...not in any professional sense. Thats why I needed to get help FROM a professional (grin) Thank you for mentioning this subtype of migraine headache. Just as we are discovering that many people experienced painless heart attacks, its very interesting that one can experience a painless migraine and have disruptions in the quality of conscious awareness. And (sigh) not all physicians would eve
Forum: Recovery from Destructive Cults and Groups

The writer is telling a correspondant that 'freezing one's thoughts' is not the same as enlightenment. It makes me wonder whether the prolonged trancy stare of the gurus you've all met cause our thoughts to freeze, merely because our eyes become fixed on them, whether by fascination, adoration, or terror (which is probably what happens to his victims when certain abusive t
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Landmark is an corrupt organisation, selling abusive seminars promising people a happy and successfull life. The Forum leaders are corrupt people selling their integrity for money. Before their minds were conditioned by society, now their minds are conditioned by Landmark. The Forum leaders are just parroting the same unauthentic information like copy cats. Forum leaders are company men, neve
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"

...I thought the same thing about Tolle's book. On the vocabulary point, I did eventually find Scientology's glossary which is pretty scary, but also humorous because the leader of the cult I was in said the EXACT SAME STUFF. "We are superior people." "If you leave you will die." "We are the only place in the world that does this kind of work." I
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"