I grew up not knowing what genuine attuned connection was. I fell for a series of authority figures who mimicked this. Because they were self centered they were not capable of genuine attunement. To compensate for this lack they cultivated charm, eloquence, learned how to stroke our emotions, push our buttons just the way someone patting our dog's butt gives the pup pleasure -- and wins our
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Subtractive Method or Subtracting Method Discarding Method Self Balancing Food Culmination Process Complete Sky Funds
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QuoteAbandonment It is not uncommon that a practitioner of Maum travels away from their family if their family does not also enter Maum, a common technique of cults. One Maum Meditation practitioner donated his house to the practice.[7] New Maum centers no longer cause a high degree of abandonment, as members are now told to stay near their families and to make converts among their familie
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Comment following an article in Daily Free Press Boston University September 29, 2003 sunny November 30, 2014 at 11:18 am I am a ex-member of Maum meditation.... Quote....The maum helpers have not told you this yet, they don’t tell the truth until they get your mind controlled. After level 4 it will ask for “Sky Funds” to allow your ancestors to go to heaven from purgatory, abou
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Author alleges Maum Meditation groups refer to themselves as local meditation centers. Lesson is ALWAYS demand to know who actually leads/organizes any meditation project or center. Where does the money come from to do publicity and organize the Zoom rooms and times? In the US spiritual and meditation projects are tax deductible. That means YOU, the tax payer, indirectly subsidize the
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Quote Profile photo for Austin C Austin C · Follow 5y Related How do you start Maum meditation? I was brainwashed by maum meditation (woo myung cult). I felt sorry that I left my family & true friends to follow woo myung cult for years. I was very selfish because I only want to save myself using maum meditation. My family was suffering but I didn’t care because I meditated ever
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QuoteBellatrixLeRegular · 7 yr. ago · edited 7 yr. ago Ok, thanks your for pointing that on reddit, actually I've been following (following = internet watching / RSS / etc) Maum Meditation for a while. What warries me is that it is really spreading to really many people and there's almost no media coverage for that (wich makes me thinking if governements are really aware of th
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Take care to read all six pages of this discussion of Maum and its other name, subtraction meditation. Some new discussions about it on Reddit. "...not all meditations are connected to an organization that will demand more and more time and money as you progress. Nor do all such organizations claim to be the sole way for you to achieve the spiritual freedom you seek. But Maum doe
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Sense I get is that in the Vedic culture beloved by Prabhupada and Butler, power = legitimacy. You have power because you accumulated enough karma in previous lives. Whether you gained that power legitimately or not, whether you exercise that power justly or unjustly, is irrelevant. A Hitler is Energy in personal form, as amoral as a supernova, an erupting volcano, an earthquake, a pandemi
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To Linda: Every time I have ignored misgivings I have regretted it. There are a number of worrisome things written about TNT. Perhaps take a break from the school, hang out in a different setting. Check up on old friends. At the very least, stay in touch with family and friends outside the school.
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The December Medium article on TNT can still be read on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Go to Internet Archive Put the URL for the Medium article into the Wayback Machine search slot Results will give you a list of calendar pages with graphs showing which dates the Archive records a captured copies of the article. Click on one of the graphs. You see a small bo
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EXCLUSIVE: OneTaste sues ex-worker for breaking her NDA as it claims she flipped on the 'orgasmic meditation cult' when her ex-boyfriend fell in love with another woman who she punched in the face before quitting
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Most LGATS (Large Group Awareness Trainings) whether Landmark or by another name have several manipulation techniques in common: *You must sign a release of liability form giving up your right to sue or mediate for damages in case you incur harm during one of their event. These groups are all about YOU taking responsibility for everything while THEY disown any responsibility for what they do
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QuoteOne attorney whose practice focuses on sexual abuse allegations against religious groups, cults, or "spiritual communities," told Insider that (in some cases) the former members can seek some form of civil legal reparation through a federal law called the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (TVPA) . which states that whoever forces or entices a person "thr
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‘Messianic’ San Francisco guru who founded ‘orgasmic meditation cult’ OneTaste heads to court with ENTOURAGE after being charged with keeping women in ‘residential warehouses where they were forced into sex acts’
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Was wellness company OneTaste a sex cult?
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Joseph Szimhart's essay on LKJ QuoteLaura Knight Jadczyk, now (2013) in her sixties, a self-styled researcher of the paranormal and occult operations throughout world history whose one claim to fame is “proper” use of the Ouija Board to commune with star system creatures that are our future selves, or Cassiopaeans. The video was viewed by 13,000 as of 08 2021 to give you some idea
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A nuanced assessment of Political Poenology on the website for the British Psychological Association -- it appears the book was written by a reputable man and it is now being tragically and banefully appropriated by this generation' emergent authoritarian demogogues and dictators over the human spirit. The Problem of Pathocracy
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" Whatever the area of conspiracy or spirituality or fringe thought in general, LKJ tends to keep herself and her community in the role of a uniquely valuable lone "lighthouse" shining a light into a world of darkness and doom, through the simple strategy of always having their own incompatible take on polarizing ideas of the day." RationalWiki article - Laura Knight-Jadczy
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Psychiatrists to assess starvation cult survivors as they continue to refuse food Published June 16, 2023
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The ‘orgasm cult’ founder accused of recruiting people with childhood sexual trauma once told Insider these victims have ‘a heightened ability to experience arousal’ Corboy - general observation: Persons with histories of childhood sexual trauma have impaired ability to defend themselves against boundary violation -- due to trauma they enter adulthood likely to deny boundary violation and
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Cult-Like San Francisco Company Execs Charged for Allegedly Coercing Members Into Sex With Investors Written by Jonah Owen Lamb Updated at Jun. 13, 2023 • 4:36pm QuoteOneTaste cofounder Nicole Daedone turned herself into federal authorities in New York on June 13 and entered a not guilty plea, according to court documents. She was released on $1 million bail—secured by a property in M
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Bookfinder website Sikh Identity: An Exploration of Groups Among Sikhs Opinderjit Kaur Takhar
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"sant virsa singh" "yogi bhajan" Yogi Bhajan reportedly abused trust back when he a recent immigrant to the US andan unknown yoga teacher in Los Angeles. Yogi Bhajan's Seven Years in America and His Tinkling Titles Gurmukh Yoga Forum
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Why I Stopped Teaching Kundalini Yoga as Taught by Yogi Bhajan Theresa Lyn Widmann December 2, 2020 QuoteI personally don’t feel that KYatbYB is a complete science as it’s sold to be. It most certainly made me feel better, but it didn’t always get to the root of what was causing me to suffer or struggle. It can help you move energy and release emotions and give you an adrenaline rush, b
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Gursant Singh, who now practices true Sikhi, was formerly bodyguard to Yogi Bhajan. In his memoir, Confessions of an American Sikh, Gursant Singh tells how as bodyguard, he accompanied Yogi Bhajan to private gatherings with expatriate Punjabi Indians and overheard Bhajan laughing with them in Punjabi, bragging how he had all these white Americans grovelling to him. How a Cult-turned-Corporatio
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19 new bodies recovered in Kenya doomsday cult, pushing death toll past 300
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Uganda's Kanungu cult massacre that killed 700 followers 17 March 2020 By Patience Atuhaire BBC News, Kanungu QuoteThe dead were members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God - a doomsday cult that believed the world would come to an end at the turn of the millennium. "The end of present times", as one of its books phrased it, came two-a
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Ezekiel Ombok Odero Paul Mackenzie Boniface Mwamposa Quote When white-robe-wearing controversial Kenyan televangelist Ezekiel Ombok Odero was locked up for the long weekend on Friday, police said he had a hand in the “mass killing” of followers. He was arrested while heading for a ‘prayer mission’ in Tanzania. Kenyan authorities also closed his New Life Prayer Centre and Church, just da
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"Meditate and Liberate" Japa Yoga Concerns and Japa Ireland: Toxic spirituality involving sexual-assault, “my breasts were massaged”. Posted on 1 May 2023 by dialogueireland Here is the testimony of an ex-Japa Ireland member: QuoteJapa Ireland promise a happier life through “meditation, spirituality, personal-growth philosophy”. You are in a small medi
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