Re: General Problems with Gurus
The psychopath possibility is certainly the suggestion of Bill Hamilton's Saints and Psychopaths:[www.buddhistische-gesellschaft-berlin.de]
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Thanks, I read about 60 pages of the book you sent a link to... Saints and Psychopaths.It's a good read.I think the spiritual community just attracts a lot of people who are interested in exploiting...
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Hi! I'm posting here again after a long time - you can see my posts at the start of the thread.I never went to Monte Sahaja, but I've been in Mooji's presence at a retreat and an intensive. I...
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i yam what i yam Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Hi! I'm posting here again after a long time -> you can see my posts at the start of the...
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"I think that particular video wasn't uploaded as it showed Moo being less than kind, leas than loving. Quite a bit less, I would think. These type of videos don't suit the image of Moo that the group...
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My view - based on my own personal experience - is that Mooji provides comfort to the mentally-ill, but that ultimately he's a dead-end and a bit of a trap, and you need to be able to move on from...
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Well, my friend, i yam what i yam,I would say that the suicide at the Moo ashram was "all-bad", wouldn't you?But please tell us more about the regular exorcisms? What were they like? Did anyone report...
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Hah, you're really horrible! Please learn how to debate on the Internet and not to be snarky and nasty all the time. You'll learn more that way.
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"Detaining and shipping migrants is a business, one that profits off of trafficking in human misery." Quoted from belowQuestions about Akal SecurityShould a nonprofit, tax-exempt church oversee a...
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You are required to attend satsang?Friends, I did a number of silent insight meditation retreats and two or three week long Zen sesshin retreats.We were not required to attend ever single meditation...
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A note about feeling as though pulled magnetically toward someone.i yam what i yam wrote:QuoteI must say that being in a crowd around Mooji is astonishing, as you feel like an iron filing being pulled...
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Why seek or value enlightenment if it does not improve peoples character and behavior?Bharati said he himself solved it by deciding that the zero experience aka nondual realization is an aesthetic...
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Thank you at Corboy,I am very concerned that people with mental illness are heading off to the Moo ashram instead of getting help from experienced psychologists and qualified doctors. Then they are...
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corboy Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Why seek or value enlightenment if it does not> improve peoples character and behavior?>> Bharati said he himself...
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Things are fine now, that happened years ago.That bit about exorcism and demons -- that has no place in advaita Vedanta.If personal self is illusion, a demon should be considered just as illusory.Can...
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I am glad that you are OK, Corboy.I am recovering from my unfortunate brush with Moo. It's really hard, because the 'trance induction' stuff does something to you. You feel really let down when you...
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Tristan Harris, an ex-Google guy who now warns about tech addiction, said some interesting things about cults in his recent podcast with Sam Harris which help me make sense of my own experience:SH:You...
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Sahara 71 wrote.QuoteI am glad that you are OK, Corboy.I am recovering from my unfortunate brush with Moo. It's really hard, because the 'trance induction' stuff does something to you. You feel really...
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Sahara71 Wrote:> There> should be some kind of law in place... Like, the> UN should get involved in this.It’s possible that the problem will take care of itself, like an epidemic that has run...
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