What I want here, corboy, is get information about Byron Katie and her Work, because she, the condition she claims to be in and the method she has developed interests me. But, because I know, out of my own experiences, that you better be careful with guru’s, specially very successful and moneymaking guru’s, I try to gather as much information about her as I can. I’m trying to get an idea that is
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QuotecorboyQuoteAnd there's another point I'lld like to make. Byron Katie, questionable as her approach of people in her 'School' might be, still can do whatever she wants to do. Meaning, she has never been charged, officially, with anything. That is, not to my knowledge. So, how damaging is she really? "So, how damaging is she really?' Go read the participant
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Well, reading all of this information about Andrew Cohen does not surprise me. That he was a fraud I already discovered some years ago, watching him giving a lecture in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Having read his first few books I had come to Amsterdam to verify my feelings of distrust and doubt. One of my grown-up sons had come with me. The first thing that we noticed was the exaggerated cult-t
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Okay, vlinden. let me try again. You wrote at some point in this thread, (and I realise it's quite some time ago): Quote: vlinden ...But the One has divided, and in our division we live, we love, and we suffer. And that is life. When we die perhaps we'll return to the One, but for now we cannot separate ourselves from our minds, our egos, our rationality, and attempting to do so ca
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QuoterrmoderatorTo whom it may concern: skepticGranny says she is quitting the message board. Perhaps I was a bit tough on skepticGranny, but this thread has had so many trolls. Thank you Rick for explaining. Now I understand better why you felt the urge to warn me. So for now there's no need anymore to quit this board.
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QuoterrmoderatorskepticGranny: Please try to stay on topic. This thread is about Byron Kate and Eckhart Tolle, not the general subject of "enlightenment." Preaching is also against the rules you agreed to before posting here. The first remark about staying on topic makes sense to me. But the second remark raises a question mark. I understand preaching as an attempt to persu
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Quotevlinden...But the One has divided, and in our division we live, we love, and we suffer. And that is life. When we die perhaps we'll return to the One, but for now we cannot separate ourselves from our minds, our egos, our rationality, and attempting to do so causes more hurt than good. People can even go mad trying. This is not healing, it's delusion. Would you be so kind to expl
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QuoteThe Anticult....This book teaches us how to think, and by doing so can keep us out of these traps. Its not about cults per se, its about how to evaluate reality, and about 100 other things. Its wonderfully written, and may be one of the best books I have ever read on this subject. The book is like an entire course in critical intelligence, truly wonderful. Its a shame Carl Sagan died too ear
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