Brrrr, this really gives me the chills. A psychiatrist utilizing Byron Katie's approach, here she is comparing cognitive therapy to "the work": [A Comparison of Cognitive Therapy to The Work of Byron Katie] Here's a link to her website: [Debra S. London, M.D.]
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My library has that McKenna book. I'm gonna check it out!
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On page 88-90 of the book, "Change Your Life in Seven Days" by Paul McKenna, he gives a salespitch of the 4 Questions by Byron Katie, and lists them, so the NLP hypnotists are in close business relationships with Byron Katie, like Stever Robbins, and others. All the hypnotists can see that Byron Katie is an expert at covert waking hypnosis.
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someone gave me this book to read... Change Your Life in Seven Days: The World's Leading Hypnotist Shows You How, by Paul McKenna This guy is too much. He is not the worlds leading hypnotist, obviously. He doesn't change anyone's life in 7 days. There was a big controversy over his alleged "PhD". His entire book appears to just be bits of other people's bo
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Oprah and her people are quite smart, of course. Oprah has said the public is "not ready" for Abe-Hicks, right? So she knows that her public will revolt if she pushes her New Age weird culty stuff at them too hard on the TV show. So instead, in the summer, she "floats" it in using radio and online sources. That is a softsell, coming in through the backdoor, the screendoor a
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Saw another book in the library about The Secret. (Its a drag our tax dollars have to go to these scammers to buy their lousy books that promote their LGAT seminars and other products). This one is.. Jack Canfield's Key to Living the Law of Attraction: A Simple Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams Hardcover: 138 pages ISBN-10: 0757306586 Its the exact same tripe as a
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I just checked Oprah's message boards to see if there was any discussion of Byron Katie. Couldn't find any. But I did find this thread criticizing Oprah: [Oprah, The Chameleon!] I don't agree with the religious aspect of the person's post, but I DO agree with the critique!
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Haven't listened to the interview yet, will do so later. But its very interesting that Byron Katie says The Work "alleviates depression, decreases stress". That is due to this thread on the Rick Ross Forum. Byron Katie (the Work) Complaints, California Board of Psychology, FTC (as of March 03, 2008, they have reposted and CHANGED at least 6 CLAIMS) Before this thre
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QuotecorboyReality Check--Today May be the Day Oprah Interviews Cockroach Lady Thanks for this reminder. I'm going to see if I can find anything out about it... Okay, here's a link to Oprah's interview with Byron Katie: [Ending Your Suffering] This is how Oprah advertises the talk: "Are you ready to end your suffering? According to spiritual teacher and best-sellin
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Possible 'LGAT' techniques in my Hindu-based Yoga Meditation Group. Large Seminar Rooms in the Hotel kept very cold; much colder than the main body of the Hotel. Hotel chairs set up in theatre style seating. There were long days of learning. At earlier seminars, students would be listening to the Guru talk for up to ten hours for nine or ten days at a time. (It was a question and
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Its amazing that Dawn Rockwell also feels she can deal with every possible problem on earth? Her list seems to cover every possible area of possible human PAIN. If someone can make people believe they can HEAL their PAIN, that is a business. That is the way people who run these programs think. They literally show graphics that... 1) find the customers PAIN (that list) 2) preferably find a
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Reality Check--TodayMay be the Day Oprah Interviews Cockroach Lady 'One morning Gregor Samsa awoke to find he had been turned into a gigantic cockroach'. Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka. Helpme mentioned earlier "Byron Katie is to appear on Oprah Winfrey's "Soul Series" radio show on Monday, July 28th, August 4th, and August 11th at 4am, 10am, 4pm and 10pm (al
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I just got VERY triggered simply from reading one of the Work facilitators'/coaches' web pages. With a BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN EDUCATION, Dawn Rockwell claims she can work with the following issues, one of which I've bolded because it's what triggered me (unfortunately I've had direct dealings with the topic in my life)... "Enlightening lives of individuals h
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In answer to Anticult's question: in the 1950s there was a fake guru named Lobsang Rampa. He got away with it because back then there was little information about Tibet or Tibetan Buddhism. His material looks very quaint today. Rampa was actually the pen name of a British author, who wrote a wildly popular book, 'Opening The Third Eye'. "The Third Eye, published in 1956 and
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QuoteThe Anticultalso, notice how much more clever Byron Katie and Eckhart Tolle are than all these folks? BK and ET both know listing all your past affiliations, seminars, and guru's and former cults, etc, carries a lot of baggage. So they went and suppressed all of their past affiliations, and just pretended that a cockroach and a park bench done it. Very clever indeed. Actually in To
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also, notice how much more clever Byron Katie and Eckhart Tolle are than all these folks? BK and ET both know listing all your past affiliations, seminars, and guru's and former cults, etc, carries a lot of baggage. So they went and suppressed all of their past affiliations, and just pretended that a cockroach and a park bench done it. Very clever indeed. Who was the first big wester
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EFT is literally hypnosis. (also TFT) Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) QUOTE: "Emotional Freedom Techniques is the creation of Gary Craig, an energy healer who would fit well in any New Age borough. Gary is always smiling and happy because he has found the cause and cure for almost everything and he really wants to help you. He loves you and cares for you. How do I know? He says so on
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Interesting to note that the large majority of BK facilitators are women. Just scanning the list I figure it's 70%. Typical of most newage (rhymes with sewage) modalities. As for Janey Hardy, she proudly lists her extensive training in $cientology as part of her fringe education. Yikes!
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Oh, my god! Forgive me, but I've been alternately laughing and cringing after reading the list of Jane Hardy's credentials. If she actually did go through all that training she must be the most jargon filled discombobulated new age sucker in history. I'm guessing she made at least some of it up. Either way, I'm wondering: "who falls for that". I mean it's one t
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If you are thinking of doing sessions with a BKI (Byron Katie International) certified facilitator of "The Work" and have found your way here, I urge you to read the posts preceding this one before getting involved in the work. This is a list of Byron Katie's "certified facilitators" as of today's date: Susan Balsam, Texas Stephanie Bell, Washington Diane Br
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Its truly unbelievable how Byron Katie International is franchising out all of this stuff to anyone with a pulse. Its interesting how many so-called Life Coaches will just grab onto whatever is popular. One has to wonder how the business end of it works, do they just pay Byron Katie upfront for all that "training" or do they have to pay a franchise fee too? When Byron Katie says...
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Cultic Milieu--further pondering Another author refers to 'oppositional subcultures' as part of the cultic milieu. Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization (Paperback) by Jeffrey Kaplan (Author In 1972--a period of social upheaval much like today--sociologist Colin Campbell posited a cultic milieu: An underground region where true seekers test hid
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This person in particular scares me, all the creepy items on her resume. [Satori Coaching - Jane Hardy]
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CultCity brought forth the idea of "coaching", so I decided to get an idea as to how many folks might be utilizing BK's work in the context of "life coaching". It's STAGGERING how many people are doing this. Imo these people are trying to make an easy buck off of the vulnerable. They may or may not be conscious of this. They may have new age-ly convinced themselve
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Final note on Jung and his autobiography: For all his attempts to give an honest inventory of his life, Jung did not mention a long term affair he had with one of his student/analysands, Toni Wolff. Today this kind of thing is much better understood and is considered unacceptable behavior on the a part of a therapist, whether you are a client, a student therapist in clinical supervision, o
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Solea, thanks for fact checking that emotionalzen blog. I thought that 'theohumanity' name sounded familiar but didnt check it. Damn, its so easy to see how one quite good article or blog post that bats 1000 can be tied to something else that is iffy. Hazards for Intuitively Gifted Persons Solea wrote: these were people, myself included, who were not able to fit into the do
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If you want information on AC, read this blog which was started by a former editor (Hal Blacker) of AC's What Is Enlightenment? magazine. The EnlightenNixt articles are good start because they give an orientation to the entire collection of articles, plus comments. The blog ran for 3 years. And WIE magazine is still published to this day, and each issue includes an interview bet
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Quotesolea13I just finished reading 'Enlightenment Blues'. I saw that it was the same thing with Andre van der Braak's experience with the American Guru Andrew Cohen. People would be harassed by Andrew or the other students until they broke down in tears of frustration. Then they were accused of being emotionally manipulative and unable to face the 'reality' of their own
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Yep. helpme2times, it's true. Being human with normal human emotions just doesn't cut it when you are on the vanguard of spiritual evolution, you know? I just finished reading 'Enlightenment Blues'. I saw that it was the same thing with Andre van der Braak's experience with the American Guru Andrew Cohen. People would be harassed by Andrew or the other students until t
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Eek. I just read the following testimonial at the website of Patrick Walsh (aka Ravindra): "Today 'I' am no longer who or what 'I' thought 'I' was at one time. I am on a sacred path that is leading only to where the path began. It would be called the path to no self; I am going nowhere; I am the sacred path. Thank you Teacher Ravindra for your grace, compassi
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