(New Age) traps along the way

[palestine]

Hello,

As the title suggests, I believe it could be of help than to gather knowledge we currently have about false teachings / false spiritual "sources".

If you look at my two suggestions, you may understand my perspective - it would be about the most main stream ones in regard of the highest level of falsehood. So the idea of a ratio could be used in order to have something here: we would be listing the spiritual teachings, cosmologies that a basic Truth seeker would eventually stumble upon (or having great chances).

It seems to me that it is almost a feature of our world than to have Truth seekers stumble upon several materials - the phenomenon itself is bugging - and if we were to set a goal as being "the sharing of knowledge for humanity in general", I believe that it could fit than to monitor such phenomenon, as well in the hope that some people may read about such a listing and so of course in the hope of decreasing access to unwanted / damaging / useless material.

It could be as well that some members may actually not know about some being indeed false teachings, because there are many C sessions, the forum is huge and some inputs are remaining scattered in various posts.

Here are two:

#BOOK - Helen Schucman / William Thetford - "A course in miracle"
One can discern that the CIA has been strongly involved in Thetford's research and that the book, intending to be a gathering of spiritual teachings ("one day - one spiritual idea") would be of CIA origin. It would have a negative impact on the spirituality of a person, mostly teaching wrong / damaging directions.
Additional info: William Thetford - Wikipedia

#COSMOLOGY / MATERIAL - "The Ummites" / "Ummo"
Allegedly a team of alien beings having entered in contact with various scientists in order to teah them about hidden laws of the Universe, specifically physic principles, the Ummo material has been proven to be a scam.

See Session 29 July 2006 in which it is said:

(Perceval) Ok, last one: What was the source of the Ummite business?

A: 3D program experiment.

Q: (Perceval) Poor Jean Pierre

That's more or less all I can think of right now, the above formatting is of no matter if you can find a best way to present the data in case you find my thread relevant.

I guess that you get the idea, I know that I have some other in mind but which haven't yet popped up. I am especially looking at big main stream false cosmologies, somehow what normal people have chances to stumble upon, and actually what people do stumble upon. I don't know if we should include "Darwin" and other things. We would end up with generic ideas such as "Protestantism" and things, while I believe the thread may deserve some precision around the idea of "specific New age" stuffs. Simply put, the most frequent occurences of "big teachings".

Darwin is most probably one of the most damaging conceptual framework out there - so we may want to stick to some "newbie survival kit" here. Let me know what you think. Looking at myself, I could spend decades in studying things such as The Ummites & A course in miracle. There are really people hooked on that.

 

[Alejo]

I think this could have potential, and I daresay a lot of those teachings have been discussed in the forum to one degree or another. Some of those are blatantly false, and some are not so obvious. And some deserve discussion as they can be rather sneaky, hiding lies wrapped in truths.

And in some cases the discussion about the principles being shared is probably where the most positive comes from, maybe you can take a look through the New Age board. There might be a lot of information that you may find very useful.

 

[palestine]

I think this could have potential, and I daresay a lot of those teachings have been discussed in the forum to one degree or another. Some of those are blatantly false, and some are not so obvious. And some deserve discussion as they can be rather sneaky, hiding lies wrapped in truths.

And in some cases the discussion about the principles being shared is probably where the most positive comes from, maybe you can take a look through the New Age board. There might be a lot of information that you may find very useful.

Hello Alejo,

Thank you for the reply and the suggestions, and as well for the positive feedback. It shows me that my initiative was not completely useless and I feel relieved.

Yes, your answer reminds me of the difficulty I had to pick up a correct name for such thread and that variations are possible - then it would be a matter of priority in term of objective Truth.

And in some cases the discussion about the principles being shared

I had in mind that my idea could be extended, indeed, to "principles", chunks. For example the "wishful thinking / buckets of vomit", which seems to be a common one.

maybe you can take a look through the New Age board. There might be a lot of information that you may find very useful.

Thank you for the link, I will surely take some time to read it. I will have a read and I am sure that I will have a different perspective and more ideas.

 

[gottathink]

Both A Course in Miracles and the work of Jean-Pierre Petit have individual threads already. You will find them using the search function.

As for ACIM, yes I agree it takes people down into a dark hole by avoiding objective reality.

 

[palestine]

Both A Course in Miracles and the work of Jean-Pierre Petit have individual threads already. You will find them using the search function.

As for ACIM, yes I agree it takes people down into a dark hole by avoiding objective reality.

Hello,

Yes, I have figured out that the New Age & COINTELPRO thread was gathering it all. I would see no problem in having this thread removed, if required. Sorry for the double-posting.