Ayurveda India Warnings Threats Government Hindu Nationalism Doctor lifts lid on dark side of India’s ‘wellness’, traditional medicine sector Despite threats and complaints, and accusations he is ‘anti-Hindu’, scientist Cyriac Abby Philips has been highlighting cases of liver damage caused by traditional medicine. India’s government has been promoting ayurveda as an alternative to
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A Cautionary Tale - consult multiple sober sources And...do be suspicious when a find is described in sensationalist terms ('masterpiece') and described first on Facebook, rather than in peer reviewed journals after inspection by a team of experts with no material incentive to report something newsworthy. In my news feed, there was this story: Storm unearths ornate Early Iron A
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A Critical Look at the Neocatechumenal Way Description from a concerned participant following a NCW retreat: Another Letter to a Bishop - The Thoughtful Catholic What Happens to Parish Life when a NCW Priest Takes Over The 7 Steps to the Destruction of a Catholic Parish – Neocatechumenal Way in the USA
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Probably using the authority they already had to lure parents, especially already mothers, into additional emotional labor policing their children's upbringing. Since mothers usually select and purchase children's clothes, this was also a sly reprimand to mothers in the audience. A sly insinuation they'd made wrong, 'worldly' choices for their children's clothing
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Seek and ye shall find! Reddit ex Orthodox is a treasure trove of information!
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I have a crap cold and too tired to do additional detailed hunting. But - here's the place to hunt for more clues. To cover the entire time the message board has been active, always select "All Dates' when running a search! PS Thank the many attorneys who supported Rick Ross without pay in defending this website and message board from various and sundry lawsuits and thre
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Just now I searched the CEI message board for old posts that might offer insights. Put chris butler vote into the search slot and select "all words" Selected "All Dates" This discussion goes back at least 20 years. Selecting "All Dates" makes the search cover that range. Turned up a list of posts. I don't have time to go through all of them but did
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Anti-Woke U Jordan Peterson Academy: How I got expelled from the right-wing “university.”
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Demanding verdict reversal, convicted sex cult leaders say feds violated First Amendment Published July 10, 2025
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Churches that hide their denomination or previous schisms? Quote was a pastor's kid, and then a pastor for almost 20 years, including two church plants. Every church of any substantial size and duration is funded by a larger denomination, normally with just one or two degrees of separation. And EVERY church plant older than 5 years and more than 300 people only became such becaus
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(Note: the guru described here is now going by the name Adi Da Samiraj. You will still see advertisements for him, often in the form of posters in cafes, with the title, 'The Promised Avatar has come'. ) from Lies, half-truths, and bizarre distortions in the service of the Lord From the Broken Yogi blog (by Conrad Goehausen) brokenyogi.blogspot.com ((Italics are not in
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Truth wins wrote: Quoteshe is told it is amazing for her false ego to be under so much criticism all the time Yes, yes. This is a version of the alibi that enduring the misery of living a life filled with tension and coverups is a badge of toughness, that it shows you are a member of the elite. In the documentary Outrage, one of the gay men interviewed said that closeted politicians and
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QuoteDaedone sold her stake in the (OneTaste) company in 2017 for $12 million — a year before OneTaste’s marketing and labor practices came under scrutiny. The company’s current owners, who have rebranded it the Institute of OM Foundation, have said its work has been misconstrued and the charges against its former executives were unjustified. They maintain sexual consent has always been a c
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Brooklyn jury finds ‘sex cult’ leaders guilty Witnesses said they worked around the clock on little sleep and for little pay, believing they were on a spiritual path to deepen their universal connection and heal trauma. Nina Pullano / June 9, 2025
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This news will bring complex emotions to the many who survived abuse from Andrew Cohen. Cohen prided himself on not sexually abusing followers. His abuse took these forms: *Physical *Social (ostracism, scapegoating *Time theft lost years and lost attention that could have born sweeter fruit if given to better causes than Andrew Cohen and his ego * Financial extortion *Filming an
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Trauma, victimhood and for-profit spirituality on display as sex cult trial winds down June 6 2025
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Sex Cult Lawyer: Being Mean is Not a Crime
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There's a first class book by Australian psychologist Len Oakes entitled Prophetic Charisma. Oakes was able to interview a large number of self identified spiritual leaders/prophets and found most of them had some degree of narcissistic personality disorder -- a fragile precariously poised/easily disrupted inner core. To compensate for this, these persons became "avid students o
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Government wraps ‘sex cult’ case in Brooklyn Published June 3, 2025
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I've never been in Fourth Way. Got badly burned by a business association w a member of a fake westernized sufistic group. Fourth Way and true and fake sufi groups share three things in common: People often lose years of their lives There's intimate betrayal Its all so tangled and complex that its difficult to explain it all to someone outside of the situation.
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My Weekend at One Taste Anke Richter November 2022
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May 22, 2025 Woman’s extraordinarily intimate on-stage act with two men revealed after she joined bizarre ‘orgasm cult’ May 22, 2025 YES! YES! YES! Orgasm cult guru accused of forcing pair into sex
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Trial for SF 'orgasmic meditation' startup kicks off with ugly testimony 2 former OneTaste executives face jail time, if the jury decides their conduct broke the law By Stephen Council,Tech Reporter May 19, 2025 Ensuing discussion, Reddit San Francisco Quotechn0Hippy • 12h ago Me and my girlfriend got involved with them in 2017 for a hot minute. We did a week
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If this group was led by Robert Klein in Boston, it was likely tied to Sharon Gans/Alex Horn (The CEI message board goes back to 2002. Use All Dates in your search to cover this 20+ year date range) Google and
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May 15, 2025 Women’s empowerment branding relied on men at ‘sex cult,’ trial witnesses say
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On this website we sometimes we get an 'Attempted Hack' message if trying to submit a new post that has multiple URL links. Adding multiple links to an existing message solved the problem. Work around: Fool the program by saving your rejected message. Create a new message w blank space. Edit that completed message Remove, copy and save your multi link message. Go b
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May 14 Bay Area ‘sex cult’ workers forced to service wealthy clients sexually: Witnesses
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Google "daedone" "2025" Google "daedone" "2025"
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Published May 10, 2025 ‘Gwyneth Paltrow’s sex guru’ facing 20 years in jail over claims her $12m orgasmic meditation firm was an abusive sex cult that ‘recruited vulnerable women to perform sex acts’ Published May 10, 2025 Witness testifies to mix of love and darkness living at OneTaste sex ‘cult’
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Here's a comment from another reddit discussion about Sadhguru's stuff. Quote ENCALEF 6d ago Similar tactics were used by est in the late 70's, early 80's. Everyone that I knew who went through the \"training\" was insufferable to be around afterwards. Most got over it in about six months. 5d ago No wonders Isha teaching come from EST Vasudev aka Sad
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