XPost: alt.religion.eckankar, alt.meditation.shabda, alt.conspiracy   
   XPost: alt.revisionism   
   From: emptyroom@emptyroom.emptyroom   
      
   On 27 Apr 2005 08:05:04 -0700, "Laura"  wrote:   
      
   >No, you nincompoop! If you bothered to read my post, there were no   
   >debates between myself and David Lane.   
      
   Cher gets confused a lot, you have to make allowances for her.  :-)   
      
      
   >My credentials where this particular subject matter is concerned comes   
   >largely from the research I made in the process of trying to knock an   
   >ounce of sense into M.M.'s impenetrable reinforced concrete skull. M.M.   
   >bases his near-Godhood on the Radhasoami tradition, and so I inevitably   
   >came across Eckankar. Even just the headline from eckankar.org, your   
   >official site, says "Eckankar, the religion of the light and sound of   
   >God.". Surat Shabd Yoga is described as light and sound meditation, and   
   >is a practice of the Radhasoami. Eckankar also uses the concept of   
   >"living masters" in the same way as the Radhasoami.   
      
   For some good online books on this topic see:   
   "The Guru In America: The Influence of Radhasoami on New   
   Religions" by Andrea Grace Diem, Ph.D.   
   http://members.tripod.com/~andrea65/gurutitle.html   
      
   "The Making of a Spiritual Movement: The Untold Story of   
   Paul Twitchell and Eckankar"   
   http://www.geocities.com/eckcult/chapters/preface.html   
      
      
   >Do you wish to refute that? Or are you simply going to make another   
   >troll post, in which you deliberately act stupid?   
      
   LOL!  Poor Cher.    :-D   
      
   empty room - 975th Living Truth Master (on probation)   
      
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