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Tom, What finally made me leave the School? The trigger was at the annual retreat with McL, Van Oyen and a gentleman from the South Afican School Questions were being asked about Sth Africa. The answers caused me to look around and worried me. We could have been at a white supremacist meeting.ued: ...

Hi MM Yes although in my previous post I stated that I have found it beneficial in later life to be aware of the religions of other cultures I believe that it is very damaging to teach meditation to young children, and was so for me at St James. Your child is basically being subtly indoctrinated int...

ross nolan wrote:How about renouncing superstition Leon and become a "bright" -

No thanks, I have had quite enough of cults for one lifetime.

I rest my case

To dismiss entire cultures and belief systems in such a cavalier way is extremely simplistic and similar in style to methods used by the very same organisations criticised. The more Rationalists Aethists etc become assured of their own "rightness" and force their own agendas the more they resemble m...

.....after months of hard meditation a Zen monk runs to his master. "It's amazing!!" he shouts. "Finally during meditation I was filled with enlightenment and witnessed the love of the universe! Everything became clear and I saw the truth and beauty of all things!" "hmm" the master says, "just do th...