Thanks CVK i dont know when i will get around to it but your post has made me feel more compfortable.
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Just wanted to Say i just finished reading Cults inside out, by Rick Alan Ross, fantastic and disturbing but excellent - he really brings together a lot of different looks at the phenomena from lots of points of views so you don’t have to do a lot of research or if you want to you know what to look for so you don”t keep finding the same thing over again. with lots of examples from the really
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Hi If any one is still on this one - Just wanted to Say i just finished reading Cults inside out, by Rick Alan Ross, fantastic and disturbing but excellent - he really brings together a lot of different looks at the phenomena from lots of points of views so you don’t have to do a lot of research or if you want to you know what to look for so you don”t keep finding the same thing over again. with
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

@JMC wow "lost her rag"is strong and is a bit of a derogatory term towards women or it seems so to me. it also seems you are pretty angry with them and i am wondering if it was you that the “lost rag” was directed - also as the veg thing strikes such a chord in you one might guess you are not a vegetarian. As far as a rule goes it is defiantly not - there WAS a whole argument/ discussi
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I had all the problems above but figured out what I was doing wrong so maybe some of you are the same - when it came to sign in my email address was automatically filled in as my ID as is the case in many other places like this plus when my password failed it gave me the option that maybe i had forgotton my password but never suggested my user name - so check if you gave a user name different fro
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I also had some interaction with him when his name was sidaswarup - i chanted with them in Hawaii, i also checked out the iskon group. i also sat in darshan with both swami Bhaktivendanta the leader of iskon and siddha who at the time didn't have a name for his group. some one in this thread -one of his followers said there was no group to join - this is misleading - i was never invited to j
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Hello StacieBobacy, I have also had some interaction with this group to me it seems there is a lot of good but some things that disturbed me as well so its always good to be carful of anything or groups your looking at - but in all fairness i don't think it fits the profile of a cult - i.e. there are no members - you cant join and there are no rules. I noticed that JMC said other wise but a
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