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• Join us the Movie

There are thousands of cults in America. This is the story of one.

Award winning filmmaker, Ondi Timoner, follows four families as they leave an abusive church in South Carolina and realize they have been in a cult. The film documents them as they enter Wellspring, the only accredited, live-in cult treatment facility in the world, where they learn the true extent of the brainwashing they have all experienced. Eventually they return home to bring the Pastor and his wife to justice, and to try to begin to rebuild their damaged lives.

JOIN US presents an intimate look at the inner workings of a cult from both the members and the cult leaders points of view. It is an emotional human portrait that explores the reasons why America is the number one breeding ground for cults in the world, and a chilling reminder that it can happen to anyone.

• Prayers for Bobby

• On the Psychology of Spiritual Movements

As his title suggests and his foreword explicitly states, Stephen Mitchell's anthology includes no poetry of longing for union with The Father, The Mother, The Other. It is, instead, the poetry of enlightenment attained -- as much by the apprehending heart as by the comprehending head. In 169 pages, it reprints forty-eight poets spanning twenty-eight centuries ...

Leela wrote:Terry - I love Rumi and Rilke and spiritual poetry in general. And since Stephen Mitchell is the husband of my almost favorite enlightened lady - Byron Katie - well, as they say where I come from - cannot not have it. Thanks for the reference.

joel wrote: I am throwing open its electronic gates to all: the faithful, the questioning, family, friends, etc. Feel free to drop by. It's an open its question whether another forum is necessary ... only time will tell. I'll give it a one-month (renewable) lease on life.

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• Experiences in Groups by Wilfred R. Bion

Most of what we are told about awakening sounds like a sales pitch for enlightenment. In a sales pitch, we are told only the most positive aspects; we may even be told things that are not actually true

• killingthebuddha.com

Killing the Buddha is a religion magazine for people made anxious by churches, people embarrassed to be caught in the “spirituality” section of a bookstore, people both hostile and drawn to talk of God. It is for people who somehow want to be religious, who want to know what it means to know the divine, but for good reasons are not and do not.

If the religious have come to own religious discourse it is because they alone have had places where religious language could be spoken and understood. Now there is a forum for the supposedly non-religious to think and talk about what religion is, is not and might be. Killing the Buddha is it.

This is the single most powerful and informative movie about society's treatment of animals. Directed by Shaun Monson, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. *VERY GRAPHIC* Director's Featurette.