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    Keep Sweet: Children of Polygamy
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    Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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    Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
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    End Of Faith
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    The God Delusion
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    Varieties Of Scientific Experience
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    Man's Search for Meaning
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Friday
Jul032009

Maharishi Foundation threatens legal action against cult recovery therapist 

NOTE FROM PERRY BULWER

I received the following email from John M. Knapp, LMSW, a licensed therapist and cult recovery counselor who assists former members from a variety of toxic groups: Christian, Eastern, New Age, multilevel marketing, psychology, and other cults. I provide his email in full below. John's website is at:

http://knappfamilycounseling.com/cults.html

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Dear readers,

You may know the "Maharishi Foundation, Ltd." legally threatened us for alleged copyright violations because I publicly posted Transcendental Meditation Movement insider emails. Emails that they had requested be forwarded to all interested parties! (You can read the redacted versions at http://tmfree.blogspot.com ). Just look for recent posts with FBI-style blackened text.)

How do you spell Transcendental Meditation? S-c-i-e-n-t-o-l-o-g-y!

But we are not without defenses! You, readers, are my secret weapon.

Please consider posting about this attack on your Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter streams. Or emailing to any friend that may have a sincere interest.

Together we can stop their outrageous attempts to silence critics by shedding light on TM's dark secrets through public knowledge.

Here's the tweet I'm hoping will be retweeted to make their outrageous attack on free speech viral.

Transcendental Meditation trying to silence critics. Pls help! RT to make outrageous legal threats viral. http://bit.ly/FEfN2

 

Would you consider posting such a message to your social networking accounts or email list?

If you do post a message, please let me know.


Thanks for all your support!

 

J.

John M. Knapp, LMSWJohn M. Knapp, LMSWJohn M. Knapp, LMSW
Recovery from Toxic Groups, Abusive Churches & Cults
KnappFamilyCounseling.com
Follow me on Twitter:jmknapp53


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