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“Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?'
'Well, if you were to ask a Mason, he would offer the following definition: Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.'
'Sounds to me like a euphemism for "freaky cult." '
'Freaky, you say?'
'Hell yes!' the kid said, standing up. 'I heard what they do inside those secret buildings! Weird candlelight rituals with coffins, and nooses, and drinking wine out of skulls. Now that's freaky!'
Langdon scanned the class. 'Does that sound freaky to anyone else?'
'Yes!' they all chimed in.
Langdon feigned a sad sigh. 'Too bad. If that's too freaky for you, then I know you'll never want to join my cult.'
Silence settled over the room. The student from the Women's Center looked uneasy. 'You're in a cult?'
Langdon nodded and lowered his voice to a conspiratorial whisper. 'Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh.'
The class looked horrified.
Langdon shrugged. 'And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.'
The classroom remained silent.
Langdon winked. 'Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?”
― Rowan Atkinson

“Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.”
― Robert Jay Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China

“Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.”
― Jenna Miscavige Hill, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

“[Cult] members learn a new vocabulary that is designed to constrict their thinking into absolute, black-and-white, thought-stopping clich茅s that conform to group ideology. (鈥淟ock her up鈥� and 鈥淏uild the Wall鈥� are Trumpian examples. Even his put-downs and nicknames鈥擟rooked Hillary, Pocahontas for Elizabeth Warren鈥攆unction to block other thoughts. Terms like 鈥渄eep state鈥� and 鈥済lobalist鈥� also act as triggers. They rouse emotion and direct attention.)”
― Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

“Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the food, only to find that I couldn't do it justice, because my stomach had shrunk. And as a foreign tourist in North Korea, under the care of vigilant minders who wanted me to see only the best, I had enjoyed the finest fare available.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“Among [Applewhite's] other teachings was the classic cult specialty of developing disdain for anyone outside of the Heaven's Gate commune. Applewhite flattered his would-be alien flock that they were an elite elect far superior to the non-initiated humans whom he considered to be deluded zombies.[...]Applewhite effectively fed his paranoid persecution complex to his followers to ensure blind loyalty to the group and himself while fostering alienation from the mundane world. This paradoxical superior/fearful attitude towards 鈥淭hem鈥� (i.e., anyone who is not one of 鈥淯s鈥�) is one of the simplest means of hooking even the most skeptical curiosity seeker into the solipsistic netherworld of a [mentally unbalanced] leader's insecure and threatened worldview.”
― Zeena Schreck, Straight To Hell: 20th Century Suicides

“How can I get you out of hell? I can鈥檛, I am one of the mistresses of hell, but hell has its corners, and we can rule there, rule and disobey.”
― Mariana Enr铆quez, Our Share of Night

“Abuse is a more effective form of captivity than a cell will ever be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“For her, it was always a kind of curse to have such an untrustworthy oracle. I believe in the Darkness. How could I not, when it鈥檚 my body? When it鈥檚 my body that it enters? But to believe is not always to obey. The things the Darkness tells them cannot be interpreted on this plane. The Darkness is demented, it鈥檚 a savage god, a mad god.”
― Mariana Enr铆quez, Our Share of Night

“The moment truth is organized it becomes a lie. Jesus and Buddha never created any organized religion. An organized religion becomes politics. It becomes a manipulation, control and exploitation by the priests. You don't have to be Christians or Buddhists, because your own potential is to be a buddha. Buddha taught you to become a buddha. The people who were with Buddha were not part of any organized religion. They were free and independent individuals. Buddha did not want to be anybody's guru, he simply wanted to be a friend, a fellow traveler on the spiritual path. He wanted to create as many individuals in the world with absolute freedom in their soul with no chains to Christianity or Buddhism and with no scriptures, no teachings, except for awareness. He taught spirituality, not religion. Spirituality is not a membership of any church or cult, but a quality that transforms your being and makes your inner potential blossom. Buddha was available to help his people to become buddhas. He wanted a world of buddhas, who were free from organized religions and cults, and who would find their own wings to fly in the sky. Truth brings freedom, freedom from religions, cults and scriptures. Truth brings a silence, a peace and a sense of eternity, and immortality and deathlessness. But it has nothing to do with organized religion and cults.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine

“My path in life in life has always been to trust myself; my path in life has always been to trust my intuition, to trust my heart, to trust the inner true voice, to trust my inner source of love, truth and wisdom, which is already in contact with the Whole. I have always listened to other people, and to what situations in life can teach me, but then I have always listened to the silent whisperings of my heart.There is always a meaning with whatever happens. It is basically a question of perspective; it is a question of seeing a situation from the perspective of the limited personality, or to see a situation from the perspective of the unlimited inner being, from the perspective of the soul. It is a question of seeing the creative potential in every situation, to see what we can learn in every situation, and to be open to see how life will solve this situation.When we see the situation from the perspective of the soul, it is like watching the situation from the summit of the mountain, instead of seeing the situation from the perspective of the personality, to see the situation from the foot of the mountain. When we see the situation from the perspective of the soul, we can also see that both good and bad situations, both positive and negative experiences, are teachers in life to learn to create a greater understanding of the Whole.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten

“When I was 15 years old, I came in contact with my first ashram, my first spiritual commune, in the form of Ljusbacken ("The Hill of Light") in Delsbo in beautiful Halsingland in the north of Sweden. Ljusbacken consisted of an international gathering of yogis, meditators, therapists, healers and seekers of truth. It was on Ljusbacken that I for the first time came in contact with my path in life: meditation .It was also on Ljusbacken that I met people for the first time in my 15 year old life, where I on a deep wordless level felt that I met people, who were on the same path as me. It was the first time that I met people, who could put words on and confirm my own inner thirst after something that I could only occasionally sense vaguely, like some sort of inner guiding presence, or like a beacon in the distant far out on the open and misty ocean. For the first time in my life, I met brothers, sisters and friends on the inner path. It was also on Ljusbacken that I met the mystery called love for the first time in my 15 year old life. With my 15 year old eyes, I watched with wide eyed fascination and fear filled with excitement the incomprehensible mystery, which is called woman. My own thirst after truth, together with my inner guiding light, result”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine

“Some years ago, I felt that Iexperienced more limitations than possibilities in a spiritual organization, which I had belonged to for a long time. It became clear for me that I was prepared to expand, and take a new step in my spiritual growth. To be spiritual does not mean to belong to a spiritual group. I felt that I had grown out of the kindergarten, and my inner tree was bearing fruit.
Too many large trees cannot grow in a narrow area.
This was a lesson to stand on my own feet; it was a lesson for me to live my own life, to live my own truth, without following anybody else. I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition. I am only interested in exploring what it means to live with open eyes. This lesson developed and expanded my inner being.
Many years ago, when I sat and meditated by a slow flowing river in India, it taught me that if I learnt to listen to the river, if I surrendered and became one with the river, I did not need any other teacher in meditation. This river could teach me all the mysteries of life. In the same way, everything can become a door to the secrets of life, for example a man or a woman, a tree, a bird, a stone or the blue sky, if we know how ro listen and surrender. It is such a deep joy, such a deep inner satisfaction, to feel that I belong to life, that I am one with Existence.
When Buddha was lying on his deathbed, and the disciples asked him if he had any last words for them, he said: Be a light to yourself. You are born with a light within you. You are enough to yourself. You are sufficient to yourself. Listen to the still small voice within, and that will guide you. Buddha defines wisdom as living in the light of our own consciousness. Buddha's message to be a light to yourself is a message to all seekers of truth and all meditators on the path of enlightenment. You have to be silent, so that you can listen to the still small voice within you. Follow your own voice in silence, love and deep trust. You have to follow the still, small voice within you and you have to follow your being.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine

“There are not many things that the different approaches of modern psychology agree about, but there is one thing that they all agree about: that people in groups and organizations, simply put, become more stupid. Individually people are more intelligent, because they have to take more responsibility. But in a group, people do not have to take the same amount of responsibility. People in groups and organizations tend to get caught up in the need of the ego to create hierarchies of power, status, positions, roles, norms and conformity.
All organizations are more or less dysfunctional. The sign of a dysfunctional group is that the members of the group play three roles and positions: aggressor,denier and victim. It is always easier to follow the group without reflection or awareness, than to trust your own heart, to trust your own intelligence,truth, wisdom and creativity. It is not always easy to follow your own heart,
but it always leads your right.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine

“Around the center leader Muktesh Thomas Forsberg and Jivan Kavya Eva Wells at the Osho meditation聽Center in Stockholm have gathered people,聽who systematically have used their positions at the center for聽power聽abuses. By using lies and vicious gossip as a means of expressing aggressiveness聽聽,these聽people have聽systematically committed abuse of power and聽trying聽to dominate people.These people express envy, condemnation and domination through lies and gross slenderness.聽It is really the ego that wants to condemn and control.聽聽But these women think that they are aware, but they聽are really just ignorant, which is the blindness of the ego.When I visited the center, which I had not visited for almost 15 years,聽I was met by the therapist Moa Bergmark, who told me:聽"You know that this is a dysfunctional group. But聽when I began to confront the lies and vicious rumors about me and the dysfunctional structure of the center,聽Moa Bergmark was suddenly very quiet. This made it obvious that Bergmark was actually a part of the聽collective unconscious of the dysfunctional group.
When Teresa, the center leader who was appointed by Osho himself, invited me to work with therapy-聽and meditation courses together with her,聽I felt joy and support聽聽from Teresa. But when Teresa left the center聽and Muktesh Thomas Forsberg became the center leader, the joy and support disappeared,聽and I felt that聽he was just trying to control me.Anutosh Malin William-Olsson, one of the current gossip mongers at the Osho center in Stockholm聽heard a private conversation between me and my friend Eric Rolf, former consultant to John Lennon,聽during the eighties,聽which she had nothing to do with and which she did not understand, but she聽used this聽聽to spread a lie聽and a gross聽negative slender聽negative rumors about me. Pradeepa Eva Tallqvist, one of the other gossip mongers said: "Giten has suchan integrity" and I thought:聽"Do these people have any integrity at all." Anubhuti Cecelia Lind commented on two of my students by saying in a聽 negative way: "Here come the聽disciples of Giten."
Premleena Lena Wettergran told Vanya Pernilla M氓rtens that she had done a course with me and said:聽"It is good that we have someone like Giten in Sweden",聽which Vanya also turned into something negative and聽said that I was nothing compared to the visiting therapists. It was Premleena who told me this, but when聽Premleena got entangled in the involved the dysfunctional structure and the collective unconscious of the center she did not even say hello to me any longer.
The center leader Muktesh also joined in with the old woman and confirmed the gross and negative slender by saying: "Giten is so stubborn."
My former girlfriend Marga told me that Anna Ganga Hoffman was spreading lies and gross slenderabout me at the Osho center in Stockholm. Marga聽had been sitting聽together with Hoffman and the other聽gossip mongers at the center,and when Hoffman realized that Marga was sitting there, she wanted Marga聽to confirm聽聽her lies. Marga knew that these were just vicious lies, but she remained quiet because she聽did not have the courage to confront Hoffman and the gossip聽mongers at the Osho center in聽Stockholm聽聽about their sick lies and gross聽slender.
Prem Pathik in Nepal commented: "This must be a few people, who are really not living their lives as聽they like. These women who are searching聽 for a deeper space can never know you."
It was also these people that my friend, Eric Rolf ,former consultant to John Lennon, met at the聽Osho center聽聽in Stockholm, and she commented: 聽"I have been around, but these people just wanted聽to聽聽control me. I did not enjoy it so much."
I wrote a letter to Osho himself about the situation and the reply I receivws was: "humor is the highest state of consciousness.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine

“Olivia鈥檚 words gave him the creeps. This teenage girl didn鈥檛 sound like his bubbly warm daughter, now cold and sterile as a glinting surgical knife.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Rosie

“The blood of innocents has always been the currency of charismatic leaders.”
― Brian Herbert, The Machine Crusade (Legends of Dune, Book 2) 1st (first) edition Text Only

“I see no difference between the socially acceptable cult of Christianity and any other cult. It's just another "rescue package" to fight over.”
― Zzenn Loren

“she was going to a strange place where the damned, demented and deranged clawed and cried, where birds don鈥檛 sing, and the sun never rises above the horizon.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Rosie

“The absurdity of many UFO stories and of many religious visions is not a superficial logical mistake. It may be the key to their function. According to Major Murphy, the confusion in the UFO mystery may have been put there deliberately to achieve certain results. One of these results has been to keep scientists away. The other is to create the conditions for a new form of social control, a change in Man鈥檚 perception of his place in the universe. Are his theories fantastic? Before we decide, let us review a few other facts. We need to examine more closely the political connections.

Paris Flammonde, in his well-documented Age of Flying Saucers, remarked that 鈥渁 great many of the contactees purvey philosophies which are tinged, if not tainted, with totalitarian overtones.鈥�1

A catalogue of contactee themes, compiled from interviews I have conducted, includes the following.

Intellectual abdication. The widespread belief that human beings are incapable of solving their own problems, and that extraterrestrial intervention is imperative to save us 鈥渋n spite of ourselves.鈥� The danger in such a philosophy is that it makes its believers dependent on outside forces and discourages personal responsibility: why should we worry about the problems around us, if the Gods from Outer Space are about to solve them?

Racist philosophy. The pernicious suggestion that some of us on the Earth are of extraterrestrial descent and therefore constitute a 鈥渉igher race.鈥� The dangers inherent in this belief should be obvious to anybody who hasn鈥檛 forgotten the genocides of World War II, executed on the premise that some races were somehow 鈥減urer鈥� or better than others. (Let us note in passing that Adamski鈥檚 Venusian, the Stranger of the Canigou seen by Bordas, and many other alleged extraterrestrials were all tall Aryan types with long blond hair.)

Technical impotence. The statement that the birth of civilization on this planet resulted not from the genius and ability of mankind, but from repeated assistance by higher beings. Archaeologists and anthropologists are constantly aware of the marvelous skill with which the 鈥淎ncient Engineers鈥� (to use L. Sprague de Camp鈥檚 phrase) developed the tools of civilization on all continents. No appeal to superior powers is necessary to explain the achievements of early culture. The belief expressed by the contactees reveals a tragic lack of trust on their part in human ability.

Social utopia. Fantastic economic theories, including the belief that a 鈥渨orld economy鈥� can be created overnight, and that democracy should be abolished in favor of Utopian systems, usually dictatorial in their outlook.”
― Jacques F. Vall茅e, Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults

“When we're so caught up in a culture of consumerism [and that is precisely what network marketing is, consumption as a cult] images of people smiling in cars, happy homes and holidays, triggers deep feelings of insecurity.”
― Nick van der Leek, Two Face: The man underneath Christopher Watts

“It鈥檚 always the other guy鈥檚 religion that鈥檚 a sect, isn鈥檛 it?”
― Yuri Herrera, The Transmigration of Bodies

“I would rather have a set of questions that we haven't found the answers for, yet, than having a whole set of answers that I'm not even permitted to challenge, questions, dig in on.”
― Dr. Phil McGraw

“By following which if self-realization or oneness of all that is or love for all is not the end result, then, my friend, you're following a damn cult.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Ghana was a thoroughly triumphal visit for Malcolm X, with exception of one sour event: As Malcolm was departing from his hotel on the way to the airport, he bumped into Muhammad Ali, who was touring West Africa, and Ali snubbed him. Later Ali eagerly expressed his unconditional loyalty to Elijah Muhammad, ridiculing Malcolm to a New York Times correspondent and laughing at the 鈥�funny white robe鈥� his onetime friend wore and his newly grown beard. 鈥�Man, he鈥檚 gone. He鈥檚 gone so far out he鈥檚 out completely.鈥� With words he would later regret, the boxer added, 鈥�Nobody listens to that Malcolm anymore.”
― Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

“Most NYPD officers generally treated Malcolm X's murder case not as a significant political assassination, but as a neighborhood shooting in the dark ghetto, a casualty from two rival black gangs feuding against each other.”
― Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

“It had often struck Facecream how cults, whether of a political or religious nature, always preached equality and happiness while fostering fear. It had been the same with the Maoists, who relied so heavily on women and children to fill their ranks. Party propaganda spoke endlessly about the Communist ideal of equality, while hierarchy maintained strict discipline and unquestioning allegiance.”
― Tarquin Hall, The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing