American Conservatives and the Allure of Post-Soviet Russian Orthodoxy by Sarah Riccardi-Swartz Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA Religions 2021, 12(12), 1036; Received: 30 September 2021 / Revised: 3 November 2021 / Accepted: 20 November 2021 / Published: 24 November 2021
Forum: Terrorist and Extremist Groups

Cultenthusiast - your mailbox is full. Please do not deny yourself social connection. We are all hurting and make mistakes. The ones to despite are not ourselves but the ones who lied to us and wasted our time, our lives, our youth.
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

"The reality is that there are differences in what they teach to the uninitiated public and the actual members." Ask Me Anything Former Hare Krishna Recruiter QuotePrometheus1776 Op · 5 yr. ago There is a big difference between being an observer and a player on the field. The HKs chew people up and spit them out when they are no longer useful to their agenda. Sunday feast
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Should SikhNet be accepting grants from Akal Security when Akal assists ICE in separating children from their parents at US border?
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Memorial Service for Steven Bryant
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(Glum) CO$ is still here. They post ads online using questions to which any mildly sane person would answer "yes". Yes Yes Yes Go to Google and put these words in the slot. yes set sales technique
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"

Spring sunshine is here. Wherever there's a crowd ISKCON will be there to greet you. Meditation Yoga Free books tied together with blue ribbons. Yoga and meditation are the marketing hooks the ISKCON recruiter will invoke to draw you in. The street recruiters are not yet burned out.Anemic carbohydrate bellied older ISKCON devotees are kept our of sight of potential recruits li
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Discussion is about pedophilia problems in Iskon schools, not adult women.
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Gotta wonder if for ISKON pedophilia is a feature rather than a bug.
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

QuoteAlexandra Stein has pioneered the application of attachment theory to cult dynamics. Briefly put: she shows that the main task of the high-demand group is to re-wire the recruit’s attachment patterning to the disorganized end of the spectrum, where they are in an acute state of arousal amidst the contradiction of needing to devote themselves to the person who is abusing them. One of the
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"It’s not like the yoga world has accelerated the carbon crisis, but it is poignant to consider that in the crucial decades in which something could have been done, an entire generation of liberals was encouraged to spend money on self care in environments designed to give the impression that everything was fine and the only real problem was mental hygiene" -- Matthew Remski Listenin
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Fake Hafez: How a supreme Persian poet of love was erased That so many of the poems attributed to Hafez are fake reveals a Western appropriation of Muslim spirituality Omid Safi is the Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center. Published On 14 Jun 202014 Jun 2020 Faking Hafez What happens when it turns out that 'translations' of Hafez's poems are not Hafez’
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How a recovering former Scientologist behaved as a manager. Sounds kinda like Landmark, eh? QuoteAbigail’s fall from Scientology was long and difficult. When she got a job at her mom’s secular healthcare company, she used Hubbard’s business principles to whip the employees into shape, banning water-cooler chat, instating a uniform policy and riding people to keep their productivity “stats” up.
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"

Nico gives us the emotions and tensions of the junkie searching for the dope dealer - who is never early, which means we always have to wait. 0:00 / 4:39 I'm Waiting For The Man Nico Velvet Underground 1967 Have a listen. Tension to the max, eh? Now, recall when you waited, waited, waited for the guru to invite you, for the message to arrive. Waited for the guru to ap
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*2023 - Centrepoint, has since been revealed as a hotbed of pedophile crimes perpetrated by its now deceased leader, Bert Potter. Many survivors remain in various states of shattered torment. A university study found that every third child in the CP commune suffered sexual abuse. Bert's Labyrinth 2021 Anke Richter Prince of the Commune The victims of sexual abuse at the
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From another member of the CEI message board who spoke of a different group: QuoteThis is an old song Slave to love And I can't escape I'm a slave to love This is exactly devotees suffer from. Slave to love. Afraid to lose that love and security. Even though when you are in it, you will kill and die for that transcendental bliss, it is slavery. When you are fine sitting wi
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Some interesting discussion here. Mike Warnke Q Early Warning Signs...I Should Have Seen This Coming: QAnonCasualties
Forum: Destructive Churches

Mike Warnke Q Early Warning Signs...I Should Have Seen This Coming: QAnonCasualties
Forum: Destructive Churches

Active Clubs Fight Clubs Fat Shaming Radicalization Neo Nazi White Supremacy Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Are Fat-Shaming Men Into White Nationalism Fitness groups and fight clubs exclusively for white men, known as “active clubs,” have become a crucial recruitment tool for white nationalists in the U.S.
Forum: Hate Groups

Cultenthusiast wrote: QuoteReality has sharp teeth 'Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.' - Philip K Dick 'Ideas are air. Events are brass.' -- attributed to Herman Melville
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Shattered: Catholic community confronts its founder's lies Associated Press (Excerpt from longer article) QuoteVanier, a former Canadian and Royal Navy officer, founded L’Arche in 1964 in northern France. He initially invited two intellectually disabled men to live with him, then built the utopian-style, Catholic-inspired community into an international movement bringing people wi
Forum: Clergy and Therapy Abuse

Shattered: Catholic community confronts its founder's lies Associated Press Report finds Catholic charity founder sexually abused women By SYLVIE CORBETFebruary 22, 2020 Jesuit case underscores secrecy, leniency for abuse of women By NICOLE WINFIELDDecember 15, 2022
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Discussion about one renowned Evangelical authority on childrearing. Digging into James Dobson’s parenting books and the thing that strikes me most is how much he hates children QuoteI’ve been working through childhood trauma in therapy, mostly along the lines of severe emotional neglect. My parents were big fans of Dobson’s work and I remember them having copies of Dare to Disciplin
Forum: Destructive Churches

Hmm the Laguna Beach California Hare Krishnas got into drugs - but it was back in the 1970s. hare krishna drugs laguna beach
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Considering how Krishna shapeshifted, Prabhupada, Chris Butler and Tulsi should be teaching us to honor trans people!
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

My hunch is that the social and physical settings for gurus combine to create temptations beyond anyone's strength. By the time Moo got started in the guru business there were years of research on how groups become dangerous when socially isolated. Years of guru scandals had been documented. Moo could've sat himself down and studied all this, gotten some advice on precautions to tak
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Brad Warner, a teacher in a non Advaita tradition wrote an essay entitled More Reflections on How Spiritual Teachers go wrong. Part of it is the business model too many of them follow. Greentrees wrote: QuoteBy the time of about 2013 you had people saying Tony was a 'living God' or a 'Prophet' and such like. If Moo wanted to keep his set up adult and san
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Anthony D'Andrea, an anthropologist, published valuable descriptions of the Rajneesh Osho sannyasins as part of his study of global nomad rave culture: Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa Book can be found and purchased here: Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa A detailed descr
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Yes, yes. How many Rajneesh / Osho sannyasins are currently involved in in Moojibaba World? According to the current OSHO website this is known is "Neo Sannyas" or "OshoNeoSannyas" The Osho online library according to these Google Citations give reassuring descriptions of taking Sannyas: Quote Sannyas – Condemnation? — OSHO Online Library › osho-online-library › o
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Tulsi was born into Butler's religion. She is a product of his organization. The Gabbard family are the oligarchs of the Butler regime. Tulsi's natural habitat is Butler's dictatorship. Small wonder she spoke at a rally that appeared to be a Putin lovefest.
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