Science of Mind
has anyone read this? three woman asked me to join a study group with them, centered on this books philosophy, i'm the only one who hasn't read it. I'm doing it cause i like them all, but googling turns up slightly distubing stuff especially that melissa etheridge is into it, i think she's a complete moron and have no respect for her overwrought crap music.
[QUOTE=corellion;928276]Who cares? I bet some real fucks have seen your art and liked it. Read the book and tell me if it's any good, sounds interesting.[/QUOTE]okay yeah but I'm thinking its some sort of dumb religion, i don't just think she's an idiot because of her songs, i think she's thick in the head, like[I] duh uh duh i'm real obvious and dumb[/I], like that.
that one book about the journey of Einstein's Brain was pretty good
i wann hear if meatthinker knows of this, he knows about many of the cults.
Basically this sounds like a pantheist religion and another spin off of the New Thought movement of late 1800's like Christian Science. This seems to have split into several groups including United Centers for Spiritual Living (UCSL) formerly ka United Church of Religious Science (UCRS), Religious Science International (RSI) and Global Religious Science Ministries (GRSM) and several groups that do plain old "Science of Mind" based on the 1926 book by Ernest Holmes.
I haven't found any really good cult-ish dirt on these groups so far. However, it sounds like there isn't a lot of central control, and there are probably rogue groups out there who call themselves "Science of Mind" without any approval or blessing from any of the aforementioned organizations. It would probably help to find out the name of the specific group or name of their leader or "practitioner" then I could look for specific information about that. Also, I can't tell what the heck any of it actually has to do with science in the sense of provable hypotheses, reliable predictions, and reproducible results.
Overall, sounds like it could be "mostly harmless" but they may have some dumb ideas about health care. I'd be willing to bet the "dark side" of this philosophy is a tendency to "blame the victim" i.e. if you are sick or have an addiction, it's your fault or something that you did wrong, but if you just "surrender to God" then he will fix you, and if he doesn't fix you, then you didn't pray hard enough or in the right way, or it is just "part of God's plan which we are not capable of comprehending." Part two of this scenario is probably a tendency to mask illness, hide, or deny because you are afraid that if you let people know that you are sick, that will show people that you are morally depraved, not praying hard enough, or not religious enough or otherwise deficient.
It's like these people who I talked to who went to a "firewalking" seminar, the truth was some people did get blisters, but they were afraid to tell anybody because that would reveal that they "had negative thoughts" or some bullshit. So, it becomes a self-enforcing thing where the people who it doesn't work for feel shame and hide what really happened.
This is a really good idea.
Ah yes, also smells like Unity Church, I heard about that a long time ago, turns out that is also another "New Thought" spin off, interesting see also Oprah Winfrey...
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Church[/url]
This is a really good idea.
they use the book by ernest holmes, and it makes sense that its connected to unity church cause alot of lesbos attend.
[QUOTE=morey;929722]they use the book by ernest holmes, and it makes sense that its connected to unity church cause alot of lesbos attend.[/QUOTE]
Pass out breath mints so you're not quaffing pussy breath the whole entire time.
This is a really good idea.
Who cares? I bet some real fucks have seen your art and liked it. Read the book and tell me if it's any good, sounds interesting.