QuoteIf anyone has the nerve to suggest that I am 'getting worked up' or 'obsessed' or am 'hating on' Tolle, I have solid reason to write as I do. -- corboy One of the reasons I keep coming back to the RR site is because so few people seem to realize or admit that the emperor is naked. Being around people who buy into this doggy doo is annoying and sometimes it fee
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This is a page full of classic older posts on this topic. In case anyone is new to the front page and is visiting, here is a bit to read. Goodie bags, red roses.
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It was shown previously, how the supposed big gift by SGI to SGI-UK, was a big sham. You announce this big fake gift of $40 million, but all the money is totally controlled by HQ in Japan. Soka Gakkai International -- SGI-UK Charity Number 1104491 Its like someone saying, ok Hitch, here is a gift of 40 million bucks! Alert the media. So...we'll keep the 40 million in our own inve
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If anyone has the nerve to suggest that I am 'getting worked up' or 'obsessed' or am 'hating on' Tolle, I have solid reason to write as I do. Tolle and Byron Katie and these other 'sudden enlightement' types are making vast sums of money and establishing business empires. Where do they come from? Whats the process of creating these tycoons? T
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Ironic that one visitor has reported that Eckart Tolle is among the list of 'pranic' books. We have a huge thread about ET and Byron Katie here. They are classic, commercial gurus. And there has been a lot discussed about the precise methods of their public appearances and workshops. Their stuff is hugely popular. So eliminating their stuff would be a test of obedience and
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Soldiers, sailors and Air Force personnel swear away their lives when they take the oath. But..at least in the civilized countries, the military provides health care for its personnel, both in service and in retirement, and offers support for families and in event of death, a widower's or widow's pension. One fills out an insurance application. There is also a Uniform Code of
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www.thework.com/school-staff-jobpref.php Its not enough to work for free for Byron Katie, you are told to bring and use your own private property in the BKI private business, and use your cell phones, iPhones, macs, MacBooks, cars, etc. What about the minimum wage labor laws? What about using other people's equipment in a private business? But never mind that, as seen in the BKI r
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Byron Katie a tycoon in the .05% pretending she is the 99% Its the pretending that is sinful. And if you dont pay them and get them to work as volunteers there are additional advantages No need to follow state safety regulations No need for health insurance No need to hire somone to oversee payroll and to report earnings to the IRS or Social Security Unpaid labor is yet another
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SGI gets people to work for free. Many other sects do the same. Byron Katie makes millions, yet has figured out how to persuade others to work for her Corporation for free, doing jobs that should be paid.
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Byron Katie is a multimillionaire, and BKI makes millions a month, certainly. They are a private for-profit corporation, owned and operated by Byron Katie and her husband, and it appears a few others. Below are the job descriptions for the Byron Katie "school staff". Again, these "Staff" are unpaid labor. Notice that each of these "jobs" are paid jobs in any fi
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Yes, this is a huge thread with lots of good research, mixed with off-topic stuff, and some flaming, etc! But lots of good material in the thread. That text might be available offline on request from the author? also, try searching for the keywords in Google.
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QuoteShavoy How the heck can you "understand Sensei's heart"?? Be his "arms and legs"? "Chant to be Sensei's disciple", "Chant to fulfill Sensei's expectations of you".... Cleary those are techniques taken from mysticism...in the sense of becoming "One" with the object of worship or God, in this case the fake Godman Ikeda. Bu
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Here is an article from September 2011 at Study – Grow – Know, a Christianity based blog authored by Th.D. Fred DeRuvo: DeRuvo's analysis of the nonsensical nature of Byron Katie's self-promulgating quotation archive is likely 101 for most readers here at Rick Ross, but it always feels to me like a port in a storm to come across published criticism of Byron Katie and The Work. I
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I don't see anywhere on here that actually just lets you "POST" a message so I'll just write here. What's up with that anyways? I have found so many of these groups out of my desperation to find healing. I will believe anything for a while. One man in another post about Byron Katie said that his body was smarter than his mind and so after a while I knew this was just
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??One way to disable the horror disgust response: Lemme tell us what might happen if, literally we lost the moon. The rhythm of life, of circadian light/dark cycles, the ocean tides, would all be gone. We do NOT want to 'lose the moon' for our planet would be messed up. In some cases, one must lose revulsion in order to function more effectively in certain specialized p
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Disgust may be linked to 'cringe factor' 'ickiness' and dismay. According to the NY Times article, the disgust pathways can be located in the amygdala region in the brain. That which is merely unfamiliar or strange may be different from disgust. In any case, watch OUT for anyone or anything trying to normalize what to you elicits disgust, creepiness, or dismay. I
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This is not official. Just my private, non professional, citizens hunch: One criterion we might investigate which identifies if its cult or potentially abusive relationship: Be very alert if someone tries to undermine disgust towards events in history that ARE disgusting, such as the Shoah/Holocaust, Hitler, Stalin's socially engineered famines, any notion that some groups deserve to
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Trust Your Disgust Cockroach Story Power--the Manipulation of Evolutionary Emotion Hello dear readers. How often have you loitered around the New Age, Dharma Lite, Human Potential scene, felt disgust, expressed disgust (even if only by frowning) and were scolded for being "judgemental"? How often have you been urged to ingore your disgust as "bourgeois" "unev
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Sorry to tell you this but this was never therapy. As soon as this person became a LEC lackey, she ceased to be a therapist. Her credential and skills learned in clinical program are now in service to the Landmark Borg. A true therapist honors the dignity of the counselee and has the counselees ultimate interest at --not Landmark. Two, you can bet that someone in Landmark reads this
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I read his first book and yes, Walsch is a creepy little huckster. When I was still foolishly receiving his emails I couldn't believe how expensive his seminars where or how sickly sweet he was whilst promoting Byron Katie (someone else to avoid!). As for the passage about Hitler, I'm coming across similar nasty revisionist crap amongst others in the New Age circuit. These people sho
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My bad, it was "Transformations". Robbin's study of Hitler, Mussolini and various TV evangelicals was well known when I attended my first NLP seminar in '95. All the old time trainers and hangers on knew about Robbins and his power trip. I even have a audio tape from Grinder chiding Robbins(but not using his name, but for insiders, they knew who he was talking about). I
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Some good resources here Quote: In the early 1980s I also saw a short film of excerpts from one of Rajneesh's talks, and was able to see first-hand his hypnotically slow, coy, seductive, and provocative manner of speech and body language, with his strange way of hissing the "s" sounds at the end of many of his words. and Quote: Osho defrauded some of the most beautiful a
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There is just one book that comes close to filling the need articulated by The Anticult. Unfortunately, this book is written for practitioners and academics. What is needed--Hello!!!!--would be something aimed at intelligent busy laypersons. And the proposed book should list situations where you're at high risk of being targeted for recruitment into someone's exploitative cult
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Why doesn't a real mental health professional write a book called something like. JUNK THERAPY. Sort of like the Junk Science books, but applied to mental health? He would not even have to name names and risk getting attacked, but just put together a way for the general public to sort facts of real therapy and self-help from these insane damaging sects, like Byron Katie. The book c
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My feeling is that most professionals don't know the extent of infiltration by Byron Katie and her wannabes. More and more universities and teaching hospitals are offering integrative therapies (read - unvalidated) training. NCCAM (Natl Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) is spending billions of taxpayers' dollars to carry out poorly designed studies and promote woo
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The discussion continues. Read the material about 'crazy like a fox'
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However, we all need to pay close attention to what Anticult has said. Byron Katie is not crazy, and she is not stupid. Nor is she clueless. Here is an example. It is forty or fifty years ago. From a family friend in the clothing design business. A dress designer friend of my mothers told of a woman who had a rather 'cute' childish appearance and mannerisms. She came across a
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