Wombat,
It's interesting that you question the "Invitation to Freedom" video presentation which has become the centrepiece of the online Moo show.
I went back and watched it just then. It starts out rational, but notice how Moo slows down is speech and talks more and more quietly as the video goes on? His pauses in speech become longer and longer, too. Towards the end, those pauses are really long... and he keeps closing his eyes, like he is getting some kind of divine inspiration....?
I notice that the audience begins to close their eyes, too. They are mirroring him. They answer his repeated, boring questions as though they are in a dream, a trance to be more specific.
This is trance induction.
The long, long pauses, the voice getting softer and softer. Then Moo even has the audacity to say in The Invitation, "this is not hypnosis". It's hypnosis all right! Denying it won't do you much good in a court of law! He waits until people in his audience have already begun to get spaced out, before he says "this is not hypnosis" so they will integrate that idea into their distorted thinking.
Moo gets his audience to repeatedly answer questions about the state of "is-ness" or "one-ness", while they are tranced-out. It doesn't matter how rediculous his questions are, the audience all reply in unison with soft voices "nooooooo". Like zombies!!
He even asks "can the is-ness be manipulated?" The audience answer "nooo".
Pretty scary stuff, when he is actually in the business of manipulating everyone that he can!
Then Moo's voice becomes even softer and he tells them they have just had some kind of transformative experience.
He starts to stare directly into the camera a lot, without saying anything, at this point. It goes on and on a bit; I didn't actually watch it all. The prolonged staring into the camera is part of the trance induction technique. It attempts to create some kind of intimacy with the viewers. No-one normally stares at you like that in normal, everyday life. It's unnerving, of course it is designed to be unnerving.
Moo tries to tell us that we weren't using our 'minds' when we were answering his rediculous and repetitive trance questions, and this is supposed to lead us away from relying on the mind. "Leave your mind behind".
How can you answer a question without using your mind? It's impossible. You need your mind...you can't function rationally without it. But you can function irrationally, without questioning anything, in a trance, which is what Moo wants from his followers.
The reason this video is at the centre of the Online Moo Show is that it quickly converts all those people who are susceptible to trance induction. If the video "The Invitation" really did give us instant enlightenment, then we wouldn't need to go to any retreats, we wouldn't need to watch any more videos and we wouldn't need to buy the Moo books.
We certainly wouldn't need to meet with Moo in person for 150 euros a pop!
It's interesting that you question the "Invitation to Freedom" video presentation which has become the centrepiece of the online Moo show.
I went back and watched it just then. It starts out rational, but notice how Moo slows down is speech and talks more and more quietly as the video goes on? His pauses in speech become longer and longer, too. Towards the end, those pauses are really long... and he keeps closing his eyes, like he is getting some kind of divine inspiration....?
I notice that the audience begins to close their eyes, too. They are mirroring him. They answer his repeated, boring questions as though they are in a dream, a trance to be more specific.
This is trance induction.
The long, long pauses, the voice getting softer and softer. Then Moo even has the audacity to say in The Invitation, "this is not hypnosis". It's hypnosis all right! Denying it won't do you much good in a court of law! He waits until people in his audience have already begun to get spaced out, before he says "this is not hypnosis" so they will integrate that idea into their distorted thinking.
Moo gets his audience to repeatedly answer questions about the state of "is-ness" or "one-ness", while they are tranced-out. It doesn't matter how rediculous his questions are, the audience all reply in unison with soft voices "nooooooo". Like zombies!!
He even asks "can the is-ness be manipulated?" The audience answer "nooo".
Pretty scary stuff, when he is actually in the business of manipulating everyone that he can!
Then Moo's voice becomes even softer and he tells them they have just had some kind of transformative experience.
He starts to stare directly into the camera a lot, without saying anything, at this point. It goes on and on a bit; I didn't actually watch it all. The prolonged staring into the camera is part of the trance induction technique. It attempts to create some kind of intimacy with the viewers. No-one normally stares at you like that in normal, everyday life. It's unnerving, of course it is designed to be unnerving.
Moo tries to tell us that we weren't using our 'minds' when we were answering his rediculous and repetitive trance questions, and this is supposed to lead us away from relying on the mind. "Leave your mind behind".
How can you answer a question without using your mind? It's impossible. You need your mind...you can't function rationally without it. But you can function irrationally, without questioning anything, in a trance, which is what Moo wants from his followers.
The reason this video is at the centre of the Online Moo Show is that it quickly converts all those people who are susceptible to trance induction. If the video "The Invitation" really did give us instant enlightenment, then we wouldn't need to go to any retreats, we wouldn't need to watch any more videos and we wouldn't need to buy the Moo books.
We certainly wouldn't need to meet with Moo in person for 150 euros a pop!