"Christians, warning against what they called "empty-mind" meditation on the grounds that an "empty" mind attracted evil forces to "possess" the meditator."
I have always hoped this was true. I thought it might improve my guitar playing of Robert Johnson! --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > "> Another form of addiciton that lends itself to > > > this interpretation is the anti-cult cult. In my > > > experience, *most* of the leaders of this anti- > > > movement movement, when they tell their personal > > > stories, come to a pivotal moment for them that > > > goes something like this: "In meditation I got > > > to a point where I lost all sense of who I was. > > > This scared me so much that I never wanted that > > > to happen again, so I quit meditating, and now > > > I work to warn others that they might get to > > > a similar place." What if the "work" they do as > > > an "anti-cult counselor" is their way of not > > > only avoiding full transcendence/loss of self, > > > but a way to prevent others from going further > > > than they dared to go?" > > > > I never met anyone who did exit counseling who fits this pattern. > > I've never read anything from exit counselors > or anticult movement leaders to this effect either. > > I *have* seen something like this from a few > former meditators who had become fundamentalist > Christians, warning against what they called > "empty-mind" meditation on the grounds that an > "empty" mind attracted evil forces to "possess" > the meditator. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
