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- Tue Oct 22, 2019 10:50 pm
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: Found out my friend in RSE died a couple of years ago
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7634
Re: Found out my friend in RSE died a couple of years ago
Thanks David. Believe you knew him. I once had a dream that RSE friends were in their UG waiting for the latest foretold 'end date', the end was 'forestallled by the students changin g the timeline, but this group didn't get the message and stayed in their UG until a Lahar sealled up their air sourc...
- Tue Sep 24, 2019 4:12 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Eckhart Tolle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6325
Re: Eckhart Tolle
WOW! And here, having only a vague knowledge of Eckhart Tolle from speaking with people who have read his books, and having a brief glance at the write up of him on Wikipedia, I thought he was just another harmless new agey writer. "Staying in the now" sounded okay to me. Glad I was never ...
- Mon Sep 23, 2019 4:58 am
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: Found out my friend in RSE died a couple of years ago
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7634
Found out my friend in RSE died a couple of years ago
My RSE friend and I met online, exchanged many emails, some phone calls, a few gifts, and actually eventually met in person and spent a few days together. I loved the guy, and he was a true friend. Originally he tried to indoctrinate me, but we agreed to disagree about certain things. He had been in...
- Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:18 pm
- Forum: All Things EMF - Researching the Ramtha Cult? Use our EMF Search Engine
- Topic: How can we attack Jz Knight and ignore biblical cult activity.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7071
Re: Is it not appropriate to combine the 3 separate post thr
Dear Forever: I think Joe makes some valid points. I guess I can't judge between spirituality, religion and cults, except in terms of results, or impact on the believer or practitioner's life. RSE could be described as a doomsday cult, for example, but so could some Christian denominations, insistin...
- Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:11 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: sloppy journalistic shorthand
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8952
Re: sloppy journalistic shorthand
There may have been islands which sunk into the sea 35,000 years ago. There may even have been a Lemuria. And the date humans first became what we might called civilized or technologically advanced keeps being pushed further back. We cannot state categorically that Lemuria or something like it could...
- Sun Jan 25, 2015 2:01 pm
- Forum: Is RSE a cult ? What is RSE? Its purpose? Post your opinion.
- Topic: Grupo Elron on JZ and Ramtha
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5889
Re: Grupo Elron on JZ and Ramtha
In short: There really are channellers, there really are masters of light who for their own particular reasons are choosing to channel through human vessels, but give your money to our group and not to RSE. Highly interesting, Joe.
- Thu Oct 30, 2014 3:35 am
- Forum: For Professionals: Teachers, Professors, Healthcare Workers
- Topic: problems with mindfulness
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4029
Re: problems with mindfulness
This is a very interesting topic, Joe. I suppressed some objections I felt, overriding them to finishing the article. I believe that any alternative to psychiatric medications is worth exploring for sufferers of depression and anxiety. And antidepressants probably claim a lower remission rate if you...
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 5:20 am
- Forum: Tips, Links and Book Reviews
- Topic: christian science and famous devotees
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19597
Re: christian science and famous devotees
My favourite source, http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr_sci.htm, has published a long paper on The Christian Science Church. This particular quote may put some concerns to rest. Healing by faith: There exists a chronic state of tension between the Church, its practitioners, and medical doctors ove...
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:48 am
- Forum: Tips, Links and Book Reviews
- Topic: christian science and famous devotees
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19597
Re: christian science and famous devotees
In the original post, the primary beef against the Church of Christian Science appeared to be that they encourage people to avoid traditional medical care. I was not stating anything about your particular position on the subject, David. I simply question whether Christian Science is properly placed ...
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 3:23 am
- Forum: Tips, Links and Book Reviews
- Topic: christian science and famous devotees
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19597
Re: christian science and famous devotees
Very interesting references, Joe and David. Still, I don't think it is necessarily cultish to resort to herbal remedies or to try to ward off or treat illness with diet and life style changes, or to seek to avoid surgeries that pose serious risks and offer no or slim odds for improvement. And I don'...
- Tue Oct 14, 2014 5:26 pm
- Forum: Tips, Links and Book Reviews
- Topic: christian science and famous devotees
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19597
Re: christian science and famous devotees
. I suppose that is true David, but this thread is about those groups other than RSE - and looking at Christian Science in particular, I personally do not think it is any more of a cult than, say, the Catholic Church, about which there has been some debate here. They have simply tried (perhaps simil...
- Tue Oct 14, 2014 3:24 am
- Forum: Tips, Links and Book Reviews
- Topic: christian science and famous devotees
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19597
Re: christian science and famous devotees
I always thought that Christian Science was a sect of Christianity, like Quakers. Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses also eschew at least some aspects of conventional medical treatment. So do holistic health practitioners, herbalists, natural hygenists and many practitioners of Shamanism...
- Sat Jul 26, 2014 3:59 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: Just how insane, racist, and do you have to be before.......
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4071
Re: Just how insane, racist, and do you have to be before...
This is so funny - not sure of relevance but really amusing. Is Ramtha supposed to have been Ramses?
- Sun Mar 23, 2014 5:36 pm
- Forum: Fire, Health and Safety concerns at (RSE), a division of JZK Inc.
- Topic: RSE Candle Focus It was not a fire hazard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9792
Re: RSE Candle Focus It was not a fire hazard
Meditation using candles is probably not harmful in and of itself. Even new-agey, 'Esoteric' candle rituals can be okay. But, as you suggest, Paul, it's a question of duration - even my new agey meditation school, when I was in it, suggested cutting such practices short after half an hour and stress...
- Sun Aug 25, 2013 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Movie: What The Bleep
- Topic: Bleep movie debunked
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5010
Bleep movie debunked
"William H." has selected targets to attack in the sphere of so called pseudoscience and has selected, in this case, What the Bleep Do We Know?, although he calls it What the F____ Do We Know. His remarks are food for thought:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlPiXNlhKFo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlPiXNlhKFo
- Mon Jul 08, 2013 3:54 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: nuage shaman frauds
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14230
Re: nuage shaman frauds
Sure, Joe, you are way more Catholic than me and I am way more New Age than you, but I think in the larger sense we could have a meeting of the minds - I just felt that your little comment re: "a few arrow heads and spear points" or whatever it was that set me off illustrated that until we...
- Sat Jul 06, 2013 11:00 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: nuage shaman frauds
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14230
Re: nuage shaman frauds
This article from the charmingly named joyofsects.com website explains what I have been taught and believe to be true about native spirituality and touches on the question as to whether it may be shared by non-natives: As American Indians emerged during the past century from the controlling influenc...
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:41 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: nuage shaman frauds
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14230
Re: nuage shaman frauds
Article about Archaological evidence touching upon Shamanism and the Neanderthals
staffwww.fullcoll.edu/mmonreal/Week%208.ppt
staffwww.fullcoll.edu/mmonreal/Week%208.ppt
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:32 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: nuage shaman frauds
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14230
Re: nuage shaman frauds
I am not saying that language is irrelevant, I am saying that a culture or civilization may persist or elements of it may persist long after that language has vanished. Also, "a few spear points" is overly dismissive of the Clovis culture for which we have evidence - see article below. As ...
- Thu Jun 27, 2013 1:31 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: nuage shaman frauds
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14230
Re: nuage shaman frauds
Sure, but there is still such a thing as a real Navaho Joe. And many with Navaho ancestry must keep one foot in the modern North American world and one in their ancestral culture. And in terms of spirituality or religion, Judaism as we may know it from historical records (the Bible, for example) has...
- Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:03 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: nuage shaman frauds
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14230
Re: nuage shaman frauds
I neither entirely disagree nor entirely agree with what you have said Joe. Unlike many cultures which have been diluted, there is a sense in which Native North American culture has been insulated from the culture at large by virtue of the fact that many 'Indians' were involuntarily and now some are...
- Tue Jun 25, 2013 4:27 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: ramtha and gay culture
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8115
Re: ramtha and gay culture
I am not sure why that link to the really good LKL show with Tim Gunn and all is included, although I did like seeing it again. I think with that you have highlighted the fact that if gay bashing went on at RSE it was little different from the attitude of substantial portions of the general public. ...
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:05 pm
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: ramtha and gay culture
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8115
Re: ramtha and gay culture
A less critical approach than they used to display was what I meant, David. Sure, cite examples and links if you like.
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 4:49 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: ramtha and gay culture
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8115
Re: ramtha and gay culture
While not disbanding, RSE has embraced a less critical approach to gayness from what I can gather. They have stated that at least one of their teachers is openly gay. I don't know how that is reconciled in the minds of students with what has gone before, although I believe even in the olden days gay...
- Sat Jun 22, 2013 6:17 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: nuage shaman frauds
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14230
Re: nuage shaman frauds
I was not suggesting that a white person can become "indian". Rather, we know of these practices from the native people themselves, some of whom are eager to pass on their traditions to those who will listen. And many a fine oral tradition can be relayed in translation. Do you speak ancien...
- Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:00 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: nuage shaman frauds
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14230
Re: nuage shaman frauds
Okay, well, phew. Must say the lady who wrote that didn't sound like an intellectual or spiritual kinswoman of yours. While it may be true that some natives "cash in" on their spiritual traditions and some non-natives use those traditions to enrich themselves or bolster their public image ...
- Fri Jun 21, 2013 7:53 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: nuage shaman frauds
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14230
Re: nuage shaman frauds
Are you saying you agree with this writer, Joe? She does not sound like the most rational impartial critic on the block to me. She sounds small minded and bigoted, and is sneering at New Agers, White People and Christians alike. There must be a better critique to be had.
- Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:20 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: I think that many of you misunderstand Ramtha’s teaching
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8543
Re: I think that many of you misunderstand Ramtha’s teaching
Cuellarm88 As an outsider what I am hearing is this - if I was raped it was because I was afraid I would be, I entertained the thought and therefore I brought that on myself. I think what you misunderstand is reality. When I was raped, I was living in a cheap apartment in a seedy part of town with p...
- Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:08 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: Marshall Barnes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6206
Re: Marshall Barnes
Sounds like "the cone of silence" from Get Smart - a cumbersome hi-tech looking contraption that, rather than working, made everything more difficult for the folks at Control, lol. Also, though, I think that just because a person has a PhD we cannot assume they are either sensible or sane.
- Mon Jun 17, 2013 5:08 pm
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: Marshall Barnes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6206
Re: Marshall Barnes
Beam me up Scotty! Lol. I think this is fascinating, Ockham. However, the science fiction of yesterday may become the science fact of today - writings of Jules Verne are eerie because many of the at the time fantastical and improbable premises of his novels turned out to be possible, like submarines...
- Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:36 pm
- Forum: Pages 1 & 2 - General Chit Chat & Social Forums
- Topic: breatharian in seattle
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5263
Re: breatharian in seattle
There was a documentary I saw about a man who lived on basically water for 6 months. He did receive medical supervision and intravenous vitamins. He had weighed close to 500 lbs and this was a drastic attempt to get him to lose weight before his obesity killed him. He lost half his body weight. But ...
- Mon Jun 10, 2013 11:55 am
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: divorce from a current Ramtha student
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8307
Re: divorce from a current Ramtha student
I mainly know about Canadian law, but laws in the USA are quite similar. The only grounds for divorce worth pursuing, even if there was infidelity or mental/physical/emotional abuse, is separation of one year. There is often a division of property statement required and there may still be provisions...
- Fri Jun 07, 2013 5:27 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: After Earth film ripped
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5190
Re: After Earth film ripped
I have heard about his affair and subsequent marriage to Helen. Somewhere online is a lengthy transcript of his private thoughts about that marriage and also about his military service (which was not greatly to his credit) and his struggles with fidelity, his belief in his powers and his concurrent ...
- Wed Jun 05, 2013 10:06 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: After Earth film ripped
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5190
Re: After Earth film ripped
Well, he may well have been mediocre in a number of ways. I have done some research. But if it could be said that Scientology is Sci Fi, he has succeeded in gripping the imaginations and in some cases the pocketbooks of many! I have read that he founded Scientology on a bet that he could make a reli...
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 6:03 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: After Earth film ripped
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5190
Re: After Earth film ripped
My theory, for what it's worth, is that people do not want to see this movie because they don't like the central premise that we have had to leave Earth because it has been destroyed and is unlivable and not because they have moral or philosophical issues with the central tenets of Scientology. L.Ro...
- Fri May 10, 2013 11:59 am
- Forum: Pages 1 & 2 - General Chit Chat & Social Forums
- Topic: religion breakdown in Canada
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6942
Re: religion breakdown in Canada
P.s. I wonder what the actual number of New Agers is, and also, how many people belong to Secret Societies - of course it's difficult to get that number because, of course, membership is supposed to be a secret.
- Fri May 10, 2013 11:52 am
- Forum: Pages 1 & 2 - General Chit Chat & Social Forums
- Topic: religion breakdown in Canada
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6942
Re: religion breakdown in Canada
Google Chesterton's "39 Articles of Doubt", I know I saw that somewhere. Also, maybe read The Man Who was Tuesday - fiction but it illustrates the writer's views pretty clearly. About Religious Orthodoxy, I think it may present a paradox in that Religion is supposed to help us make sense o...
- Fri May 10, 2013 3:48 am
- Forum: Pages 1 & 2 - General Chit Chat & Social Forums
- Topic: religion breakdown in Canada
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6942
Re: religion breakdown in Canada
Interesting stuff, Joe. And interesting especially about the United Church needed to change with the times. I grew up in it, and I can only say if it changed with the times any more than it has already - the first religious gay marriage in Canada was performed in the United Church and they have long...
- Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:27 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Virginia Coverdale EE Moderating Concerns
- Replies: 57
- Views: 30241
Re: Virginia Coverdale EE Moderating Concerns
This whole chain seems like a powder keg for people in recovery. It makes me cringe, and I am not even somebody who ever belonged to RSE, I just have friends who are or have been. Could we change the subject? Surely we all have more pressing concerns on EMF than what is going on at EE, for good or i...
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:05 am
- Forum: LAUGHTER: A HEALTHY PART OF MOVING ON
- Topic: Here comes another one - February 2013
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11165
Re: Here comes another one - February 2013
OMG, Ockham and Vanilla, is that really what it's like for my friends there?? I think I'm going to hurl.
- Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:06 am
- Forum: Leaving RSE: The Aftermath
- Topic: I am embarrassed that I did it again.
- Replies: 52
- Views: 28603
Re: I am embarrassed that I did it again.
Dear HeyV: It is true I never belonged to RSE, I just have people I love who are still there. It is also true that I know what it's like to have the entire underpinnings of your life up to a certain point collapse under you; I know how it feels to be suicidally depressed; I know how agonizing it is ...
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 6:04 pm
- Forum: Tips, Links and Book Reviews
- Topic: We the Arcturians
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16340
Re: We the Arcturians
This is very interesting, Ockham. I am familiar with Edgar Cayce, a member of my family is a disciple. He said a lot of things on a vast array of topics, not sure he mentioned aliens very much, he was more inclined to believe in Angels and in the divine nature of man himself, created in God's image....
- Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:20 pm
- Forum: Children in RSE
- Topic: Photos of children in RSE during Fieldwork and C & E
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11781
Re: Photos of children in RSE during Fieldwork and C & E
Hi Cheryl
I am sure your experience speaks volumes. I wonder about the effects on children of having parents who live in constant anxiety and self blame.
I am sure your experience speaks volumes. I wonder about the effects on children of having parents who live in constant anxiety and self blame.
- Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:56 pm
- Forum: Children in RSE
- Topic: Photos of children in RSE during Fieldwork and C & E
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11781
Re: Photos of children in RSE during Fieldwork and C & E
Hi Robair I am sure the pictures do not tell the whole story, since, after all, they are posted by RSE and not some neutral observer. I was thinking, though, that I would see something here that contradicts the idea that kids are thriving at RSE or that it's, at the least, harmless for them to parti...
- Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:43 pm
- Forum: Children in RSE
- Topic: Photos of children in RSE during Fieldwork and C & E
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11781
Re: Photos of children in RSE during Fieldwork and C & E
I'm afraid that, to me, the kids look happy and appear to be taken care of by their parents! Any shots of injured or depressed or neglected kids?
- Fri Jan 11, 2013 4:07 pm
- Forum: Drug & Alcohol Use at RSE
- Topic: JZKRamtha - Prozac Enlightenment - Dr.Kathy May - Illegal Use - RSE
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16054
Re: Judy Knight / Ramtha recommending abuse of Prozac
Prozac is not the worst anti-depressant out there, in that the side effects are not as severe as in some others. However, for some it may actually heighten the risk of suicide and increase anxiety in the early weeks of commencing it's use. There are lawsuits against the drug company that manufacture...
- Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:18 am
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: Everyone has their own problems -
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6456
Re: Everyone has their own problems -
Dear SadGrandfather: I read the journal entries and it's made me cry! I would never have treated my folks the way you have been treated. I hope somehow your daughter finds out or at least grandkids, and they realize that you are still family in spite of any differences of belief. I see from the jour...
- Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:35 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: Bunkers in Bogota attributed to RSE students
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5729
Bunkers in Bogota attributed to RSE students
About 80 survival bunkers have been built in Columbia, and attributed to RSE students:
http://todaycolombia.com/2012/12/20/col ... ld-bunker/
http://todaycolombia.com/2012/12/20/col ... ld-bunker/
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 9:50 pm
- Forum: How Did You Get Hooked Into RSE ?
- Topic: The Serial Killers Analogy
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11556
Re: The Serial Killers Analogy
I don't see, Roy, how anything you've said could be insulting to me. About the repudiation aspect we have no disagreement, just that there are degrees of repudiation and taking it to the ultimate extreme may be a form of self-injury. I would agree about the garden variety master being a good person ...
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 8:21 pm
- Forum: How Did You Get Hooked Into RSE ?
- Topic: The Serial Killers Analogy
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11556
Re: The Serial Killers Analogy
Hi RoyG From what you have said you sound rational, not rigid. My RSE friends are all still "in" or perhaps still just keeping up the appearance of not being "out", and it makes me sad to think they are caught up in something that detracts from their quality of life to a large ex...
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 6:21 pm
- Forum: How Did You Get Hooked Into RSE ?
- Topic: The Serial Killers Analogy
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11556
Re: The Serial Killers Analogy
Hey, W.E., I wasn't thinking of that when I said what I said. I was thinking more that in an argument about the issues pro and con for any belief we need to take into account that rational thought and scientific inquiry can be short circuited by clinging too much to a position either way. What spran...
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 5:18 pm
- Forum: How Did You Get Hooked Into RSE ?
- Topic: The Serial Killers Analogy
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11556
Re: The Serial Killers Analogy
Thanks, that is fascinating reading WE. I agree with neither of the writers in this somewhat playful little debate, lol. Which makes sense as I neither ardently agree nor am I all that skeptical. I just study religions and groups but have yet to join one. I think there is not enough evidence either ...
- Wed Dec 05, 2012 11:14 pm
- Forum: How Did You Get Hooked Into RSE ?
- Topic: The Serial Killers Analogy
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11556
Re: The Serial Killers Analogy
Hi, WE Interesting little write up of Edgar Cayce. I must say, though, that naturopathy has many such detractors as does the very idea that anyone has psychic powers. Curiously, the poster is an anonymous one, and Linda Goodman is a popular astrologer. Many skeptics hold that there is no validity in...
- Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:42 pm
- Forum: How Did You Get Hooked Into RSE ?
- Topic: The Serial Killers Analogy
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11556
Re: The Serial Killers Analogy
Yes, she was. It was not so much "using Edgar Cayce" as it was implementing some of his home remedies and holistic ideas learned from studying his teachings that she used - She mentioned Olive oil and saunas, for example. As it happens I have a close friend who is a devotee of the teaching...
- Wed Dec 05, 2012 5:40 pm
- Forum: How Did You Get Hooked Into RSE ?
- Topic: The Serial Killers Analogy
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11556
Re: The Serial Killers Analogy
Hi Jingz You must be in the same part of the world that I am; I know that "Barbie and Ken" case well. And where is "Barbie" now? I heard that she is a Mom. I am not exactly clear about the analogy you are drawing - are you saying that the way in which she was coerced to go along ...
- Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:38 pm
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: Dec 21 2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 26339
Re: Dec 21 2012
From NASA:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/2012-mayan-apo ... 08647.html
It's about teens killing themselves because of doomsday predictions surrounding December 21, 2012. But what do they know? They are in social consciousness and are just scientists, ahem.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/2012-mayan-apo ... 08647.html
It's about teens killing themselves because of doomsday predictions surrounding December 21, 2012. But what do they know? They are in social consciousness and are just scientists, ahem.
- Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:46 pm
- Forum: Children in RSE
- Topic: Phoenix Rising School
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17019
Re: Phoenix Rising School
Thanks, Cheryl, I figured that. But I thought Phoenix Rising was a new school? What was it called when you taught there?
- Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:02 pm
- Forum: Children in RSE
- Topic: Phoenix Rising School
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17019
Re: Phoenix Rising School
I learned Oh Canada everywhere - from my parents, and also, at movie theatres, lol. This seems beside the point. I meant, are not regular American kids (and RSE is, after all, in America) enculturated at school, and taught values outside of reading, writing and arithmetic. I do see regular schools a...
- Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:56 pm
- Forum: Children in RSE
- Topic: Phoenix Rising School
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17019
Re: Phoenix Rising School
Well, I suppose if you go to school somewhere else, along with your regular academic subjects you are socialized in a mould that your culture dictates and are fed other stuff like nationalism and politics as a matter of course. America was only an example. Looking at my Brother's school days (we lef...
- Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:23 pm
- Forum: Children in RSE
- Topic: Phoenix Rising School
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17019
Re: Phoenix Rising School
I would assume that most of the kids at Phoenix Rising have parents in RSE, and that any indoctination there is nothing to what they get at home. As someone with some issues with regular schools which are, in part, indoctrination instuments themselves, (salute the flag, be encouraged to serve in the...
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:20 pm
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Ramtha would leave I think it was 2000
- Replies: 38
- Views: 21734
Re: Ramtha would leave I think it was 2000
As well, if we apply your standard of reality testing, all religions and many philosophies would be thrown out as failing it. We can't PROVE, for example, or see with out own eyes, that Christ ever existed, or that Mohammed was for real. And science has become a religion for some. " There are m...
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:13 pm
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Ramtha would leave I think it was 2000
- Replies: 38
- Views: 21734
Re: Ramtha would leave I think it was 2000
Dear Freemysoul: I believe that Interested HAS expressed doubts about Ramtha, insofar as he or she is somewhat critical of the current state of the teachings and the school. In spite of the "New Age" mindset, which many non-Ramsters also share by the way, I do not think that Interested is ...
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 5:30 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Ramtha would leave I think it was 2000
- Replies: 38
- Views: 21734
Re: Ramtha would leave I think it was 2000
Freemysoul, I understand the points you make. I did kind of think, though, that Interested's comments were in keeping with the theme of this particular part of the forum: "RSE Supporters Debate Forum". I guess it is only to be expected that some posters here are actually RSE Supporters, ri...
- Sun Nov 11, 2012 12:41 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Ramtha would leave I think it was 2000
- Replies: 38
- Views: 21734
Re: Ramtha would leave I think it was 2000
I like the way you say things, Okham. And, Interested, I find your post interesting. I see some sense it what you say, yet also, the circular argument about "buying into your own victimhood" which should somehow justify those who actually have done wrong and caused injury to others. "...
- Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:25 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Ramtha, As far as I am concerned it is him.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 18849
Re: Ramtha, As far as I am concerned it is him.
Hello
I was never in RSE, just have friends who are or were. I wanted to respectfully ask you how your blue body experience is so very different from regular meditation?
LIS
I was never in RSE, just have friends who are or were. I wanted to respectfully ask you how your blue body experience is so very different from regular meditation?
LIS
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:05 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Joe's 'Catholic Church Cult" has been moved to "Off Topic"
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16759
Re: Joe's 'Catholic Church Cult" moved to 'off topic' page
I am totally fine with Joe being Catholic, even though I am not, and usually I don't see any problem with his scholarly, somewhat impartial discussions on the topic. I just don't read them if I think they don't fit with the discussion thread in question. Because several members of EMF, most of whom ...
- Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:33 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Joe's 'Catholic Church Cult" has been moved to "Off Topic"
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16759
Re: PROPOSED LIMITATIONS re: Breadth of Argument
I am reluctant to say anything, however, I feel I have to. I think if someone who is not a long term member or a moderator is reading this, or has noticed that the thread has been moved, they will hop around until they find the contested topic thread, werever it has been moved, and it will get, as a...
- Thu Jun 21, 2012 5:05 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Bruce Lipton material
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10634
Re: Bruce Lipton material
I understand that many former members of 'New Age' groups, and many lapsed Christians as well, wish to repudiate anything that smacks of magical thinking. And also, that what we choose as a spirtual path once we break free from a closed high pressure group is a highly individual choice. I think, Vir...
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:09 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Downward Spiral of a Yoga Practitioner
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4773
Re: Downward Spiral of a Yoga Practitioner
He signed up for this group in a big way, met a spiritual partner there, and had commenced what amounted to a three-year retreat which included living apart from society and also, silence; three years worth. He and his partner, though, not too long into the thing, were asked to leave, and ended up l...
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:05 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Downward Spiral of a Yoga Practitioner
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4773
Re: Downward Spiral of a Yoga Practitioner
You are right, David, I can no longer pull up the link either. Too bad, it was a good balanced video, and showed interviews with the man's sister and mother. However, perhaps the story in the New York Times is also of interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/us/mysterious-yoga-retreat-ends-in-a-g...
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:56 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Downward Spiral of a Yoga Practitioner
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4773
Downward Spiral of a Yoga Practitioner
This terrible story shows the impact that exclusive high impact groups may have on families, as well as the importance of support after leaving what amounted to a cult. This is not garden variety Yoga, which proves beneficial for many lay people. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/video/mysterious-yoga-retrea...
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:25 pm
- Forum: EMF International Forum
- Topic: Disciples of JZK in South Africa
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4458
Re: Disciples of JZK in South Africa
Thanks, Delavie
And if you go through that link, you see the RSE South African website is at: http://www.windsofafrica.co.za/
And if you go through that link, you see the RSE South African website is at: http://www.windsofafrica.co.za/
- Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:47 pm
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: RSE alternative to humanity's future
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11963
Re: RSE alternative to humanity's future
Good point, Okham. Why are the disciplines in general geared towards making students efete, and unlikely to survive in tough times? Possibly, out of touch with the real world? I acknowledge that blind archery may be of some use during a zombie attack, but the neighbourhood walk would be fraught with...
- Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:19 am
- Forum: Starting Your Recovery Process
- Topic: feeling a bit lost and confused
- Replies: 46
- Views: 26219
Re: feeling a bit lost and confused
Not an expert, but hope my little suggestions will make sense to you. Whatever you have given up in order to be able to afford live streams, tapes and books for RSE, do that now. Buy yourself a little present, just because. Instead of a neighbourhood walk, go for a stroll and instead of 'telling you...
- Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:16 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Integral Institute - Ken Wilber
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7806
Re: Integral Institute - Ken Wilber
Surprised it didn't show up before, Joe. Very useful, that scale.
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 4:42 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Integral Institute - Ken Wilber
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7806
Re: Integral Institute - Ken Wilber
Bonewits is cited in the above article. I posted his evaluation checklist in October, 2010, thinking people here could make up their own minds about RSE. The Checklist: The Advanced Bonewits’ Cult Danger Evaluation Frame (version 2.6) Factors: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Low High 1 Internal Control: Amount...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:19 am
- Forum: Student Deaths. Suicide Prevention Resources Abuse at RSE.
- Topic: Diane Glock died in the RSE parking lot - RSE Student Deaths
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10994
Re: RSE Student Deaths Thread 2
Maybe pitching a tent was part of the problem, although, she could have been doing that for fun somewhere else. Still, for the amount paid for events, and after paying that for many years perhaps the more elderly students could have slightly more luxurious accomodations? We do not know if any effort...
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:45 pm
- Forum: Student Deaths. Suicide Prevention Resources Abuse at RSE.
- Topic: Diane Glock died in the RSE parking lot - RSE Student Deaths
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10994
Re: RSE Student Deaths Thread 2
The deceased master is mentioned, and her picture is shown, in the lastest edition of the Masters Connection newsletter.
And, she died before the event had properly begun.
And, she died before the event had properly begun.
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:33 am
- Forum: TV Interviews - Videos -Documentaries - Educate yourself
- Topic: Oprah interview - daughters of Elizabeth Clare Prophet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8198
Re: Oprah interview - daughters of Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Thanks, Joe, that does clarify the difference. In the case of my Krishna friend, from what he said I take it that he was actually grabbed and muscled into a car, and driven to an isolated, barnlike structure. This was in the late 70's. There was no physical or sexual abuse. He said the most distress...
- Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:56 pm
- Forum: TV Interviews - Videos -Documentaries - Educate yourself
- Topic: Oprah interview - daughters of Elizabeth Clare Prophet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8198
Re: Oprah interview - daughters of Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Joe, I wonder if you want a chance to explain the difference, raised in the show but heckled to pieces, between exit counselling and deprogramming? I do believe there must be a considerable difference, but I am not precisely clear about it. I had a school mate who joined the Hare Krishnas, and disap...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:05 pm
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: amway way
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8231
Re: amway way
I was a target for the Moonies when I was in my early twenties. I was approached by two really personable, well groomed and professional looking people who asked me if I wanted to attend a "philosophy seminar". I went. I was the only one at this so called seminar - pickings were slim for t...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:50 pm
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: amway way
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8231
Re: amway way
Both of my exes sold Amway for a while. One of them really did well with it and enjoyed it. The other, not so much. I did listen to the tapes owned by the one who did well. They really go for the emotional reaction, as you say, Robair. One of them moved me to tears, all about a couple of Amway stars...
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:07 am
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: My Friend has been involved with RSE for about 20 years - Help
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22391
Re: New Friend
I will elaborate a bit, just so we are clear. What it isn't, as far as I know, is a Church, because a church is a not for profit organization, and the School (yes, I guess I think of it as a School, in that lessons and classes take place, knowledge (right or wrong) is imparted to participants, and p...
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:55 am
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: My Friend has been involved with RSE for about 20 years - Help
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22391
Re: New Friend
Why do I call it "the school"...because it's name is Ramtha's School of Enlightenment", and I am using a short form. This does not represent a weighing in on its validity or modus operandi or raison d'etre. If someone introduces themselves to you as "a Chelah", do you correc...
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:30 am
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: My Friend has been involved with RSE for about 20 years - Help
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22391
Re: New Friend
Very well, David, although we are straying away from the topic at hand. Insofar as the teachings of "Ramtha" are also the teachings of The Upanishads, The Bible, The Nag Hammadi Scrolls, The Vedas, and various Pagans, Yogis, Sages and New Agers and pop psychologists, yes, to some extent I ...
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:05 am
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: My Friend has been involved with RSE for about 20 years - Help
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22391
Re: New Friend
I do not support RSE. I am supportive of my friend in RSE. I have listed my various objections to RSE over the years, anybody who doubts my position can check out the link I posted from YouTube, "How to be a cult leader". And I ask you, would listing all of my objections here be of any ser...
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:26 am
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: My Friend has been involved with RSE for about 20 years - Help
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22391
Re: New Friend
Dear David: I offered contact through the PM system because I know what it's like, as an outsider, to have someone you care about in RSE. My wish for privacy was in order not to give things away about the person who still is my friend, and is still in the school, and also, out of deference to other ...
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:43 am
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: My Friend has been involved with RSE for about 20 years - Help
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22391
Re: New Friend
David, I expressed my measured opinion. I condoned nothing, I said that the bad behaviours I listed might turn him off, for good. I don't think anything is all black or white. The good thing about the events at the school, if I could be excused for saying so, is the people one may meet there. Whatev...
- Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:36 pm
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: My Friend has been involved with RSE for about 20 years - Help
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22391
Re: New Friend
Hi Sandy: I came to this forum the same way you did, having befriended a long term student of RSE. I consider it a hopeful sign that although your friend has been following the teachings for 20 years, yet they were open to friendship with a Christian. Some good and strengthening things go on at the ...
- Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:15 pm
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: Rethinking religion: holistic death incidents
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6156
Re: Rethinking religion: holistic death incidents
I suppose I am being too harsh on the article writer, who was actually writing from a religious, not medical, perspective. I do think that not all religions whose practices differ from conventional medicine should be labelled cults. I admit, I don't think really hot heat therapy or any extreme form ...
- Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:07 pm
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: Rethinking religion: holistic death incidents
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6156
Re: Rethinking religion: holistic death incidents
That is fascinating, David, about detecting physiological differences indicating psychopathy. I always thought that psychopathy resulted from environmental factors, and that the things that separate most of us from them were sociolo/psychological. Regardless of what you have to say about cults, and ...
- Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:05 pm
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: Rethinking religion: holistic death incidents
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6156
Re: Rethinking religion: holistic death incidents
David and Joe: That really is a fascinating article, and shows that when it comes to alternative therapies, buyer beware. Playing devil's advocate here, how many people die or suffer really adverse effects each year from conventional medical practices? We all, surely, know someone who has had their ...
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:51 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Mechilzedek Channel 'cooks' followers in Quebec.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7493
Re: Mechilzedek Channel 'cooks' followers in Quebec.
And OJ Simpson is accused of having his wife stabbed and her friend stabbed, which goes way beyond a case of manslaughter. If JZ/R actually wilfully and deliberately murdered a student, we would not be having this discussion and she/he would be behind bars.
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:34 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Mechilzedek Channel 'cooks' followers in Quebec.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7493
Re: Mechilzedek Channel 'cooks' followers in Quebec.
I expect there is always the claim of a pre-existing condition on the part of the person taking their own life to fall back upon. I did not claim, because I do not know, that the school is blameless, morally, ethically. But in order to make a legal charge stick there would have to be a clear case th...
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:00 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Mechilzedek Channel 'cooks' followers in Quebec.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7493
Re: Mechilzedek Channel 'cooks' followers in Quebec.
Robair, you are right, Canada has it's share of toxic cults and wicked seeming cult leaders, not just in Quebec!
- Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:10 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Mechilzedek Channel 'cooks' followers in Quebec.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7493
Re: Mechilzedek Channel 'cooks' followers in Quebec.
"How about using the best PR marketing in the world? JZ Knight and her "Self Help Group at RSE" has been getting away with killing its members for over twenty years!" Thanks for all replies, Joe, Rooster, David. David, I am alarmed by what you say here. I do know that as a result...
- Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:53 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Mechilzedek Channel 'cooks' followers in Quebec.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7493
Mechilzedek Channel 'cooks' followers in Quebec.
One woman died from an intense detoxification exercise involving hyperventilation and sweating:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/self-help-grou ... 36736.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/self-help-grou ... 36736.html
- Sat Oct 22, 2011 4:21 pm
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: Just Wow
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9474
Re: Just Wow
Hi Just Wow Like Okham, I am an outsider and have friends in RSE. I think if you love your boyfriend, you will at least for the time being have to accept him as he is, or find somebody more suitable. I am far from unsympathetic, I just think that if you push a choice between the 'big guy' and the te...
- Wed Oct 12, 2011 4:14 am
- Forum: TV Interviews - Videos -Documentaries - Educate yourself
- Topic: someone who sets a pyramid on the head and makes money
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3652
Re: someone who sets a pyramid on the head and makes money
Hi Ex Yeah, and when you click "more" underneath the first video whose link you have provided, you get this, with mention of Ramtha and a quote about the "fiery forms" attributed to JZ Knight: Pyramid power by patriji uploaded by Shajahan@Vizag A Place of Love and Light New life:...
- Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:48 pm
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: Ramtha was wrongtha again
- Replies: 47
- Views: 22404
Re: Ramtha was wrongtha again
Or, maybe the good aliens shot down some of the bad aliens?
I don't understand how my dear friends in RSE can buy all of that, especially since the story keeps changing on a dime!
I don't understand how my dear friends in RSE can buy all of that, especially since the story keeps changing on a dime!
- Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:47 pm
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: Ramtha was wrongtha again
- Replies: 47
- Views: 22404
Re: Ramtha was wrongtha again
I just read in a science article that, due to it's having made a close approach to the sun, Elenin is much diminished; is fading away. So, the death star Nibiru or whatever is hiding behind it, the mothership(?) will have to relocate to a less obtrusive spot.
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:10 am
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: RSE Indoctrination diagrams circa 1991
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9718
Re: RSE Indoctrination diagrams circa 1991
Hippy stuff, hunh? Pita, Atta and Vata are elements, or concepts, from ancient Vedic medicine, still practiced today in India by some. It separates us by personality type, and states that depending on what type you are, different things will cause you and your body to thrive. Like many forms of anci...
- Fri Sep 02, 2011 3:49 am
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: templeofpresence
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7130
Re: templeofpresence
Twelve weeks??? And how did they convince people to spend twelve weeks? This boggles the mind. Sounds a bit like boot camp. And, giving up one's inheritance does not sound like something one would ordinarily do with one's free will intact. Thanks for your answer, Joe...I wil look into CUT further - ...
- Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:01 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: templeofpresence
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7130
Re: templeofpresence
I goofed...I have discovered that they do have conferences and gatherings...and I expect they are paid for.
Still wondering, Joe, was CUT expensive?
Still wondering, Joe, was CUT expensive?
- Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:55 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: templeofpresence
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7130
Re: templeofpresence
I also see differences...their broadcasts are free. And there is no mention of any events or gatherings or conferences that I could discover, although, maybe I didn't look hard enough.
Joe, was membership in CUT expensive? I mean, financially, as opposed to other intrinsic costs?
Joe, was membership in CUT expensive? I mean, financially, as opposed to other intrinsic costs?
- Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:36 am
- Forum: Pseudoscience & RSE
- Topic: master connection pseudo-science
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9871
Re: master connection pseudo-science
But my RSE friends are decent friends! Seriously though, I was never "in" so I never had to get "out" and I just am speculating. And, Sad Grandfather, apart from your family members enmeshed in RSE, how many Ramsters do you actually know? I think it's pushing the envelope a bit t...
- Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:47 am
- Forum: Pseudoscience & RSE
- Topic: master connection pseudo-science
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9871
Re: master connection pseudo-science
I don't see it quite that way. If I had to pick a silver lining attaching to the cloud that is membership in RSE, it would be the sharing of group values, the mutual support and sense of community it affords to members. I do see that this makes it much harder to leave - one's whole social life is wr...
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:53 pm
- Forum: Pseudoscience & RSE
- Topic: master connection pseudo-science
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9871
Re: master connection pseudo-science
Children are not supposed to be given any salicylic acid (aspirin) because of the risk of Reyes syndrome: "Reyes Syndrome, a deadly disease, strikes swiftly and can attack any child, teen, or adult without warning. All body organs are affected, with the liver and brain suffering most seriously....
- Mon Jul 25, 2011 5:11 pm
- Forum: All Things EMF - Researching the Ramtha Cult? Use our EMF Search Engine
- Topic: EMF dirty laundry
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15270
Re: Cleaning up of EMF's dirty laundry
I think it is a real pity that AD 60 is leaving. True Blue, your four stages are spot on. As a coach in training, I learned five stages of group development: Forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. In groups which do not adjourn, the tendency is to repeat the first four, and they corr...
- Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:06 am
- Forum: All Things EMF - Researching the Ramtha Cult? Use our EMF Search Engine
- Topic: EMF dirty laundry
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15270
Re: Cleaning up of EMF's dirty laundry
Happy Birthday, W.E. - Athena!
- Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:58 am
- Forum: All Things EMF - Researching the Ramtha Cult? Use our EMF Search Engine
- Topic: EMF dirty laundry
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15270
Re: Cleaning up of EMF's dirty laundry
Thanks, David, for clarifying things.
The respect I spoke of was not for your opinion, per se, it was for you as a person and for the other moderators, and for the purpose of EMF.
The respect I spoke of was not for your opinion, per se, it was for you as a person and for the other moderators, and for the purpose of EMF.
- Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:19 am
- Forum: All Things EMF - Researching the Ramtha Cult? Use our EMF Search Engine
- Topic: EMF dirty laundry
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15270
Re: Cleaning up of EMF's dirty laundry
Showing considerable restraint out of respect: David, what I am gathering from the whole fiasco is that anyone who posts anything about their RSE experience that could be considered at all positive will automatically be placed in the RSE supporters forum, even if they have made it clear for years th...
- Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:24 am
- Forum: All Things EMF - Researching the Ramtha Cult? Use our EMF Search Engine
- Topic: EMF dirty laundry
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15270
Re: Cleaning up of EMF's dirty laundry
Perhaps some questioning people who are leaving RSE or considering it, or who still keep some of the ideas of RSE or consider that some of it was worthwhile could figure out a way to ask their questions in such a way that people who are sensitized to the school and all its works would not get 'set o...
- Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:42 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: no parallels to south africas police murders?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7778
Re: no parallels to south africas police murders?
I'm sure you know much more about this than I do. Still, I don't think this is a good sign, considering the erosion of rights it implies for the average law abiding citizen (which I own it does not sound like he is)...North of the border here, I read too many stories in the American news about arbit...
- Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:22 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: no parallels to south africas police murders?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7778
Re: no parallels to south africas police murders?
My oriinal post is lost - trying again. This is quite an interesting article, Ex, and perhaps there is a common mindset between the South African couple and the couple in this case, but I still don't quite see the parallel. The man may be a miscreant, a tax cheat, a loud mouth, not a good citizen, a...
- Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:50 am
- Forum: TV Interviews - Videos -Documentaries - Educate yourself
- Topic: JZ Knight "Ramtha" drunken rant Video
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9506
Re: JZ Knight "Ramtha" drunken rant Video
Interesting about Scott McKenzie, Joe. I reacted more to The Guess Who's (Canadian Band) 'No Time Left For You' - seeing all of those students signing that, and thinking of all the people they may have left behind because those people are still in "social consciousness"... I wanted to reto...
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:40 pm
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say fare
Nice that you came back and responded, Indigo. W.E., I think that the kooks and absolute Zanes in the article bear little resemblance to some of the other supporters of the Indigo child idea. I also take issue with the idea that giving a hyperactive child ritalin, with all of it's side effects and p...
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:26 pm
- Forum: TV Interviews - Videos -Documentaries - Educate yourself
- Topic: JZ Knight "Ramtha" drunken rant Video
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9506
Re: JZ Knight "Ramtha" drunken rant Video
The entire clip. We can say that JZ/R appears to be drunk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbleQv1e0-8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbleQv1e0-8
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:15 pm
- Forum: TV Interviews - Videos -Documentaries - Educate yourself
- Topic: JZ Knight "Ramtha" drunken rant Video
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9506
Re: JZ Knight "Ramtha" drunken rant Video
This is only a small clip - I have seem the entire thing...I have to say, the person or that would be people I know in that audience look healthy and happy, and this particular clip is by far the worst - that and the "I am the God of Egypt" part.
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:05 am
- Forum: TV Interviews - Videos -Documentaries - Educate yourself
- Topic: Ramtha Revealed ! Video
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4443
Re: Ramtha Revealed ! Video
That toon of JZ looks more like Sara Palin or Tina Fey...
Wonder if the maker has every seen JZ. Not bad as a lampoon though
Wonder if the maker has every seen JZ. Not bad as a lampoon though
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 2:59 pm
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality: I want to say farewell
"This is viewed by skeptics as a way for parents to avoid proper (and generally pharmaceutical) pediatric treatment or a psychiatric diagnosis which implies imperfection." From your article Joe. Taps into my pet peeve - why is medication considered the answer for children's learning disabi...
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 2:45 pm
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality: I want to say farewell
I imagine that Indigo was thinking more along the lines of Blue Body Healing and such.
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 2:39 pm
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality: I want to say farewell
The originator of the term Indigo children was Dr. Barbara Bowers, who created a personality test called "What colour is your aura" - complete with career path advice, relationship advice & c. There is a section towards the end about a "new breed of kids, Indigo kids", who gr...
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:38 am
- Forum: TV Interviews - Videos -Documentaries - Educate yourself
- Topic: "How to be a Cult Leader'
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4685
"How to be a Cult Leader'
I found this video while browsing on YouTube - by Carey Butt. I'm afraid that it did remind me somewhat of RSE. Appologies if somebody else already posted this here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJfm71I0OyU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJfm71I0OyU
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:00 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality: I want to say farewell
A humorous interpretation of "It's all in the way you look at it":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqerQZObl58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqerQZObl58
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:33 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality: I want to say farewell
That's not quite it: I think people meet my expectations because my expectations and my interpretations of other people's behaviour are all 'in my head', self generated, and also probably if I expect the best from others, that expectation is transmitted to them by some nuance in my own behaviour. To...
- Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:14 pm
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality: I want to say farewell
Personally, I have an analogous belief, that people, and 'the Universe' if you will, tend to fulfill your expectations of them - but nothing would induce me to sever ties from my daughter, my syblings, or my extended family, ever, under any circumstaces, at any time. The same with my friends, whatev...
- Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:39 pm
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality: I want to say farewell
Okay, I see what you are saying David. However, I don't think believing that thoughts create reality or some variation on that theme, in and of itself, is responsible for people being alienated from their families - that is from a different section of the RSE 'menu'. Also, there is a difference, IMO...
- Mon Jul 18, 2011 3:46 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality: I want to say farewell
Hi Marie: Regardless of what Indigo believes, I still wish Indigo well, and I am grateful for any information I can get about the current state of things at RSE and also interested to hear about how people fare once they have left and try to make their way in the "real world". I see nothin...
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:01 pm
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality: I want to say farewell
Naturally most of my own ideas and beliefs, held long before I had ever heard of JZ/R, cannot be credited to RSE. And I do see that there is a uniform pattern to some "new age" and "gnostic" ideas to which nobody can clay claim as the originator. You don't bug me ex, and I respec...
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:01 am
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: THE LAST STREAM
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10499
Re: THE LAST STREAM
SO sorry, Ockham, my bad! Never heard that expression, thanks for clarifying.
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:07 am
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: THE LAST STREAM
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10499
Re: THE LAST STREAM
:shock: A very erudite dissertation to be sure, Ockham, and quite clear on how the school has taken bona fide scientific theory and warped it to fit their own particular groove. I humbly suggest though that you take your own advice, and if you wish to call WE sophomoric, perhaps that would best be r...
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:45 am
- Forum: Tips, Links and Book Reviews
- Topic: UNDERSTANDING THE NEW AGE: 1993 CHANDLER
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16069
Re: UNDERSTANDING THE NEW AGE: 1993 CHANDLER
Quote from the WIkkipedia link you posted about Guru Maharaja:
Gartrell and Shannon noted that people appeared to seek out such religious organizations to get answers to questions about ultimate meaning as well as answers to more prosaic issues
Gartrell and Shannon noted that people appeared to seek out such religious organizations to get answers to questions about ultimate meaning as well as answers to more prosaic issues
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:39 am
- Forum: Tips, Links and Book Reviews
- Topic: UNDERSTANDING THE NEW AGE: 1993 CHANDLER
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16069
Re: UNDERSTANDING THE NEW AGE: 1993 CHANDLER
Thank you David...and glad that at least your experience at the Ashram was not so bad. I did put that comment about how you must have felt about Christianity in the past tense because I think your alliance with Joe, a stated Catholic, testifies to the fact that you have moved past your early impress...
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:26 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality: I want to say farewell
I was not suggesting that everybody be muzzled because Indigo has stated the intention to leave, rather, I was saying that perhaps we could hold our fire on that account and save it for people who keep on arguing for the validity of JZ/R/RSE (which, in fact, it didn't appear to me that Indigo was do...
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:07 am
- Forum: Tips, Links and Book Reviews
- Topic: UNDERSTANDING THE NEW AGE: 1993 CHANDLER
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16069
Re: UNDERSTANDING THE NEW AGE: 1993 CHANDLER
That's horrendous, David! What a vicious institution the Christian Church must have seemed to you. I grew up in a much kinder, gentler version of same, and with two parents who were good to me. Still, it was not enough for me, and I quested for years, before developing my own personal brand of belie...
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:16 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality
I believe that since Indigo is leaving us, and trying to do so with grace and dignity and blessings, that there is really not that much point in taking exception to any aspect of that fond farewell with which some may disagree. I was a little taken aback to hear the tune of the Yo Yo Mah song, which...
- Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:49 pm
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Does thought create reality: Indigo...I want to say farewell
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20513
Re: Does thought create reality
Go in peace Indigo, and may your life be harmonious and beautiful. I have enjoyed hearing you perspective on things And thanks for the Yoyo Mah track.
LIS
LIS
- Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:40 pm
- Forum: Tips, Links and Book Reviews
- Topic: UNDERSTANDING THE NEW AGE: 1993 CHANDLER
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16069
Re: UNDERSTANDING THE NEW AGE: 1993 CHANDLER
This is really interesting stuff, Joe, and shows the early days of the RSE phenom... I wonder though whether that's right, that followers of so called New Age or Channeled ideologies and entities never had much religion in the first place? I don't think that could be true. Look at JZ/R, whose mother...
- Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:07 pm
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Do Thoughts Create Reality?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 36647
Re: Do Thoughts Create Reality?
Is still upset and confused. This is the place, I thought, where people who have just left and even people WHO ARE STILL IN THE SCHOOL could post "safely and without fear of flaming and ridicule" - they have been explicitly invited to post on this topic. Some of the discourse here does not...
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:05 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Do Thoughts Create Reality?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 36647
Re: Do Thoughts Create Reality?
Conflict of any kind is distressing to me, so I suppose I should stay off the debate forum in future. I expect I am a little blind to the sensibilities of former students, who naturally dislike anything that smacks of RSE. I did not see what connected that particular phrase with the school. I don't ...
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:19 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Do Thoughts Create Reality?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 36647
Re: The Law of Attraction - Thoughts Creating Reality?
Not to split hairs here Freemysoul, but what is wrong, what is so Ramster like, about this particular statment of JustTruth's that you have offset: "With all my heart, I desire consciously to create love in all walks all of life, day by day, moment to moment and I know I have the free will and ...
- Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:32 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: The Law of Attraction and "Thoughts Create Reality
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11865
Re: The Law of Attraction - Thoughts Creating Reality?
A very thoughtful and comprehensive essay, Joe, and I agree with much of what you have said. However, many authors of the "Think Positive" school were Christians, not new agers. And we only have our own brains to work with. But, according to Christian thought, we were created in God's imag...
- Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:26 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: The Law of Attraction and "Thoughts Create Reality
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11865
Re: The Law of Attraction - Thoughts Creating Reality?
Thanks JustTruth Yes, it's a Catch22. You can be filled up with wonderful ideas and goals, and really get the sense that you are on the right path at the ranch, and that in and of itself is not at all a bad thing. But then, to be berated repeatedly because, although Yelm is safe and R will protect '...
- Fri Jul 08, 2011 2:57 pm
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: First DTCome Video
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7898
Re: First DTCome Video
Excellent point, Ex.
- Fri Jul 08, 2011 2:46 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: The Law of Attraction and "Thoughts Create Reality
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11865
Re: The Law of Attraction - Thoughts Creating Reality?
I am wondering where the line should be drawn; between thinking positive, positive self talk and affirmations, and motivational messages on the one hand; and believing you can cause gold to materialize out of thin air by sheer force of will on the other. Napolean Hill's book Think and Grow Rich spri...
- Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:53 am
- Forum: Leaving RSE: The Aftermath
- Topic: Ramtha/JZ predictions that have never come to pass.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7586
Re: Ramtha/JZ predictions that have never come to pass.
My pretzel logic: Either R is real or not real. If R is real, why do the predictions and timelines keep shifting that way? If R is real, we should sink all of our money into preparing, because eventually the timeline thing will be tapped out and we really will be pleased that we prepared, and can ri...
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:27 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: Another doomsday cult story
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12821
Re: Another doomsday cult story
That is just heartbreaking, David. Good that her sons saved her. And wonder who will save my friends if their common sense completely deserts them. I once had a harrowing nightmare about one of my RSE friends; that he was in his UG, having got the word that it was time, and wouldn't come out even af...
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:21 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: Another doomsday cult story
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12821
Re: Another doomsday cult story
Hi David I am sorry to hear about your friends, I am not surprised on hearing about them that you are more inclined to believe that RSE is deadly. I won't argue too much with your opinion, which I respect. I speculate that a) the difference between a suicide cult and a survival 'school' is that the ...
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:17 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: Another doomsday cult story
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12821
Re: Another doomsday cult story
Hi Ponysong: A very interesting article! And the French organization that is investigating is the same one, seemingly, on the trail of Ramsters in France. In all fairness, perhaps the zany guy who is writing those emails believes that he and his brethren will actually be "beamed up", and a...
- Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:23 am
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: if you want more people to post and shed the light on RSE
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11407
Re: if you want more people to post and shed the light on RS
Bless you Kensho.
I never thought your posts were harsh! You are a shining light.
I never thought your posts were harsh! You are a shining light.
- Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:07 pm
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: if you want more people to post and shed the light on RSE
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11407
Re: if you want more people to post and shed the light on RS
Hi Just Truth: Often the things you've said have crossed my mind as well when reading here. On the flipside, I must say that just as newly questioning RSE students deserve to be heard and cut some slack, so too do those whose lives have been turned upside down and are not quite in one piece still, a...
- Thu Jun 30, 2011 4:03 pm
- Forum: Leaving RSE: The Aftermath
- Topic: Hi Everyone & Loss of a Buddy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6780
Re: Hi Everyone & Loss of a Buddy
Dear Scamtha: I think this sounds ultra familiar to me, the whole pattern of absorption and involvement with RSE and the subsequent severing of ties to "outsiders", in spite of in some cases life long friendship and intimacy. I am not a former RSE student, I am instead in the family and fr...
- Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:02 am
- Forum: Student Deaths. Suicide Prevention Resources Abuse at RSE.
- Topic: Vanda Boone murder
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13972
Re: Vanda Boone murder
So glad to see you back on the EMF board G2G, although the circumstances of your learning of your friend's death are tragic. From time to time I have read your wise and compassionate posts here and wondered what became of you. Sounds like you are doing fine, and perhaps you have moved beyond recover...
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:15 pm
- Forum: LAUGHTER: A HEALTHY PART OF MOVING ON
- Topic: People who've "seen" Ramtha
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3899
Re: People who've "seen" Ramtha
Ponysong: My broken heart is healing; I leave it to you to find ways and means for that, you've made a good start. I have a lot of empathy for your situation, believe me! Yes, Robair does talk about the Bufon. Your pic. reminds me of the Foo, seen at a buskers fest here - it would stop whining and s...
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:37 pm
- Forum: LAUGHTER: A HEALTHY PART OF MOVING ON
- Topic: People who've "seen" Ramtha
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3899
Re: People who've "seen" Ramtha
:roll: :P :P Wow, how did you find that pic? Glad to see you can laugh about the whole thing. Just gotta say though, that can't be the "Big Guy " who would not be caught dead wearing that red outfit (red is so 1st seal, don't you know?). Perhaps that is the Holy Giant Radish from the Mille...
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:25 am
- Forum: Starting Your Recovery Process
- Topic: Just need to say
- Replies: 30
- Views: 18280
Re: Just need to say
I am a little troubled with the tone of some of the responses here. It does not appear to be enough for some EMF members for justtruth to have repudiated the more recent teachings at RSE; no, he or she must devalue every single aspect of the entire experience for however many years he or she was inv...
- Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:25 pm
- Forum: Starting Your Recovery Process
- Topic: Just need to say
- Replies: 30
- Views: 18280
Re: Just need to say
Dear Just Truth: May your decision sit well with you in time. It can't have been easy. If it's not too personal right now, could you say what you have noticed about the differences between the original teachings and what Ramtha is saying now? I think it may help others who have questions about the c...
- Sat May 14, 2011 3:56 am
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: event on sunday
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15575
Re: event on sunday
Ockham, you are awesomely knowledgeable...I did not mean to stray off topic, I was responding to what Joe had said. I think there are a number of threads here that are relevant to EMF: Why is engendering fear becoming an increasingly common modus operandi among various faith communities, including, ...
- Thu May 12, 2011 11:52 am
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: event on sunday
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15575
Re: event on sunday
Ooops, that sentence was incomplete:
Perhaps the best effect of believing that sending out positive thoughts and good wishes towards others can make a difference is on the thinker/wisher.
Perhaps the best effect of believing that sending out positive thoughts and good wishes towards others can make a difference is on the thinker/wisher.
- Thu May 12, 2011 11:44 am
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: event on sunday
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15575
Re: event on sunday
That is certainly your perogative, Joe. A circular argument though, IMO. If you suggest prayer works, isn't that enough? Guess it's just the word "magic" you find objectionable. How about the power of positive thought, does that sound hooey to you? I choose to go through my life thinking I...
- Wed May 11, 2011 12:40 pm
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: event on sunday
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15575
Re: event on sunday
The magical power of prayer, taken up by most world faiths, is possibly science based, or at least, can be validated by medical science - cancer patients who are colletively prayed for do, for example, show statistically better outcomes. And believing that by sending forth Mantras or positive though...
- Tue May 10, 2011 2:06 pm
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: event on sunday
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15575
Re: event on sunday
The Left Behind series. I bought all 13 of the rather expensive books, because I wanted to know what fundamental Christians believe - a hobby of mine, exploring other faiths. Not bad, if read as sciene fiction! Somewhat trying patronizing attitude to the Jews, though. The interesting thing for us he...
- Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:47 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: Looking at the World Through Blinders?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5802
Re: Looking at the World Through Blinders?
Hi Vanilla:
If they truly are your friends, they will still be. You said on another post that your boyfriend's mother is not keen on the school. Perhaps she could also be a source of support. And there is a community of people here who know what you are going through. Sending a hug, LIS
If they truly are your friends, they will still be. You said on another post that your boyfriend's mother is not keen on the school. Perhaps she could also be a source of support. And there is a community of people here who know what you are going through. Sending a hug, LIS
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:09 pm
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: More Propaganda From the RSE Camp?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5934
Re: More Propaganda From the RSE Camp?
Wow, Kensho, when you give an answer it is always comprehensive and well thought out! Certainly makes me think. And thanks for reminding me why I did not join RSE. It was the thoughts that people there may tend to: a)Turn their backs on those who love them who are not in the school; b)Be encouraged ...
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:13 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: More Propaganda From the RSE Camp?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5934
Re: More Propaganda From the RSE Camp?
This is very interesting, Kensho. Unfortunately, in my attempts to better understand my friend in RSE, I may now attempt to see this film - don't worry though, I saw What the Bleep and enjoyed it as entertainment, yet I have not joined RSE. I humbly suggest, though, that for the same reason I did no...
- Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:55 am
- Forum: How Did You Get Hooked Into RSE ?
- Topic: Are Cult victims gullible?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 20020
Re: Does Jzr use Double Talk-Confusion Tecnque Used-Stage Hy
Hi Felicitas I was just wondering aloud, and was not directing my remarks to you specifically, nor responding to your post in particular, but I can understand your irritation. And thanks for sharing your story here. Sometimes I am a bit of an ostrich when it comes to negative information shared resp...
- Sat Jan 29, 2011 4:22 am
- Forum: How Did You Get Hooked Into RSE ?
- Topic: Are Cult victims gullible?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 20020
Re: Does Jzr use Double Talk-Confusion Tecnque Used-Stage Hy
In the common ideas shared by many "New Age" or alternative religions, we cannot see ourselves as victims because, supposedly, we have not only chosen to incarnate at this time, but we have, prior to being born, set up most of the conditions of our present existence in order that we may ex...
- Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:13 pm
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: Manhunt for RSE cult couple Phillipe Neniere and Agnis Jarde
- Replies: 55
- Views: 29977
Re: Manhunt for cult couple
I would not wish their fate on anyone, even though they killed somebody.
I am trying to believe that they were not typical of RSE followers, and that most students would not go to such extremes unless faced with a life or death situation.
I am trying to believe that they were not typical of RSE followers, and that most students would not go to such extremes unless faced with a life or death situation.
- Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:49 pm
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 32496
Re: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
Maybe the issue is, developing a healthy form of faith or dispensing with faith alltogether? I expect that values and ethics are enough for some, philosophy and scientific inquiry for others...I don't begrudge There the conspiracy theory bent, we all have our own way of dealing with trauma and angst...
- Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:05 am
- Forum: Pages 1 & 2 - General Chit Chat & Social Forums
- Topic: is Coke Vending Machines Safe
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5549
Re: is Coke Vending Machines Safe
I knew there was a reason I don't drink pop! Seriously, though, There, most Wiccans don't believe in demons - they are in the Necromicron, and also in Catholic theology, although many modern Catholics, I believe, regard them as superstition, or analogous, as in "the demon alcohol" or "...
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:10 pm
- Forum: Pages 1 & 2 - General Chit Chat & Social Forums
- Topic: Is there any truth to this?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8378
Re: Is there any truth to this?
The thought of JZ dying does not make me happy. I fear that it will cause major upset for those in the school, and will not, in fact, result in an improvement in their llives...perhaps they will be encouraged to turn JZ into a saint, and instead of "liberating them", it might further solid...
- Sun Jan 02, 2011 4:27 pm
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 32496
Re: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
Hi W.E. Yes, I'm sure you are right, they may not be an appropriate place for such discussions, confined as they are to the interests of a few. However, as this topic broached by There concerns demons and orbs and such, it naturally tends towards issues of faith, belief and differing viewpoints, and...
- Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:55 pm
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 32496
Re: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
Not just to patients, W.E. It's the Medical Model I take issue with, because it involves medication. And, major pharmaceutical companies are being sued because of the drastic effects of some of these pills. Further, it's not just people deemed to be psychotic or hospitalized for bizzare behaviour wh...
- Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:19 pm
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 32496
Re: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
Hi Joe: I guess for sane we could substitute rational, or we could substitute socially acceptable. I appreciate your not taking offence from my remark. My argument with DSM is that it represents the Medical Model way of looking at various troubling (to individuals or those around them or both) behav...
- Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:00 pm
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 32496
Re: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
I think this thread is really several threads! I want to thank There for stimulating a lively discussion. Orbs, demons, Witches, Satan and Lucifer, social pressures, persuasion, departures from the norm, group interventions... I have to make the comment, though, There, that the Satanist or Lucifer s...
- Wed Dec 29, 2010 11:02 pm
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 32496
Re: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
Hi There Why must it be demons? Isn't it PEOPLE who deliberately put subliminal symbols in advertising? Isn't it people who persuade us, at times seemingly against our will? There is a book I read in my teens - Subliminal Seduction - about this phenomenon in advertising. And, besides the actions, we...
- Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:52 pm
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 32496
Re: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
Hey Joe: I am not the one who made any connection between believing in demons and mental illness! I just don't, myself, believe in demons, but I was not calling There a coo coo person for believing in demons, instead, I suggested a website where people expound upon some of the same ideas he is touch...
- Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:40 am
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 32496
Re: JZR Launching Demons Into Her Students?
Hi, There. I think Ex is right, they only have the power over you that you give them. I think that what demons there are result from negative thoughts, and can best be combatted by positive ones, and a rational or even a scholarly approach. You appear to be interested in conspiracy theory, and so yo...
- Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:01 pm
- Forum: Pages 1 & 2 - General Chit Chat & Social Forums
- Topic: Constellations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5915
Re: Constellations
Dear People This is directly cut and pasted from the bottom of my screen on the forum here: You can post new topics in this forum You can reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum So, that must mean that either I have fewer priv...
- Fri Dec 10, 2010 2:50 am
- Forum: Student Deaths. Suicide Prevention Resources Abuse at RSE.
- Topic: Sexual and Psychological assaults by JZ Knight-Ramtha
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9481
Re: More abuse at RSE
Dear Webmaster:
These events, truly repugnant and reprehensible as they are, may in fact have the effect of driving more people away from RSE.
These events, truly repugnant and reprehensible as they are, may in fact have the effect of driving more people away from RSE.
- Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:40 am
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: "The List"
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12495
Re: Constellations
Guess my science background is sadly lacking - but surely, if ELFs produce these effects, shrinks would have jumped at the chance to alleviate their patients' symptoms of malaise and depression, and addiction counsellors would be touting their benefits in giving addicts an alternative to harmful dru...
- Wed Dec 08, 2010 2:28 pm
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: "The List"
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12495
Re: Constellations
Thanks for explanations, Ex and Freemysoul. At least they are positive affirmations, and not "you are worthless", "you are just a speck", "you are feeble".... Am trying to comfort myself about the fact that my friend is probably headed for the Ranch right now. Maybe the...
- Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:21 am
- Forum: The Teachings, The Labyrinth, The Tank, Field Work, The Audiences, C&E, The Disciplines
- Topic: "The List"
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12495
"The List"
Thanks for heads up about Geminids!
Please tell me you're joking about "The List", and, also, what is on "The List"? Sounds ominous.
Please tell me you're joking about "The List", and, also, what is on "The List"? Sounds ominous.
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:50 pm
- Forum: Pages 1 & 2 - General Chit Chat & Social Forums
- Topic: Constellations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5915
Re: Constellations
Orion is visible here for most of the year...not sure how that can be, but it's great. Wishing on a star that it's not too cold right now there on the Ranch - people without RVs have to sleep in the stables, and I heard a rumour that subliminal tapes are played there - not sure I believe it. I have ...
- Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:29 pm
- Forum: Destructive Manipulative Sects/Cults/Corperations, Cult Leaders Other Than RSE/JZ Knight
- Topic: Helena Blavatsky
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16041
Re: Helena Blavatsky
Striving for some form of middle ground, I present to you "Unitarian Universalism". By it's self definition on a website I visited, it encompasses Judao-Christian traditions, Humanism and Shamanism. And there is talk of that brotherhood of man and oneness - and it is not considered a cult,...
- Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:30 pm
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: We are still here
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7438
Re: We are still here
But I like the Queen! She bears a striking resemblance to my Mom. Thanks for that story, though, W.E., it does graphically illustrate that our monarchs are human, like the rest of us. I am not so much, for myself, afraid of death. I am afraid of losing people, though. And seeing the Earth torn apart...
- Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:43 pm
- Forum: RSE a Doomsday Cult
- Topic: We are still here
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7438
Re: We are still here
Just to throw us off, some appear in the form of inedible objects, like Frisbees....Appealing and W.E., this is such fun, seriously though, I am dealing with a family member who has so lost his usual good sense, he really does think that the end is coming soon. I doubt that he would even have found ...
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:44 am
- Forum: Starting Your Recovery Process
- Topic: Dissatisfaction with Human life
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5704
Re: Dissatisfaction with Human life
Angst and disatisfaction may strike anybody, especially the disillusioned. It is hard to have bought into something you think is going to transform your life; to believe that if you just work hard enough, focus hard enough, believe hard enough, practice hard enough, exert your will hard enough, that...
- Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:20 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Posts - Recycle Bin - Really Weird Stuff - Moved to Here
- Topic: proselytizing Christianity post by Grace
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10304
Re: On the road again... by Kensho
Kensho, you have such a gift of lucidity, and this Board has suffered from your partial absence! I had scrambled thoughts along the lines of what you have said, but your thoughts are crystal clear and beautifully expressed. And, I thank you Grace for the blessing you have offered here at EMF. As Ken...
- Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:07 am
- Forum: For those who hold a positive experience of RSE - You are welcome to post here.
- Topic: A Strong Opinion Article
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5493
Re: A Strong Opinion Article
Hi Grace: I am respectful of the fact that you are a Christian. I too was raised a Christian, although, not a fundamental one. What my parents taught me, and I honour them, was that the old testament was, as pre-Christian Judaism of it's times and places, quite patriarchal and unforgiving, and that ...
- Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:40 pm
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: mayan calendar 2012
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11753
Re: mayan calendar 2012
I reversed E and W in your name, WofthesunEofthemoon. I'm sorry. Can I just call you W.E.?
- Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:34 pm
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: mayan calendar 2012
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11753
Re: mayan calendar 2012
Hi, EofthesunWofthemoon: Yes, I have heard those criticisms too - can only briefly state that I am fascinated by ancient civilizations, archaeology, and the subject of evolution and how we got here, as well as religious studies, ancient and modern. I just said Sitchin's books were interesting, not s...
- Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:19 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: mayan calendar 2012
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11753
Re: mayan calendar 2012
Hi Ex You mean, Nibiru has been and gone, and we missed it? Nothing much happened? Are you saying that Ms. Knight reads this page? I would think she would have too much else to think about. If Nibiru has already been, it will be centuries before it's return, according to Zecharia Sitchin, so we can ...
- Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:05 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: mayan calendar 2012
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11753
Re: mayan calendar 2012
Further, about Nibiru - I have read for of Zacharia Sitchin's books based on theories of Nibiru. I think they are fascinating. True that there is no proof of most of what he says, it's still interesting. Two articles on Sitchin and is confreres if anyone is interested: http://halexandria.org/dward19...
- Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:56 am
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: mayan calendar 2012
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11753
Re: mayan calendar 2012
Hi David Very interesting, although, it is unfortunate that the two articles seem to contradict one another a bit - firstly, 2012, and particulary, December, may not be the date to worry about, according to Ms. Pappas, whereas, according to Mr. Radford, that is the date at issue, but it may not have...
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:25 pm
- Forum: News Articles
- Topic: mayan calendar 2012
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11753
Re: Mayan Calandar
Great article, Oldone. Very reassuring. Just as with this article, dispelling fears of an imminent appocalypse, when as a child I first read the Book of Revelation, I expected to hear bells and trumpets, but I was reassured by a scholarly article which stated that all of the events outlined in that ...
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:40 am
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: Another mother-story I'm afraid.. :-)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12271
Re: Another mother-story I'm afraid.. :-)
You are most welcome Felicitas. I hope it helps.
I fear it would be futile to do this for my friend, who is deeply enmeshed in the school and has been for over 15 years. Better luck to you with your Mom.
I fear it would be futile to do this for my friend, who is deeply enmeshed in the school and has been for over 15 years. Better luck to you with your Mom.
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:15 pm
- Forum: Family Members, Friends, Educators and the Cult Experience
- Topic: Another mother-story I'm afraid.. :-)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12271
Re: Another mother-story I'm afraid.. :-)
Yes, students are encouraged to believe that Yelm is the only safe place, and to build underground shelters. I approach this from an academic perspective - I would not like my friend or your relatives to be underground at the time of a pyroclastic flow from a volcano, or flooding from volcanic debis...
- Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:24 pm
- Forum: Is RSE a cult ? What is RSE? Its purpose? Post your opinion.
- Topic: GROUP EVALUATION CHECKLIST
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3540
GROUP EVALUATION CHECKLIST
Isaac Bonewitz is a Neo Pagan/Witch/Wiccan. That being said, he is not pushing anything on anyone, and has come up with a really useful, IMO, tool by which to evaluate high demand groups/cults. I have subjectively rated a number of groups, including RSE, using this checklist. Mr. Bonewitz's website:...