Everyone calm down. Please avoid personal attacks and invective.
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Yes. Meditation can simply be used as a form of relaxation and stress reduction. It's when meditation becomes organized under the controlling influence of a leader and/or group that it may be potentially unsafe. When people are in a trance we are much more suggestable and vulnerable. That's why it's important to be careful. A leader and/or group may manipulate people in the t
Forum: Recovery from Destructive Cults and Groups

Dandelion: Sorry, but you read and agreed to the rules before posting here. This is not the place for you to share and promote your spiritual beliefs. If you continue you will be banned for breaking the rules. There is no "persecution" going on here.
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Dandelion: Preaching is prohibited on this message board. If you wish to promote your spiritual beliefs please go somewhere else and do so, but not here.
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AmeliaRobertson: If you subjectively feel it is "toxic" what is your purpose here?
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brokenbycheryl: Please turn the temperature down on the exchanges here. Avoid heated exchanges.
Forum: Destructive Churches

Hi everyone, No politics please. This thread topic is "The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens. Please stay on topic.
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Rama Vasistha has been banned. Trolls will be banned.
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Hi everyone, Just curious about a few basic things concerning this organization. Does the organization have an elected board, which includes board members serving fixed terms? If so how are board members elected? Is there a published annual budget that discloses in detail how much money is contributed and how it is spent, i.e. salaries, compensation, expenses, etc. How is a pastor hir
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FillMeUpJesus! is now banned.
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FillMeUpJesus! Does Kirby Christian Fellowship now have meaningful accountability and financial transparency? 1. An independently audited and published budget/financial statement, which discloses all monies spent on salaries, compensation and expenses that is distributed to all contributors? 2. Does the fellowship have a democratically elected board voted in by all the members, which ser
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FillMeUpJesus! Attacking people personally and posting insults is against the rules. Please stop or you will be banned.
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See This is the subsection within the database about recovery from abusive groups and leaders. Also see This book can be very helpful in sorting out an abusive controlling situation. It also has a chapter on recovery.
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Troll has been banned.
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ex- Your comments reflect a position held by many cult apologists concerning "new relgious movements" (NRMs). However, many groups or movements called "cults" are not based upon religous beliefs and therefore cannot be considered NRMs. All of this is discussed in depth at the Cult Education Institute database. See Robert Jay Lifton wrote a paper in the 1980s and
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DaWatcher: This thread is very specifically about Chris Butler and his group the "Science of Identity." It is NOT a thread about ISKCon and so-called "Krishna movement." You are pulling this thread off topic. Stop or you will be banned from this message board. Read the rules. No preaching or proselytizing allowed. No one is there to learn spirituality from you or y
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bakkagirlL Please refrain from denigrating people in any way that post at this message board. Anything further and you will be banned.
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SpeakingUp: Thank you for your contribution to this thread.
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Wow! James Swartz and his followers certainly seems to obsessed with trolling this thread.
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AreYouKiddingMe has been banned from this message board. Personal attacks against others posting at this board is prohibited per the rules everyone agrees to before posting here.
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bakkagirl: I am not going to debate with you. Again, you will be banned if you persist and post any more conspiracy theories or related links on this message board. No one is interested in these fringe theories here and this message board is not for the furthering of conspiracy theories.
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bakkagirl: Last warning. If you persist with conspiracy theories and political comments you will be banned from this message board.
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kdage: Yes. No discussion about discussions political parties, candidates and ideology. If someone is involved in a "cult" and is a politician that is OK.
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"

Aenas< Very specious answer. As already pointed out -- you seem to have plenty of time to impune people posting criticism about Swartz here, but you claim to have little time to post criticism yourself of Swartz, despite your claim that have had "disputes" and "fights" with James Swartz. Really? People reading this thread must consider you a less than credible s
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Please don't discuss politics on this thread.
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Aenas: What exactly is your purpose in posting comments here? It seems like you are trolling this thread exclusively in an effort to help James Swartz by chipping away at people that are critical of Swartz posting here. Can you think of anything James Swartz does that is somehow questionable or perhaps just plain wrong? Please name three things specifically so that we know that you ar
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Jan Honza: You have posted baseless paranoid delusional conspiracy theories here and you have personally attacked a member of this message board. You are banned.
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bakkagirl: Conspiracy theories about Epstein are not funny and have nothing to do with Landmark. Please stay on topic and don't post links to unrelated subjects. Such posts are a violation of the rules and will be deleted.
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bakkagirl: Please stay on topic. This thread is about EST not Jonestown. No conspiracy theories posts here please. It is widely known that Erhard drew from both Esalen and and Scientology as well as Heidegger to cobble together his philosophy that is downloaded through the Forum. See Also see And see The Cult Education Institute has made this information available through
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Please don't post links to Wikileaks and conspiracy theories here. It's not helpful and Wikileaks is not a reliable source.
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