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Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

CNFT: If it truly makes no difference to you what people think, why bother posting in the first place?? Best Cinammon
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Hey yg As you said: it gets deep into your mind. And we do have a tendency to 'trigger' things like that when we're under stress - as if the brain scrolls through a list of 'what to do when ... ' and clicks on the New Age techniques we think we've deleted(!) Mm, yes, the love bomb. The sweetness in the New Age/Self Help books seems to raise your emotional blo
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Hey Thanks, Rob. When it comes to 'blessed be the poor', they'd probably say something like, 'Yes, all people are blessed; but isn't it BETTER to be rich? (The Universe WANTS you to have what you want, you know.) Buy my book, follow my system, and I'll show you how YOU can become rich - just like me!', thus hopscotching neatly (and almost psychotically u
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Hey Byron Katie was always one I felt an instinctive repulsion about. While I think there MAY be some use in her idea of switching everything around - if we DO see the world as a sort of reflection of us, it may then be useful to turn it around sometimes; to get out of the mirror. On the other hand ... this just seems to be what they all do: hold out a bit of good and useful truth as bait
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"