Churches that hide their denomination or previous schisms? Quote was a pastor's kid, and then a pastor for almost 20 years, including two church plants. Every church of any substantial size and duration is funded by a larger denomination, normally with just one or two degrees of separation. And EVERY church plant older than 5 years and more than 300 people only became such becaus
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(Note: the guru described here is now going by the name Adi Da Samiraj. You will still see advertisements for him, often in the form of posters in cafes, with the title, 'The Promised Avatar has come'. ) from Lies, half-truths, and bizarre distortions in the service of the Lord From the Broken Yogi blog (by Conrad Goehausen) brokenyogi.blogspot.com ((Italics are not in
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Truth wins wrote: Quoteshe is told it is amazing for her false ego to be under so much criticism all the time Yes, yes. This is a version of the alibi that enduring the misery of living a life filled with tension and coverups is a badge of toughness, that it shows you are a member of the elite. In the documentary Outrage, one of the gay men interviewed said that closeted politicians and
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QuoteDaedone sold her stake in the (OneTaste) company in 2017 for $12 million — a year before OneTaste’s marketing and labor practices came under scrutiny. The company’s current owners, who have rebranded it the Institute of OM Foundation, have said its work has been misconstrued and the charges against its former executives were unjustified. They maintain sexual consent has always been a c
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Brooklyn jury finds ‘sex cult’ leaders guilty Witnesses said they worked around the clock on little sleep and for little pay, believing they were on a spiritual path to deepen their universal connection and heal trauma. Nina Pullano / June 9, 2025
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This news will bring complex emotions to the many who survived abuse from Andrew Cohen. Cohen prided himself on not sexually abusing followers. His abuse took these forms: *Physical *Social (ostracism, scapegoating *Time theft lost years and lost attention that could have born sweeter fruit if given to better causes than Andrew Cohen and his ego * Financial extortion *Filming an
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Trauma, victimhood and for-profit spirituality on display as sex cult trial winds down June 6 2025
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Sex Cult Lawyer: Being Mean is Not a Crime
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There's a first class book by Australian psychologist Len Oakes entitled Prophetic Charisma. Oakes was able to interview a large number of self identified spiritual leaders/prophets and found most of them had some degree of narcissistic personality disorder -- a fragile precariously poised/easily disrupted inner core. To compensate for this, these persons became "avid students o
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Government wraps ‘sex cult’ case in Brooklyn Published June 3, 2025
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I've never been in Fourth Way. Got badly burned by a business association w a member of a fake westernized sufistic group. Fourth Way and true and fake sufi groups share three things in common: People often lose years of their lives There's intimate betrayal Its all so tangled and complex that its difficult to explain it all to someone outside of the situation.
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My Weekend at One Taste Anke Richter November 2022
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May 22, 2025 Woman’s extraordinarily intimate on-stage act with two men revealed after she joined bizarre ‘orgasm cult’ May 22, 2025 YES! YES! YES! Orgasm cult guru accused of forcing pair into sex
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Trial for SF 'orgasmic meditation' startup kicks off with ugly testimony 2 former OneTaste executives face jail time, if the jury decides their conduct broke the law By Stephen Council,Tech Reporter May 19, 2025 Ensuing discussion, Reddit San Francisco Quotechn0Hippy • 12h ago Me and my girlfriend got involved with them in 2017 for a hot minute. We did a week
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If this group was led by Robert Klein in Boston, it was likely tied to Sharon Gans/Alex Horn (The CEI message board goes back to 2002. Use All Dates in your search to cover this 20+ year date range) Google and
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May 15, 2025 Women’s empowerment branding relied on men at ‘sex cult,’ trial witnesses say
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On this website we sometimes we get an 'Attempted Hack' message if trying to submit a new post that has multiple URL links. Adding multiple links to an existing message solved the problem. Work around: Fool the program by saving your rejected message. Create a new message w blank space. Edit that completed message Remove, copy and save your multi link message. Go b
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May 14 Bay Area ‘sex cult’ workers forced to service wealthy clients sexually: Witnesses
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Google "daedone" "2025" Google "daedone" "2025"
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Published May 10, 2025 ‘Gwyneth Paltrow’s sex guru’ facing 20 years in jail over claims her $12m orgasmic meditation firm was an abusive sex cult that ‘recruited vulnerable women to perform sex acts’ Published May 10, 2025 Witness testifies to mix of love and darkness living at OneTaste sex ‘cult’
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Here's a comment from another reddit discussion about Sadhguru's stuff. Quote ENCALEF 6d ago Similar tactics were used by est in the late 70's, early 80's. Everyone that I knew who went through the \"training\" was insufferable to be around afterwards. Most got over it in about six months. 5d ago No wonders Isha teaching come from EST Vasudev aka Sad
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May 8 2025 Ex-worker of accused sex cult OneTaste tells jurors she was expected to orgasm ‘with anybody off the street’ May 9 2025 OneTaste guru once claimed her alleged sex cult’s philosophy could stop rape by turning ‘p—y on high’
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This expose of Struthers is decades-old. A multitude of participants (petitor and others) have labored faithfully all that time in the heat of the day. What is significant is the recent arrival of a new group of younger ex members of Struthers. Their reports suggest that Struthers has not changed.
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Let us not forget Sri Shim! Google citations here: e
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May 6 Accused sex cult leaders ready for NYC criminal trial May 7 OneTaste ‘orgasmic meditation’ firm was forced-labour cult, trial told Lawyers for glamorous leaders of OneTaste — ‘orgasm cult’ accused of grooming members — insist victims ‘were having a blast’ as trial begins
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Quote One major aspect I left out of the original post — and it's important: At check-in, participants are required to hand over their phone, keys, and often personal ID documents. These are sealed and kept by the staff for the duration of the program. It’s framed as “helping you focus” or “disconnecting from distractions,” but the effect is much darker: You’re physically and digital
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From 20 years ago QuoteSay it isn't so! Posted by: SarahL (64.40.45.63) Date: March 08, 2005 03:40PM First read Rick Ross's excellent article Bobby Kennedy Jr. featured speaker inside controversial New Age guru’s compound at www.cultnews.com. I've not seen any mention of this yet in our local paper here in Olympia, we are the largest city closest to Yelm, Washington. I q
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This person reportedly grew up in Landmark. Quote Open menu Go to Reddit Answers Expand search Create post Open inbox 40 Expand user menu r/cults icon Go to cults r/cults 7 days ago Independent-Range-85 Join Landmark Education: My story growing up in a high-control self-help group Personal I grew up in Landmark Education. I did the Forum for Young People at seven, st
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