I just found this really interesting comment underneath a Youtube video critical of Moo. (I think this video has been shared here previously.)
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The comment is by 'Nigel' and describes Moo's early years in Brixton - where apparently he was involved in a different cult!
The comment is as follows:
"I came across Mooji in a curious manner, long ago. I'll explain. When I was in my early twenties, and living in London, I had a set of friends from an eminent art school, who had become deeply involved in the then 'house church' movement. The house church was an off-shoot of American forms of fundametalist Christianity, with an absolute emphasis of mythical-literal interpretations of the Biblical scriptures. Although I dipped my toe in, I quickly realised something was very wrong. The group I knew in Brixton were largely lovely young people looking to live the lives of the early Christians with an immediacy. There was a person looking to be a leader of the group, who was one of the creepiest people I've ever encountered, highly manipulative and controlling of the members thoughts and behaviours and of course, he had immediate access to God. The Holy Spirit was evoked and who spoke through 'prophecy', and through the laying on of hands. I saw people in euphoric states of mind, recounting experiences of bliss and oceanic oneness with God. There was also screaming, writhing, maniacal laughing, being 'slain'' in the Spirit, babbling in tongues, casting demons out. I have no doubt people had what they imagined had been 'mystical' experiences, though the origins were psychological and not spiritual. And unsurprisingly, the house church harmed many people. It was a fundamentalist Christian cult. It was an important life lesson and I developed a sensitivity to cultishness since then, and I was grateful for the immunisation. As it hapened I knew a lad called Micheal well, that is, the chap who Mooji cites as being a 'Christian mystic' and who was instrumental in Mooji's first apparent 'awakening'. Micheal was indeed a very lovely and gentle young man and an enthusiastic house church member at the time. But he wasn't a mystic. Just a nice young man caught up in a culty house church. Anyhow, I saw on Mooji's official sight a photo of Mooji being baptised by Micheal and Simon, who I also knew at that time, and I burst with spontaneous laughter, I was tickled pink! That's because It was all a drama, a fiction, a shared delusion and a shared hysterical acting out of those fundamentalist mythical-literal beliefs, acting out unconscious archytpes one might say. Fast forward to the present - because I had met Tony Moo in those days and because I knew many of the protagonists in the drama, naturally I was interested when I heard Tony Moo had become a guru. And it turns out he's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy. Almost as if he learned the blueprint of his skills from the house church. On watching videos out of interest, I was dismayed to see a very clever narcissist, with an unending narcissistic supply, who had hoodwinked and brainwashed so many people in the guise of liberation and who actually worshipped him as God incarnate! Wow! Mooji isn't the real thing at all, it's as astonishing to me as the delusions of the house church."
How intriguing is that?
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The comment is by 'Nigel' and describes Moo's early years in Brixton - where apparently he was involved in a different cult!
The comment is as follows:
"I came across Mooji in a curious manner, long ago. I'll explain. When I was in my early twenties, and living in London, I had a set of friends from an eminent art school, who had become deeply involved in the then 'house church' movement. The house church was an off-shoot of American forms of fundametalist Christianity, with an absolute emphasis of mythical-literal interpretations of the Biblical scriptures. Although I dipped my toe in, I quickly realised something was very wrong. The group I knew in Brixton were largely lovely young people looking to live the lives of the early Christians with an immediacy. There was a person looking to be a leader of the group, who was one of the creepiest people I've ever encountered, highly manipulative and controlling of the members thoughts and behaviours and of course, he had immediate access to God. The Holy Spirit was evoked and who spoke through 'prophecy', and through the laying on of hands. I saw people in euphoric states of mind, recounting experiences of bliss and oceanic oneness with God. There was also screaming, writhing, maniacal laughing, being 'slain'' in the Spirit, babbling in tongues, casting demons out. I have no doubt people had what they imagined had been 'mystical' experiences, though the origins were psychological and not spiritual. And unsurprisingly, the house church harmed many people. It was a fundamentalist Christian cult. It was an important life lesson and I developed a sensitivity to cultishness since then, and I was grateful for the immunisation. As it hapened I knew a lad called Micheal well, that is, the chap who Mooji cites as being a 'Christian mystic' and who was instrumental in Mooji's first apparent 'awakening'. Micheal was indeed a very lovely and gentle young man and an enthusiastic house church member at the time. But he wasn't a mystic. Just a nice young man caught up in a culty house church. Anyhow, I saw on Mooji's official sight a photo of Mooji being baptised by Micheal and Simon, who I also knew at that time, and I burst with spontaneous laughter, I was tickled pink! That's because It was all a drama, a fiction, a shared delusion and a shared hysterical acting out of those fundamentalist mythical-literal beliefs, acting out unconscious archytpes one might say. Fast forward to the present - because I had met Tony Moo in those days and because I knew many of the protagonists in the drama, naturally I was interested when I heard Tony Moo had become a guru. And it turns out he's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy. Almost as if he learned the blueprint of his skills from the house church. On watching videos out of interest, I was dismayed to see a very clever narcissist, with an unending narcissistic supply, who had hoodwinked and brainwashed so many people in the guise of liberation and who actually worshipped him as God incarnate! Wow! Mooji isn't the real thing at all, it's as astonishing to me as the delusions of the house church."
How intriguing is that?