and that is another sad example of a writer who is completely unable to "investigate" OneTaste as the Gawker article claims. (of course Gawker is doing it simply for 'clicks' for their business). One has to wonder, why only people with absolutely no experience and no training in the new "persuasion techniques" write these pieces on OneTaste, and other groups like
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Data lost through a backup failure some months ago has now been restored to this message board. This board is also now open for indexing by search engines such as Google. Information posted on the board should soon be appearing in searches as this is a public resource. The data recovered and restored included many individual posts and some threads. Lost membership registratio was not
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To test this, just take any unique phrase from any forum post, the older the better, and put it into quotes, and you will see they are not in Google. Example, search Google for this string "Byron Katie (the Work) and Eckhart Tolle Legit??" You will see that phrase appears in many other websites, that linked to the old thread, but does not appear from these forums. According to
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Corboy's Mission Statement All material I write is to assist readers to preserve and extend their human rights and to stay at liberty or to become emancipated from abuses of power. Anyone who uses this material to toy with and dominate others, who abuses this information-- You will become a prisoner of these techniques. And to all you who hope to get rich or are already financia
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A golden oldie on this page
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Spartacus wrote: "Okay, here's a good laugh for everyone. The maniacal Sgcult defender over on Reddit is so detached from reality, he actually said that this forum (cult education institute) IS A CULT !!! BWWWWAAAAAAA!!!!! " Guys, this slur has been around for a long time. Kid you not. We've been referred to by pro guru types as the 'Rick Rossers' and yes,
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Part 1 Hello there. Better grab some beverage of your choosing, because it will be a long post. I'am a german student and educated myself on this message board and with some books on the topic of manipulation and manipulation in cultic settings. Some weeks ago at my university, students began to show trailers in our regulare lectures for an upcoming event, which they had organized. Th
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The role of a professional psychotherapist is to preserve and enhance client/patient autonomy, so that: * The person will not need the therapists services * So that the client or patient will remain able or become able to find communities and friendships. For this reason, no ethical therapist can provide community for clients. That means a therapist cannot befriend clients or patients no
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How does a friend respond to your vulnerability? If you're in a very bad spot, a friend may offer suggestions. A meditation practice. A workshop. A book. Or, in some cases, a therapist. I once was shaky and vulnerable in a 12 Step group after sharing some heavy stuff. A woman pounced on me like the proverbial carrion vulture. She tried to get me interested in Byron Katie. Someo
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See The Rick A. Ross Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups, and Movements has officially changed its name to The Cult Education Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups and Movements. The new domain name entry point and gateway to the Internet archives of the institute will soon be culteducation.com. The Cult Education Institute arc
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See The Rick A. Ross Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups, and Movements has officially changed its name to The Cult Education Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups and Movements. The new domain name entry point and gateway to the Internet archives of the institute will soon be culteducation.com. The Cult Education Institute arc
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Quote Events :: The Work of Byron KatieSpirit Rock Meditation Center—Woodacre, California and live webcast. Saturday, 17 August 2013. Loving What Is: A Day with Byron Katie A Benefit for the Spirit ... thework.com/events.php?eid=1000016 - 47k - Cached - Similar pages Events - :: The Work of Byron KatieSpirit Rock Meditation Center—Woodacre, California and live webcast. Saturday, 17 Aug
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Women freed from captivity as sex slaves "for people victimized by monstrous criminals, guilt is a common reaction." A BK 'Turnaround' is TOXIC when used by or on persons who have been molested. QuoteAnother step toward normalcy for the three women will be accepting something that seems obvious to the rest of the world: They have no reason to feel guilty. &quo
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Sample release of liability forms from other groups. If you have to sign paperwork to participate in any LGAT *pause* and look carefully. Ignore pressure to sign without reading it. Better yet, insist on taking it home. This paperwork should be given to people before registration, not while they're at the beginning of the seminar, signing in. Anything or anyone telling you to take r
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Just go here and dive in. Old posts are often worth re-reading.
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An old and interesting post--a therapist whose client refused to do The Work because this client had prior experience with EST and didnt want any exposure to something so similar. And this therapist proceeded to blather about this to a bunch of BK types. Dialogue is priceless.
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Master Po didn't need to buy 300 cheesy fake "degrees" to try to get some respect either! Master Po also didn't run a private for-profit Ikeda family corporation the size of Walmart. "Master" in those terms, is a leader who has "mastered" his discipline, like a martial arts master, or anyone who is a master in their field. But with SGI, Master is u
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Secrets They Don't Want Us To Know The Anticult Wrote April 27, 2009 04:22PM, Italics and footnotes to other references added in by Corboy. Quote (The Anticult)Yes, the BK system is related to a Yes-Set*, in terms of Leading Questions with embedded presuppositions, and convincing people to follow the BK questions. The YES is in agreeing to follow the questions. *(Google 'Yes
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Victor Baranco's Flash to Perfection May 1966 Vic, realizing he was the perceiver and judge of his experiences and thereby the creator, concluded that he was perfect, and everybody and everyone else was too. Further that perfection includes the potential for change. Note that this is a twist on language. The commonly accepted definitions of 'perfect' imply completion,
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I'm sick of these people. These sellers of shoddy goods. No amount of thinking can free you from pain and fear. People just need to wise up to this shit. Instead they are being messed with by these pariahs.
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QuotecorboyA good film to see is Kumare. Recently released. A fellow intentionally impersonated a guru and got a following. And there is a something called the Dr Fox effect. If you speak gibberish but in a very confident manner, it can impress people who show up expecting something. Key thing is, how can one learn from people without mythologizing them. In the satsang scene, e
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Quoteluckychrm “You have unfinished business sweetheart. The Nine-Day School for the Work would really help you resolve that unfinished business, and I would like to help you make that happen,” Katie said. I didn’t immediately register that Katie was offering me a scholarship... I'm surprised to find that these blog posts no longer seem to have a trace on the internet. Nor does Molly H
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..and not demand an affluent lifestyle, as Ranjeesh did. About Tony Parsons: The Anticult has citations here placing Tony Parsons as part of the Rajneesh commune, named Medina, in England. Rajneesh studied hypnosis back when he was young. Anything to get influence over people. The Anticult, one of our long time members wrote this Quotehttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=ca
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Tony Parsons About Tony Parsons: The Anticult has citations here placing Tony Parsons as part of the Rajneesh commune, named Medina, in England. Rajneesh studied hypnosis back when he was young. Anything to get influence over people. The Anticult, one of our long time members wrote this Quotehttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:n8pdpU2um10J: Options: Reply To Thi
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About Tony Parsons: The Anticult has citations here placing Tony Parsons as part of the Rajneesh commune, named Medina, in England. Rajneesh studied hypnosis back when he was young. Anything to get influence over people. The Anticult, one of our long time members wrote this Quotehttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:n8pdpU2um10J: Options: Reply To This Message Quote
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In a double-blind experiment, neither the individuals nor the researchers know who belongs to the control group and who belongs to the experimental group (Wikipedia). The problem is, when doing a therapeutic intervention, that the experimenter obviously knows what treatment s/he is providing. Procedural interventions have that built-in limitation, which would not be present, for instance if you w
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It had better have double blind protocol. A facilitator has personal devotion to the work and has spent much time and very much money to become and then remain a facilitator. That means ego involvement in the outcome of one's research, and makes it necessary to select assistants who have NO emotional or social investment in Byron Katie or The Work and in the outcome of the study. O
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You may consult the complete text of my study at your leisure and decide for yourself its usefulness. It is by no means perfect and I have delineated how it could be improved in the section on Limitations & Delimitations. The impetus behind my decision to make Byron Katie's process of inquiry the topic of my dissertation was my personal experience of its efficacy but the absence of quant
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