- there is evidence of public humiliation in this thread. Mooji can say something disparaging about you and it will instantly affect how a large group of people will treat you. If you don't believe it, try stepping out of line.
-I spoke to someone about the hundreds of photos peppered throughout the ashram. They assured me there are none in the toilets. So definitely not a cult then. The toilet photos are a real giveaway. The fact that a guru won't respond when someone removes one photo is not indicative. He can just wait for his flying monkeys to respond to it.
- I am continually amazed by how people blame followers for leading the guru astray. But it seems to be the go-to scapegoating route. It is possible to tell people to not kiss your feet. You are either complicit in allowing people to touch your body, or you are being assaulted. But I hear you wish this would change. If Mooji wishes people would stop kissing his feet, perhaps he could go to the gift shop, which I'm sure he drives past several times a day, and tell them to stop selling massive pictures of his feet.
-I am aware of reports that people have been chastised for wearing clothes that are not quite the right shade. Can you check on this? Also, the wearing of white was something that Mooji supported, and which became a uniform. The argument being that it's for the team so that people can recognize them. But if you look at retreat videos and even Sunday satsangs there is a stark increase in the uniformity of dress of participants in the last 6 years.
- I have no idea about Mooji sex life other than earlier stories in this thread. I had not heard he had declared his celibacy, I'm surprised that didn't make it onto YouTube or the quote of the day. But relationships do not have to be sexual, and I am led to believe that Mooji is very much with the person you referred to. And that he thinks of her as a daughter. Which is not a crime, I agree. But is it really healthy to have no peers? I doubt it. Mooji seems to refer to people as 'friends', and yet all friends seem to call him 'father'. In the same way the ashram suddenly becomes his 'home' any time the group wants to admonish someone's behavior. Shifting definitions depending on the situation.
- At the beginning of this thread, Mr/Ms Yam and I discussed the criteria for a thought reform environment and cults as laid out by Robert Lifton.
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-I spoke to someone about the hundreds of photos peppered throughout the ashram. They assured me there are none in the toilets. So definitely not a cult then. The toilet photos are a real giveaway. The fact that a guru won't respond when someone removes one photo is not indicative. He can just wait for his flying monkeys to respond to it.
- I am continually amazed by how people blame followers for leading the guru astray. But it seems to be the go-to scapegoating route. It is possible to tell people to not kiss your feet. You are either complicit in allowing people to touch your body, or you are being assaulted. But I hear you wish this would change. If Mooji wishes people would stop kissing his feet, perhaps he could go to the gift shop, which I'm sure he drives past several times a day, and tell them to stop selling massive pictures of his feet.
-I am aware of reports that people have been chastised for wearing clothes that are not quite the right shade. Can you check on this? Also, the wearing of white was something that Mooji supported, and which became a uniform. The argument being that it's for the team so that people can recognize them. But if you look at retreat videos and even Sunday satsangs there is a stark increase in the uniformity of dress of participants in the last 6 years.
- I have no idea about Mooji sex life other than earlier stories in this thread. I had not heard he had declared his celibacy, I'm surprised that didn't make it onto YouTube or the quote of the day. But relationships do not have to be sexual, and I am led to believe that Mooji is very much with the person you referred to. And that he thinks of her as a daughter. Which is not a crime, I agree. But is it really healthy to have no peers? I doubt it. Mooji seems to refer to people as 'friends', and yet all friends seem to call him 'father'. In the same way the ashram suddenly becomes his 'home' any time the group wants to admonish someone's behavior. Shifting definitions depending on the situation.
- At the beginning of this thread, Mr/Ms Yam and I discussed the criteria for a thought reform environment and cults as laid out by Robert Lifton.
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