Plus, this headline is from The Huffington Post, which (also in 2008) TMR noted was “A Warehouse For Wackos”. Why give (cult leader Arianna Huffington's) "HuffPo" that title - all the way back in 2008? It wasn't just because other cult members, like Howard Stern, appeared in it. Here’s the direct quote - from “a cancer surgeon and NIH-funded cancer investigator” - that instigated my actions:
“Within three weeks of its formation, I had noticed a very disturbing aspect of the Huffington Post, and that was that it appeared to be providing a major soapbox for antivaccinationists,..."
Emphasis mine. So, what were you thinking about in 2008? What about now? Or what are you being told to think? Or how to think it? The links, above, are just a bit of evidence (real world proof) that The Crack Emcee's head was screwed-on tight, waaay before everyone else's - because The NewAge Movement has never fooled TMR - not even when filtered through the Howard Stern's of the world. And, they don't have to fool anyone else, either. Just keep reading - and pass it along to someone else: I'm breaking it all down, now, right here (To Be cont'd,...).
I was out for a walk, having one of those imaginary fights with my ex -- the kind that takes place in your head when you're giving him hell for that stupid thing he did in 1985.
With very little persuasion, the ring flew off my finger and landed in a field of cows. Unlike the bovines, who appeared unmoved by this gesture, I felt liberated.
It turned out, however, that giving my ring finger breathing room unleashed 20 years of pent-up energy.
All of a sudden, every man alive or nearly dead became a prospect -- at least to my newly naked finger. At intersections, when a guy pulled up beside me,...my accountant called to say it was tax season, I thought he said sex season,....
Did you catch that? Wow. Since her husband - who she claimed was "the only one" - did something "stupid" back in 1985 (only women can even say "stupid" without anyone taking offense) once she became a statistic, she naturally wanted to fuck "every man alive or nearly dead" with abandon. That makes sense. To a Feminist. But it's stupid, hypocritical, and gross.
And it gets grosser:
I realized throwing away my ring was like putting my house up for sale. Everybody who drove by was a potential purchaser, and it was a lot of work keeping my lawn cut and the bonsai bush trimmed,...
Somehow, I think I missed posting this way back when, but it's still worth a gander - Here's Joseph Farah, describing his old friend, Arianna Huffington:
I don’t say this as a stranger – but as someone who was once fairly close with Arianna. I knew her well when she was pretending to be a conservative.
What do I mean?
She now describes herself as a “progressive independent” who is “coming from the fourth dimension of political time and space.” Whatever.
This is a woman who can say nothing of any meaning or consequence and get network news coverage. Furthermore, she never stops yapping.
You know all this, so I'm sorry, because that's not really the good part - you know it, too - this is the good part:
Irrational?
Do you know what is irrational?
Becoming a disciple of various cult leaders – from Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to Jolly John-Roger. That’s what Arianna Huffington was and is.
She became a follower of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, whose cult practiced open sexual intercourse among its members and with its leader, as a central tenet of their faith. The cult is most famous for attempting to take over an Oregon town. The faithful purchased 139 white Rolls-Royces for their leader. A 2001 book, “Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War,” by New York Times reporter Judith Miller, revealed the cult spread potentially lethal salmonella bacteria in this town with the intent of infecting and incapacitating residents on Election Day so Rajneesh could win control of the local government.
From the Bhagwan, Huffington hooked up with John-Roger, founder of a New Age Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, based on “the Mystical Traveler, a spiritual consciousness that exists throughout all levels of God’s creation.” In 1994, one of John-Roger’s disciples, Peter McWilliams, wrote “Life 102: What to Do When Your Guru Sues You,” alleging he was brainwashed to write John-Roger’s books with the promise he would be miraculously cured of AIDS. In the book, McWilliams wrote that Huffington had become a major financial backer of John-Roger and an ordained minister in his movement. McWilliams released a video of Huffington in a white robe being baptized by John-Roger.
From all appearances, Huffington’s devotion to John-Roger continues to this day.
And she speaks to Virginia Thomas of irrationality?
Yes, she would, because - no matter how insane she is - just like Oprah, she can do or say anything and she'll still be held up as some kind of female icon, simply for fooling people for so long (the scumbags give you points for that now,...) Don't you think, maybe - after all these years - someone should publicly ask Wonder Woman what her poisoning-others-for-group-sex cult days were like?
Ever since Jayanti Tamm, the author of the cult novel Cartwheels In A Sari, did a blog on The Huffington Post called "What Is a Cult? Recognizing And Avoiding Unhealthy Groups", I've been telling you I was going to do something on the cult phenomena, and, I guess, it's time for me to deliver.
I want to be clear that I'm not writing this because I think it'll do a thing to stem the tide of cultism (as a matter of fact, I'm convinced, it'll be no more effective than anything else that's been done). No, I'm writing this because - like a Jew during the Holocaust, leaving a note in a buried bottle for someone, anyone, in the future to find - I realize the rampant cultism we live under is probably killing me, merely because I'm aware of it, and the country - merely because it is not - so I want to have something out there that said not only that I lived, but that I knew what and who my, and my country's, killers were.
Read it. I'm going to blog on it at length, in my next post, because it's completely outdated information. Actually, it's even worse than that:
It's about as wrong as wrong can get.
Here's your first hint about how deceptive it is:
It's coming to us from The Huffington Post.
So, how wrong are Jayanti Tamm's observations, and how do mine differ? Her first paragraph in The Huffington Post piece started off with these words:
Who in our over-stimulated, media-saturated, hyper-connected world would ever go and knowingly join a cult? The answer is no one.
That's now an anti-cult or post-cult mantra, and probably sounds about right to most people, painting the appropriate image of someone who's been duped into doing something they never intended.
But the important phrase here is "the appropriate image", because - just as the Mystic Bourgeoisie's Chris Locke observed that "nobody wants to be seen as New Age because nobody wants to be seen as irreparably stupid" - very few will admit they willingly joined a cult, for that and other reasons.
Proving, right from the start, that Tamm's column is a bunch of deceptive and outdated mind mush is this quote from an expose' on award-winning director and recent Scientology defector, Paul Haggis:
Haggis was born in 1953, and grew up in London, Ontario, where his father, Ted, had a construction company. He decided at an early age to be a writer, but after leaving school, he drifted, hanging out with hippies and drug dealers.
He fell in love with Diane Gettas, a nurse, and they began sharing a one-bedroom apartment. One day in 1975, when he was 22, Haggis was walking to a record store when a young man pressed a book into his hands. "You have a mind," the man said. "This is the owner's manual." The book was Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health, by L Ron Hubbard, which was published in 1950. By the time Haggis began reading it, Dianetics had sold about 2.5m copies. Today, according to the church, that figure has reached more than 21m.
Haggis opened the book and saw a page stamped with the words "Church of Scientology". He had heard about Scientology a couple of months earlier, from a friend who had called it a cult. The thought that he might be entering a cult didn't bother him. In fact, he said, "it drew my interest. I tend to run toward things I don't understand."
So much for "no one" knowingly joining a cult.
The truth is, in our want-to-be-rebelious post-Boomer culture, people will and have joined all kinds of weird cults by the billions - and, waving their freak flag, they're proud of doing so - if not always honest about it.
The Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington was a member of the Rajneesh, a so-called "dangerous cult".
The Rajneesh practiced open sexual intercourse amongst it's members and attempted to poison an entire town in Oregon for political purposes. Huffington once described her time in the cult to The Washington Post as "like knowing there was another dimension to life and that I wanted to experience it, knowing that nothing else mattered as much. It took me over completely.”
Without ever having renounced her cultism, Huffington is now a major player in American politics.
Of course, she could describe her cult experience positively because no one has ever seriously questioned her about it in an informed manner.
For instance, compare her answer to that of the Rajneesh cult's second in command, Sheela Birnstiel AKA Ma Anand Sheela (above, center) after she was recently questioned in the Swiss town of Basel:
"I am labeled a criminal. It is stamped on my forehead. I have been punished. Leave me alone."
Sheela - a power mad cultist who committed heinous crimes in America - is now a successful Swiss businesswoman.
Arianna Huffinton, one of Sheela's devoted disciples, is now a successful American businesswoman - one now allowing Jayanti Tamm to publish wrong and misleading information about cultism on her website - the very phenomena the power mad Huffington is (still) involved in.
So Jayanti Tamm also isn't doing too badly for herself, either, thank you very much.
Meanwhile, I am now suffering the effects of the cultism people such as they have unleashed around me.
Considering I've never joined a cult, that's something which no one can say is right,...but, being only vaguely aware of what's happening, the country also isn't standing up and saying it's wrong, either - nobody's actually, actively, stopping the cultists - whatever the manner or effects of the cultism they're profiting from.
And as I've said, I don't hold out much hope they're going to stand up anytime soon, so my fate - and, yes, I think the country's - is probably set:
We will die, together, as the victims of cultism.
Next up: Surrounded - Cults (And Cultists) Hiding In Plain Sight.
Here's a new article on cultism by Jayanti Tamm - she was in one for most of her life. Read it. I'm going to blog on it at length, in my next post, because it's completely outdated information. Actually, it's even worse than that:
I’ll keep this short. As I wrote this morning, writing for the Huffington Post has been one of the great joys of my life for the past few years and I’ve been proud to be associated with them.
But as a writer, this latest move by The Huffington Post of banning Andrew Breitbart from their front page (because of comments he made to a different website) is both unprecedented, arbitrary and deeply offensive to the intellectual openness that Arianna Huffington has purported to believe in.
Oh dear - he's catching on that Arianna's a liar - that can't be good.
I'm not sure how that works exactly - it goes, totally, against The Law of Quantum Failure (so far) - but, according to Lee, she's still going for the gold:
One very loathsome aspect of this story is something that Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff told me in a long phone call about Andrew Breitbart several months ago. Roy knows and worked with Andrew and when the issue of Andrew Breitbart being a racist came up, Roy told me “No, of course Andrew isn’t a racist.”
Roy went on to say that while both he and Arianna Huffington knew that the charges of racism being hurled at Andrew weren’t true based on their years of personal dealings with him that they were in a ‘bad position’ to say anything about it.
Politics is a contact sport, but not defending someone you know personally and know the truth about is pretty poor conduct. To stand by and watch their reputation ruined and do nothing when all you have to do is say ‘I know him and that’s not true” is shameful.
Yeah, how hard is that? You know, to say and do the right thing?
Well, for anybody who knows Arianna's history,the right thing is exactly what she ain't gonna do:
Arianna is also friends with Van Jones so I’d apply the same standard there…and, in fact, Arianna HAS publically defended Van Jones at length. The problem is that defending Breitbart would be much less popular among her liberal friends then defending Jones.
Ahhh yes, and that, as they say in NewAge Gold DiggerLand, is all that truly matters,...
Ever since Jayanti Tamm, the author of the cult novel Cartwheels In A Sari, did a blog on The Huffington Post called "What Is a Cult? Recognizing And Avoiding Unhealthy Groups", I've been telling you I was going to do something on the cult phenomena, and, I guess, it's time for me to deliver. 
I want to be clear that I'm not writing this because I think it'll do a thing to stem the tide of cultism (as a matter of fact, I'm convinced, it'll be no more effective than anything else that's been done). No, I'm writing this because - like a Jew during the Holocaust, leaving a note in a buried bottle for someone, anyone, in the future to find - I realize the rampant cultism we live under is probably killing me, merely because I'm aware of it, and the country - merely because it is not - so I want to have something out there that said not only that I lived, but that I knew what and who my, and my country's, killers were. 
Here's how I regarded Tamm's article when it originally came out:
So, how wrong are Jayanti Tamm's observations, and how do mine differ? Her first paragraph in The Huffington Post piece started off with these words:Who in our over-stimulated, media-saturated, hyper-connected world would ever go and knowingly join a cult? The answer is no one.
But the important phrase here is "the appropriate image", because - just as the Mystic Bourgeoisie's Chris Locke observed that "nobody wants to be seen as New Age because nobody wants to be seen as irreparably stupid" - very few will admit they willingly joined a cult, for that and other reasons. Haggis was born in 1953, and grew up in London, Ontario, where his father, Ted, had a construction company. He decided at an early age to be a writer, but after leaving school, he drifted, hanging out with hippies and drug dealers.
So much for "no one" knowingly joining a cult. 
The Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington was a member of the Rajneesh, a so-called "dangerous cult".
Without ever having renounced her cultism, Huffington is now a major player in American politics.
Of course, she could describe her cult experience positively because no one has ever seriously questioned her about it in an informed manner. 
For instance, compare her answer to that of the Rajneesh cult's second in command, Sheela Birnstiel AKA Ma Anand Sheela (above, center) after she was recently questioned in the Swiss town of Basel:"I am labeled a criminal. It is stamped on my forehead. I have been punished. Leave me alone."
Sheela - a power mad cultist who committed heinous crimes in America - is now a successful Swiss businesswoman. 
Arianna Huffinton, one of Sheela's devoted disciples, is now a successful American businesswoman - one now allowing Jayanti Tamm to publish wrong and misleading information about cultism on her website - the very phenomena the power mad Huffington is (still) involved in. 
So Jayanti Tamm also isn't doing too badly for herself, either, thank you very much. 
Meanwhile, I am now suffering the effects of the cultism people such as they have unleashed around me.
Considering I've never joined a cult, that's something which no one can say is right,...but, being only vaguely aware of what's happening, the country also isn't standing up and saying it's wrong, either - nobody's actually, actively, stopping the cultists - whatever the manner or effects of the cultism they're profiting from. 
And as I've said, I don't hold out much hope they're going to stand up anytime soon, so my fate - and, yes, I think the country's - is probably set:
Next up: Surrounded - Cults (And Cultists) Hiding In Plain Sight.
Here's a new article on cultism by Jayanti Tamm - she was in one for most of her life. Read it. I'm going to blog on it at length, in my next post, because it's completely outdated information. Actually, it's even worse than that:
Poor Lee Stranahan. It's gotta be tough.
First, for merely asking the right questions, he gets banned from Markos' scummy astrology website The Daily Kos, and now he's quitting Rosemary's Baby:
Oh dear - he's catching on that Arianna's a liar - that can't be good. 
For Lee, not Arianna, because the more dirt she commits to, the more everybody seems to want to reward her. 
I'm not sure how that works exactly - it goes, totally, against The Law of Quantum Failure (so far) - but, according to Lee, she's still going for the gold:
Yeah, how hard is that? You know, to say and do the right thing? 
Well, for anybody who knows Arianna's history, the right thing is exactly what she ain't gonna do:
Ahhh yes, and that, as they say in NewAge Gold DiggerLand, is all that truly matters,...
