Hi specialkitty, I was involved with gnosticteachings for a while (I won’t say what my username was because I don’t want any possibility of retaliation), but my involvement there wasn’t as intense as the other schools I had attended. It was very short and fleeting and I had no responsibilities within it. I was more a part of the "outer circle." The one school in which I had any le
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Hi everyone, Just logging in before I go teach in the morning. specialkitty's posts are greatly similar to my experiences. It goes to show that former members of cults really DO have similar patterns of grievances. A couple of the schools I went to had a White/Hispanic balance. A couple of them had some hardcore converts. I even learned Spanish as a result of the attractiveness of t
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whatevahs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wow, this all just makes me remember reading > "5,000 Leagues under the sea." > > I appreciate all the time and effort you've put > into this research and it looks compelling, but > wow, seems like you could've found a cure for some > disease or something! Is this really t
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And now, for our first feature presentation: Debunking of Hercolubus or Red Planet Part I Note: I was never involved with a Rabolu group, but I investigated them whenever I was "in the market” for switching (which I did a few times while I was under the influence of SAW’s garbage). This debunking is probably going to be short because the book is so short. Rabolu begins with a huge t
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Hi Jill, I looked into it with a quick Google search, but came up with no connections to Werner Erhard (he looks like a nasty individual himself). As for SAW having a knowledge of Scientology, I don't think there was a connection there, either. SAW's first book was written in 1950, while Dianetics (L. Ron Hubbard's first Scientology book) was written in 1952. However, I ha
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Hi everyone, I'm ba-ack! I've finally gotten my ducks in a row academically, so I'm cracking my knuckles getting ready to give the modern gnostic movements a hell of a time again. I'll start with a little appetizer of going after Rabolu, a spinoff of SAW's modern movement. Here is a link to a short debunking: I think I'll be expanding on debunking tha
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Hi everyone, I've been through a huge roller coaster of turmoil this year. I kind of lost steam beforehand with the loss of the data, but I'm so glad to see it's back. The turmoil is still going on, but I might be back to debunking modern gnosticism after the new year. Stay tuned, Lone Flame
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I am compelled to respond to this post. About your quote: Quotejustaman22 “It's painfully obvious that all of you that posted malevolent comments towards SAW because his teachings made you feel bad for others is quite sad.” The main reason I left the gnostic movements inspired by Samael Aun Weor is that they took away my personality. I became a drone that had nothing to distinguish me
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Hi everyone, Lone Flame here in the middle of graduate school madness. Another Hercolubus scare might be lurking as scientists have found an exoplanet around four times the size of Jupiter lurking near the Solar System. Small snippet: Quote Astronomers have discovered a potential "rogue" alien planet wandering alone just 100 light-years from Earth, suggesting that such s
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Hi everyone, I'm back from a very busy schedule, and I found something very interesting to comment on about VM Rabolu's book Hercolubus or Red Planet. The guy in this YouTube link briefly mentions the descriptions from VM Rabolu about life on Venus and its similarities with the Venus Project (founded in 1975). I'm glad you're moving forward, EverVigilant. If there�
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Hi everyone, I found another 2012 doomsday "gnostic" site. It's in Spanish, but it basically says that the rings of Alcyone are going to strike the Earth this December. But one big twist, according to the writers of the site, is that we'll all suffer 21 years until Hercolobus wipes us out in 2043.
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It looks like I struck a raw nerve or they got wind they were being debunked. The 2012 "gnostics" have now set up their page where only invited readers can view the blog. Just another closure of something "gnostic" when the pressure ramps up against their house of cards.
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The 2012 Doomsday "gnostics" are at it again, this time with laughable math. The graphic on their frontpage (with a depiction of Hercolobus' orbit superimposed on the Solar System) says: Quote 1983: 50 billion miles 1992: 7+ Billion miles 2012: The time is over! A plus sign is just a plus sign. Isn't it amazing how Hercolubus traveled 43 billion miles i
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Hi everyone, My research crawled to a standstill this semester, as I had a lot of work to do at university. I thought I would get started again by lighting the flame about the Tibetan exercises, today called the Five Tibetan Rites. Samael Aun Weor mentioned these in his books, especially his book Exercises of the Lamasery. He talks about the "Colonel" who went to Tibet an old man
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And let's not forget a modern "gnostic" sect that is propagating the 2012 lie, as well. It uses materials from Samael, Rabolu and the Bible, stating that all the earthquakes in the world are a sign of the end times, like this one below. Many modern gnostic sects state that 2012 is not the end. Some are saying 2012 is a "figurative beginning of the end" before the
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I thought I would alert everyone to the recent happenings on the "Hercolubus, Planet X, or Nibiru" blog which is Rabolu (making it ultimately Samael) based: I found the perfect antidote to claims that this object at 09h 47m 59.0s +13º 18' 53.3" in Google Sky is Hercolubus. From the "Hercolubus, Planet X, or Nibiru" blog's August 19th entry: Quote In
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Here it is… The big reveal! Where is the hole in Samael's prediction? It's as big as the grand majority of the body of his work (or as big as this imaginary planet called "Hercolubus"): a hole that's 24 years big. Let me explain. So, if we look at the grand majority of Samael Aun Weor's work, we see something missing. What is it? You guessed it… Hercolubu
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Hi everyone, Lone Flame here. I thought I would update everyone with a little teaser after having finished moving in to my new apartment... I think I have found a HUGE hole in the Samael Aun Weor doomsday prediction. It's so big that it will be very hard to hide after I get through with it... :-) A hint/teaser: It has something to do with the "mixed" nature of Hercolubu
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Hi everyone, Here's a much higher quality version of the Mind Control Cults video with a much better picture. Enjoy!
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Hello EverVigilant, I'm glad that you found some answers in my investigations. There is life after Samael Aun Weor and that's the beautiful thing about it! It takes a lot of strength to live that new lease on life, but however you live your life after that will help you live to the fullest. Everyone gets down at some point in their lives. I was in my teen years when I found the
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AH HA! I caught one site in the act of preying upon the gullible! It's a Rabolu-based site that says Hercolubus is coming in 2012, but check this out! One of the contributors responded to a kid's concern about Hercolubus, who said he/she felt alienated from life (because said person has believed in 2012 since 2008). Here's how this contributor to the Hercolubus blog responded
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QuoteKeir I noticed that too. Not to mention some of those sites block new people from going on them. They only want old members to post. Not only are they keeping the public out of their small circles, they're posting like mad how earthquakes are somehow proof that the end times are here. And that's making me very mad at them. I check all these modern gnosis sites because I want
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Quoteclearlight Imagine, they are now trying to sell "the Perfect Matrimony" on Amazon. Yet in the first few pages there is a disgraceful attack on homosexuals and homosexuality, saying they are doomed to hell, failures, could never achieve spiritual realisation etc. Have you also noticed that they won't let you look in the book on Amazon? I bet that's so a casual browse
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Is it me or are many major modern gnosis sites closing their forums to the public or closing them outright? I've been browsing a lot of the sites of older gnostic groups and it looks like their game is finally starting be revealed to the public; as a result they're closing a lot of their public stuff down because of it. Interesting.
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QuoteclearlightHi Lone Flame, if you want to examine the books of SAW without wasting any money,time or space I recommend joining < SCRIBD >. You will find virtually everything on there. Good luck. Thanks! That will give me more money to put towards getting back old movies, video games, books, music and hobby material I threw away while I was under the influence of SAW's "gnos
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Hello, everyone. I hope life is finding you well at this point. Research progress for debunking is slow (and at some points, has crawled to a stop) at this point, as I am enrolled in an honors program in my department. My professors are so pleased with my performance at university that I have been approached by the graduate committee in my department; they want me to enroll in the master
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Quotecorboy The trouble with many varieties of Gnosticism is often these encourage aspirants to devalue life lived in the body, in community and in society; pursuit of special knowledge is emphasized and there is little respect for the inherant dignity of the ordinary, untransformed human person. That is the very pith of modern gnosis and I will take that to heart. :) That very doctrine lik
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Here's another juicy little morsel for everyone. In "Occult Medicine and Practical Magic," Samael Aun Weor states to those who are doubtful of divine existence: "Tuberculosis is the daughter of atheism." Curiously enough, I was reading the Wikipedia article on the history of tuberculosis and came across this vague reference to tuberculosis in the Bible; God warns
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Hi everyone, Just taking a break from my studies to feed a bit more into the pipeline. While the semester is in full swing it will have to be like this. So, I'm browsing one of the many "gnostic" sites, and I came across this: "A Gnostic Instructor wrote: The end of the race will be gradual. "2012" is the symbolic beginning of the end, but the "end&qu
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Before I go to bed, I would like to do what I wanted to do the other day and talk about some very powerful, yet plausible loopholes to keep the the vulnerable-minded trapped in an infinite loop of self-doubt and impossible tasks. 1.) The Guardian of the Threshold - This is a test when you begin the "Initiatic Path," which if you fail, you become incapable of facing your "egos&q
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