oops, I replied to her post without thinking about the topic here! I'd be happy to move my reply elsewhere, at your request
Forum: Former Cult Members and Affected Families

Quotewaterlily... As I get older/wiser hopefully---I have come to really meditate on the meaning of what Christ must have meant when he spoke about his coming to divide families and that he brought a sword. I have been reading alot on this and am seeing that perhaps he was addressing the most fundamental authoritarian issue of all: the family. And how this introduction to our world via family s
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Thank you Kaleidoscope! I found that France24 panel discussion with Mr. Ross and others very helpful and informative. I re-posted the discussion with my summary of the points of debate. Very timely, considering recent high-profile defections in the U.S.! Cheers! QuoteFor some history, here is an earlier discussion that Rick Ross participated in. Video - France24, Should Scientology Be B
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

QuotecharleneYou can go to www.infinitenetworks.com and read the articles on Dhyani Ywahoo, Domo Geshe Rinpoche and Madi Nolan. They have been exposed on this investigative website as fakes, con artists and cults. Ms. Jones: your 2-line post with no links, and no apparent connection to the question at hand leaves me with one conclusion: This is your two-line self-promoting "tag line"
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Just yesterday I searched for anything critical of Tolle - and all I came up with was Monica Pignotti's site. She mentions she welcomes Tolle criticism and links to an Oprah forum where someone posted "Eckhart Tolle is wrong..." ... but the poster of that item was quibbling with a detail. The lingo used by Tolle and his followers I find poisonous in the worst sort of pseudo-hel
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My parents were involved in "I Am" which merged with something else and became "Children of the Light." Starting in Santa Barbara, circa 1969, continuing for 4 or 5 years, ending with an escape from Los Angeles in the dead of night. Since the parents were heavily involved and ran the private school for the cult member's kids for several years, I do consider I was in t
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