New Age = the spirituality of corporate consumerism?
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Whoa, do both of you have a short fuse. QuoteAnticultThe current researched and tested psychological methods for treating trauma and PTSD have nothing to do with either of these so-called methods being mentioned. This "method" by Berceli sounds like extremely dangerous quackery. The most dangerous thing a person can do with PTSD and trauma is extreme "flooding" like t
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QuoteGrateful RageHaving said that, I found Katie's technique very helpful in changing my feelings about the past. There was absolutely nothing to be done about the traumas; no lawsuits, police reports, revenge, nothing. The only way to get happier was to find a way to just feel differently about it all, and the inquiry method - which I learned from Loving What Is, helped me. Healing fro
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Thanks Verita, for posting the link to this site. Very interesting! I'm on a deadline on a translation job and couldn't translate anything yet, glad to see it's already been done. Damanhur Inside Out Quotefrom the site's opening article Martin Luther King said “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” and what happens to the lives of th
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I'm glad someone is posting about Damanhur. Their facade and PR is very good I think. I have been there as a visitor and even with my knowledge about cults and mind control techniques I walked away thinking that it wasn't a destructive cult because of the way they elected representation and worked in and ran successful businesses. And the artwork they did in the caves is magnificent.
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QuoteAnticultFrankly, Byron Katie's Nazi material should be reported to the Anti-Defamation League, so they can take a look at it. Byron Katie has no right to make public examples of people who were mass murdered at the hands of the Nazi's. Victor Fankl, who was in Nazi death camps and thus had a right to talk about it, spoke eloquently about human freedom in the face of murderous tyr
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Thanks for your posts. I've been reading this forum for the past few months and have learned an incredible amount from all of you. What I'd like to do is dissect some of the New Age beliefs to separate the wheat from the chaff so to speak. I think one reason it's hard for me to let go is that there is good mixed in with the bad. For example: "You create your own reali
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One problem I have that I attribute to residual New Age Mumbo is a knee jerk tendency to feel shame and guilt about things that happen to me that are not my fault, like other peoples immoral or unethical actions. After all the years of internalizing "you create your own reality" and "everything that happens is mirroring something inside you" I'm finding the boundaries bet
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