Byron Katie: “Because if it hurts, it's your thinking that's hurting you.” Byron Katie: “Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.” Byron Katie: “Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be caused by another person. No one outside you can hurt you. That’s not possible. Only when you believe a story about them can you be hurt. So you’re
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I read the Be Scofield article. Bravo Be Scofield!
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Here is a link to the 75 page document written by Byron Katie's former employee 'Janaki'. This is the document mentioned in in the article by Be Scofield shared above. It is well worth a read.
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Domination Byron Katie a Case Study by Matthew Remski
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A new article by journalist Be Scofield October 24 2019 A Critique of Byron Katie's Work
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AS REQUESTED The Moderator of this site gave two strong requests yesterday that if people wanted to talk about Be Scofield, then please devote a topic to her. Don't use the "James Swartz -- What Is The Truth?" topic for another purpose, was the message. Okay. Here's the topic. When I started the James Swartz topic I'd researched this criminal fraud for over two
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Be Scofield has been doing one helluva job exposing the dark side of the guru business/Enlightement Industry. Which would piss off a lot of people. Anything that smears Be Scofield needs careful investigation -- all of us would want that if anyone were to do the same to us. When discussing how Moo influences people, many of us found it very helpful to read analyses of conversational tr
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Warnings Received and Heard -- Thank You First, many thanks to Valma, Sahara71, and Corboy for the above posts. Perhaps I should have been more clear. As of this moment, I've made no decision regarding Be Scofield as related to the rape charges or the "Hostile Sociopath" diagnosis. I've also called her "rant" sent to the Culture or Cult folks "alle
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Thanks, Sahara71, for checking the Culture or Cult website more closely. Now, as you know, the big question is, assuming that the founder(s) of this website are really after Be Scofield as a primary, or actual sole, "target," is what he/she/they have to say accurate? Is/are he/she/they correct in what they write about Be Scofield, or not? --Is Be Scofield guilty of, as a male,
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Be Scofield has announced that in November 2019 she will release a book titled Toxic Spirituality: Abuse, Denial and Delusion in New Age Culture. The chapter list is at QuoteByron Katie & The Work Mooji Abraham Hicks & The Law of Attraction Teal Swan Marianne Williamson & A Course In Miracles Eckhart Tolle John of God Agama Yoga & Tantric Abuse Scandals Mindfulness
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Here is an interesting video from Tony- this time for "Guru Purnima" - the special day set aside each year to celebrate con-artists, charlatans and God-botherers. First off, Tony says a lot of the usual stuff. It's incredibly boring, actually. At 10.30 things start to get interesting when Tony gives us a very long list of gurus that he admires. We hear of Christ, Buddh
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hello all, I've been reading this thread with interest. I never wholeheartedly fell down the moo-hole but I did meet him and go to a retreat in London. There were many red flags for me but still I went along with it, mostly because I was quite vulnerable at the time. His staff were the biggest red flag. They all seemed dissociated and not happy people. I couldn't understand the need
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Holy Mother Mary!!! That is just freaking scary, luckychrmm. I can just imagine the poor little school kids who may actually be subject to real abuse (as statistically, child abuse is a very common fact) being taught to say to themselves "I feel really unsafe, but that is only a thought." What is the world coming to? I despair.
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To this Forum...sorry for the length but this is a big deal for me to tell, WOW! I really hope that this isn't true. What I also hope is that myself and others are not just twisting his message to fit a narrative we want to believe! This is one of the only times I have told my experience and the first time fairly publicly. I went to an M Silent Retreat in Zmar in May 2016. I had watch
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See also the previous threads, e.g. “Eckhart Tolle -- Comments From Someone who Knows Him”:
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A bit more about the misconceptions that Eckhart Tolle spreads: Tolle used to suffer from severe anxiety and depression. One day he had a moment of especially deep crisis. He was ready to end his life. He kept thinking (I'm paraphrasing): "I can't live with myself anymore." But then, he suddenly wondered: "Who is this self that can't live with myself? Do I have tw
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Hi Ime223, You are good as you are. Smoking or not, you're good. "Having an ego" or not, you're good. And everyone has an ego. Even Eckhart Tolle has an ego. He still responds to his name. He still knows in which body's mouth he needs to put the food he eats. He may have had a shift of perspective that allows him to recognize that he is not only the body-mind, but that
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First forgive me for my bad English. I hope that you will understand me. I was always very shy guy, very self critical and anxious. At the end of high school i started smoking and drinking alcohol and went into slight depression. To let go of depression i found on net some practices like Law of Attraction and Eckhart Tolle teachings. I already felt slight guilt because of destroying my body with
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I am very grateful of this site. It's been useful in my recovery from "new-age" bunk and learn more about cults. I took an "Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction" course a while back. It was somewhat helpful, but lately I have been getting e-mails from my teacher about Don Miguel Ruiz spiritual sabbaticals. I didn't think much of them and deleted them. Now I have bee
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Very constructive criticism of Mooji’s Is-ness or E. Tolle’s present moment in video: Ego’s Game - What Eckhart Tolle & Mooji Won't Tell You :) What was said at 44:0-45:10 in this video is the truth for me, it’s also basic stuff for everybody who may be on a spiritual path: to shape your ego/conditioning, work on yourself and simultaneously be present/conscious, and meditate, get into
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After reading the above post I feel compelled to tell my story also, albeit seems a very different experience. From the original Wiseowl post, I find it a real shame that someone who has clearly been on the same journey as my wife and I with Pete and Nikki, and probably sat in a lot of the same group/coaching sessions, has had such a different experience. I will bullet some of the things Wi
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Friends, here is a contrast with where we were in 1987 - one of the songs that was in our culture. 1987. People were dying of AIDS in public, in First World countries. The crack epidemic began in the 1980s, destroying entire communities, spiritually and psychologically hitting hardest at poor people, especially people of color. With no internet, no cell phones, thousands of peop
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Why Are Portraits of John of God and Gloria Steinem Beside Each Other at Omega Institute? QuoteSo “John of God” used fake healing to gain access to women he would sexually assault. Two somewhat-related things come to mind: 1) A personal memory about how one of the cults I was in overlapped with the John of God cult. Endeavor Academy QuoteRemski provides the Wikipedia art
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SadGame Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for your kindness sahara71 > I am doing fine, ups and downs. > > I lack any feeling of belonging, which is why an > ultimate identity with pure consciousness is very > appealing to me. It is beyond human relationships > and independent of them. > > That is also why laughter is so
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How to create craving in relation to an "Advaita" guru. When this happens. It carries the message that the guru is special, conveys some kind of "energy" the way a space heater does, or a tanning bed. Closer you are to the guru, the more virtues you absorb. We discussed this years ago about Eckhart Tolle.
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Corboy proposes a specific diagnostic entity Guru Occupational Disease Cluste Predispositions * Inability to enjoy peer to peer adult relationships * Overriding need to control people and people's perceptions of self * Ambition * Inability to distinguish between clean money and dirty money * Family members who profit * Creation of glamorous backstory, stories may chan
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While reviewing Walter1963's work on NLP, this caught my eye. He wrote: "It happened to me when I took a 3 day NLP seminar in 1995 and at the end of the 3 day seminar I found myself signing up for their 21 day $2500.00 "NLP practitioner certification program", ironically enough it was right next door to a EST seminar. And during the 21 day course, I was regularly bombarded
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Anyone can 'bump' a thread if he or she is interested enough, pro or con to make a post and revive a discussion. Older, longer discussions that mention Tolle are here, Some hunting needed to locate extended discussions but interesting nonetheless: One very interesting perspective
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Trance techniques can easily be concealed within the satsang/darshan setting. Authority centered persuasion -- very old techniques Satsang setting has its own set of rules Some gurus appropriated powerful trance technology used by Werner Erhard (est, Landmark) and concealed this behind Hindu trappings. Sparkly Eyes (Look at your own eyes in a mirror. Then compare with
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I'm curious why you decided to bump a thread from so long ago?
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