new-religious-movement-leaders

"Realizing Oneness opens up chances for a new culture of consciousness: Right in the middle of the crisis of our image of man: a new ethics of freedom. Consciousness as a Theory of Everything for Peace."

"Absolute consciousness has nothing to do with the body. It is transcendental. Behind the mind, behind the intelligence. Absolute consciousness is natural Being, the ground and basis of Being. Here always."

"The question ‘Who is the Seer?’ destroys all illusions. It is as if made for us. We have such a longing for sensual experience, physical and emotional joy. We organize our entire lives in such a way as to experience happiness and joy. But happiness and joy are always part of duality, they are always bound up with disappointment and suffering. The seer is beyond duality. He is free."

"Conducts Satsangs — gatherings in truth — where participants may spend long periods in silence, confronting the mind’s restlessness. (Vital.de, 2010)"

"Silence is the primal ground. In silence there is the greatest agency, ultimate power. In silence, everything occurs. … Silence underlies all of these things, and this is why it is the most powerful of all."

"It is about self-knowledge and the most important question of all: Who am I?"

"Mind is a monkey hopping around the universe in search of bananas and pretty sunsets, happy to be caressed and to have the lice removed from its fur. You are truth, peace, freedom. Love. If you let the monkey be your queen, it’s you who are the ape!"

"Described as teaching Jnana Yoga, or the Yoga of knowledge, with the aim of calming the mind and guiding participants toward deeper self-understanding. (Vital.de, 2010)"

"The transpersonal Self is the sole everlasting reality, which is peace and silent joy."

"Everything you have ever experienced came to you through your organs of sense: eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. True essence cannot be experienced by means of the senses or the mind."

"Delving into the Eternal and Absolute in the Here and Now reveals the Self—unlimited Consciousness."

"Without love in your heart, you will drift endlessly across this planet and will never find fulfillment."

"Silence is the highest teaching. Truth cannot be described in words, but can be transmitted in silence."

"My Father, if it is Your Will that I should receive thorns again, but already on my heart, and go further down the path of sorrow, then let it be according to Your Will and not according to my desire, and I will continue to glorify Your Name to the best of my ability, in spite of the evil hissing of the puppets and the Antichrist! May the mockers, false witnesses and persecutors of the Accomplishment of Your Will be put to shame and turn to dust! Let Your Glory be, and let Your Kingdom be established on Earth for the salvation and the benefit of the human race, Your children."

"Bitter Winter: You have written very personally about Vissarion. How would you describe him to someone who has never met him? Katya [Palkina]: I say this after meeting many respected teachers in the East: he is the most whole, luminous, and deeply humane person I have encountered. There is nothing authoritarian or manipulative in him. Nothing of the power‑hungry guru. His wisdom is profoundly practical. It teaches how to build a home, raise children, cultivate the land, and build relationships with love. His teaching is not a religion of the past. It is a guide to the future—a future humanity is desperately searching for."

"Vissarion’s teachings combine Christian beliefs typical of Russian new religious movements with elements of esotericism and New Age. He asserts that God, the Unifying Principle, creates the universe through an energy known as Qi in China and Prana in India. According to his teachings, the universe operates under the Law of Opportunity, which posits that each living entity primarily acts in its interests, and secondarily for the system as a whole and for others. A key consequence of this principle is the Law of the Boomerang, akin to the principle of karma, which states that individuals will reap what they sow. Vissarion teaches that Earth is a living entity deserving of reverence."

"This is poa, understand? Do meditation. Repeat the phrase 'It was nice to be blessed by the guru, Shiva and those who have attained the Supreme Truth,' ten thousand times."

"Let us look at the situation of Aum Shinrikyo now. When did the slaying happen to Aum? It began when Aum got involved in the election and declared freedom, equality, and benevolence for every being, especially for the Japanese, spreading the hospice movement and campaigning against the consumption tax at the same time. Since then, just like a Lamb who was slain, Aum has sacrificed its honor and position in society for the sake of its teaching."

"It is time for you to carry out the plan of salvation. Let us prepare to meet our death without any regrets."

"It will be possible to limit the destruction if Aum works to produce large numbers of people who have reached gedatsu. The number of those who die at Armageddon will then be no more than a quarter of the world's population.... At present, though, my plan for salvation is behind schedule and the percentage of those who will survive is getting lower and lower. It is already impossible to limit the victims to less than one-fourth."

"For the first time I stopped and thought, "What am I living for? What must I do to overcome this sense of emptiness?" This is a feeling which we all experience from time to time, only not as intensely. In a situation like that some people will change jobs, and some people just disappear. However, I set off in a completely different direction. The desire to seek after the ultimate awoke within me, and I began groping for an answer. That meant that I had to discard everything. Yes, everything that I had. It took great courage and faith, and great resolution."

"In my previous existence, I myself have killed someone at my guru's order. When your guru orders you to take someone's life, it's an indication that that person's time is already up. In other words, you are killing that person exactly at the right time and thereby letting that person have his poa."

"You can love all people. The ability to see all things as they are immediately brings one happiness."

"Once you've achieved satori then you realize what you need to do now, or just what this thing called life is. Then you lose all interest in money. After all, you've realized that there is something much more important than that. How can I live each day to the full? How can I live in such a way as to seek after absolute freedom, absolute happiness and joy, which is what the true self really desires? Gradually you begin to focus on these points. Then you begin training and head towards gedatsu."

"We have to prevent those of false gedatsu from wielding any influence over people. For that reason I think I will have to show you eventually the true state and power of one who has attained gedatsu, as a kind of touchstone."

"It is not wrong to presume that people today would obtain their rebirth in hell, or the realms of preta or animal, is it? The reason why is that they kill living beings, steal other people's belongings, pursue obscenities, lie, and drink alcohol. It is better to think that there is no means to redeem them anymore."

"Since then I have continually increased the severity of my practice and have been able to investigate thoroughly the final stage of yoga. This is nothing else than the goal that I have set for myself. When I reached that stage, however, I realized that there are still more stages beyond, and I could not be satisfied. And so I began searching again."

"You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish. He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake..."

"Suppose there was someone who would accumulate bad karma and go to hell if allowed to live. And suppose an enlightened individual thought that it was better to terminate the person's life and gave the person poa ... Objectively speaking, it is a destruction of life.... However, based on the notion of Vajrayana, it is no other than respectable poa."

"... to dedicate one's bodily existence... For example, oppression from the government would be directed toward the supreme truth. Can you throw your body away? You might discard your own body. You throw it away without hesitation. This is the way of Tantra to dedicate one's body... It is the way of Tantra to abandon oneself for the sake of spiritual maturity."

"The end justifies the means. Let's say there's a man whose vices are so many that he is certain to go to hell when he dies. If an enlightened individual determines that it's best to put an end to his life sooner and actually goes ahead and kills him, this act would be seen as plain murder in society in general. But in the light of our doctrine, the killing amounts to letting the man have his poa. As such, any enlightened person will see at once that both the killer and the person to be killed are going to benefit from the act."

"If the Bible is true, then I'm Christ... But so what? Look at 2,000 years ago. What's so great about being Christ? A man nailed to the cross. A man of sorrow acquainted with grief. You know, being Christ ain't nothing."

"Now go contrary to that revelation of truth, and I guarantee you I'll kill you one day."

"What if God was trying to offer you a way out of a ... present oncoming disaster of this nation, what if God has a witness to this nation because God is ready to deliverate [sic] his people ... from the bands and the rulerships of all nations, and what if God is really going to set up his kingdom like they did in ancient times. ... and what if God is ready to judge the nations ... as foretold by these prophets?"

"We're in this period of time now, aren’t we? But any day it could be cut short in righteousness. No one knows when it will be. It could be today, it could be tomorrow, you see? It could be next week."

"Koehl's primary legacy, however, lies less in his contributions to American National Socialism than in his example of survival in the vortex of a movement famous for its tendency to devour its own."

"These prophecies, which have been for so many years in discrepancy with one another were not designed ever to be fulfilled in the days of these prophets.... Today the prophecies remain dead because people of today are not honest with themselves to read a passage of scripture, and then come to the proper conclusion of what this prophet is saying."

"It's true that what I teach is the true interpretation of the Bible. It's so true that people for the first time in their life can understand the complexity of scripture. That's my work and that's my mission."

"I know you don't want to talk religion, but that's all I am is religion."

"The ones who believe the seventh seal believe in Cyrus to deliver them from captivity. The message of Cyrus, the angel that ascends from the east, that same person who is also compassed with iniquity and infirmity, that same person is going to be able to stand before Christ and explain to Christ why we are so bad the way we are. That’s why in the message of Revelation 18:1, Babylon is fallen, is fallen."

"We are entering into a period of time where the Bible is going to be understood by somebody."

"There's a hidden secret. God today has a plan contrary to any human planning. It's a plan to destroy mankind in a way that they've never known, a way that he can save them, and we're privileged to break down the walls of human wisdom."

"Repeating, repeating, again and again His ultimate wisdom through many different facets. This is the way God teaches. As we've been learning the prophets over and over again, every different prophet is saying the same thing."

"If you don’t follow the truth you['re] going to hell! Psalms 90! You'd better start fearing God, 'cause he’s going to burn you in the lowest hell! His love! He's trying to show you he’s gonna kill you! If you don’t listen! Listen to [the] Lord! You don’t know his fear now. You don't know his terror yet! You haven’t seen his anger. But you go ahead and dare Him! ... Do you hear?! Do you understand? It's war. These governments of this world are coming to an end. The minds of men are going to be focused on a fact! Go ahead and laugh! Go ahead and muse in your minds. And see what happens to you, fools!"

"I'll prove who I am, by showing you who God is."

"Look, this is life, this is life and death ... theology really is life and death."

"You might say she's Guinea and I'm Pig. We are guinea pigs in the sense that we are here to show how man, the caterpillar, can become a butterfly in the next kingdom."

"First of all, a red-hot energy is released from the mūlādhāra chakra in the coccyx and travels up along the backbone, entering the sahasrāra chakra at the top of the head. After that, kundalinī travels up through the sushumna channel, which connects the perineum with the sahasrāra chakra. Then kundalinī passes through the sādhisthāna chakra (genitals) to the manipūra chakra (navel), on to the anāhata chakra (chest) and then through the vishuddha chakra (throat), and a spiritual awakening occurs."

"Let me tell you straight, those who think that this world is full of pleasure are not suited for our practice. For their lives have not yet come to the dead end that provides the impetus for spiritual practice. Only after experiencing suffering are they ready to start practice. [...] when you come to the end of this process, when you run into that dead end, that's when you begin to experience suffering. That's when you become keenly aware of the suffering of being reborn into this world, the meaningless of it all. It is because your true self has accumulated many experiences that finally you become aware of this."

"[Neo-Nazi skinheads are] homeless orphans, the pitiful product of alienation and anomie in a society which they correctly perceive as offering them nothing but hostility and hopelessness ... the crude rage of the disenfranchised. Their reaction is to strike out—here and now—to get it out of their systems, regardless of any possible consequences. But using their bald heads as battering rams, rather than instruments of higher thought, is hardly a recipe for success. Such immature behavior tends toward puerile yahooism, moronic spectacle and worse, and is therefore counterproductive to the efforts of any constructive cause."