QuoteThe Anticult “Dear Steve, Thanks from both of us from the bottom of our hearts. You are the king of manifestors. Love and gratitude, Stephen (Mitchell)” QUOTE: "I adore you Steve Hardison!...I love you... ...Thank you Steve, for knowing the way. xoxoxo kt (Byron Katie)" Actually BK’s full quote is: I adore you Steve Hardison!...I love you. Thank you for giving.
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It is all about power with BK, isn’t it? Of course it is all about power for a lot of people in many different arena’s of life, but there is something about the way BK exerts her power. It is not open and honest, but very covert and often under the pretext of a greater good, of service to mankind, and dressed with the garb of so-called selflessness and being very loving. I bet it was all abou
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btw I heard that BK once told the crowd at one of her schools that she herself charges $ 1700 for a private session...
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Quotehelpme2timesThis could be some kind of record: between yesterday morning and today, this thread received 424 page views! where can I find the page views?
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It is all so slick and slimy.
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...back to BK on Twitter: I thought that the whole idea of Twitter was to keep your friends informed about your whereabouts and what you are doing, sort of like a mindless chatter, just for fun. In reading the BK Twitter thread, I can see that all of her posts are an ongoing marketing strategy to promote either herself or her product. Most of the bullshit she posts there are from her Katieism
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QuoteThe Anticult Byron Katie, as shown probably 100x in this thread, literally and explicitly uses every trick in the book to try and get her fans and followers to literally LOVE her, and ultimately give her EVERYTHING, and love her with all their heart. That is factual reality. If anything, that is the core agenda of Byron Katie, to make her fans and followers "fall in love" with h
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BK's question of the month: QuoteIt is not possible that every man, woman, and child in the world does not love me and care about me with all their heart. How is it that I am so sure of this? Here are some of the responses: QuoteYou are sure because you love and care for everyone, man, woman, child.. You get what you send out... QuoteAll people are closest to their own being , and
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QuoteI found some quotes from this thread posted on nick ross website... katie's full post there too. ...they are definitely keeping a watchful eye on the RR website...
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Here is the poster.
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The YouTube link didn't catch on, perhaps this one will:
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QuoteThe AnticultIt may be that the other clumsy techniques being used so far, are from Stephen Mitchell, and that other Mary Poppins guy...her agent? Michael Katz? Those two are very amateur in their methods. Or perhaps it was done by the people that were responsible for the trailer for 'the work on the web' program (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6RcEDoHTNA). They have a real sen
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Oh yes, this is definitely BK herself. A lot of the things she says are actually turnarounds. Her comment tells me that she is actually very upset with the whole thing, especially when she says she is laughing out loud. She also does several things at once: when she says she can see it from Peter's perspective, she is agreeing with him. So in fact, she is not happy now with what Jenny McCart
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And here is BK's own response to the comments on her poster by her followers: QuoteWow, I can see it from your perspective, thanks, Peter. I'll talk to Jenny. It is her company's production from start to finish. We'll see what can be done. She has a heart of gold and getting The Work out is her heart's desire. Thanks to Alanis Morrisette, and others, we have great musi
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And this is what they are banking on: Quotehhhmm still some more milage left in my story of me.. This is how they use the work to silence people and to checkmate them. Whenever your mind comes up with something that is honest, clear and sane, you need to question it and turn it around, because it all is always your own fault. I must give her credit for being extremely clever. She borrowed
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So here we have it, plain and simple: QuoteI trust Katie knows what she is doing People from her camp don't criticize her anymore, and when they do, they get no response or the thread gets deleted. They trust that Katie knows what she doing. So all discrimation has gone down the drain, no more thinking for themselves, no more opinions, no more sanity, no more clarity of mind (to use th
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And to point out how the BK followers are already deeply brainwashed, here is another comment on this poster on one of their forums: QuoteI think that this is what you get when you have hollywood involved, Big production.... Arty Farty clever people in design and marketing overshadowing the content and the essence. The cover more important than the content. I loved covers with katie smiling.
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What's with the 'movie poster' layout? The poster looks more like the anouncement for a circus act or a magician's show, especially when you read the caption: QuoteExperience how people, with Katie’s help, discover their own liberating truths and transform themselves before your very eyes. SATURDAY, JUNE 20 at 4:30PM Ojai Theatre Downtown Ojai 145 East Ojai Ave SNEAK PR
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Since I don't know how to upload pictures to this forum, I will use a description given by a BK follower of a BK poster for an upcoming event called 'Mind Cleanse'. you can view the image at It is totally creepy. For as far as they hadn't yet, they really are going way over the top now. Quoteshadowy outline of a figure of a person hands clasped in a praise or begging
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One of the forums on the Institute for The Work is called "Byron Katie's topic of the month". This particular forum is just one of the ways they use at BKI to portray Katie as an enlightened being or a saint. Here she posts questions for her followers to answer. The Question of the month for April was: QuoteI have always known you, do you know me? Please answer this question. I c
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Thank you Scrambled eggs, for your honest post. It would be great if more people would speak up and tell their stories here. Many people thought Katie was "the real deal", because she did donation programs for at least 7 to 8 years. People figured that if she is giving it away for free, she must be the real thing. It is how they used to compare her to others who were charging money. Thi
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QuoteThe Anticultthe reality is that using Dissociation, like Byron Katie tries to do to people, can in the very short-term relieve some pain. You just disconnect from all of the pain, like using a drug, and in the short-term there is some relief. But in the mid-long term, it all backfires. Traumatic memories don't heal on their own. They appear to stay "frozen" for years and de
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QuoteON2 LFQuoteMeadowI just found out that within the BK circles the word is going around that some crazy lady from Europe is spreading lies about Katie. the only crazy lady spreading lies about anything is Katie herself. I just heard that it is Stephen Mitchell himself who is spreading this message.
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And furthermore they (yet again) re-adjusted their 'Code of Ethics': Professional Conduct Agreement 1. I agree to conduct myself in a manner that reflects positively upon The Work, and I will not engage in conduct or make statements that may negatively affect another facilitator and/or The Work. 2. I will strive to recognize personal issues that may impair, conflict, or interfere
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I just found out that within the BK circles the word is going around that some crazy lady from Europe is spreading lies about Katie.
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Check this out:
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About the cockroach story. I know someone who was in touch with BK just a couple of years after her alleged experience. He told me that there was never any mentioning of the cockroach, but BK used to talk a lot about her 'lady'. She used to have visions of a lady who was like a guru figure to her. It is mentioned in Cry in the Desert. Later on in that book she tells how this lady was
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A piece of information came to my ears. Recently BK was invited by some people to come to Hawaii for a 4-day program. BK was charging them $ 80.000 to come and do this event. They withdrew the invitation.
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Just realized that it doesn't mention his name anywhere on the site (www.duhism.com), but the guy in the video is Steven Sashen. Such a transparant marketing trick. Do they really think people are that stupid and would fall for this?
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About Steven Sashen: Check this out: It looks like the guy loves to hear himself speak, and thinks he is very funny. I actually heard that at some point BK threw him out herself, after he had been working for her. She used to make fun of him behind his back.
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