Anyone else here have the experience of getting dissed, labelled and discredited with a moderator simply for having a different point of view? Simply for having a different perspective? And then "schooled", although I am evidentally more educated than this person? I'm beginning to have a very bad taste from this message board.
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You can try to discredit me and call me names and define my experience according to your strange perceptions, but if you actually go back and READ what I freaking WROTE you might REALIZE that you didn't HEAR what I said. Labelling me a cult-hopper and discrediting me by all this bs and lecturing me may work for the people who pay you, but not me. And if you erase every single thing I say tha
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Why am I here? I stumbled across this thread in a search for Yogi Bhajan's cult. I found all this stuff on Lenz. Like I said, I was surprised, and it made me sad, and I'm not apologizing for him - what good would that do anyway? I have nothing to do with his actions. And how can you read that from my words? Just because I can look at someone who hurt others with compassion, and am not
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For a quick summary on understanding the very real, unmet needs and mindset of people who join cults, please consider the concept of Kinship. A sense of belonging is in the middle stage of the ego developmental structure. If one doesn't have a sense of tribe, or family, one remains developmentally stuck and not mature. Sometimes, for example, a person may be 'unacceptably' homos
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I know Nicole Grace and knew Frederick Lenz. Not in the biblical sense, but by taking their seminars and being in their programs. Nicole Grace is not using NLP, brainwashing, or mind control techniques. She doesn't realize that this is what was used on her. (For the record, I signed up to be transformed by Lenz and feel that though what he did was covert hypnosis, I did ask for my life to ch
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