Some more stuff. Googlebooks rules. specialkitty wrote: Gurdjieff and alcohol. This from a sympathetic source. That source notes that Gurdjieff was found to have hade cirrhosis of the liver. One has to drink one hell of a lot of alcohol for this to lead to cirrhosis. Though pigging out on rich food would also aggravate any liver trouble as well. A man who spoke of teachin
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Quoteheron I received the books and an initial glance at the astral book left me unimpressed as it was nothing like the Monroe book and seemed to be full of mantras, conjurations, mythology and religious clap-trap. You will also notice alot of Aun Weor's books are rhetoric & propaganda pieces. Its also meant to lead you to certain "conclusions". This 'leading metho
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Quoteheron I looked on Amazon for other books and I chose Belzebuub’s book because it had 22 reviews and most of those customer’s had given it five-stars based on the fact that it was an easy to understand method that had apparently worked for them. Thanks Heron for your time and effort to post. As for the reviews its a common tactic for members to give themselves good customer reports to make
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Hi Heron, Thanks for all your work, I would love to here about all your highlights from reading the books. I was going to go through that process but It was too much of a contradiction with my need to move away from the "teachings". I am also not a dogmatically religious person, quite open to good ideas, but I really wanted to find a group of Gnostics to study with. I would define t
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Hi I have just seen the interesting links posted by notanantiGnostic. I've just found this one in which a person has goen onto a Gnostic forum to give his own opinions of the SAW cults that have sprung up mainly in Spanish speaking countries. Will talk again soon.
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Hi I have just noticed that I have received a private message dated 06th March from someone wanting me to outline my experiences with Gnosticweb and to ask if I have done any of the courses. I was surprised to get this as I am new and only have one post to my name. The person has a forum name of "2bdellusioned" and a search shows that this person has never posted here before. I
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Hello again, As promised, I would like to give you my observations about Gnosticweb based on what I have seen so far and to show that this is a cult that in my opinion, has the potential to be quite damaging. First up, I’ll give you some background on myself, so you can see where I’m coming from. I am not a religious person and have never subscribed to any form of organised religion. I en
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That is an excellent link that Heron gave to help understand the problem of the Gnostic Movement. I would suggest everyone read it.
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Yes Heron please do share your perspective on how the Gnostic Movement lead by Mark Pritchard (who calls himself Bezlebuub) appears to be a cult and thanks for that link. There seems to be a scattering of voices against Gnosticweb all over the internet the more references we have, the better.
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Hi This is my first post and I would like to share my views on Gnosticweb. I have had no real direct contact with the people concerned but I did unwittingly buy both of Pritchard's books on Amazon, and I have viewed their website. If its ok, I would like to post a detailed opinion based on my own observations and I would like raise some issues that I don't think have been discussed
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