Downward Spiral of a Yoga Practitioner

Wonderful on the outside Treacherous on the inside....! Cults have millions of members around the world who also thought they were immune.
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Downward Spiral of a Yoga Practitioner

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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/mysterio ... 00981.html
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Hi Lost in Space

The link is broken, do you have another source?
Thanks

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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/my ... wanted=all
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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 living in a cave and "living off nature" - worse than a survivalist shelter for sure - in the fricking desert, and died of malnutrition and dehydration.
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Thanks for the updated info Lost in Space,

It never ceases to shock and sadden me the hell we are willing to put ourselves and loved ones through in the cause/path of "spiritual growth"..
To be sure... it is guaranteed that those that profess to be 'enlightened spiritual teachers' are no more that sociopathic predators with high IQ's.
Unfortunately .. once one has succumbed to the charisma of these monsters its easy to mistake the vultures flying above their heads as angles... :sad:

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