OK,
I managed to watch a few sections of the video in question.
Firstly, I watched the beginning 40 minutes or so. Right at the start, Moo seems to be loosely plagiarising The Lord's Prayer in his creepy voice-over, then he goes off speaking on a tangent, but it's basically all about God. It feels like I'm in church and the preacher is on drugs.
This is followed by a devotional song that goes on and on and on.... I nearly fell asleep because it was such a tedious song! It sounds like some kind of C-grade soap opera is beginning...
Finally, we have Moo appear on stage and read out a letter about the hurricane approaching Florida. He drones on and on in reply.... A lot of what he says is indecipherable rubbish- it's so hard to follow. It sounds like no one knows what is going on, but everyone in the audience gives rapt attention. Moo takes a lot of long, long meaningful pauses, just to get people tranced out, I guess.
I then watched the video at 1.46.55 - the part with a letter comparing the Moo movement to a cult or sect. Moo makes fun of the criticism, but he seems annoyed. He says he has heard it all before.
He then goes on to say that it is "just our minds" that want us to compare the Moo group to a cult, as our minds want to flee the truth. Moo says that if the teachings were not effective, then no-one would be afraid of them, and everyone would want to follow Moo, because "our minds" operate this way.
Does that then mean that Moo followers are "in their minds" or not? It's hard to say, it confusing and it doesn't get any clearer...
Moo's number one girlfriend or assistant, Krishnabai, makes matters worse by acting like a blissed-out zealot who has popped a few too many happy pills and tries to speak on behalf of Moo. She leads the audience in a scary chant that has the opposite of the desired effect.... It does indeed look like a cult.
I have to switch off the whole show because it's so hard to watch.
I managed to watch a few sections of the video in question.
Firstly, I watched the beginning 40 minutes or so. Right at the start, Moo seems to be loosely plagiarising The Lord's Prayer in his creepy voice-over, then he goes off speaking on a tangent, but it's basically all about God. It feels like I'm in church and the preacher is on drugs.
This is followed by a devotional song that goes on and on and on.... I nearly fell asleep because it was such a tedious song! It sounds like some kind of C-grade soap opera is beginning...
Finally, we have Moo appear on stage and read out a letter about the hurricane approaching Florida. He drones on and on in reply.... A lot of what he says is indecipherable rubbish- it's so hard to follow. It sounds like no one knows what is going on, but everyone in the audience gives rapt attention. Moo takes a lot of long, long meaningful pauses, just to get people tranced out, I guess.
I then watched the video at 1.46.55 - the part with a letter comparing the Moo movement to a cult or sect. Moo makes fun of the criticism, but he seems annoyed. He says he has heard it all before.
He then goes on to say that it is "just our minds" that want us to compare the Moo group to a cult, as our minds want to flee the truth. Moo says that if the teachings were not effective, then no-one would be afraid of them, and everyone would want to follow Moo, because "our minds" operate this way.
Does that then mean that Moo followers are "in their minds" or not? It's hard to say, it confusing and it doesn't get any clearer...
Moo's number one girlfriend or assistant, Krishnabai, makes matters worse by acting like a blissed-out zealot who has popped a few too many happy pills and tries to speak on behalf of Moo. She leads the audience in a scary chant that has the opposite of the desired effect.... It does indeed look like a cult.
I have to switch off the whole show because it's so hard to watch.