PROLONGED EYE-GAZING TECHNIQUE another very self-conscious technique that Byron Katie uses, is the prolonged Eye-Gazing technique. There are many examples of her using that technique, seen in the conversion story by Carol Skolnick, blogs about the Byron Katie Eyes by the disgraced Neale Donald Walsch, advertising blogs by Stephen Mitchell and the initial induction by Byron Katie described i
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(connection to other Byron Katie thread) Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential" The Work/Byron Katie-strong concerns
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There are even more dots that haven't yet been fully connected in this. Perhaps more information will be forthcoming. There is Stephen Mitchell, who was/is deeply connected with (Seung Sahn) Kwan Um School of Zen Seung Sahn is the same so-called Zen master who was busted for having sex with his students and disciples. Why hasn't Stephen Mitchell commented on that? Do they thi
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just FYI, as mentioned, Jack Canfield, is the salesman of the Chicken Soup megafranchise, and he has dozens of businesses and "coaching" companies, which are basically MLM factories. This guy could sell ivory to elephants, old school superduper-salesman, with knowledge of every LGAT sales technique on the face of the earth. Jack Kornfield, is the founder of the Spirit Rock Center a
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cough cough...it seems that part of being an adult, is realizing there are plenty of people on this little planet, who will twist words, fabricate, and outright lie their asses off, to make a few 10's of millions. Some of them sell aluminum siding to senior citizens, some sell new age philosphies to the masses. There are even "philosophies" they pretend to buy into, in which &q
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here is a wonderful bedtime Story for the kiddies... Once upon a time, there was a story, that after Stephen Mitchell entered the scene, and they decided that A Cry In The Desert and Losing The Moon would not be reprinted, and that "someone" once stayed up for 18 hrs, ripping up by hand every last copy of those damn dirty books. You see, as speculated earlier in this thread, its o
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...regarding people handing over cash-money as "donations"...and not demanding an official tax-receipt, and thus not knowing where the money went...as it can't be tracked through the public 990 IRS forms... There are some tweets, that there is an in-joke about Byron Katie’s private estate being nicknamed "Lodona Lane"...the in-joke being that "Lodona" stands
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There appears to be a few people named Michael Katz out there, so be aware of that. Michael Katz now appears to function as a literary agent on the west coast, and has been pumping for Stephen Mitchell for a very long time. It appears that Michael Katz is also the AGENT to Jack Kornfield. But the (Byron Katie) Michael Katz has been involved in all of these techniques and methods, since the
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ok, Game-Over, Checkmate. (more links to come) Those who have read this thread, will notice that it clearly shows that part of what Byron Katie is doing is an abusive form of Ericksonian hypnotherapy. That is, Erickonian conversational hypnosis, coming from Dr. Milton Erickson. Also, there are many links and connections with NLP and its techniques. The founders of NLP, Richard Bande
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well, a little birdie delivered the Form 990 for 2006, for the Byron Katie, The Work Foundation Inc, EIN 87-0559189. Its interesting,that if one asks someone who is a promoter of Byron Katie, why it costs so much money, they reply that the money is going to help save prisoners in jails, to save the planet, to the foundation, etc. And from the amount that Byron Katie and BKI talk and promote,
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The full information in the tax forms, for The Work Foundation Inc, could be accessed at Guidestar. The Work Foundation Inc, RIDGEWAY & WARNER CPA, SANTA BARBARA CA EIN: 87-0559189 Reputable non-profits all post those public forms on their websites. The Work Foundation does NOT post any of them. Why don't they openly post their 990 tax-forms, like every other reputable non-prof
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Some folks may have thought that there was some "exaggeration" of what was being done by Byron Katie, going back 100 pages in this thread. Its not an exaggeration. Its reality based on factual analysis. For those who have been trained in these methods for many years, its blatant, what is being engineered into these people's minds without their awareness. And it gets far more e
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So much of what Stephen Mitchell says does not add up. For example, in the email quote below, he denies that Byron Katie studied Ken Keyes material in the Halfway-House. How does he know? Was Stephen Mitchell there in 1986? Was he also hiding under Byron Katies bed in 1986? (she says she slept on the floor anyway, with no bed...Stephen Mitchell doesn't even seem to remember that part of
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It says below the therapist Byron Katie used to work with back in the halfway house, mentioned in A Cry In The Desert, was someone named Hannah. Hannah. Someone in the media needs to interview the therapist Hannah from the halfway-house. QuoteThe Anticult Read this thread, and it shows how in the suppressed Byron Katie book, A CRY IN THE DESERT, they talk in detail about how Byron Katie stud
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Finally, someone being honest about Byron Katie, and using some common sense! Notice Stephen Mitchell is a completely unreliable source for any information whatsoever. QUOTE: _______________________________________ I have heard Katie say several times (on stage), that she hasn’t been angry ever since her awakening experience. To prove this she will ask Stephen who sits on the front row
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This passage shows what a conscious manipulator Stephen Mitchell is, trying to pretend that Byron Katie doesn't read books, what a joke, what a scam. Just bold-faced BS, right in your face.. Read this thread, and it shows how in the suppressed Byron Katie book, A CRY IN THE DESERT, they talk in detail about how Byron Katie studied A Course In Miracles, and many other programs and methods.
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Talk about Jim Jones Jonestown and Byron Katie....and suicide and assisted suicide, which is illegal. (except maybe in Amsterdam?) SEE BELOW... By the way, the "story" does not make sense. It was probably told as a Teaching Story for the Byron Katie followers..with the message...DEVOTE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE TO ME. But taken to a literal extreme, that is a group suicide. If Byron Katie
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It is fascinating how the Byron Katie folks do target people who are considering walking away from The Work. There have been examples where people who wrote emails, got back confusing emails from Stephen Mitchell. When people are backing away from Byron Katie, then tend to go from idealizing her, to demonizing her, which is a normal response, of course. Its very clear that Byron Katie is able
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here's my 2 cents on some of this. first off, anything to do with these culty things is very confusing and emotional. So people will get very upset at times, that is to be expected. Its also extremely complex, as it deals with "what is reality" so at times people literally don't know which way is up. So expect strong emotions. also, that guy who was posting had made ma
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anyone can search Google images for Byron Katie, and analyze the professional PR photos she has out there. You will see the exact same pattern's in these photos. - soul-piercing intimate eye-stare into the camera, head-cocked to the side, and hand to the face. Earlier, it was pointed out that in her YouTube video's you can see how Byron Katie uses the "head-cock" to the
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Thx for the info. It would be interesting to find out the exact dates of Stephen Mitchell’s Byron Katie hypno-EYES story, and to see if the romantic Valentine's Day Story was adulterous in spirit. ...but he just made-up and wrote-out the entire thing anyway, its the exact same sales-pitch that Neale Donald Walsch gave about Katie before he got busted for plagiarism. Mitchell probably wro
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BK is using marriage as a metaphor, in a blog entry, The Husband Story. The thing to remember, is everything that BK writes is a "Story", it always has other layers of meaning worked into it, other than the obvious. On the surface, it looks like she is telling a story about her husband, but that is not what its really about. What is really about is YOUR relationship to Byron Ka
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dear lord, they never stop the cross-marketing. The "life coach" Martha Beck, promotes Byron Katie with Lao Tzu and Shakespeare and Dante! it really is an ugly business. Notice the embedded command NLP style hypnotic language Martha Beck uses below. Who knows if Martha wrote that, or is saying what BK and SM want her to say? (this would qualify as real NLP hypno-speak here). Sh
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thanks for the updates, very interesting as usual with this subject. as far as Christin Lore Weber, it seems she's had some personal difficulties in recent years, with her husband passing away from cancer, which she has written about. But as far as her other books, they seem to be all in the VERY mystical christianity area. But the lack of Christin even appearing to ever mention the
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probably some former members of the San Francisco area underground sex-party, swinger, orgy scene might be able to shed some light on this. There is an article where Daedone talks about being in Hawaii in a sex-community, one assumes that is Vic Baranco's sex cult in Hawaii. Notice also the tuition is $12,000. With special arrangements for "work trade". (take a wild guess on t
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yes, Stories appear to be the foundation of the human psyche, and Byron Katie knows this of course. She even mentioned in some of her material how ancient the STORY of Gilgamesh was. (its more than 4000 years) Guess who is involved with the Epic Gilgamesh Story? Every "sacred book" on the planet is full of "stories". And those were just written down from oral stories befor
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Some interesting points coming out from our new surprise guest CultCity. - doing The Work worksheets, does lead to the 9 Day programs, that is how it is set up. They suck people deeper and deeper into it. The self-blame created by The Work magnifies depression, that is very clear. Its a bottomless pit. The idea that The Work is free, is false. That has been shown in great detail. Just because
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yeah, its a good reminder that even though the techniques these people do to us are powerful, once we understand them, they can be reversed quite easily. Imagery Rescripting, like crushing the cockroach lady imaginally, can be very powerful. Also, Verbal Rescripting, or Disputing. One can imagine each time she speaks in ones mind, the sound is turned off, or its just nonsense coming out of
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What a coincidence, and clever word trickery on the Byron Katie blog. They posted some text from an alleged person from Helsinki, Finland, (to make it appear like its from a objective person) where again, they falsely try to link The Work of Byron Katie with Cognitive Therapy. They do this to try to gain some credibility by false association. They post text that is nothing more than an alle
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