.... Though then I rewatched the famous 2007 Mooji clip 'The Darshan of Death' and I felt ashamed: This is pre Monte Sahaja Mooji, where you don't feel he's trying to hypnotize you, he isn't presenting himself as the incarnation of God, etc. He's just wise and compassionate.
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happytown Wrote: > > Its much funnier if you Google "porn jazz" and > play that music in the background while you watch > it. I'm laughing like the Laughing Buddha watching this mashup: I call it The Darshan of Chef!
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Not to forget Braco, the guru who stares! As satirized here:
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Thanks for the link, Happytown. Here's the translation:
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This quote about the behaviour of cult leaders applies equally well to so-called femdom goddesses, humiliatrixes, and purveyors of POV humiliation videos: "Shame is the currency of cults and their leaders. The human potential for shame, to feel not good enough, bad or unworthy, is what cult leaders exploit. These traumatizing narcissists instill shame in their followers, using belittl
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Regarding there being a security detail - look, satsang is full of crazy people who are being made even crazier by Mooji. So naturally there will need to be a team member or two with Mooji as he walks around, helping him keep control of the situation. For example when people embrace him, he's fine with it for a good long while. But if they hold on too long, he may pat them on the bac
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It's pretty funny to hear of Mooji recommending people undergo New Age woo-woo "treatments". Because whenever an audience member in satsang would tell him they'd things like angelic readings/numerology/ouija board/palm reading/New Age woo-woo, Mooji would roll his eyes, give a big hearty laugh, and say "Don't waste your time with this. Stay as the awareness itse
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Newsgroup post from 2017: "> I watched a Mooji video in which a very zoned-out young devotee asked > from the back of the hall if he could "come close," and on being > invited, sat down at Mooji's feet, who then began speaking. He said, > with the appropriate gestures, if I take away your ears, your nose, > your mouth; if I take away your hair, your skin,
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From 2010: "I had a great chance to see Mooji on his satsang this weekend in London Brixton. I have to say he is one incredible human being. I felt like all he said there was aimed at me. lol Probably everyone feels like this. But I did had some strange things happening to me once the satsang was over. As I left the building in peace and meditation like state I could not help but won
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The Ambiguous and/or Abusive guru phneomenon
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Chapter 12 of this book is an account of a Mooji satsang in Brixton in 2005: It sounds like a different Mooji back then, one who didn't expect to be worshipped. And then....
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Well, after 49 pages, "delusional cult" sums up how I feel about it too.
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A lot of this discussion of learned helplessness also applies to recovering from femdom humiliation/psychological abuse:
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Regarding the seating - at ZMar, there would be perhaps 8 or 10 lines of people that would start to form 30-45 minutes before the hall would open. Then some Mooji crew people would draw short/long straws to pick the order that the lines went into the hall. So there wasn't really that much incentive to start queueing really early. Because if you arrived late and were at the back of a
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Listening now to the Daniel Shaw interview: "The group is a cult when the actual work of the group is really only about inflating the delusional leader's idea of his own perfection and of his own omnipotence. The actual work of a cult is to make sure that that guru is constantly so that they can hold on to their delusion of omnipotence. And members' work is basically to
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I don't think it's yet been established that Mooji "extracts money" from anyone. The prices charged for 5-, 7- and 10-day Mooji retreats are very reasonable. They are considerably cheaper than the yoga retreats I see advertised, yet involve far more people to run. You can buy stuff from the Mooji shop if you want, but we're not talking thousands here. What we do
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It's not really THAT far off the beaten track, though. If Mooji wants to be a big-time guru, he needs his own island...
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Here are some of the places where Mooji acolytes can stay when they're in the area but not living at the ashram, for instance if they're day-visitors to Sunday Satsang: I remember hearing at one point that the plan was for newcomers and the less-than-fully-devoted to be kept out of Monte Sahaja and encouraged to stay instead in this places instead. I'm sure the weather is
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Yes, it IS funny how seriously Sahara71 is pursuing this, for someone who just wasted a bit of time watching some Youtube videos. I mean, I kinda regret the time I spent watching "Epic Rap Battles of History", nevermind "Saturday Night Live" (which is seriously unfunny!!). Yet I haven't vowed to take them (or Youtube) down. Maybe I've seen too many movies but
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Sahara71 - be careful of making accusations of financial impropriety without any evidence. Though if you are actually a forensic accountant who's been through the books, I apologise. I don't think you're at much risk of being sued, but you might find it useful to have read this:
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I can't remember if this has been posted before, but it's a good read:
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Sahara71 - yes, actually, I had a similar experience when I tried showing this video to a very grounded/charming/high-achieving friend of mine: He just laughed at it. Whereas for me... I felt this was the place I had to go to! Luckily I never did, because for me (and other mentally troubled people) it would have been at best a dead-end; and then perhaps something more serious than that
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StartingOver's post reads like a Creative Writing Competition entry written by someone who's read this thread and combined it all together into fictional BOMBSHELL ACCUSATIONS!!! Hopefully anyone with any sense will be able to see it is not credible. It's a shame that far-out/invented stuff gets posted, because it detracts the focus from the very real criticisms which have b
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I note that my post above has had 14,000 views, yet has been ignored by this site's operators and regular posters. I'm not sure why - perhaps because there's the view that all's fair when it comes to destroying middle-aged men? These Clips4Sale domme women are abusers and sex-offenders, plain and simple. It would be good if this thread could become a space in which peop
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Sahara71, of course cults can also be charities! But here's a UK charity that may be more to your taste:
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I think the construction of the Christ Chapel at Monte Sahaja was another sign of Mooji elevating himself to Godhead status. As well as symbolising his blasphemous but for some obviously potent confusion of Christianity with Mooji-worship. At the end of satsang when beautiful women sing Christian hymns to Mooji, like "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands", I felt both repulsio
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You've watched the satsangs - Now play the video game:!
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Let me quote: "These people are just beyond belief. They claim that they are at the peak of spiritual conciousness and yet they show utter contempt for the average person. They show no humility and don't respect anyone elses right to be unique. I'm always thinking, who the hell do these people think they are. They're just people like you and me, and yet they put themselv
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Mooji's 'Laughing Buddha' videos:
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Wombat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What? Sorry, don't get it... > > My point was that there are a number of people in > the word who tragically end their own lives every > single day. In the EU it is around 11 per 100,000 > each year. The reasons are often a complex mix of > many factors. > > I myself had a classma
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