Joseph Szimhart
Twin Flame cults and their origins in Rosicrucian lore
updated
NB: I mistakenly questioned whether there were human sacrifices at Tuluum in Central America among Mayans. There were!
The Ramtha book by JZ Knight on Karma
books.google.com/books/about/Truth_Gravity_and_the_Mystery_of_Karma.html?id=huEEnwEACAAJ
I reference a scholarly look at "The Vedic Origins of Karma" by Herman Tull.
amazon.com/Vedic-Origins-Karma-Cosmos-Ancient/dp/8170302412
Quote from Christian Science on karma and Blavatsky: marybakereddylibrary.org/research/what-did-eddy-say-about-theosophy
Sri H Klemp of Eckankar on karma:
eckankar.org/the-law-of-karma
The Tiger's Fang by Twitchell:
amazon.com/Tigers-Fang-Paul-Twitchell/dp/157043039X
"Brer Rabbit with Tar Baby" illustration is by Edward W. Kemble around 1880.
"Some scholars say ECK has been the most successful religion to emerge in the turbulent 1960s...Eckankar itself has also influenced numerous New Religious Movement offshoots. These offshoots include: the Movement of the Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA), Masterpath, The Ancient Teachings of the Masters (ATOM), The Divine Science of Light and Sound, the Sonic Spectrum, and the Higher Consciousness Society.
According to scholar David Lane, “Each of the founders of these [NRM] groups was at one time a member of Eckankar, and they have incorporated many of the ECK terms into their respective organizations.”" https://religionsmn.carleton.edu/exhibits/show/eckankar/new-religious-movements/eckankarnrm
For a solid expose of Twitchell and his plagiarisms and sources, read David Lane's The Making of a Spiritual Movement. amazon.com/Making-Spiritual-Movement-Twitchell-Eckankar/dp/0961112468
For a look at the ancient 2nd Century AD Greek prototype of this approach to fanciful memoir and adventurous spirituality, read The Golden Ass by Apuleius. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Ass
Also see The Coming Race by Bulwer-Lytton, 1873. broadviewpress.com/product/the-coming-race-2/#tab-description
and Unveiled Mysteries By G R King )Guy Ballard who began the I AM Activity in 1934
goodreads.com/book/show/752325.Unveiled_Mysteries
Masters of the Ear East series by Spalding amazon.com/Life-Teaching-Masters-Far-East/dp/0875165389
Spalding claimed that he took his first journey to India in 1894 when in fact it was over 30 years later. Paul Brunton who was with him in India in the said that Spalding then claimed to have been there in his "astral body" only in the 1890s to meet the "Masters."
Eisegesis
http://www.churchleadership.org/apps/articles/?articleid=67933
gotquestions.org/exegesis-eisegesis.html
Blood in the Face
amazon.com/Blood-Face-Nations-Skinheads-Culture/dp/156025100X
Millerites
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Miller_(preacher)
British Israelism
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Israelism
Making a soul or divine self
Gurdjieffism
gurdjiefflegacy.org/wpp/soul.htm
quora.com/Is-it-true-that-we-create-our-own-souls-as-Gurdjieff-espoused-in-the-4th-way-of-his-philosophy-of-consciousness
Fake exegesis in “Answers in Genesis”:
reddit.com/r/Christianity/s/daRuoPfqg1
Overvalued and obsessive attachments to gurus is what I am trying to examine and whether a guru has flaws that might be overlooked by eager advocates.
Image I used is from
catsinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Comparing-tigers-to-our-cats1.pdf
amazon.com/Cleansing-Doors-Perception-Significance-Etheogenic/dp/1591810086
amazon.com/Mysticism-Sacred-Profane-Galaxy-Books/dp/0195002296
archive.org/details/journeyintomadne0000thom
amazon.com/Ecstatic-Religion-Shamanism-Spirit-Possession/dp/0415301246
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(drink)
archive.org/details/wormatcoreonrole0000solo
amazon.com/Storming-Heaven-LSD-American-Dream/dp/0802135870
I rely partly on a metaphysical healing friendly website:
truthunity.net/courses/mark-hicks/background-of-new-thought/mary-baker-eddy
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
Narcissism in groups betrays an insecurity at the core of the group identity protected with the armor of grandiosity and pseudo-perfect interpretation of texts.
befreeprotest.com
N.B:
I posted this video about “Cult of the Cat” and responses are making Kamala Harris connections that I never intended, so I changed the title adding “and a female candidate.” J D Vance the chosen VP for the GOP tried to smear Kamala, who apparently likes cats, as one of the “childless cat ladies” in a 2021 interview that has resurfaced.
indystar.com/story/news/2024/07/26/what-is-a-childless-cat-lady-jd-vance-kamala-harris-pete-buttigieg-taylor-swift-jennifer-anniston/74555145007
amazon.com/Cult-Cat-Patricia-Dale-Green/dp/0517175002
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastet
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6391600
goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/overvalued-idea
reddit.com/r/Mcat/s/219ZQvqfdX
On TM
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/using-the-relaxation-response-to-reduce-stress-20101110780
tmdeception.com/tmd-blog/2019/12/5/yogic-flying-meditate-your-way-to-a-knee-replacement
Steiner, Buddha, Martians
rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA130/English/RSP1950/19121218p01.html
NB. The Wonder Woman T I have on was purely coincidental.
Also, I meant Max Theon not “Leon” as I misspoke in the video. Theon, not his birth name, started an occult group, Cosmic Tradition, and he was married to the medium/channeler Madame Theon.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Tradition
This concept of the cosmic mother emerges in major religions as well as smaller cults worldwide.
We look into the Auroville commune in India founded on the Integral Yoga teachings of Sri Aurobindo 1872-1950 and Mirra Alfassa or “The Mother” who Aurobindo accepted as an equal in consciousness in 1914, thereafter calling her The Mother of his experiments in birthing a new species of human with higher or Krishna consciousness. Alfassa led the commune before and after Aurobindo died until she died at age 95 in 1973.
Aurobindo’s own mother developed mental illness after the birth of her first child; he being the youngest of 3 never knew his mom as a stable person.
In 1969, Alfassa declared the new “Superman”consciousness was born through guru Ram Lalji Siyag 1926-2017 who gained notoriety in the west as guru to celebrities including Brad Pitt.
Auroville, the Integral commune falls far short of the predicted birthing of a super man in consciousness.
slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2015/07/auroville_india_s_famed_utopian_community_struggles_with_crime_and_corruption.html
Cybele: study.com/academy/lesson/the-goddess-cybele-in-mythology.html#:~:text=Cybele%2C%20or%20the%20Great%20Mother,cult%20of%20the%20Roman%20Empire.
amazon.com/Sri-Aurobindo-Mother-Experiments-Experiences/dp/1492200506
Ram Lal Silag:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramlal_Siyag
Amy Carlson cult: youtu.be/2PweoTaa_OA?si=-m2Wv__fltpgyDCk
Members of alleged cults who hear or read my criticism of their group or leader often dismiss me through an ad hominem label as a “deprogrammer” thus unqualified. This simplistic maneuver might have some truth to it, but it has nothing to do with my qualifications or the content of what I discuss.
Eg, I was acquitted after a month long trial of all charges by a jury in Idaho in April 1993 for helping in an alleged kidnap deprogramming.
psywww.com/psyrelig/szimhart.htm
culteducation.com/group/888-cult-deprogramming/5586-jury-acquits-two-in-deprogramming-case.html
I refer to The Catalyst by Jonah Berger (2022) as a good way to grasp what intervention or deprogramming should look like and why it works.
jonahberger.com/books/the-catalyst
Willa Appel 1983 book puts this era of early deprogramming into perspective:
goodreads.com/book/show/1668310.Cults_in_America
The New Vigilantes by Bromley and Shupe 1981 is critical of deprogramming in that era:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Vigilantes
Larry Trapp 1991 deconversion from KKK
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/jewish-cantor-and-his-family-resist-terrorism-convert-attacking-ku-klux-klan-leader-1991
Ted Patrick. A documentary expose by Mia Donovan 2015:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4543744
I look at the emergence of prehistoric cave art, the Biosphere 2 “cult” debacle in the early 1990s, and a small cult run by Fred Saylor or “Pa” decades ago. Saylor used the Doctrine of Signatures to peddle bogus remedies internationally.
amazon.com/Mind-Cave-Consciousness-Origins-Art/dp/0500284652
Dreaming the Biosphere by Rebecca Reider
unmpress.com/9780826346742/dreaming-the-biosphere
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_signatures
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sathya_Sai_Baba
The advice is that anyone can fulfill the Gospel to be Christian in the kingdom of heaven without having to announce being a Christian or being devoted to one dogma as The Christian.
We look at the meaning of “do not let the left hand know what the right hand is doing” and at why Right hand is emphasized in the Bible.
gotquestions.org/left-hand-know-right-hand-doing.html
lisamharrison.com/nature-of-reality
youtu.be/GEOSsAFCxfM?si=6qZeVn2ub5wcY3dk
Lisa and Darius on a podcast video
amazon.com/Cloud-Upon-Sanctuary-Karl-Eckartshausen/dp/0892540842
In any case, may all solstice and Christian celebrations at this time of year emphasize kindness to your sisters and brothers who view that time differently.
worldhistory.org/Mithra
https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/education/prehistoric-southwest/sun-dagger
youtu.be/JIV0tT1NQF4?si=ZaQX4G8uSQxs_s4M
Celtic Women: O Holy Night
This short talk is about Ichor and the golden amber fluid in the veins of Greek gods that somehow emerges in modern cults that teach that godlike Ascended Masters have that same amber golden fluid in their veins.
Of interest is the correlation of this golden blood and golden age idol to arch-conservatives as well as flaky New Agers who believe that gold has sacred qualities and thus we should go back to a “gold standard” in our economies.
ascensionglossary.com/index.php/Ascended_Master
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_master
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichor
GETRAN is popular with life coaches. It has similarities to The Silva Method from the 1950s, Scientology, Reiki, Radionics, acupuncture, and Ayurvedic medicines.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_kinesiology
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake
geotran.com
quackwatch.org/ncahf/articles/o-r/radionics
netflix.com/title/81615919
See my first twin flame video
youtu.be/lFsJNp1aho4?si=BwcbxmBXiVeysf-1
I refer to The Plato Cult by David Stove (1991) as a useful philosophical read to help ex members correct their bad thinking habits that likely got them into a cult like Twin Flames Universe.
Forgive my errors. Eg, I called David Stove “Anthony”.
NB: I am not endorsing David Stove’s “conservatism” as such. But reading him will challenge your thought process. Eg, Stove was a chauvinist critic of feminism when he said:
In "The Intellectual Capacity of Women" (1990) he stated his belief that "the intellectual capacity of women is on the whole inferior to that of men".[9][10]
We look at how skepticism properly applied should convince you that ghosts aren’t real autonomous entities. And aliens are not visiting us in spaceships. Boo Woo!
phaneuf.net/blog/americans-believe-in-ghosts
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennhurst_State_School_and_Hospital
See links for more info.
My point in this video is that claims of being one with God, the Absolute, Brahman, or the Oversoul may be true claims, but a rock can make the same claim of “unattachment” to human conscious and suffering.
Too often, the ashrams and devotees surrounding gurus fall far short of the pure ideals spouted or presented by the guru.
Dictionary of World Religions (Keith Krim editor. 1981)
britannica.com/biography/Ramana-Maharshi
Much Silence (bio of Meher Baba) 1974
My Father’s Guru by J Masson, 1993
amazon.com/My-Fathers-Guru-Spirituality-Disillusion/dp/0345452801
The Sensitives by Paul Brunton
amazon.com/Sensitives-Dynamics-Dangers-Mysticism-Notebooks/dp/0943914345
So, both fundamentalism and many aspects of modern art are “populist” or primitive in style. Basquiat appeared as a tag prophet from the graffiti streets to sell to collectors through major galleries. Most of fundamentalism came from populist itinerant preachers who, like Billy Graham sold it in major “galleries” raising radical evangelical ideas into lucrative political capital.
I refer to American Apocalypse by Matthew Sutton.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975439
amazon.com/Mushroom-Satori-Diary-Joseph-Szimhart/dp/0985002697
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gay_Science
https://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Phil_100/Nietzsche_files/Friedrich-Nietzsche-Twilight-of-the-Idols-or-How-to-Philosophize-With-the-Hammer-Translated-by-Richard-Polt.pdf
My video was triggered by this 2016 Jesus in India presentation by Edward Martin at a Hindu center in Austin:
youtu.be/xHPVHshW0hU
We look at the main source hoaxer N. Notovitch and another misguided cult leader, Ghulam Ahmad, who claimed in 1889 that Jesus did not die on the cross but lived and died in Kashmir at an old age.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_India_(book)
Bart Erhman blog on this:
ehrmanblog.org/did-jesus-go-to-india-a-modern-gospel-forgery
Sathya Sai Baba fake miracles
http://www.exbaba.com/articles/p_holbach/dbbooke/cont.htm
We explore how Jung’s idea is
Individuating can lead to cultic participation.
https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Politics-of-Myth2
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Greene
amazon.com/Jungs-Studies-Astrology-Liz-Greene/dp/1138289124
theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/4505
youtu.be/urMxgevzd4c
My short video adds information about the influence of Carlos Castaneda on Lenz whose character Master Fwap in his novel Surfing the Himalaya is modeled on Castaneda’s don Juan. Both Fwap and don Juan are fabrications by hoax writers of spiritual adventure fiction.
I read from court transcript of the defendant Liane W admitting to a “panic disorder” after the judge asked her to stop “racing” in her speech during her rambling, unconvincing defense.
Grandiose cult leaders tend to hate correction. That dim witted side is overshadowed by the braggart side that devoted followers want to see and hear.
Critics are called losers, stupid, evil, etc. the latter occurs in conservative Christian homeschooling that, for example, uses a “rod” or spanking to discipline children who might question the “standards” of the ruling father. Proverbs 12:1 is weaponized in such cults reversing the noble intent of the Proverb.
skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19220/do-pendulums-have-any-explanatory-power
skepticblog.org/2008/12/19/pendulums
(Btw, i mispronounced Bilitis that should sound more like bi-lee-tis. Also, The Ladder ceased publication in 1972, not in the 1990s as I blurted out!)
Walker’s group name was from the magician Prospero in The Tempest by Shakespeare.
theprosperos.org
amazon.com/Bodies-Evidence-Practice-History-Oxford/dp/0199742731
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
The_Ladder_(magazine)
encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/walker-thane-ca-1890
My point here is that in the end we have to regard behavior and context first before we slap a label onto any group.
Quoting George Steiner from his slim collection of essays, In Bluebeard’s Castle (1971): “There are currently, particularly in the United States, some fashionable, silly theories about total revolution of consciousness. Mutations of internal structure do not occur at such a rate.” (In a Post-Culture, p 91).
Manifest Nirvana is a hoax. The very language encourages techniques and religious strategies (hybrid Western Buddhism) to mentally force Nirvana or enlightenment. Darwin would be amused at this comical thought experiment as would Kierkegaard.
See my take on Hegel via Kierkegaard
youtu.be/mI0iv64FvIw
#kenwilber
#manifest.nirvana
Book review here:
jszimhart.com/reviews/when-shadow-meets-the-bodhisattva
Ken Wilber continues to endorse Cohen who this year released a new book.
themotherofgod.com
psychologytoday.com/us/articles/199803/crimes-the-soul
centerforintegralwisdom.org
amazon.com/When-Shadow-Meets-Bodhisattva-Transformation-ebook/dp/B09WQ7RRRR
newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stepping-into-the-uncanny-unsettling-world-of-shen-yun
For an excellent video commentary,see this by JJ McCullough:
youtu.be/1JaPzJKycxc
Spy vs Spy
youtu.be/onR7PD3Grc0
Marinetti and Fascist influence
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Tommaso_Marinetti#:~:text=In%20The%20Founding%20and%20Manifesto,for%20the%20importance%20of%20violence.
My interest here is in Liu’s inclusion in Death’s End of The Wave experiment run in 1967 by a high school teacher and in a “diagnosis” he introduces centuries into the future called “social pressure personality disorder.”
See my article for further information:
jszimhart.com/reviews/social-pressure-personality-disorder-in-deaths-end-by-cixin-liu
amazon.com/Sand-Talk-Indigenous-Thinking-World
I recently listened to video talk by Eckhart Tolle whose books I read 20 years ago. His reliance on New Thought and teachers like G. Gurdjieff and J. Krishnamurti I find troublesome and overvalued.
This talk is in 2 parts.
Critic of Tolle: siftingtothetruth.com/blog/tag/Eckhart+Tolle
Tolle mentions Gurdjieff: youtube.com/watch?v=kElGPeqEasw
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber
Non dual philosopher Shankara:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara
The dog attack mentioned occurred 7 months ago. Dog is okay.
This talk is in 2 parts.
Critic of Tolle: siftingtothetruth.com/blog/tag/Eckhart+Tolle
Tolle mentions Gurdjieff: youtube.com/watch?v=kElGPeqEasw
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber
Non dual philosopher Shankara:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara
On ACIM:
jszimhart.com/essays/project-one-tt3yk
On Garbage Eaters:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brethren_(Jim_Roberts_group)
lianashanti.com
On Stefan Molyneux:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux
amazon.com/Masters-Revealed-Madame-Blavatsky-Great/dp/0791420647
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akasha
programs.lianashanti.com
Occult America by John Godwin (1972) p 132-133 on Blavatsky’s influence.
Liana Shanti is an online enterprise as a dietary advisor, neo shaman, channel or seer for Jesus, astrology interpreter, ant-Covid vaxxer who critiques the “parent cult” and other bad influences that keep people wounded and from gaining their ascension to heaven like Jesus did.
Links as reference:
forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,159923
britannica.com/topic/I-AM-movement
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramtha%27s_School_of_Enlightenment
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiana
google.com/search?q=courage+to+heal+bass+controversy&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS736US736&oq=courage+to+heal+bass+controversy&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i546j0i30i546j0i546l2.17681j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/322/78
We cannot make clothing without cutting fabric on a bias. The problem is that there is a bias but the the bias may be off, resulting in an unwearable product.
We look at an example of extreme bias in tailoring as we regard the story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Only enlightened people could see the naked emperor’s clothes.
So, the errant bias in extreme points of view can lead to Totalism that demands that we either believe or remain stupid.
“A case of stigmata” in JAMA Psychiatry, and “The Stigmatics/science/The Guardian 2004 13 Oct.
retroreport.org/transcript/biosphere-2-an-american-space-odyssey
Buddha on Mars:
rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA130/English/RSP1950/19121218p01.html
https://ncse.ngo/gravity-its-only-theory#:~:text=Universal%20Gravity%20is%20a%20theory,not%20even%20a%20good%20theory.
Misunderstanding Cults by Zablocki & Robbins
jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442677302
genius.com/Bob-dylan-ballad-of-a-thin-man-lyrics
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Anthony
New Vigilantes
amazon.com/New-Vigilantes-Deprogrammers-Anti-Cultists-Religions/dp/080391542X
Ted Patrick
amazon.com/Let-our-children-Ted-Patrick/dp/0525144501
Also refer to “Karma tastes rich in new, humane economy” by K Parker (Seattle Times April 17 2016.
And to illustration by John Knott 1918 “It shoots further than he dreams”
I talk about parallels to Church Universal & Triumphant and my old cult leader, Elizabeth Prophet. Reference Church Universal & Triumphant (an apocalyptic movement) by Bradley Whitsel (2003).
I make some observations including correcting his mawkish claim that America was once a “Christian nation.”
I discuss the influence of Traditionalism grounded in the work of Rene Guenon, Martin Heidegger, and Julius Evola on Putin’s chief ideolog Alex Dugin, of Steve Bannon, and others on the Christian far right.
I first read Guenon around 1981 with deep interest but years later rejection his Traditionalism as too authoritarian and wrongheaded.
amazon.com/Against-Modern-World-Traditionalism-Intellectual/dp/0195396014
newstatesman.com/ideas/2020/10/rise-traditionalists-how-mystical-doctrine-reshaping-right
theconversation.com/alexander-dugin-eurasianism-and-the-american-election-87367
The Devil’s Bargain by Joshua Green
https://www.academia.edu/40386287/Mysteries_of_Eurasia_The_Esoteric_Sources_of_Alexander_Dugin_and_the_Yuzhinsky_Circle?email_work_card=view-paper