Quoterrmoderatorshimon: Please post the link to the article at the BK site so anyone interested can look at it there. first off, misunderstandings on your part. i did not endorse this article. i posted it to show that there already is a byron katie/buddhist connection. it has been on her site for years. i read it years ago. that was all. i do not endorse it and agree it is very dangerous,
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i was doing some research and found his website that promotes his book "harmonic wealth" and it is interesting reading who endorsed it, and i wonder if they are glad they did it now. who would want to be associated with him now? interesting reading who endorsed him, most are from the Secret movie. And most are familiar names on here, as people we have been investigating. i hope nobody
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okay, so james ray is free at the moment, waiting for his trial. what is he doing? he is tweeting everyday. i just find it so absurd. he is still trying to influence his few remaining followers with spiritual sounding tweets. it is one of the most absurd things i have ever seen. at this point, while waiting for a possible jail sentence, the man just goes on tweeting obsessively everyday. tweet, t
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QuotePenelopeJames Ray Recommends Hawkins and Demonstrates Applied Kinesiology i watched this video with james ray. i have seen similar ones, by wayne dyer and other new age teachers, they all like to use this demonstration i think. it is kind of powerful, and makes a point. there might be some truth to it too. the body might indeed know what is good and what is bad for it. i do not believe
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QuoteChristaQuoteshimon Then he started looking for answers, and found them in the motivation work of Anthony Robbins — visualisation, positive energy, and yes, walking on hot coals. The firewalking is the most controversial element of Ashley's teaching. He says firewalking is about tapping into "dormant resources" and elevating "the frequency of your energy to that of the fir
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QuoteThe AnticultThe question is, is there anyone on the face of planet earth whom the fake NOT-Dr. Joe "Mr. Fire" Vitale DOESN'T endorse? Vitale has accomplished one thing at least, he's written perhaps the WORST "book" in world history. Ho'oponopono "Dr." Joe Vitale -one of the worst books in world history, Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian Sy
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QuoteThe AnticultWhat rating did on his bogus "consciousness scale" did David R. Hawkins give to James Ray? The technical term for this guy is whack-job Megalomaniac. ANticult, I was once a follower of Hawkins and still follow what he is up to. i got fooled by his ktesting, i now know it is fake, not scientifically proven. i have read most of his books and try to stay informed wh
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As usual, thank you anticult for your great, informative post. i am staying away from kurek and tony robbins james ray, and the like. they are too dangerous for me. they might even kill me if not have me get hurt or burned. its like you have been saying all along. they, the gurus, the teachers do not get hurt, but many of their participants do. it is a very dangerous game this lgat business.
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Thank you two for the replies. i will watch the firewalk video with michael shermer. i went to the bookstore tonight and looked for kureks book but they didnt have it, like i figured. they had several tony robbins books though. i browsed through it and disgustingly put it back. to him rapport and other nlp techniques, etc is considered success.not in my book. i do not like how he goes about pr
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I found this in a article on his site. it looks like every teacher has a story, as anticult has taught me. heres his brief story: In 1990, he survived a helicopter crash on the set of the Chuck Norris film Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold. Five other crew members were killed. In the redemption story he tells his audiences, he spent the next two and a half years suicidally depressed, "
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i do not know much about tony robbins except that he is a motivator. here is a protege, another peak performance person in the same line as Tony is. i think he even was a student or somehow connected with tony. they all like to do similar things, as tony does, did imo. especially the firewalk. I watched a 3 minute clip of kurek doing and leading a firewalk. i never saw a firewalk before, heard ab
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heads up for those who follow this guy. he is hawking his talks/inspiration on the big screen now. i was informed that his latest movie/talk called "Wishes Fufilled" is showing at select cinemas, and it has to do with Hay House again too. the first showing was Jan 28th and an encore showing on Feb 4th. i guess he is trying to get his message across to even larger audiences, even more th
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what beckwith is selling on his website reminds me of porn. they sell similar things, for this amount of money a month you get to see all of my latest videos and other stuff, for a low price of this a month. there is no difference between beckwith and a porn star. he is a shuckster, making money is one of his big aims. what about helping people, what about giving freely, giving with faith that
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i have been doing some looking up of local new thought churches in my area and almost of all them offer FREE watching or listening to this weeks sermons. then i do some research on michael bernard beckwiths website, Agape, and see that there is no such thing as FREE. You have to pay for everything. you have to buy time to watch their online stuff. everything costs, can you believe that. this guy
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Quoterrmoderatorshimon: It seems you are only here to undermine threads by causing conflict etc. Such a person posting on a message board is often called an "Internet troll." TO RRmoderator, Sir, with all due respect, i am not here to undermine any threads or cause any conflict. i am on your side, i am one of the good guys, not the enemy. these cults and cult leaders a
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QuotecorboyLets not get ourselves worn out the way Phoenix Potter did, running errands for someone else--unless that person pays you to do their research for them, and pays on time and at market rate. Phoenix Potter worked his or her ass off and responded with a long post dealing with Shimons many questions. Read the ensuing dialogue between Shimon, Phoenix Potter, and Rick Ross(Mode
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Hi Dr alex, i admit i do not know that much about Michael bernard beckwith and am just questioning and investigating him. anticult has done a lot of good on here and he was right on with his predictions regarding a James arthur ray, which you might want to peruse that topic. he wound up killing 3 people at a sweat lodge and someone else died because of him too earlier. he was in the movie the
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thank you for all you wrote on michael beckwith (plus all the other posts, like james ray), i learned a lot and you have helped me to see these guys clearer. i did do some searching on google before with some of the keywords you wrote but will continue to do further research and checking on these guys. i do not get it in my area but i see beckwith has a pbs special that is airing in some part
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Yes, i read everything i could on Michael bernard beckwith on this forum. i did a search and went thru it all. however on the internet i typed in everythign i could think of that might bring up a scandal, negatives, rumors, dirt on him and found absolutely nothing. even the person who attended his church who chimed in on this forum really did not have anything too bad to say about him. they ev
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The people who claim to heal others is an interesting one. just recently someone told me about a Christian Healer who healed him and his daughter. he was telling me amazing stories, about everything from growing new organs to instantaneous healing of cancer,strokes, broken bones,etc. I looked her up and watched a few youtube videos of her, but am not convinced. I am very leerry of all of these pe
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QuoteThe AnticultAn interesting thing about this forum is that its sometimes a couple of years ahead of the media reports. For example, James Arthur Ray was pointed out as being a dangerous scammer a couple of YEARS ago in this forum, when at the time the "media" was licking James Ray's boots as he was in The Secret. Hi Anticult, I agree with everythign you wrote and you
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going thru the home page and looking at all of the listed group information was surprised to see Amma, also known as Mata amritanadamyi listed , even though i looked through the articles on her and did not find anything negative about her. ANd also was surprised to deepak chopra. Although i agree about Chopra, but then am surprised not to see several others: Like Byron Katie, she should be on the
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i have been reading michael bernard beckwiths "Spiritual LIberation" and am halfway through it. i bought the book because a few people recommended him to me. my old aquaintances from Dr David Hawkins recommened it to me. they said Dr Hawkins recommeneds him and thinks highly of him and actually endorsed Michaels book. ANd sure enough hawkins is in there praising michael saying "For
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thank you ctel for your response. will read those posts on that page you posted. it looks interesting. it helps to narrow down some of the reading for me, which is what i wanted, for else it is just overwhelming somettimes reading all of the posts on this forum on a particular topic. So far my research on the internet hasnt turned up much criticism or negatives against gurdjieff. Wikipedia ar
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i have been reading some gurdjieff and i find some of his ideas worth reading. and yet i found on this board some people who think he was a cult leader. it is hard to read all of the thousands of previous posts, i was wondering if there is any kind person who can point me to do some reading online, not through books, but online on the computer so i can read any criticisms of gurdjieff and his
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so sorry. i forgot to say that i browsed through sogyal rinpoches book and bought one of his tapes, something on living and dying, about death, conscious dying. i found it very good and he sounded good on it. Now i knew nothing about him when i bought the tape but he sounded very good in it and found it right on. so i am having a hard time separating what i read from what i heard on the tape, all
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I found this thread on Sogyal rinpoche to be very interesting and helpful but very surprising. i just asssumed that any tibetan buddhist lama teacher with a title of rinpoche which means precious one and is venerated in tibetan buddhism and is supposed to be a reincarnated great being can do or act like he is supposedly acting. How does one know the difference between a real and true and genu
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Dear Anticult, Thank you very much for all of your posting and work on this james arthur ray sweat lodge sedona incident. it is very much appreciated and is helpful. I could have seen ray at a free event in my local city a little while back but decided not to go. I am glad i did not go now. Not that i would have signed up for any of his paying programs, but why even be in this guys presen
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I thought it over and i am going to go and read Ramana Maharshi now instead of Hawkins. I cant go wrong with him or be misled by him or have to worry about any cult like tendencies with him, for there are none. He is dead and his teachings shine through pristinely. There are no calibrations or levels in his teachings. There is just Reality. Gotta love good old Ramana. It is best that i just retur
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