Corboy, thank you for your kindness and all your advice. I will definitely use my gut feeling and my sound judgement when I face religious movements that are new to me. About the religious groups and meetings, I think they're a bad idea in general. At least for me I'm certain that the spiritual realisation is too personal and unique to be the same for even two people. I prefer to be
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Yes, corboy you're right. I need help from someone to show me a road for me to take on, which can lead me where I want to go with my spiritual exploration. From what I learnt in the last month, reading Cult Education Institute forum is that you guys deserve great admiration for helping people get out of those harmful groups and movements, showing them a clearer and more sober view on what
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Hi all :) TLDR: What more to read about ego diminishing? I found this forum after googling for opinions on Eckhart Tolle. I'm really glad of learning different views from this topic: forum.culteducation.com/read.php?6,54633,page=1 After finishing that topic, I read this one as well: forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,7166,page=1 And I still haven't found an answer to what I
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I was "caught up' with a man who ended up to be some kind of crazy God Nazi. He had advertised on the internet that he had a PhD in counseling and was a licensed and insured hypnotherapist. I live in SC where licensing is a complete joke. After almost a year of him using hypnotic, NLP and fear tactics to keep me coming back, I looked into all his so called "credentials." The m
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I read Absence From Felicity. Helen Shuchman was a confused person. She was frustrated with her collegue and co-writer (conspirator?) because he rebuffed her sexual advances. He was gay as well as a good ten years her junior. Helen also had exposure to Catholicism during her childhood, introduced to her by her nanny who would take her to church. She loved "negro spirituals" and the dra
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Thank you for the suggested readings. I need all the help I can get to forgive this man before I get up enough courge to go after him.
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Is it true that LinkedIn removes all negative comments made about members of LinkedIn? It doesn't offer truthful information?
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I am continuing to heal from the mental torture inflicted on me by a man in Charleston, SC who had advertised his "services" on the internet. About a year ago I sought the help of a hypnotherapist to assist me in getting past some childhood abuse. In our first session this "God Nazi" told me he had something that worked faster and better than hypnotherapy. I trusted him as he
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Is "Scott Perry" really Robert Perry...A Course in Miracles Teacher who lives in England and makes his living "interpreting" A Course In Miracles?" NO WHERE IN THE COURSE DOES JESUS (? OR IS IT SIMON MAGUS) SAY WE NEED YOU TO INTERPRET A COURSE IN MIRACLES. It IS a cult, Robert. And you, Robert are one of the egotistical humans who think they are endowed with the brillian
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Thank you so much. I'm about ready to author my own book! There's got to be a way to stop these abusers.
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"Remember that theology comes first." This definitely applies to any spiritual teacher or psychologist who uses A Course In Miracles (ACIM) as the basis for their "therapy/counseling." Look further for info on ACIM as well as Endeavor Academy (EA) and Unity Church. EA now has "counselors" posing as "spiritual teachers" , psychics, hypnotherapists, and life
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you're not alone. I sought a hypnotherapist, found a man in Charleston, Sc who claimed to have a PhD in counseling, was a certified hypnotherapist and "spiritual teacher." Over the period I saw him he started out as a kind and loving person, insisting I hug him following all our sessions and slowly he became more and more abusive using NLP and other hypnotic tactics to try to "
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I recently came across the author Bruce Fraser MacDonald who claims to be the reincarnated twin brother of Jesus Christ. He believes that ACIM was written my Simon Magus, a magician who lived the same time as Jesus. It's just amazing that there is all this insane stuff out there and I admit to having been one who allowed myself to be brainwashed by one of the ACIM "Teachers of God."
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