When a good friend gets lured into going to the school, we discover afterward what happened to them. We start doing our home work and learn a great deal about the power imbalance that is orchestrated. By now our friend has moved on to facilitator certification. Now they oscillate between being submissive to Byron Katie and her organization and being dominating to the new recruit. They are learnin
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Please explain dsm getting banned, was it behind the scene, was there a lesson for others to learn?
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Thank You Searching for a method that does not invalidate the bulk of the new age culture. The book I have studied and practiced with good heart is Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn. It is The program of the stress reduction clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. The point is not that this is the end all but integrating the establishment with a very important group wit
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If a person started doing The Work in the hope of relieving chronic anxiety that was not relieved in therapy, would mindfulness meditation, as taught by Jon Kabat-Zinn, be a good alternative?
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I was interested in finding out more specifics on, was there dancing and screaming that produced hyperventilation and dizziness. If so were the symptoms explained as new levels of enlightenment? Was there closed-eye relaxation techniques used? Meditation? If so, how, what was the effect on the group? Was sugar buzzing used for the parties towards the end when deserts showed up after so long with
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It would be helpful to have a complete dictionary of the BK vocabulary.
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It would be helpful if this group could summarize the BK school in the same format as chapter 6 and 7 of Margaret Singer's book "Cults In Our Midst".
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