the abuses of chogyam trungpa and sogyal rimpoche are common knowledge in spiritual community.
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when i got around to checking my email i found a confession from holy man jd in israel–HE was my astral lover–surprise! and the two month escapade was launched. he said he had been waiting all this time for the trust between us to be strong enough for this to occur. he was pleased at how strong and clear the connection was. pretty amazed myself. in spite of hints from x, i never had any idea that
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i never chose e.j. gold to be my teacher… i became involved with him indirectly because i was in love with one of his senior students, who i will call x. i had never encountered anyone like x before…telepathic.. intense..brilliant..after he rejected me romantically, i started treating him like my spiritual teacher...he felt revulsion for the whole fawning thing i did around him..he encouraged
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another anti-e.j. gold link from "nemo" at www.darwiniana.com
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a thread under a different catagory on this site has this conversation about films with cult stuff:
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i recently rented Constantine. Keanu Reeves plays an exorcist, which for me these days, seemed a metaphor for being an exit counselor. it might be too much supernatural for some people on this board, but taken with a grain of salt, and as a myth, it struck me as an excellent parable of escape from the darkside... i also highly recommend Disney's "Return to Witch Mountain." Alien
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we accept packages for a neighboring business which is a karate dojo. the husband is american and his wife is japanese. yesterday two huge boxes arrived addressed to the wife--from herbalife! as i am a cult survivor and i have heard herbalife is questionable, my antenae went up. the husband came over in the evening and had no idea why the huge packages from herbalife. he called his wife who expla
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i aplogize to this forum, and the moderators, for being occasionally incoherent. here is the link that prompted this thread: exploration of the links to other e.j. gold sites will give the viewer a virtual tour of mr. gold's nefarious "sheep-fleecing" internet businesses and recruitment schemes.
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i posted to wikipedia as both sillykitty and lolafroggy. i know using more than one handle is a practice rr understandably loathes. my apologies. i needed an alias to cover a home isp and a work isp on wikipedia--hence two names, one angry she-lion. hope that the somewhat confused information is somehow still postable???? thank you. s.
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the following link contains several other links with information about e.j. gold. (p.s. i am the author of the referred to edits to e.j. gold's wikipedia entry.)
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wow. the sex-with-the guru game. this is an intelligent discussion by people on all sides who are having their hearts' broken. thank you for posting this.
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thank you for telling your story. thank you for your honesty and your courage. i was not a part of the osho cult, but so much is similar. i applaud your testimony. i think so many people will be helped by it. i know i am.
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well having survived psychological torture similar to evey in v...i appreciated seeing it depicted in v....i appreciated that he was a villian and a hero...paradox, woah!!! didn't get a lot of that in the cult i was part of...but anyway...i appreciated seeing the psychological torture depicted. i appreciated that she was loyal to the sob and emerged 'a warrior' and saw that her gug
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this is very helpful information. i know that his name started cropping up several years back in new age circles in los angeles--with the same kind of awe that is usually reserved for krishnamurti and ramana maharshi. nisargadatta and nityananda...i remember reading that bruce wagner (a high profile student of carlos castaneda) and leonard cohen (folk poet and singer and longtime zen student) spe
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brad, i visited the new blog...i watched the you-tube movie. i think it is an awesome new development...as a blogger on blogger.com i think a lot of people might trip upon the lgat blog 'by accident' and luck into getting the good information--and all the follow-up links you provide, including this site....right on! starter
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thank you for this information...i, for one, will check it out...thank you.
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oh. sorry about that. as i familiarize myself with this site, it seems like this thread and the other post i submitted that you didn't approve, might have been more appropriate under the 'recovery' section of the forum.
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deborah layton is in the film...she has a beautiful presence...i don't think the film mentions that her efforts helped get the congressman to go there...hadn't heard of her or the book before the movie...
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brad private messaged me just to notify me that he had posted to this thread...i couldn't private message him back because i didn't have 10 posts yet....this is the whole thing so far... the groups i was involved with...i trace the most traumatic parts directly back to e.j. gold, a self-proclaimed crazy-wisdom teacher (i.e. whatever loopy ends justified by whatever intentionally devi
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the documentary centers on the government intervention and whether or not it was appropriate--whether or not undue force was used by the government.....i remember it is very sad, like jonestown is, and aslo, like jonestown, has many moving testimonies by survivor/witnesses...
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dear brad, wow. thank you for your questions...unfortunately, to large extent, they are the same questions i have myself...i grapple with them with my good therapist and we both wonder together what the answers are...he has at least one psych degree to guide him and he sincerely seems to have nearly as many questions as i do about how this stuff goes down...he is NOT a specialist in cults...a c
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discovered the other night that cult leader e.j. gold has maintained his internet presence since i last checked five years ago and there are now pictures of him online with several wide and empty-eyed young women i can well-imagine are being harmed. my experiences with this man were more than five years ago...it has taken me this long to get to this point. meds...therapy...etc...i am finally
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just-googling, i think the waco documentary was called rules of engagement. is that what you are thinking of???
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i see you are in singapore! i am sorry to report that this movie is being given a very small u.s. release. i doubt it will get a theatrical release in singapore...and it will probably not be available for dvd purchase in this country for many months...maybe a year...it will get out though..so stay tuned and keep a look out for it if you remain interested....
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just came from viewing the stanley nelson documentary, jonestown. not here to offer any kind of conventional review..i'm not really capable of that. will take me a while to process myriad impressions from the film... of jones himself, from actual footage abd recordings--lots of it--some from the last day--to the cultural climate of the time--to the very moving testimonies given by survivors,
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hi josie... i also struggled on alone for many years, terrified of 'being forced' to take a drug which would further (!) make my mind not my own mind...it took me 5 years actually to walk into a mental health clinic and speak to a psychiatrist. i also had, unbeknownst to me, suffered a series of psychotic breaks...i was having difficulty on a daily basis telling what was real and what
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i just want to add my agreement to the 'hyper-religiosiy" term and description...to add myself to the hr list and to add carlos castaneda's books/ teachings to the long list of teachers/ groups who encourage hallucinations..or "lucid dreaming"...or "dreaming awake,"as it is called in the castaneda material.. i like your analogy of the stars being present duri
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this is my 1st post. i am looking for information about, or any personal experiences anyone has had with "spiritual teacher," e.j. gold.
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