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Prophet's Prey Overview: Filmmaker Amy Berg sheds light on the sexual, financial and spiritual abuses heaped upon members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by their former leader, Warren Jeffs.

In a twisted way, it's true. Of course, he was trying to make sociopaths seem superior to people who can have compassion, as if compassion itself is some sort of illness. He really believed that he was an awakened person because he hadn't experienced compassion.

In the episode 8 of "The Vow" documentary, it goes into detail of how the cult leader, Keith Raniere, trains women to experience humiliation that he says men experience so that they could understand men in the guise of open-mindedness. He was manipulating those women into feeling bad for men's hardships and sneakily blaming them for making men's lives more complicated. He thought of abuse as nonsense. Eventually, he started to guilt-trip them all using the injustices of the world. However, in the beginning, he was talking with those women as if he cared to understand them. Jeez.

Treating very eccentric, erratic, energetic actors as misunderstood geniuses.

No problem. I will share more. I will devour them all.

NXIVM is one of the non-cartoonish and sneakiest cults I have ever observed. It tried to make people think that their beliefs are limiting them and then it preyed on their open-mindedness without giving them the power of opening their minds for themselves. No believing in outlandish stuff. This is genius! Also, cult leaders have a hypnotic nature that gravitates people towards themselves, who are more prone to hypnosis. People can easily judge the victims, however they overestimate their ability to notice whether they are in a cult or not.

"The Vow" documentary TV series goes into details of the NXIVM cult. It's so damn good. It has two seasons; a total of 15 episodes.

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One of the most cringeworthy things. 😬

The non-duality of waking reality and nightly dreams, i.e., seeing both as essentially the same in terms of actuality, must make you reconsider the following: The "dreaming" of the dream The "you" that you think is limited to waking reality The viewing of stability as more true than instability

The Vow Overview: Following the experiences of people deeply involved in the self-improvement group NXIVM, an organization under siege with charges including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy brought against its highest members and founder Keith Raniere.

If I'm really nailing it, that's because my teacher is one of the best in the biz.

Also, notice that your waking life doesn't exist in your nightly dream. So, the "you" is more fundamental and doesn't depend on your waking life. Thus, by that logic, if people die, i.e., stop having their current experience or waking life, how could they stop being after their death? Your waking life must be built on top of something true that doesn't depend on the waking life itself; otherwise, how could it be possible? One of the common denominators must be the "you", as I understand, which is not to say that what is happening as of now is fake or not actual.

As far as I understand, experiencing reality doesn't imply that you are literally creating reality. But who is dreaming the nightly dreams? If you are the only one who is dreaming, then, logically, who else would create the dream? I'm not trying to be. How else would I use the word "dream"? Yes and no. I just undid a distinction on the level of actuality. But of course, nightly dreams are different. I just said that they are more unstable. I didn't say that.

What the deuce!

There is one thing that needs to be added to the quality of nightly dreams: you know that you were the one who was dreaming and nobody else. So, if your waking life is no different than nightly dreams in terms of realness (they are not different), then what is stopping you from saying that you are dreaming this reality?

OMG, she was getting on my nerves!

I am generally afraid of losing stability in waking life because it can be taken away from me and my life depends on it. However, my human stability is a limitation. In nightly dreams, the limitations are relatively broken.

Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.

Dreams at night don't happen in your brain when you're sleeping. When you wake up from your sleep, you understand that what you experienced passed away. That's why you call it a dream. From your nightly dream's perspective, your waking life is a dream, because it passes away when you sleep. So, neither is more real than the other. If your waking life appears to be more stable, it doesn't mean it's more real.

Labeling something as a cult when it challenges your own beliefs.

Often laughing at others' jokes when it doesn't make sense to you.

Instant disown. Genius move.

Using gendered pronouns for God. Thinking that God punishes.

Expecting that God listens to your prayers.