GODHIMSELF: You are behaving like a troll trying to keep people from posting. Also you seem to want to dominate this tread. This thread is not your personal place to offer legal advice and admonish people. As long as people posting here are prudent there is no need to be worried about litigation. The Butler group isn't stupid. They have not filed a frivolous lawsuit against this mes
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GODHIMSELF: Please stay on topic or you will be banned from this message board.
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GODHIMSELF:: I don't think anyone here really cares about Henry Jolicoeur videos. Speaking as someone who has experienced numerous legal threats and gone through protracted legal battles you are safe if you get the facts right and make it clear when you are expressing an opinion. For example, you can say "In my opinion," "It seems to me," or when you are not abso
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GODHIMSELF: You are very close to being banned from this message board. I strongly suggest you stop posting on this thread. You are doing nothing positive and are disruptive. You increasingly seem to be behaving like a troll.
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Seems like there may be some trolls here. Apparently the Mooji group is concerned. This must mean that this thread makes them uncomfortable. IMO that's a great compliment to the people that have built this thread.
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To whom it may concern: This thread is drawing attention and it seems some trolling. People posting here must stay within the rules. No victim blaming and shaming. No ad hominem personal attacks. And please stop the speculation about lawsuits. It's totally ridiculous and unwarranted. The Cult Education Institute has been sued five times. All five lawsuits ended in dismissa
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Everyone: Please do not use all capital letters. It is not necessary, over the top and a bit rude.
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To whom it may concern: Promotional posts about speakers, gurus or whatever will be deleted from this thread. This thread is about Mooji. If you want to discuss and promote someone go and so somewhere else.
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Intheflow: Your post seems like a threat to silence critics and former members of the Mooji group that have chosen to post here. Please understand that this message board and the Cult Education Institute has been sued five times after such threats were made. All the the lawsuits were dismissed and none went to trial. One group (Gentle Wind Project) was subsequently investigated and shut
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Please try to be respectful. This thread is being trolled. Apparently Mooji people are concerned enough to do that. Not everyone that has left the group and is critical will agree on everything. The focus of this thread is -- Is Mooji a cult of personality? And what behavior within the group is negative and/or destructive? Are people being hurt. Please focus on the core subject not
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Mara Fiota: You did not answer any of my questions. I can only conclude you are here as a troll and/or an apologist.
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Mara Fiota: What do you think Mooji had done wrong? What is wrong with group in your opinion? What mistakes have been made by Mooji? Please offer some specific examples. Unless you only registered and decided to post here as a Mooji apologist and/or troll.
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changedagain: Please keep in mind that some people who post here may be a bit raw and quite sensitive. Especially new people. And they might be offended or put off by something that you think is funny, but they feel is hurtful. Everyone must respect that each person posting here is coming from their own place, space and situation. Everyone is not at the same place in recovery.
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Sometimes a sense of humor about certain aspects of cults eases the pain. It may not work for everyone, but it works for some.
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You have posted 13 times at this message board. Many of the posts promote Facebook , etc. This is not a thread to promote a Facebook page, but rather discussion about the Kabbalah Centre. Please keep that in mind.
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Tzadik: So you are just here to promote a Facebook page? What do you have to contribute to this thread?
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Gwen: Momentus has a troubled history and is an LGAT (large group awareness training). See This book has two chapters specifically about LGATs like Momentus, which can help you to sort through the issues. It is carefully researched with extensive footnotes and bibliography. I am sorry to learn of your situation.
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To whom it may concern, If you have an opinion state -- In my opinion. If you are not absolutely sure about a detail you can say -- it appears to me, apparently, it seems to me, etc. These are important distinctions. Specifically qualifying what you say in this way makes it very difficult, even for a litigious group, to have any meaningful basis to make a claim regarding defamation.
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lechat: Seems like you are trolling this thread as an apologist for the Opinion Institute. Can you think of anything Option Institute did or has done that is wrong? What could Option Institute improve upon in your opinion? In what ways has the leadership and/or the institute failed?
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To whom it may concern: See The Cult Education Institute has a section devoted to recovery issues. See There is also a listing licensed mental health professionals that have experience helping former cult members.
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To whom it may concern: If an article is published online and attributed with the name of the author, writer or reporter there is no problem in posting the name here. The rules prohibit posting contact information such as an email address, home address, phone, etc. Nothing who wrote a published article not a violation of this message board's rules.
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Wombat is here as an apologist. Ironically, some years ago he was here at this message board complaining about a group seeking help and/or some feedback and solace. But apparently now he has moved on to another questionable group and has become an apologist. Groups called "cults" frequently threaten to sue people that critically speak out. They don't seem to understand tha
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To whom it may concern: Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton wrote a paper published at Harvard titled "Cult Formation" within which he defined a destructive cult. In my experience almost all definitions of destructive cults intersect with Lifton's three criteria or core characteristics. In my book "Cults Inside Out" I propose that Lifton identified the nucleus for the defin
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Wombat. The single most salient principle that explains the seeming inconsistencies of an authoritarian leader's behavior is that it's all about control. That is, authoritarian leaders of groups called "cults" like what they control and don't like what they likely cannot control. So people that the leader thinks are problematic and/or difficult to control may be
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Neo, I am very sorry for the children that were raised in destructive cults. You are right they have no choice and this is a terrible thing. But there is such a thing as coercive persuasion and influence used to gain undue influence over people. The leadership, which knowingly used such techniques to break down the critical thinking of members did that. Blaming the victims of such coerc
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Here we go again. Neo's message was deleted. Victim bashing will not be allowed here. The perpetrators are to blame not the victims.
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BTW--If anyone is interested rickross.com was sold due to the fact that the name Rick Ross is so prominently associated with the rapper Rick Ross. There was some confusion due to this and so the domain name for this site was changed to more accurately reflect the purpose and focus of this site. This message board has repeatedly been attacked by groups called "cults" and the Cult Educ
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gingerbeer has been banned from this message board. gingerbeer posted personal attacks and apparently wanted to troll and/or disrupt this thread. He is probably a Mooji devotee. gingerbeer violated the rules he agreed to before posting, i.e. no personal attacks.
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Yes. The problem with not taking mental health seriously enough is that various gurus push people through intense meditation, exercises, cathartic confessions, etc. to a breaking point. And gurus are not typically licensed mental health professionals. So when they have seminars or sessions they have no meaningful education to inform them when someone is too fragile psychologically and when the
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Horowitz: Watching the video was interesting. Mooji reminds me of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Almost like Moo is copying the presentation style of Rajneesh. But of course Rajneesh was better at being a "guru" and far more notable. Historically Rajneesh was known to have exploited his devotees. For example he owned 90 Rolls Royces and there were allegations of sexual misconduct.
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