While I was in LGAT, I felt that the role playing activities resembled various stories from Chinese Emperors' private life. This is a passage copied from "The Fault of Qin", written by a Confucius scholar around 20B.C. Study of Confucianism and various religions were banned during Qin Dynasty around 260B.C. "The First Emperor left the virtuous way of the former kings
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Here is one definition for the word "trap" ": something by which one is caught or stopped unawares; also : a position or situation from which it is difficult or impossible to escape " Be aware of trap masters in LGAT...
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“You are all so wrong but I am so right.” “I am so right because only I can judge myself.” “If I judge my own judgment, I won’t lose.” “Since I won’t lose, I win.” Hsuchi
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Instead of motivation, I want to ask why is a "channeling" exercise in a LGAT course? Overbreathing was the last exercise we did for the workshop. One may wonder its intend. Perhaps it was not about channeling; perhaps it was more about transformation, enlightment, meditation, or whatever New Age you called it. Who could escape that? Well, unless I opened up my eyes and stop over
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Here is my LGAT overbreathing experience: I saw my grandpa...(channeling) I also saw bright light and a budda standing behind him...(spirituality) Perhaps Channeling and Spirituality are two of a kind. Here is how science explains spirituality: Hsuchi
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I wonder who would defend the statement that "The brain functions to make assumptions prior fact" should be kicked. I guess the statement depends on what sort of information people base their assumptions on as well as what sort of facts collected to against or buttress the assumptions, right? I try to find assumptions in the book "The Cults in Our Midst" but topics related
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While I was walking across a traffic intersection yesterday, I saw a car traveling very slowly toward a red light. Initially I thought the driver was about to stop before the traffic sign so I could walk across the street. But the more I looked at the car, the more suspicious I got. Out of my surprise, the car kept going through the red light at constant speed. Since there wasn’t much traffic
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Here is a piece of strange conversations I had this afternoon with a relative of mine who involved in LGAT for years. He said: “When people push you, don’t push back.” I said: “Fine.” He said: “When people curse you, don’t curse back.” I said: “Sure” He said: “When people wrong you, don’t take revenge.” I said: “Of course.” He said “You’re just a narrow minded person who can’t tolerate a
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Here is an abstract by Researcher C.F.Chuang: "From the beginning of the Qing dynasty, social fragmentation led to the formation of many underground societies. Secret religious sects and secret societies were conspicuous forms of communal organizations among the lower social strata as well as religions and organizations that promoted family and clan values. Secret religious societies m
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Let me get this right... This cult was investigated by the Control (or translated as Investigation) Yuan of Taiwan while the main follower of the cult turns out to be the Premier of the Executive Yuan. Yuan means "top government office". I don't know anything about this cult. But, from what I read, I think the Taiwanese government may have just saved its Premier’s
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I wonder if those "6 Points of Power" copied from code of Samurai. Codes of Samurai: " I have no parents; I make the Heavens and the Earth my parents. I have no home; I make the Tan T'ien my home. I have no divine power; I make honesty my Divine Power. I have no means; I make Docility my means. I have no magic power; I make personality my Magic Power. I have nei
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On the second day of my LGAT, the teacher (or guru) discussed inner child. She said human emotion is like an iceberg, once it reaches its peak, it slides downhill since. Sea water below the iceberg can be compared to human unconscious. She mentioned that human emotion peaks around age 14. Now, think of it, I believed the guru is playing mind control. She played mind control (or mind trap) on
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THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST KANGXI - Emperor of China, 1654-1722 [64.177.206.13] The link also talks about Gibson's film.
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Hi, Coz You made an excellent point on people's short term change during or immediately after those intensive courses. On the last night of LGAT, three people came into my room to discuss certain issues with me. First one was my course leader. She asked me if I would bring any of my family members to the organization. I said I would think about it. Then she mentioned that, if I w
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Introduction from "That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen" by Frederic Bastiat, 1850. "In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are
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Hi, Toni, We're living on a lonely planet. Without you, we're living on a lonelier planet. You're the missing "fifth element" that turns evil to good. And for those evil deeds, God is watching. Hsuchi
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In I-Ching, its fundamental elements are represented by 3-bits binary: ground (000), thunder (001) , water (010), swamp (011), mountain (100), fire (101), wind (110), and sky (111). Since ground (000) is considered as the first element and there was no numerical system 5,000 years ago, it is counted as numerical 1. From ground to swamp, the numeric arrangement is 1 to 4. Yin-Yang are refle
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Here is a link to English Buddhist Texts: Hsuchi
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Cipher, Good questions. Recently, because of Tsunami disaster, I saw a lot of Buddhist monks performing the service for those victims. I also saw plenty of groups who have nothing to do with the disaster but come out forcefully in terms of donation and recruitment. I come up with all these because I had seen my grandpa during a LGAT hypnotization (OSHO overbreathing). I am an engineer so
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Can religious leaders and cult staffs coexist at the same time and doing the same thing? I think they can, especially during channeling session. Temple monks are professionals at chanting. They have well memorized and versed at Buddhist texts because it is what they do everyday in the temple. However, eastern cult staffs, on the other hand, are not experts in religious scripts. Cult staf
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In Chinese words, religion means "study of ancestry" or "ancestry education". Even before the introduction of Buddhism around 20 B.C., the meaning of religion was already so. On the other hand, cult means “study of abnormal” or “abnormal education”. Again, the meaning was fixed long before Buddhism in China. One may notice the word “education” contained in both rel
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In a Buddhist funeral ceremony, there are plenty of strict rules to follow. When a head of a family passed away, from what I remembered, members of the passing family are required to rehearse Buddhist texts, mainly The Heart of Prajna Paramita Sutra and Vajra Sutra (Incense Praise), once each week for 49 (7*7) days during a ceremonial process. Family members are ordinary people with or
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Thx for the info. I also attended a LGAT class and was hypnotized consistently for five days. I am trying to find out whether I suffered memory lost and also trying to determine what kind of new information was implemented through the trance exercise. As I begin to read some of the articles I wrote during and immediately after the LGAT course, I have seen a pattern of forgiveness and
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Hi, Can you identify any specific hypnotic method used by your LGAT/cult group? Can you elaborate more on primary and secondary visual cortex and how that affected you mentally and physically? Here is a link to The Art of Hypnosis to help you identify. Read it carefully as you may be hypnotized again. To prevent so, I recommend you read from the last chapter first. It is i
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It's official: video games are bad for your brain. New research shows permanent effects on minds of players. Yeah, play modestly & group cautiously. Hsuchi
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Last year, there were several incidences in my country that gang members tried to extort "gaming credits" from online players. Gang members had tracked down internet addresses of high credit gamers, physically beat up the players in online gaming rooms, and robbed their gaming credits. Those credits then re-sold for real money. It is not surprising that abusive situations happe
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I found this website when I was reading a book called "Bad Therapy - Master Therapists Share Their Worst Failures". The title of the article is called "Discovering the core within our multiplicity". It is essentially the same way of saying that people can have multiple souls instead of just one. Inside the article, one may find how transformation can be achieved.
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Hi, I suggest you to find a copy of "Cults In Our Midst" by Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer. (ISBN: 0-7879-6741-6) ...Chapter 11 - Leaving the cult "When a person is taken in by the coercive psychological and social influence of a cult, she or he experiences what I call the five D's. 1. Deception in the recruitment process and throughout membership 2. Debilitation,
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Here are ways to do assignment two. More translation from the LGAT hypnotizer’s note. If she said , I treat the sentence as (universe... one....). These translation words are extracted from a series of mini stories written by the hypnotizer. Those mini stories are mostly double talks with scary ritual examples. So I did some efforts myself to read through the stories, exclude the example
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Here are ways do assignment one: (Translated from a LGAT hypnotizer's note I found from the web yesterday. She also said this - the best cognitive awareness is no cognitive at all.) feeling of autumn… weekends… relax… clean accumulated dusts… sort out the mess… take time… forget about work… heart… distraction can be easy… recognize what one is doing right now… focus on one thing… breath
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