Brachas!
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You sound wise and have a delightful, droll sense of humor. Do not relinquish up either of those! Astoundingly wise for a teacher to advise 12 Step work. Ouspensky, from various reports, exhibited classic alcoholic behaviors by the time he died. Gurdjieff reportedly pressured people to drink heavily - despotic and despicable. Mold illness is only too real. Upstairs neighbor got sick fr
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/kundalini learner1314 I've been reading up about him a bit recently, and I've known about him from when I was much younger as certain people I knew did go for the solstice camp and were proud practitioners of kundalini yoga (we're from halfway around the world). One thing I've realised is, much as there is talk about him being a Yogi of Kundalini Yoga (and one of t
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One of the earliest exposes of the fraudulence of Bhajan and his teaching by Trilochan Singh a Sikh scholar is newly reprinted. Sikhism and Tantric Yoga by Trilochan Singh Under the Yoga Mat: The Dark History of Yogi Bhajan’s Kundalini Yoga Paperback – July 15, 2023 by Els Coenen (Author), GuruNischan (Author) 4.3 out of 5 stars 15 QuoteLet’s face and share the pain. T
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Corboy note: The genuine Sikhs do not practice or teach yoga. Today, the living guru of genuine Sikhs is NOT a human being but the book of their sacred writings the Granth Guru Sahib. You may meet nice sincere members of Yogu Bhajan's group. You may get stress benefit from their yoga classes. Their guru Yogi Bhajan molested and beat women. He laughed at the credulity of his Weste
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This Woman's Viral Story Of How She Unwittingly Joined A Yoga Cult Is An Important Warning "People keep asking how I got sucked into a yoga cult led by a white woman in a turban named Katie..."
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Life gets anxious when everything is due to personal karma, receptivity to Spirit -- everything gets hyper personal, you're hyper-responsible. This is the same emotional landscape of those of us who grow up as Adult Children of Alcoholics or were children in custody of mentally ill care providers.
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April 5, 2024 OneTaste Isn’t An ‘Orgasm’ Sex Cult -But A ‘Wellness’ Company Like SoulCycle, Crossfit, Attorney Claims Despite Bombshell Grooming Allegations
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Exactly. None of us is born wanting to be exploited. We are social creatures. We are wired to need, to expect, to seek connection with each other. When human psychological and spiritual growth is thwarted/disrupted, we are like tree roots seeking moisture. A tree needs water or it dies. Our roots strain towards water -- even when that water flows from a source that is intermi
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Welcome to the CEI message board, Jamie. Other people expressed concerns about this group in a discussion here: If you get any questionable messages please feel free to send Mr Rick Ross, moderator of this message board, a private message (PM) here:
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Inspired by the Confederacy and Czarist Russia, “Ortho Bros” Are on the Rise (Small excerpts -- entire article merits close attention - C) "Other than cleaving to a fierce anti-communism, Russian Orthodoxy in America has long been a relatively apolitical force, and most of its congregants have been ethnic Russians— families who follow the faith that has been handed down to them. W
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One does not have to be a product of LEC or other LGATs to be a 'ghoster' -- one need only have the mentality of a toddler in an adult body (aka narcissistic behavior disorder). (All mature kindly adults have narcissistic *traits* but unless broken under sever stress, do NOT habitually perpetrate narcissistic behaviors.) Toddlers have not yet been taught and learned enduring chara
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One does not have to be a product of LEC or other LGATs to be a 'ghoster' -- one need only have the mentality of a toddler in an adult body (aka narcissistic behavior disorder). (All mature kindly adults have narcissistic *traits* but unless broken under sever stress, do NOT habitually perpetrate narcissistic behaviors.) Toddlers have not yet been taught and learned enduring chara
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The miraculous book by Adrienne Rich newday4U has quoted from can still be found. Just go to bookfinder dot com
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Might be another way of saying that earning money reducing mysteries beyond words to words, commodifies them and breeds delusion? Lots of ways to interpret this.
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"The "Guru" was serious here - he said - this mess doesn't make sense anymore. He went out of business. He returned to simple professional work in construction. Then he was harassed for a long time. Because of the mafia, disappointed women, the services..." That's something many don't think about -- the way success and wealth bring problems. Too many peopl
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IMO reincarnation and meritorious rebirth are versions of pie in the sky when we die. When reincarnation is taken seriously it reduces incentive to seek justice and eradicate misery in this life -- and there's no hard proof beyond personal hallucination, rumor, and wishful thinking that there's anything else but this life. As the late, great Bob Marley sang: Preacher man, don&#
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Recent documentary on Palmerian traditionalist catholistuc sect -- woman who escaped.
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Or it'll be the Antichrist :(
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Those are the words of an ignorant lout, bounder and boor. Sex addiction's worse than drug addiction because you risk summoning a child into the hideous chaos you're producing. Plus a woman's health, finances and psychological health are at risk even with a consensual pregnancy in a stable relationship.
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(What Causes Heterosexuality? -- Queer Nation sticker 1990s) Putin orders research into 'social behavior' of LGBT people, ... Meduza › feature › 2023/06/16 › putin-order... Jun 16, 2023 — Vladimir Putin has instructed Russia's Health Ministry to create an institute to study the “social behavior” of LGBT people within the ... Quote In Russia, parents are having gay
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Thanks for giving this discussion a free bump up :)
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Past discussions of Ching Hai, her cult and her lucrative chain of Loving Hut vegan restaurants on CEI message board: (Select 'all dates' when searching CEI message board -- some discussions go back over a span of 10, sometimes 20 years!) Reddit can be a source of information but must be used with caution. One allegation from someone saying they are a former LH employee
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There's material on this message board about Brahma Kumaris. For searches to cover the 22 years of the CEI message board, select All Dates when running your search! CEI Group Information is the place to go and see if there are articles from legal records and news sources.
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Lawsuit filed against Yuba County ‘cult’ By Robert Summa / rsumma@appealdemocrat.com Dec 19, 2023 Updated 13 hrs ago QuoteThe Fellowship, according to the suit, used different practices to achieve this undue influence. “These practices subjected, and do subject, a prospe
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That took guts. You had a marvellously strong sense of dignity/agency at such a young age. Let's hope more survivors step out and speak out.
Forum: Former Cult Members and Affected Families

Wine-Making Sect Allegedly Enabled Guru’s Abuse ‘Lovefests’ ‘UNCONTROLLABLE COMPULSION’ Jennings Brown Updated Dec. 17, 2023 3:21AM EST Published Dec. 16, 2023 10:22PM EST
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New podcast investigates abuse accusations at the NorCal cult that pioneered natural wine 'Revelations' pulls back the curtain on Fellowship of Friends By Joseph Bien-Kahn Updated Oct 27, 2021 8:11 a.m.
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FORMER MALE MEMBERS OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF FRIENDS, A HIGH CONTROL GROUP (A.K.A. CULT) LED BY ROBERT EARL BURTON, FILE LAWSUIT ALLEGING SEXUAL ASSAULT SLATER SLATER SCHULMAN LLP, ATTORNEYS AT LAW MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 4, 2023 CONTACT: MACKENZIE JOHNSON (310) 341-2086 MJOHNSON@SSSFIRM.COM
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Bivolaru's mistake was to operate in France. The French government takes cult activity very seriously -- due to the nations history, the French authorities understand that ideas have power and the staggering power of charismatic leaders -- direct experience with Louis XIV, the murderous Robespierre, architect of the Reign of Terror, Napoleon and Hitler.
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