Hi moderator, Thank you for your posting - I don't want to give the impression that I was attempting to promote the websites that were edited out - all have had some form of website or blog on them in the past, but none of them are active anymore - they have 'parked pages' from the company that I purchased the domain names from. They were all mentioned in an earlier posting b
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I have had problems posting messages this morning - the system told me I wasn't logged in after trying to post it twice - if the post did happen to get through and just hasn't appeared yet then I'm hoping the moderator picks up on this and deletes the duplicates. Thanks, Jon ------------------------------------- Hi guys, So first of all, thank you for all the posts, qu
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Hi JJ, Thanks for your post - I don't know why, but my postings were delayed - maybe because I've just joined the forum. More than once the thought went through my mind that 'my messages have been blocked' but I just checked that out for myself and thought 'well, if they are blocked that's OK and I don't know that that is what has happened.' I don
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Hi helpme2times, Thanks - your post made me smile - I apologize if I stepped over acceptable boundaries with 'with love'! You know, I'm really open to looking at this stuff - as I said, for me it's one of the things that I like about The Work - I see it as a very clean form of meditative inquiry - I'm certainly not unwilling to find stuff about it - at least I don&#
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Hi Anticult, Thanks for the invite into the parlor of reality - I accept :-) I'm open to hearing what is said here - I'm certainly not on here with an agenda to sell The Work or anything like that - just wanted to be open about me and my own experience. Certainly not intended as any kind of sell about The Work. Looking back on my initial post I can see how the 'free onlin
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Hi JJ, Well, I'm certainly open to hearing what people have to say - if there is one thing The Work has taught me is that if I'm resistant to someone or something, there's something for me to look at in there, so I'll at least try to do that if stuff comes up for me. By the way, my ex-wife attended one of the schools a couple of years ago, also a weekend-intensive prior
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Hi Helpme2times, I've been using The Work for almost a couple of years - pretty intensively at times, which has tended to be my way with most things in life :-) In response to your questions: Is it at all possible that there might be something "off" about it? Even one thing? Can you consider that deeply and answer honestly? Sure - I've seen a lot of different mode
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Hey there, My name's Jon - as you'll see from my user profile. I'm intrigued by what's going on here - I admit I don't know much about cults, as I've never been involved in one, at least not consciously :-) I use The Work regularly (the process of asking the 4 questions and trying out the turnarounds), which I do see as something quite separate from anything t
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