That is what I mean. Massage practictioners are actually limiting what new agers can do (or so the reiki-ists believe) not the opposite as the bloke who started this thread said. Hope it's clear what I'm on about when reading the quote below:- ---- '"Reiki Is Not Massage" by author Richelle Jarrell first appeared in edited form in the February issue of Massage Mag
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QuoteupsidedownnewspaperQuotebarabaraPosting a link to the website would be nice. That way we could verify whether or not you used an actual quote, and see for ourselves what they have to say. Look it up. You've got the web? The burden is on someone making an argument to provide sources for it. It's called scholarship.
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Could you say what sort of thing it is that the book is about? I looked at reviews of books by this Shirley on Amazon. Lots of fluff- 'this book will change your life' etc but no actual saying anything about what it's about. Sounds a bit like Landmark in that respect. Love Kath
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QuoteRhiannontennecks And I would suggest that morco2006 is the Barren-mess herself doing what she does best? That has been suggested by some, 'Rhiannon' dear:) Love Kath
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I do some reiki and am on reiki mailing lists. Legislation is moving in completely the opposite way to that you suggest. 'Real' massage therapists have the upper hand. There are laws now in Florida and other places that mean effectively reiki cannot be done unless you have a massage qualification. The reiki folk are up in arms about it as they say it limits their freedom to prac
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Someone has been telling me new anecdotes about the PA. How I wish they were true! But I feel I need to double check everything as the PA have made sure all their opponents have been discredited so people doubt the truth when they tell it. Love Kath (update later in the thread)
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And were the authorities informed of this child abuse? I presume not. :shock: Love Kath
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Fran, you ask to be questioned as to anything your group does that is unbiblical. Surely having a sterilisation is unbiblical? Many would say so. After all, no sterilisation for women could have been done in biblical times, could it? Surely, donating a kidney- nowhere in the bible does someone donate a kidney! Many religious groups do not believe in organ donation even after their deat
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by Jaqueline Masterson Publisher Comments: It's the 1890s, and Professor Otto Ulrich runs a bizarre, exclusive clinic that caters to the faddish and perverted aristocrats of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Ulrich promises to cure young men and women of nymphomania, hysteria and unsuitable infatuations. However, his wealthy clients find that although his treatments are of questionable us
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make sure you don't 'go native' and become one of them entirely:)
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What are your plans for this new hobby?:) Love Kath
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This 'therapist' sounds very shady. There is no mention of restraint, but 'correction.' Love Kath
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AA often tries to claim it is not a religion, but look how soaked in religious language and mentions of God Colter's arguments are. And now he contradicts himself completely and says 12-steppers should have freedom of religion.
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This colter gets away with a lot of 'flaming' here that wouldn't be permitted if we were discussing other organisations.
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I found this group via their scandalous link to a neo-nazi organisation which was reported on . Being a bit of an occultist I was intrigued. But there seems to be little or no critical thinking exercised by members. There is an expose of them here I was thinking that I really should mention them on this forum, but before I did, this reached my inbox:- From: *****_cult To: (me)
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It seemed to me from attending AA, that AA seeks to show the alcoholic how terrible they are, how destroyed their lives are, the awful things they have done etc etc. When a person has been thus broken and told they are terrible in a group setting, they are then more vulnerable to others. It reminds me of the behaviour of a LGAT. Also telling the person they are powerless and such, its all
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It is frequently mentioned on this website that groups could have democratic elections and that would go a long way towards them not being a cult. But I know that if the group I was involved in ever had a 'democratic' election, the same leaders would be voted for unanimously. This is because it is effectively a personality cult and also people are deferentially loyal to the existi
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A bloke has written a website about his belief that AA is a cult seems a very thorough site. Love Kath
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Hi moralman, I am a bisexual feminist too. Just so you know.
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QuoteGulab Jamon Hopefully most of them are seeing therapists in addition to group therapy or online message boards. I know most of the women in the meetings I went to were also seeing therapists. Yes, but it sounds like some of their therapists are doing 'recovered memory therapy' on them :shock:
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My concern is that they encourage each other to 'recover' more and more memories. Also that this 'bad' therapy distracts them from getting real therapy that could help them. You are right though it's probably not my problem :D
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I am on a sexual assault survivors forum. I'm discovering that this particular forum fosters and propogates the belief in 'alters' and 'recovered memories' or 'satanic ritual abuse.' A lot of them are really working hard to recover these memories :shock: :shock: There's lots of sites and articles I can direct them to that give the facts about recov
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If people attending AA are being criticised for taking prescribed medication, that might as well be Scientology talking. As far as I know that isn't an official AA/NA viewpoint though, so must be just destructive individuals operating within it (as they can also be found everywhere else.) My experiences with AA were not particularly good. There did seem to be a lot of emphasis on how b
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Dear Samuel, It's always interesting to read about PSI7. But when you bump the thread back up to the top, could you add something to it to justify it? Only I often see this thread back up, so I take the time to read it thinking something new has developed. Then it just says 'back to the top.' None of the other threads or groups are bumped up. If newcomers to the foru
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Quoteelena (What's a "fresher?" Well in England it means a student in their first year of university- aged about 18 or 19. (same as a 'freshman'?) You are right though, some of these young ladies could be landmark 'plants.' Love Kath
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Yes, you can get your aura photographed at most psychic fairs in Britain. But if you run round the hall and come back, get your picture taken again and it'll come out completely different. Not that I'd recommend that, because they'd charge you £20 just to do it the once. Love Kath
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I know someone who is in an abusive relationship. The man alternately flatters and denigrates, threatens oestracism, and tells her she must choose between him and me- the works! She went to school with this man but now converses with him via email. She says without those emails from him, she has no relief from suicidal depression. I've tried to get her to make other friends, take
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Wonder if he would ever get the result that his book contained 0 god-consciousness or very little? And if so, would he have mentioned it?;) I somehow doubt his 'scientific' method would ever demonstrate a result he didn't want or that was unfavourable towards his work. Love Kath
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Leave him and get a new doctor immediately. If you have the strength, report him. I just googled and it's as I thought- I don't think this is a practice regularly used by any other shrink. It's his personal kink- both sick and not proven to work. Love Kath
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You could email him too, you might get an answer quicker. Love Kath
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