsang 2018, Mooji serves a spiritual fast food with an immediate magic drink to the confused audience again. What is actually discovered here and what is the Mooji’s Is-ness? It’s only a meditation-concentration state, pure sensation, observation of thoughts /feelings in the consciousness, E.Tolle’s present moment, temporarily silenced mind, being conscious, and etc. It’s
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at: Mooji a cult?, Posted by: alonzo , November 23, 2018 Alonzo said; “I was drawn to him for self-actualization and a lot of what he said spoke directly to me and I knew from experience that what was being said was true….”  Moo mostly interprets M. Maharshi, Nisargadattha M., or E. Tolle and other good teachers but he mixes it up with himself, his “spiritual” greatness, and his untrue stor
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SadGame Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for your kindness sahara71 > I am doing fine, ups and downs. > > I lack any feeling of belonging, which is why an > ultimate identity with pure consciousness is very > appealing to me. It is beyond human relationships > and independent of them. > > That is also why laughter is so
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How to create craving in relation to an "Advaita" guru. When this happens. It carries the message that the guru is special, conveys some kind of "energy" the way a space heater does, or a tanning bed. Closer you are to the guru, the more virtues you absorb. We discussed this years ago about Eckhart Tolle.
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Corboy proposes a specific diagnostic entity Guru Occupational Disease Cluste Predispositions * Inability to enjoy peer to peer adult relationships * Overriding need to control people and people's perceptions of self * Ambition * Inability to distinguish between clean money and dirty money * Family members who profit * Creation of glamorous backstory, stories may chan
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While reviewing Walter1963's work on NLP, this caught my eye. He wrote: "It happened to me when I took a 3 day NLP seminar in 1995 and at the end of the 3 day seminar I found myself signing up for their 21 day $2500.00 "NLP practitioner certification program", ironically enough it was right next door to a EST seminar. And during the 21 day course, I was regularly bombarded
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Anyone can 'bump' a thread if he or she is interested enough, pro or con to make a post and revive a discussion. Older, longer discussions that mention Tolle are here, Some hunting needed to locate extended discussions but interesting nonetheless: One very interesting perspective
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Trance techniques can easily be concealed within the satsang/darshan setting. Authority centered persuasion -- very old techniques Satsang setting has its own set of rules Some gurus appropriated powerful trance technology used by Werner Erhard (est, Landmark) and concealed this behind Hindu trappings. Sparkly Eyes (Look at your own eyes in a mirror. Then compare with
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I'm curious why you decided to bump a thread from so long ago?
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Be careful in the future. Personal attacks are against the rules agreed upon by users of this message board.
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Point taken. It triggered an intense negative emotional reaction in me for some reason, that obviously came across in my reply.
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mechanizm: Please don't attack people personally on this message board. It's a violation of the rules and rude. YOu have no idea what this person's experience is and have no business attempting to lecture them.
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No, Eckhart Tolle did not turn you into a zombie. That's like saying Jesus turned Europeans into genocidal psychopaths in the time of the crusades. Jesus did not cause the crusades or the Spanish Inquisition, people misused the words of the bible to suit their own corrupt agenda. The same words caused others to become more peaceful and loving. Similarly, Eckhart Tolles teachings are there fo
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Eric Allen Bell Goes to the Doctor Alright Mr. Bell just lie back now. Oh, you don’t understand. I don’t want you to analyze me. I want you to diagnose this guy who has been cyberstalking me for 6 years. He’s crazy. It’s all in that packet I gave you. OK, understood. Just lie back and give me a moment to look through this, and then I will tell you what I think. Well, alright . . .
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Hi, First off, I totally respect your journey, and the part you feel Peter Young played in it. Overall, I think there’s a few things that are important to note, because I agree with much of what you say, but see it in a different context: 1. Drill sergeants behave the way they do in order to program their soldiers into certain behaviours. Teachers behave differently, because they are
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Hi, I'm a previous student of PY but I have to say I feel very sad that you have had a bad experience as I never did and would like to stand up for him in case other people miss the opportunity to meet him because of this forum. I met Rinpoche, when he went by the name Sifu about 15 years ago. By the sounds of it he has stayed true to his personality, which is kind of like a drill s
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“You could jump out of a window”, he said. I did. Fortunate to be alive I followed this Yoga Cult Master for years. Others have died but no one believes my story. The police laugh, therapists don’t get it. Friends and family think it’s my defect. Psychic development is what he is famous for. How to acquire the supernatural abilities through studying the mind. It is what seduced me being a psychol
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Greetings, Since I found some answers on this forum that I was looking for, I would like to share a brief history of mine. To cut short, me and my family were always in the church, but when I was a kid I didn't like going to it and as I grew older I stopped going all together. In my adulthood I was looking for something new and started reading Eckhart Tolle's books and short after I
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<<High five>> Wishing you all the best for this winter season, which in so many parts of the world, is celebrated with festivals of light. Here's an example of how personal hopes plus social context affect one's beliefs. Stephen Batchelor tells this about himself back when he was a practicing Tibetan Buddhist and friends with a group of young Westerners who had, li
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Thanks westie, that's kind of you to say, I appreciate it. Likewise, I wish you well with your own recovery, whatever form it's taking. I'll look out for your story if and when you choose to publish it on here, as if you've felt able to relate to mine I'm sure I'll be able to relate to yours. And corboy, thanks for your responses. I've been through all the ot
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