For many years, the Soka Gakkai was part of Nichiren Shoshu, a Japanese Buddhist sect. The Soka Gakkai is an organization of lay members. In the early 1990's, the Soka Gakkai and Nichiren Shoshu split -- very bitterly. The leaders had told us for years to support the Nichiren Shoshu priests -- suddenly we were being told that the priests were corrupt and evil. And apparently the senior Soka
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Theres a great but out of print book 'Outrageous Betrayal'...its the life of Jack/Werner!
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a friend of mine was with a famous teacher in Kashmir...sri sri showed up as an errand boy for his teacher maharisi....and there was an interesting few words from the saint to sri sri.....hahahahahhahahahahahhahahahhaha sri sri is a cult leader far as i can tell.
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WELL WELL WELL! i just found this after posting a new thread on this AWFUL organization... I heard SRISRI talk 2x long ago...the group wouldnt leave me alone......kept calling / recruiting me. see a site called GURUPHILIAC.COM...jodi reznak for much more info.
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Hello All! A friend in Santa Barbara Ca says SRISRI and his ' AOLF' has infiltrated the cali school system. Does anyone know?
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I have a friend who is in SGI...he insisted I go to a meeting..it was at P werners house,,,the producer? of the 70s show. I find SGI to be a cult or cult like. They encourage members to ' tithe'. or so I gather. It has asked / demanded members to ' bring strangers in off the street' to recruit. and has got alot of members! one person I know said ' I stopped going ,
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for those who were there 1974 to 1980s....an update on some of the people there: SURYA BABA..............killed himself! HANUMAN GIRI...........dead BILLY BYROM..............dead SARASWATI DASI.......dead KRISHNA DAS.............now famous RAMESHWAR DAS.......on long island? LAXMAN or LAXMAN DAS.......................now calls himself SWAMI LAXMAN or laxman das and teaches in LA.
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Ram das , Krishna das. Tara, Nora = THE FOUR FLUNKIES!!!! I AM GLAD I SAW THRU KASHI AND LEFT. When I was there it wasn’t called Kashi but the ‘Orphalese foundation’. The involvement took some much time and I went on a retreat thinking I was going to spend time with Joya and ended up spending time with rude inept student teachers! Or as Vishwa from Texas asked…shocked…’wheres Joya’ and tara sai
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Byron Katie, Eckhart, Hicks are all making the ' new age circuit' and really separating the fools from their money! ANYONE HAVE ANY HORROR STORIES OF FINANCIAL MANIPULATION THERE?
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LGATS use tech niques to get people to ' open up' 'share your secrets' i.e. .................BOND WITH US! The pressure at Kashi to 1. believe 2. conform 3. join 4. ' make a contribution'..of time and money Long counseling sessions at Kashi often run by Tara and Nora oswald , neither of whom was licensed as a psycholgist! What Nora told me in august
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i told someone who spent...in 1999? $ 8,000$ for psi about this website he was angry and defensive. HE TOLD ME HE CONSIDERS PSI TO BE......GET THIS.....SACRED.
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i walked out on his talk...seemed very ' new age' I also bought his books. this is from his site: blablablabla: Divine Books We welcome you to read more about and purchase these divine books. Divine Soul Mind Body Healing and Transmission System Divine Soul Songs The Power of Soul Soul Communication Soul Wisdom Soul Mind Body Medicine Power Healing Living D
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Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle, Esther Hicks, and KASHI : The purpose of this post is to look at the area where ' religion' and "LGAT' may overlap. I went to a few Byron Katie meetings. My chiropractor was a fan. I also knew someone who went to Barstow for a training with BK and went up front on the hot seat and ran from Barstow in tears. The friend who went to BK also pl
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There was a woman who lived at the Hanuman house, with her hubby and 2 small children. Her name was Maureen R. She left the group. Before she did she wrote Joya a letter. In it she stated that she ' didnt like the way joyas ' inner circle ' treated her' ! The reason I know this is because she was told to stand up at a meeting in front of 100 or 300? people as joya said '
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LGATS large group awareness trainings. This is from this site elsdewhere: BYRON KATIE / STEVEN MITCHELL: So lets keep the facts straight. Someone posted on Guruphiliac that their family member ended up in a psychiatic hospital, after attending Byron Katie's extreme and dangerous LGAT seminar called The School. That kind of damage happens to people ALL THE TIME at these types of LGAT
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Here are a few other things! Lily D. said there was child abuse there. She told this to kashi-ites. SHE CLAIMS THEY BEAT HER UP! Krishna das and his womanizing. Will maybe go into that later! Tara at one point said... I was there when Joya called and talked tantra. She was fierce. She said Tantra has zip to do with the body and everything to do with going into god.....well gee...now wi
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Nora Oswald: Pushing yourself and yr agendas on people backfired.And after years there you left joya and her odious movement. You sat on a cozy couch while we sat on the floor. THE BIGGER THEY ARE THE HARDER THEY FALL. The erosion technique was being used on people. deprive them of sleep and food and '' work on their resistance' I recall you and yr sidekick ]terrible] tara as 2
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Richard Rosenkranz: I knew him as Brama das. Richard Rosenkranz is the founder of the Interfaith Call for Religious Freedom and Human Rights, and president of the World Tibet Day Foundation. He is a former resident of the Kashi Ashram. WHAT ARE THESE STORIES OF VIOLENCE AND BLACK MAGIC? The claims by jaya that there never was any violence there is a bold lie but a lie none the less! I k
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HAY.....no way...and circa 1990 i believe she went broke...a friend worked for her and I think the company was closed...he said she was ' beautiful' but I think shes a self promoter.
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NAMES OF THE PLAYERS : RICHARD ALPERT / RAM DAS ...long time drug advocate and former protegee of the dreaded Tim Leary Roy Bonney / Krishna das Tara / legal name unknown Nora Oswald / animal Ammal / Mukti Bagavan das / and no he didnt grow up in Laguna Beach as well as a number of others...100s or 1000s of others Paul Silbey / Ramana das Vishwa Karma Dorge Rameshwar das and
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I am going to start a thread on this group. I would like those who were there to post THE TRUTH here, now. I was part of the previous group...which was called the Orphalese Foundation I believe...circa 1975 to 1977. Queens NY. Since so many bad things happened there I dont expect people to use their legal names.
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THANKS BOB AND JEAN.....CAN YOU LIST HIS INTELIUS CREDIT HISTORY? and if anyone has a few minutes they can take his 'BIO' and type it and put it in this forum! Clearly hes misrepresented himself on some occasions! what school did he attend? when? what state is he licensed in? Assaulting a police officer???!!!!!!! 500+ grams of cocaine!!!!! how many pounds was it????
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THANKS HOPE!!!! IM WONDERING IF HIS CREDIT HISTORY CAN BE POSTED!!!???? AS far as his criminal history goes i assume Intelius gave us a 20 year search as the 1987 'arrested with pound [500+ grams] of Cocaine is not there...does anyone know what the arrests were? from 92 on??????
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i hear...rumor...they have a million dollar a month business
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wow.................thats info
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THANKS....feel free to post it if you want...were there medically related crimes?
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FROM THE WEB Does he mention lies? the drug pusher in the white coat... but according to Dallas-based naturopath and research scientist Dr. Gary L. Tunsky, all they’re studying is the big lie told in med school: That these ... www.honesthuman.com AND Another last minute "no-show" was Texas naturopath Gary Tunsky. Rumours at the conference suggested that he had been prevented
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Dr. Gary Tunsky, Felon?....935 F.2d 1288 Unpublished Disposition
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LICENSES TO CLARIFY: There are no "National Licenses" for NDs - people who claim this, or claim to be "board certified" are mistaken, probably went through a correspondence course that told them they were Naturopathic Doctors after taking a few tests at home! Licensure for Doctors of any sort is on a state by state basis. For instance the state of Colorado does n
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looking at the web today at google page 4 or 5 this is what i found.....and if hes licensed in a state or states fine...i dont think NDs have a natuional license from google today 935 F.2d 1288 Unpublished Disposition NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case an
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