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For clarification, I was asked to remove the post at the top of this conversation by Ms Betts herself, as she felt that it compromised the independent nature of the inquiry. mmm....how exactly does what you post under a pseudonym on an internet board compromise an in-house inquiry? please forgive m...

By the way, Michael Mavro's name is nowhere mentioned on the website for the shoot-off school, www.schoolforselfknowledge.org.

Anthony, I have not read Secret Cult except as excerpted on the web, so I apologize if you have stated this elsewhere -- but did you personally witness Mavro actually striking people in the face if they fell asleep during meditation? This detail sticks with me, since it is such a cowardly thing to d...

This was to encourage the energy flow to all the chakras, although the tutor did not mention the word, chakras, a fellow student did. Or, nomad, a physical explanation for the upright spine and feet flat to the floor would be that it requires the least muscular effort to maintain that position. Cro...

Yes, you need to be initiated to continue in the school. The SoPP places a big emphasis on meditation and you must be initiated to do it. actually, a woman I'm friendly with has been attending classes in the NY school for years, four or five I think, but only comes on Monday nights and has not acce...

Well, while there is still just the single positive review on http://www.gocitykids.com/comments/list.jsp? , it has been edited...the mention of an "international network of schools" has been cut out. Find it interesting that ms. lindbergh, if it was her, changed the review in that particular way. D...

Here's another one...
http://www.gocitykids.com/comments/list ... 1&area=197

Another time I was told by a senior tutor in the NY School that I needed to be beaten for my attitude regarding equal opportunities for women, particularly as I had recently been promoted to a corporate leadership role. The final straw took place at a Walkill retreat. I had been forwarned by a male...

...realised that there really are changes afoot within the SEs and that there are definite groups whose attitudes to the current SES are polarising. There would appear to be an ever-widening ideological chasm between those who follow the SES without question and those who actually want to intellect...

Bella, You are correct that I misread/misrecalled your speculation on the reason for hiding note-taking as something the School actually stated. However my mistake was entirely sincere. And I'm not at all convinced that your speculation is inaccurate. You've been in the School for five or six years,...

ADG, Thanks for the link. Interesting article, interesting website?unfortunate book title, but I guess they think it makes their research more marketable. Ross, I was asking for evidence to support the obvious fact that MOST men are characteristically better at certain kinds of abstract thinking tha...

What's the source, ADG?

Well, I'm sorry to hear you recognize the same stuff in Australia, Goblinboy, though I appreciate the affirmation. What was your contact w/ the School (what town)? The thing that REALLY chafes my hide about the School reinforcing the idea of male authority is that most members have working lives out...

Here's another one... http://community.urbanbaby.com/boards/ there are a couple of mentions, here's a short one I thought was funny Has anyone heard or know about the New York School of Practical Philosophy? Toddler - Apr 20th, 2005 2:48pm talk about an oxymoron... - Apr 20th, 2005 2:48pm Is that th...

There are (contradictory) quotes thrown out as evidence of something or other, but nobody has really done the reading that needs to be done to comment on this authoritatively. Out of context quotes are delivered as the final word and theory of the SES on various matters, because Plato said the word...