Steve Salerno has started a series on Byron Katie:
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I just came across this parody of The Secret - "The Blatantly Obvious" " potential is limited only by social status, class, education, human prejudice, laws of physics, financial constraints, time and space, basic economic principles, and the random whims of other people more powerful than you."
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QuoteJeannika Seems he's been taking enough of a class to obsorb what he wanted, then changes it to suit his needs and tells his followers how much he's studied over the years. What phenominal bull pucky!!! Impatient Adult ADD sicko, does it his way and makes millions. Very spooky stuff. Jeanika, I agree with your assessment of James Ray as a sick psycho who didn't give a da
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QuoteTruthFinder I read most of the thread and I may have missed it but I see no opportunity for the accused to face his accuser.Whether you believe him or not he should be allowed to speak What are you talking about? No one is stopping him. He can register here and respond on this thread, which I note that Brian Klemmer has not done. Instead, he has chosen to respond on his own website where n
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I found a perfect example of one of Larry Crane's thought stopping cliches in action. When my husband was in, it was "Could you let go of being so smart?" Now I found this is from a message board from some other meditation program, (which I know nothing about), but the writer had also done 'releasing'. QuoteStop trying to be so clever! Hello Alan, Larry Crane
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I am really sorry about what happened to you and your wife. I totally understand how that can happen. After my husband did the Crane seminar, his female releasing partners became the most important people in his life. He shared his inner self with them instead of me. He spent at least half an hour every day with one or both of them on the phone. Meanwhile, as he was focused on encouraging, lis
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QuoteThe AnticultI doubt that any of the real cognitive therapy people would make any specific comments about a specific person. Its been going on for years. Ever since the hundreds of scientific studies have proven aspects of cognitive therapy do work, every Tom, Dick and Katie has been trying to steal some thunder. What they have done many times, is to outline specifically what their kind of
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yutolia, Hopefully your comments planted a seed which she may consider. You never know.
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Uh oh. What a nightmare. Why aren't the legitimate cognitive therapy professionals speaking out about this bastardization of the techniques? Have the Aaron Beck or David Burns people said anything?
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QuotecorboyYears ago, there was an Argentinian or Chilean movie about the military dictatorship that had stolen babies from their imprisoned mothers. The poor mothers were killed and the infants were adopted into the very military families complicit in the murders. One woman, married to an officer who is childless, raises one of these babies, not at first knowing where her child is from...then
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Quotecorboy Here is a most interesting conversation from a message board that serves the needs of persons who feel damaged by having been entangled with personality disordered people. One lone person, 'disengaged' was the lone voice of reason and critical thinking. Quote(Disenaged replied) It's not psychobabble because Katie is not a psychiatrist, so to me her assertion
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QuoteX of PSI ZombieI just found out that someone involved with my ex-husband and his PSI group(s) committed suicide on June 1st. Claimed she "has her demons as many of us do." This woman killed herself after finding out she was scammed out of all her money, has nothing, and I mean Nothing!!! to show for it. She left behind a daughter and they're asking for donations for her ben
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Quotehelpme2timesQuotequestion ladyI would be very interested to hear more about the mindset that led you to leave your partner. I would say that I became vulnerable to culty stuff when I was a junior in college and a close friend gave me one of Jane Roberts' "Seth" books, The Nature of Personal Reality. That and other "Seth" books tout the famous "you create your o
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Quotehelpme2timesQuotesolea13So this is a concern for me in terms of Elizabeth Gilbert's book. Why are relationships breaking up as a result of people reading and begining to be drawn in to her philosophy of life? This is a great question to ask and it's freaking me out a bit because I now realize that I left a great partner of 13 years mainly because of a new age mindset I developed.
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Fascinating analysis Anticult. What books or other sources do you recommend for learning more about these types of techniques? I would imagine that if you can spot them, you are less likely to be taken in by them.
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QuoteygHi Solea The issue of authority is a big one, and if we were not looking to authority outside of ourselves, or authority learned from outside of ourselves but now internalized, we would not be prey to so much. Getting free of the lure and the hypnotic influences of some these things I had to really go deeply into this authority issue and wanting to give my power away or anothe
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I find it so bewildering that even though this guy, Roy, held on to his self knowledge and self-trust, despite Katie Byrons' attempt to undermine it, he still ended up being grateful for her. WTF? Is she so good that people even end up thanking her for trying to mess with their minds? Some of his key statements were:Quote I mentioned that “my body knows” what happened. Byron said, “
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QuoteThe Anticult But the fakers like Byron Katie try to PASSIFY their followers with LoveBombs. They want you to learn how to TAKE her abuse and enjoy it, and "love it". Its right there in Byron Katie's text, she wants to train you to LOVE being used and abused by her. Katie will train you to LOVE BEING ABUSED. I found this letter from a man thanking Katie for invalidating him
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QuotelindacultgoddessAbout 5 years ago my life was destroyed by The Legacy Center cult in Morrisville, NC. Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now" CD was on their recommended reading/listening list. Listening to that CD made my bipolar, manic, and delusions much worse. It is not only worthless crap but it can be very dangerous. This clown is another snake oil salesman and so is Opra
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QuoteJohn FoxHi everyone, Not having gone through the Mormon 'experience' myself, I would value your opinions. The following is some Mormon humor that was submitted by readers regarding a news article on a Mormon comedian. Please reply with which ones are/aren't funny, and any that you feel should be dropped (such as joke #4). Thanks in advance. John ------- Joke
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Even this guy, who is a hug fan of Tolle's, recognizes that he uses hypnotic induction: Quote"Eckhart Tolle is basically using very sharp hypnotic inductions (whether he realizes it or not I don't know) to smash the whole "be in the now" point home until it's lodged so deeply into your brain that you can't get it out."
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Have you seen the Tolle posts in the Recovery section of the forum? "I know that threads on Eckhart Tolle have previously been written. As a "recovering" "NOW-ist" I would like to discuss my aversion to his "teachings"....the self induced schizophrenia of "advaita" or non dualism."
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You might also want to post under any other appropriate heading, like New age cults & sects for example. Those areas of the forum are generally more active and more people might read your message. Good luck.
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If I hear one more Tolle-head analyzing themselves and everyone around them with their" tricky ego" -"pain-body" gibberish I might have to go scream. My tongue is bleeding from biting it too often. You can't say anything because a contrary point of view means you are coming from your ego and you need to be in the now. Aaaarrrggggghhhhhh! Okay. Just needed to ve
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Skeptic, It wasn't me that contacted you. Do you mean someone else, or is this getting even weirder?
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I guess it's that time of year again. The time when Oprah unleashes another phony guru on the public. I haven't been around much lately but had to check in to see about this Tolle guy everyone seems to be going nuts over. From the bit I've heard, it sounds like the same ego denying, critical thinking stopping, and emotion deadening crapola. Maybe all those people who didn
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The public can look at records at the old site, the new one restricts access to church members. Perhaps they don't want people to see that Joseph Smith 'married' teenage girls and women who were already married to other men? Or maybe they want Jewish groups to quit bugging them about baptizing their ancestors? or . . . . ?
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Quoteboonetahoeone of the common themes on this board is that LGATs aren’t necessary and that the world would be better off if they were outlawed, but so many of the loudest participants here could use the very sort of life-perspective offered by these trainings. Quite on the contrary from proving that the world has no need of LGATs, this board seems to prove the opposite . . . Isn't tha
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Dear exImpact, You've made a difference for me. You have tremendous insight and you have really helped me understand a lot and cope with my situation better. Sorry that boonetahoe ran his b.s. but that is going to happen from time to time. I understand if you need to leave the forum for a while, or maybe even permanently. This stuff can be really hard to deal with and I admire your
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Geeze, I can't believe the suicide hotline lady said that to you. Maybe she doesn't understand the idea is to stop people from killing themselves. Hey mindconcern, if anyone is a spaz, it's her. Have you ever checked out Dr. Burns Feelgood Handbook? It's pretty helpful in dealing with self defeating thoughts.
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