So I have something to report on the state of Gnosis-sos.org. I appears that the domain name is for sale, strange how it would get to that situation. Also there is a similar domain name that appears to possibly be for sale, Gnosis-sos.net. clearly it was also an anti weor site at one time as the former host brings up. Unfortunately I was not able to link to the owners. For those who are not up
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If anyone is interested in talking to me about their experiences with the Gnostic Movement but they don't yet feel safe posting here please feel free to contact me via this websites Personal Messenger I will not post anything you say, and I will hold it will all be completely confidential. Just click on my name and use the option to send PM or personal message.
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I would like to comment on a little bit more of the manipulative language and cult speak that they use. A few minutes ago I was checking something on their website, generally I still like to monitor their activity once and a while, it is probably a habit. I came across a disturbing article about how they were spreading into Ethiopia at the request of some students. They were all quite please w
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Nice to hear from you Cosbird, Considering what you have told me, I would definitely recommend you read the Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur. I has really turned out to be the book that I needed, it sounds like I am on similar search to you. I am a bit of a slow reader, mostly I haven't finished reading it yet because I am so amazed by all the details and good information that i just have to ke
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I have some thoughts that might help people who are working on leaving the Gnostic Movement lead by Mark Pritchard who has a delusional fantasy about being the mythical creation called Bezlebuub. I will try to deliver them in as orderly a manner as possible. First Mark and the Gnostic Movement or Gnosticweb seemed to have covered themselves pretty well, with all the disclosure statements and
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Thanks for that article Corboy that gave me a perspective I didn't have before. However I think the author might have missed a number of messages in the movie. You will notice that when Neo leaves the Matrix his life actually gets worse, so waking up is not fun. However there is that suggestion that our world may simply be an illusion so you can do what ever you want. This is trouble, there
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I don't see why you would need to undue anything since you are trying solve a problem and therefore have done nothing wrong, you need to work for a solution to the original problem.
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What is wrong with the Matrix Script? If it had any similiarities to scientology then that is because they have the same influences, such as Buddhism, Gnosticism and philosophy. There is a massage of waking up to reality and getting out of the grind we are all in. The last two movies are a problem for most people as they are problematizing what originally looked to be a simple process. As I ca
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Hi Missbee I hope you don't mind me posting this link to the other post you accidentally created on this subject
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It think it is important to be aware that sweat lodges are not the exclusive domain of the Sioui (Lokota, Dokota, Nakota etc), and we can confirm this archaeologically. Different peoples had different ways of doing, as with everything. Since the 1960's with the rise of the Pan Indian Movement there has been an increase in conformity in things like sweat lodges or pow wow dances. From what I
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You find a great variation on spiritual activities between the North and the south. You can even find that within Nations that had to move south as a result of the Indian Removal Act. I heard a story a few years ago about a Seneca elder from New York State visiting the Seneca Nation in Oklahoma. At an event he was doing some traditional dances and ended up having a heart attack, partially because
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Hi Missbee, Sorry if I gave you feeling that I was putting down your concerns or manner of speaking or anything like that. My efforts were simply to help you understand how to deal with your situation, to the best of my ability. I am in no way an expert, I am just another user who was trying to help. You certainly belong on this site from what I can see. The matter of your situation being a
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Ok I have some background working with Native communities so perhaps I can help a bit, The main purpose of this website is to spread awareness of cults or cult like activity. It is really hard to do that if you don't want to give any details about the person or organization. Who was this person, what Nation (tribe) did this involve, and was there an organization involved. Have you trie
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I would like to post something that might help ex members with moving on. it is post form somewhere else on this site. This person is dealing with accepting regular society again and is also learning about how a cult is cult, in that i mean it helps to say that even thou it might feel like it is either the cult or the world it is much more complicated then that. There is only the world, with its
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I have discovered have two websites to share each about a different one of the man that claimed to be a master. First I have a page that is only in spanish but hopefully the translation carries over or you can find the program to do so. it is about Luis Palacios Acosta who claims to be Toth Moses. Which essentially means he is claiming to be an ancient Egyptian Phoroah and the Moses of the Bib
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This interests me. I attend classes with a teacher who is trained in Anusara. Our studio seems to be very safe environment, but i do know there are some yoga nuts out there so I am careful about yoga. The question you are asking needs to broken down into three parts. I should state that I don't know much about Siddha yoga and i should do some research here. So for me the three parts o
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I would like to highlight a few significant posts from . You can read his story in his own words about how he became to the position he is in. I think if you read it with a critical eye it can be quite tell. I would also like to highlight a video where he is speaking to teachers and trainiees. You will notice that he is really quite nasty and authoritarian towards them, not as all the w
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Hi Heron, Thanks for all your work, I would love to here about all your highlights from reading the books. I was going to go through that process but It was too much of a contradiction with my need to move away from the "teachings". I am also not a dogmatically religious person, quite open to good ideas, but I really wanted to find a group of Gnostics to study with. I would define t
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For those who need help I would say that Samael Aun Weor's writings either a complete copy or a perversion of the writings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky,Aleister Crowley,George Ivanovich Gurdjieff or Peter D. Ouspensky. You can find a great amount of copying from these people, also he did of course pervert the teachings of Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Physics and psy
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Hi Keir, I think long about "You must have faith" really means, "You must believe what I'm saying." is quite important generally these days. For me it ties in how cults are a a prodigy of authoritarian religions. Can we really say that Fundamentalist Muslims or Christians are really that different from cults? We can see this in how Weor came from a militant form of Ca
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Hi Keir, Most of the supporters of the Weor teachings are intentionally ignorant of most of what he or any teachers has to to say. This is the only way they could follow his teaching and not live on a compound somewhere. I remember when I was leaving and I wanted friends who I had met during my time with the Gnostic movement to see the problems, all of them simply misinterpreted the information
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I think in regards to Luthergrunge it is not a good thing to judge peoples ideas or believes so a cult is defined by the way a group behaves, and certain social claims they may make, like all other people being evil or you should only follow this one person etc. We need to be careful not to be attacking religion or believe generally that wouldn't help anyone. You will find on these forums ma
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Here is another person speaking about their bad experiences with the Gnostic Movement and Gnosticweb. Not the most revealing article but it does show the change of organization and believe that is so typical of cults. Anyone who is interest their own site Gnosticweb is full of posts where they have to explain to students about why they are not a cult. Truthfully I think the only reason
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Here is a website that descibes the history of this nonsense pretty well. This is a discussion from Oprah.com where someone was trying to claim that Eckhart Tolle was ripping off Mark Pritchard. The problem with that is that Tolle published first, or at least published his first book first.
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That article is good, the only major problem that I have with it the positive attitude that the writer keeps with Teachings of "Samael Aun Weor" written by Victor Gomez. Her guess that Edith is pro-communist is probably unfounded as far as I can tell.Most likely their dishonest translations and attempt to keep people away form Gomez's earliar writings are an attempt to make him see
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That is an excellent link that Heron gave to help understand the problem of the Gnostic Movement. I would suggest everyone read it.
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Yes Heron please do share your perspective on how the Gnostic Movement lead by Mark Pritchard (who calls himself Bezlebuub) appears to be a cult and thanks for that link. There seems to be a scattering of voices against Gnosticweb all over the internet the more references we have, the better.
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Hi I just thought that I should state that if there is anyone else out there who spent more time with the Gnostic Movement or Gnosticweb led by Mark Pritchard (Bezlebuub) then me and has a better or deeper understanding then me and they would like to help the greater world understand their practices, it would be great of them to post that information here. They do appear to be spreading so th
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Further to this question has anyone attempted to answer the question of figuring out what dangerous groups are active in a certain area. It seems that it is usually done the other way around, you take a cult or dangerous religions movement and figure out where they are active. Perhaps if it could be done it would help to start with a community, city or town and figure out who is active there so t
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Ok so I am really curious now. Is there anyway to establish what groups are active in a given community that might be considered to be cults. I think this is a really important question considering that the lack of this knowledge is how how cults are able to operate. Of course we can really consider what groups are active on the internet in this question but we can consider what dangerous groups
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