I'm going to be looking for these books, Corboy. Fascinating reading! Thank you for posting that. Anticult said: One wonders if Byron Katie makes claims her followers will gain some type of supernatural power? Does she claim to be able to "read your mind"? No, she doesn't claim to read your mind, per se, because "can you absolutely know for sure what another perso
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I'm going to purchase that book, Anticult. It got great reviews on Amazon, and it sounds exactly like what I need to read right now. THANK YOU! -jj
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The School I went to was $3000, but it may have changed since then. That's still quite a profit. BK claims that the money goes to help people all over the world, especially people in prisons. Sounds very altruistic, of course. It makes participants feel like they are doing something great for humanity by paying the tuition. She also offers "scholarships," but they are really jus
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vlinden, According to Ralpher, you won't have any problems if you just don't do what Byron Katie tells you to do. WELL WHY THE HELL GO TO HER SCHOOL THEN RALPHER???? Did you do anything she asked? Or were you like a high school kid not going to class but just hanging out cause that's where all your friends are? That is hilarious... and makes so much sense to me. I'm
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Anticult, You are so right, right, right. Thank you! Writing this stuff is really helping me. Reading what you've written is helping me, too. It never occurred to me, but you are exactly right. I did become MORE miserable after the School, and that made me want to keep going back... for awhile, anyway. It didn't take too long before I just couldn't do it anymore... every time
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vlinden, You are so sharp and quick witted! I enjoy your posts and get a lot out of them. Thanks for all your support. -jj
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ralpher, I've quoted you in italics. Fasting took place, and there was also a restaurant in the hotel--a major hotel--and some people went there, and there was also a small shop that sold snacks, and some people went there. The fast, in other words, was voluntary. In fact, everything was voluntary. The program no longer served its own food, that's true, but there were the delici
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>>Never mind they are telling outright falsehoods with a straight face. They say they are happy ALL THE TIME, which is a lie. Psychology has shown that is NOT possible. THANK YOU for saying that. Whoo... I just realized how I had bought into this believing that Katie is happy all the time. And when I read this sentence, my mind flashed back to all the moments at The School when she
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Zentient, I don't know anything about the Unity Church, but I did think it was really odd that a Church would have Katie come do a seminar there when I saw that event listed awhile back. Katie's belief system is so Anti-everything-Christian... she doesn't belong teaching in a Church! After attending The School, I felt like I understood better the message that Katie is trying
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"One way to tell if the leader believes their own "teachings" is to see if they live according to what they "teach". I wonder if Katie applies her absurd, ridiculous crap in her own REAL, HUMAN life." I really don't know what goes on inside of her head, but after you've talked with her for awhile, it seems very apparent that she is completely ignorant of
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Anti-cult, The author Stephen Mitchell is her husband. When I was trying to figure out what was happening to me, I contacted Katie with questions. Stephen responded... And let me tell you, his attempts to make me question myself got so ridiculous that I just quit responding to him at all. He's the one who writes her books. There's a woman named Paula who appears to running everyt
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Wow! I really appreciate that post, corboy. I was asked to come join this thread after posting earlier today in the LGAT forum under "Byron Katie and The Work/serious concerns." You can read my post here: Or click here, and hopefully the link works. I've read through this discussion, and ralpher appears to be gone... But I just wanted to clarify. I've been to
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Katie not only has a school, she just launched a 28 day residency program called "The Turnaround House", where people pay $20,000 a pop to have their thoughts questioned. It's supposed to be akin to a rehab. Oh man. Can you imagine someone addicted to drugs going there to get clean? Whoo... I think her books are the hook, line, and sinker. They seem innocent enough... very caref
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First, I want to tell you that finding your message here was a real blessing. I've been searching the internet off and on for months hoping to find something about Byron Katie and The Work relating to recovery from cults. I think your concerns are perfectly legitimate. From the first time I read the first chapter in her book "Loving What Is", I knew something was horribly wrong, bu
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