Wonderful article, this sums up alot of things. ... initially drew us to ghose's group. Some of us had been meditating for years, nearly all had read and were...
Great post Rudra Perhaps a viewing / reviewing of "The Shawshank Redemption" is in order. If the operative words are "valid and noble" as to the reasons people...
Well said rudra. I saw a biography on Santana last night and they covered (very well) the time he spent with chinmoy. His wife Debbie also spoke about the...
Another relevant and nicely articulated post. I've felt for quite a while that sense can be made of one's time in the scc if an examination is made of the...
I call it the "cult drug" and of course I forget who said "religion is the opiate of the masses"....so there is definately a niche in the human psyche which...
It is actually what Chinmoy does, he applies the same methods as pimps, lock, seduce a gril with his "charms" then once full in control exploit them through...
I'm posting this for a friend who is an ex scc member who wishes to remain anonymous. Terra. ... "Rudra says: <If anyone can set forth a valid, noble reason...
LOL.....Thankyou for that and commmme on down and pick up a soggy wet bag of unidentified edibles from the back of a loading van. I thought it was nietche,...
I call it the "cult drug" and of course I forget who said "religion is the opiate of the masses"....so there is definately a niche in the human psyche which...
I couldn't agree more with what Rudra said in his post and the brilliant reply below by Terra's ex-disciple friend. I have been real busy lately (taking care...
I have been pondering the question of what is the drug which I and others have been on. I have asked myself why have we all been so attracted to this great...
If you ask me, the cult drug is dependence, the addiction was to "answers" not unanswerable questions. The dreams, the bliss, the flight into the unknowable...
Damien's words remind me of a poem by D.H, Rumsfeld. The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are...
Hi everyone, I am doing a research paper on the after effects of cults, and whether or not a shelter would help. I have some questions for those of you that...
Well said, I joined because I had an intuition that meditation held the "answers" I was seeking. I wasn't sure about the guru bit but had read 'be here now"...
Hi, Jewels. I answered a similar questionnaire and someone put it in the files. You can find the files by going to the website and clicking on "files" on the...
Some guidelines when posting: 1)Do not try to assume other people's identity - this is not nice. 2)Please do not use foul language or profanity. There are...
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I accepted to become a disciple (drone) for much the same reasons, although at first I had declined the offer in a letter to Chinmoy which he either ignored or...
Hi Jewels, you can see my testimonial in the files section I believe, it's about being used to harrass a fellow disciple. Some of the reasons I joined I just...
... I joined when attending university. I was searching for the meaning of life. Reading books like "Be Here Now" led me to believe that Indian Gurus had the...
I've been reading this and two more boards about Sri Chinmoy. There is a lot of pros and cons, facts and feelings. There is one more question: are the ...
Thank you everyone for your responses to my questions. I appreciate the time you took to answer them. Jewels ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever...
Yes you are right, even if the testimonials were fabricated (which they arn't) there is still plenty of evidence that is easy to substantiate that this is not...
Recently I have had a handful of emails returned to me -- emails which I did not send, the "Daimon Postmaster Faliure Delivery" ones? The text and subject...
James, last year I had to get a new computer because the old one crashed (around the same time that others on this board had computers that crashed). I got a...
Hi Anne, I vaguely remember somebody coming on here who said his room-mate was involved in the hacking--I wonder if there's anyway to find that post, it would...
Yeah I've been getting those too, I'm going to have my computer taken in and checked out. What I was told was the probably someone else's computer had been...
Hi Sara -- you might also want to check your Safe List if you have one in your email account because I found this address in mine: icantell@... which I...
Thanks for that, I have some system stuff that needs to be worked on anyway, with the holidays and all it's on the list of "I'll get to that later" status, in...
