Yogi Bhajan fake sikh Akal Security Yogi Tea 3HO Healthy Happy Holy Golden Bridge Kundalini Yoga Los Angeles Ra Ma Yoga Institute (List of Yogi Bhajan businesses is in May 13th 2023 post in this discussion) Russell Brand Has Long Followed Kundalini Yoga Which Has Been Linked To Brainwashing Quote Hartley, who is known for her work on shows like "Black-ish,"
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Apostolos The Community Young Disciples Olivet Assembly And today...Gratia Community Churches? More information is needed. Who's Behind Newsweek? The Magazine's Leaders are Anxious to Hide Their Ties to an Enigmatic Religious Figure. Why? Mother Jones Magazine By Ben Dooley | May/June 2014 Issue QuoteJang also has a history with Moon’s Unification Church. In 2013, a
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Various and sundry discussions of Olivet Assembly and David Jang's churches on Reddit.
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(Read the whole thing - just part of the article is excerpted) Probing a mysterious network of dropshippers, evangelicals, crapgadgets, and semi-vacant Manhattan department stores Cory Doctorow 10:06 am Wed Nov 28, 2018 Boing Boing QuoteNow, (Jenny) Odell has stumbled into a much weirder, much scammier, much murkier world, when she started investigating the parents of one of her Stan
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Google search "Gratia Community Church" Nothing about Olivet Assembly or David Jang Only if you know about Olivet Assembly and use these search terms do you get something in the results: Google search results: "gratia community church" "olivet assembly" If you know enough to add David Jang to the search terms you get this: Google search results
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Investigations and Olivet University Complaint Threaten David Jang’s Empire Jang has had ties to Newsweek, Christian Post Steve Rabey April 5, 2023 International Business Times Newsweek Media Group Will Work More Closely With Christian University, Founder Says By IBT Staff Report 02/21/18 AT 1:19 AM EST Results Google Search reddit "david jang" "olivet assemb
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Corboy note: Big city rents are expensive. Money has to come from somewhere just to open a humble storefront church. Where has that money come from? A church's website should give information on who its actual leaders are and which governing organization it is tied to. No one should be shaming, sneering or defensive if you ask such information. Olivet Assembly Chief Mark Spisak Under
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Is this OB's organization? Quote"...handles these themes in ways that are novel and bizarre, trying to present a kind-of comedic treatment thst is often vulgar and often quite frankly obscene. In fact, my opinion is that the transgressive nature of the obscenity is a tool to pierce the normal, psychological barriers of caution and disbelief whenever one is presented with new
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There are wild rumors about everything and everyone these days. The more serious the allegations the more important it is to remember that in our legal system we are presumed innocent. Without this, you, I everyone is at the mercy of rumor.
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The Dark Side -- Definition of a Cult Educational merchandise
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Many years ago, on a now defunct Buddhist discussion venue (ESangha) older members of DW were griping about problems, said they did not want to tell newbies about this so as not to give the Dharma a bad name. Later, they griped about how immature the new students were! If it is right speech to put out flares to warn motorists of hazards hidden in darkness, it is right speech to warn new st
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In 2004 Landmark sued Rick Ross and this website back when it was Rick Ross dot com. Here's the CEI archive of info about Landmark. 'Litigation' and 'Labor Violations' are among the topics.
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Nicole Daedone One Taste Orgasmic Meditation The Welcomed Consensus RJ Testerman Is a San Francisco 'Sex Cult' Subjecting People to Abuse? Sydney Johnson KQED Aug 28 QuoteBy the time Nelson was being groomed by the Welcomed Consensus, OneTaste was booming. It was still edgy, but good marketing helped it inch its way toward mainstream acceptance with profiles in publicat
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Mexican restaurant Gracias Madre says ‘adios’ to San Francisco Mission Local August 28th, 2023 Comments on reddit San Francisco SF Mexican restaurant Gracias Madre abruptly closes, blames city Gracias Madre Went Out on Bottom ------------------------------------------------ Earlier article - Mission Local 2018 QuoteOwners Matthew and Terces Englehart sta
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Glossary of Terms: MGTOW (‘m??ta?) – Men Going Their Own Way, described by Wikipedia as “a mostly pseudonymous online community of men supported by websites and social media presences cautioning men against serious romantic relationships with women, especially marriage. The community is part of what is more broadly termed the manosphere. MGTOW have ‘…vowed to stay away from women, stop dating
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ORTHODOXY, SISSIES, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF MASCULINITY: PART ONE by Giacomo Sanfilippo Orthodoxy in Dialogue March 3rd 2018 ORTHODOXY, SISSIES, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF MASCULINITY: PART TWO by Giacomo Sanfilippo June 4th 2018
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Male Supremacy Southern Poverty Law article Male supremacy is a hateful ideology rooted in the belief of the innate superiority of cisgender men and their right to subjugate women, trans men, and nonbinary people. Men going their own way: the rise of a toxic male separatist movement The Guardian Laura Bates Wed 26 Aug 2020 01.00 EDT The ‘Men Going Their Own Way’ movement i
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Andrew Tate: 'I fear online influencer radicalised my son' BBC 10 December 2022 How to Talk to Boys and Young Men About Andrew Tate
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Aspiring Warlord Society for American Civic Renewal Charles Haywood US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network The Guardian Jason Wilson Tue 22 Aug 2023 06.00 EDT
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Anyone trying to break away from Mooji risks getting sudden Mooji pix and reminders on their phones. I get unwanted Mooji pop up advertising on my phone because of what I research. Trying to forget Mooji and don't want reminders? Go to your phone and other digital devices and clean out your browsing history, cache and cookies. Algorithms and Search Engine Optimization are used ag
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(Corboy note: It is possible to escape a cult if you have a large family. However, maintstream American society provides little support for parenting. This Reddit discussion is illuminating.) Quote "It really sucks for those that learned to rely on the evangelical machine to help us raise a large family and suddenly find ourselves outside of it." Quote"The (Big Family)lifestyl
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Just imagine what it looked like all those millions of years ago when clouds of those coil shelled tentacled cephalopods were swarming the oceans... You are so right that science exhibits marvels beyond our wildest dreams:)
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The smiley street recruiters selling you blue ribbon bound copies of Bhagavad Gita As It Is will not tell you what they think of women (women are idiot baby factories) and that if you join them you'll be kissing fossil snail shells. Shaligram stones are fossil shells left by distant relatives of today's chambered nautilus - a member of the squid/octopus family - cephalopods. The
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Stripped Down: The Undoing of Hollywood’s Favorite Pole-Dancing Studio Former teachers and clients at S Factor claim the sexy fitness empowerment movement once embraced by Kate Hudson and Eva Longoria went astray even before racial tensions with its charismatic founder came to a head last summer: “It was this beautiful thing, and it morphed." By Gary Baum, Katie Kilkenny, Rebecca Sun
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Google search results: "by any means necessary" "Revolutionary Workers League" Allegations that Revolutionary Workers League trash talked dissident members as being mentally ill and in some cases arranged for them to be admitted to psychiatric hospitals. Letter (circa 1998) by the IBT's Jason Wright documenting his leaving the Revolutionary Workers Leag
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Movement For Justice Revolutionary Workers League By Any Means Necessary Political Cults By Any Means Necessary - Front Group for Revolutionary Workers League Revolutionary Workers League - 'Entryism' Opportunistic takeover of legitimate and promising union organizing and other social justice projects. QuoteRevolutionary Workers League/RWL Formed in 1976 as a split
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Is this the book the story is from? This story is an important find -- thank you! And, as a story, it really stinks. It shows that Prabhupada taught a tradition that was, by our standards, toxic by his time. It is a story that the Hare Krishnas do not tell prospective recruits. Even if this incident did not happen, it is truthful at another level -- information about cultural valu
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Guru tricks - weaponized laughter (Go to the search bar, select All Dates and then put laughter guru. laughter satsang in there and see what comes up. Keeping people waiting and arriving late Commonplace stories used by gurus -- according to Aghenanda Bharati, in Indian culture one is expected to tell these stories when performing the guru role. More recently in the West,
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Along with Agehananda Bharati, I highly recommend Alexandra Stein's Terror, Love, and Brainwashing. She tells us exactly what is done to recruit and then keep us in abusive groups and guru set ups. The basic recipe. Trauma bonding. Here are some references to Alexandra Stein. (Bookfinder dot com is a great place to go and comparison price books) I learned about Bharati'
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