Hey, everyone -- I've been away for a few weeks because there wasn't much happening on this thread; glad it's picked up! Quotelaarree I met Adam at a conference back in June and confirmed that he actually did do the DC course back around 1985, and that he had dated someone named Swansea. I actually have a letter in my files of DC-related correspondence that mentions someone na
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Wow, REALnothings, thank you for such a vivid and detailed description. It rings so true, and I had forgotten, and now it's so helpful to look back on it from my current perspective ... that one about "How are you doing?" is priceless! If I didn't know it to be true, I'd almost think it was satire. And the eggs. And the facial, etc. But wow! It's amazing to think wh
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Quotelaarree... He said he faked being crazy, hoping he would get put in a psychiatric institution instead of in jail. This happened, and then he escaped from the institution and came up to New York. ... Of course, this led me to joke for a long time about how I was in a cult founded by an escaped mental patient. And you guys were too. :-) How much was he actually faking? ;) Seriously, w
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Thanks for your perspective, folks. I'm definitely glad you're all here to help vet these things ... I am still so naive.
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QuoteREALnothings ... I still deal with these extraversion/introversion issues and uncertainties in myself and with my behavior. ... ... So much karma/energy had been generated by my relations with the group, though, that For at least a week or two I felt like someone who'd just withdrawn cold-turkey from a prolonged period of psychedelic drug use. It's interesting that you put it t
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Anyone heard of this? A woman I know as a highly accomplished coach recommended it highly. So I looked at the website ... has some familiar LGAT-style features from what I can see.
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This humor goes beyond LGATs to skewer pretty much anything new age, pop psych, etc. ... I got a chuckle. (Copied from www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/religions.html) New-Age-Astral-Vibration Rap by Steve Webber I was having an out-of-body experience so I grounded myself and got centered with the help of my spirit guide, then I almost astral traveled but the phone rang and I sensed the negative vi
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I see this thread hasn't been active for a while, but I just recently discovered this board. It is extremely useful to hear someone's clear description of their experience with ESP. (Thanks, a.) A friend recommened this program to me -- but with reservations, mostly due to cost. She only mentioned it because I was describing my recent emotional challenges ... which led to a long convers
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I so wish I had known this back when I was getting out ... this info would be useful OUTSIDE a cult education forum, like in the free new-age magazines found in large cities, or at holistic health expos, etc. Along with other tips I've seen you (and others) post elsewhere in the forum, corboy.
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Yes, finger testing (instead of larger muscle testing, as in applied kinesthesiology). And yes, the direction it was going in when I left was starting to sound more occult/esoteric -- and thus less appealing to me, since I was more into "blast through your limits, change your life"-type processing. Rather than stuff like clearing past lives, which we started doing. Having been open to t
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Thanks, Laarree. Both might be productive. I am definitely interested in this "species" of cult, since it was the kind that sucked me in. After Naexus it had a phase of being called something else; not Naka-Ima -- that is an offshoot by two former staffers. (I actually visited Lost Valley, which at the time hosted those workshops; but it didn't really have much draw. Probably a goo
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Emotional Freedom Techniques. It's a purported alternative therapy, but critics say there is no real proof of its effectiveness. There are a couple of other threads on that topic; I'm not sure how to link to them but here's one try:
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Has anyone heard anything about or had experience with this group? It was recommended to me by the editor of a progressive parenting magazine -- which, by the way, also heavily promotes EFT. (That in itself doesn't seem to be a bad thing, since the intention is to help kids learn to soothe themselves ... I think.) Take a look:
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Wow, finally something about this group! I knew Immunics was their latest thing ... the outgrowth of the more woo-woo sounding direction they were taking when I left in 1994. They had changed their name to U-I-Ku (or something close), but when I joined the group was called Naexus. I didn't realize it was a cult, because all the descriptions in resources I could find back then sounded much mo
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