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I was scammed big time by a fake religion
I have a doozy to tell you. This is real. I didn't make it up. I got scammed, really bad.
There is an outfit called Eckankar that has lied to me for years. My friend that runs a cult exposure network emailed the following to me. I didn't believe it. I spent months emailing and calling around to verify what they wrote me about. Most of it was dated. It was hard to piece together. I was concerned over defamation. Wow the entire account has been authenticated. I will try to simplify it.
This information comes from the United States and is connected to activity, happening, also abroad. It pertains to donations contributed to Eckankar. With my own donations taken for years, then used to hurt me with that.
I just couldn't believe that I had been scammed, so badly. Victimized, right under my nose. With the RESA there, smiling to my face, and holding my evolution back, but profiting himself, financially! There is a whole network of them taking charitable donations and then pocketing them for their private use:
Eckankar’s All Star List of Big League Money Fixers
Anthony Gneck is a Shorin Ryu Karate Master trained by William Chow, whose mentor was a convicted criminal called James Mitose, a good friend and collaborator with Paul Twitchell, in creating the original beginnings of Eckankar.
Gneck took his number one student who followed him to Nuremberg, Germany. To, further Eckankar’s aims of hiding their non charitable business assets; that in fact were going into the pockets of Eckankar higher-ups. Whom, were not using said, for any spiritual reasons, but to become well off at the expense of, Eckankar’s paying chelas.
Gneck, who was a former Marine veteran and also C. I. A. operative in Vietnam, had been a former teacher of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club.
After a massive heart attack Gneck, became a member of Eckankar. He, then moved into parts of Germany to help out Real Estate licensed, Eckankar members; who are in effect, land barons.
Gneck, was used in the hiding of Eckankar’s non charity designated money; as capital converted then, in the money laundering capital of the world, being, Stockdorf Germering and Gauting, in the republic of Germany.
Oh, by the way, Tony (Anthony) Gneck supposedly died over twenty years ago in Asia, from a lethal death blow made to his head. Yet, he has been spotted all over Bavaria, and throughout Germany.
Gneck, was raised from the dead on a Paper Trip, (ID change) by one, Jerry Francis Fay, a Life Member of Eckankar; as well as one, Greg Walter Zimmerman.
Greg Walter Zimmerman whom, is an escaped murder from the U. S. A., that is wanted on an Interpol Red Notice, but is also a Life Member of Eckankar whom, is a high level Scientologist now, as well.
Zimmerman, survives in expensive Europe and also the U. S. A. mainly as an under the table steroid infused, bodyguard. He gets his legal steroids from the U.K., from which he is a legal resident, from his marriage of, connivence, wife.
Steroids, that Zimmerman illegally sells in Germany, and the United States, as a highly paid bodyguard; looking after wanted Eckankar member witnesses, which are being sought by German and American legal authorities, over further needed evidence of, illegal Real Estate tampering, and money, laundering, in Europe and, in the United States. Authorities alerted, of crimes by Eckankar officers, operating on behalf of, Eckankar.
In case you don’t know it, Eckankar is a made up spiritual path fantasied, originally, and then put together by its creator, Paul Jacob Twitchell; a former writer for Stars and Stripes magazine. Also, Twitchell (now deceased) a former but still very active Scientologist and a past member of the Radha Soami as well as Self Realization Fellowship, paths.
Twitchell’s wife, threatened to leave the Eckankar’s fantasy based creator, if he didn’t come up with a big money maker of sorts. His then wife, Gail Anderson, had paid for all of his outstanding bills. Until said that is, sprouted his successful creation, as the current day Eckankar company, which is situated now in Chanhassen Minnesota .
But, then, Gail Anderson left her flakey poverty stricken husband she had financed over some years to party with Darwin Gross a former Portland area jazz musician and an electronics engineer for Epson; who she later appointed as a legal maneuver to successfully take over Twitchell’s, fantastic fantasy path.
Yet, the general public has never been informed at all, about the fact that Twitchell, never initiated an Eckankar master replacement, for his Hubbard collaborated facsimile; as a necessary physical and not spiritual act, brought forward as a lineage, phenomena.
To, this, historical fact, mentioned above, and moving forward in time, is the Hu restaurant. Hu a popular place for brainwashed Eckists to converge on, after being fleeced of their funds from Arahata training programs held in Germering, Germany. Germering, a city some twelve miles, from Munich.
The Hu eatery in practice, working escaped Chinese nationals from Hong Kong and other Chinese mainland areas, who labor in droves at this restaurant on its slave labor programs offered them, to get out of communist, China.
Unbeknownst to the public, is the fact that this Hu restaurant launders Jerry Fay and Greg Walter Zimmerman’s real estate cash proceeds, on behalf of Eckankar based money laundering schemes. But, also, has provided documents of escape for those workers at the named restaurant; that holds said, there, until their debt is paid, in full.
Fay, already mentioned throughout, has Real Estate holdings in North Korea. Jerome Francis Fay also holds lucrative real estate lots located just outside of Portland, Oregon, which the Eckankar corporation, is a beneficiary to. Benefits in terms of workable liquid assets that can be moved quite, quickly, locally or abroad.
As a further side note, Greggy Zimmerman has laundered millions of Euros through this Hu restaurant on behalf of his elderly Mother, whom has spendy real estate holdings located within Laguna Beach and also other areas of Southern California as well.
Jeanne Klein, Zimmerman’s Mother, hides out in an old folks home in Gauting, and also Nurnberg at this time; where she regularly sneers at special branch constitutional authorities in Germany casing her, cementing a dossier on her, and the Scientology plus Eckankar Life Member ordained son, on the lam.
Moreover an Eckankar high initiate practicing osteopath who holds an office and staff at a popular clinic down the road from the train station in Pasing.
A singled out further dubious, Eckankar high initiate, as one further nasty character there regularly for a high fee passing on derogatory made up medical records on marked Eckankar dissidents. Thus, altering their medical records so that these identified dissidents can be held indefinitely, in German prisons situated throughout Germany.
Unlike the United States, England and other civilized countries, persons, can be held in German jails and prisons just on word alone, and not by due process.
So, the Eckankar corporation operating on the sly in Germany and other countries in Europe such as Romania for instance; has made friends with medicine, and practicing court room attorneys; to silence and hold Eckankar dissidents inside jails and prisons there indefinitely.
Thus, the clandestine shady Eckankar corporation usually vies for legal labeling of insanity pleas; or otherwise, as their pet incrimination on, problematic non compliers.
That’s why in recent history the majority of Eckankar legal cases hold their dissidents in jails and prisons on insanity mandates; outside of due process.
The sickly labelling gets a non compliant Eckankar inmate to be put inside; as a permanent stay even in such places as the constitutionally protected, United States.
Back to our Pasing Germany area osteopath who regularly funnels his large sums of paper cash through the very usueful HU restaruant. An Eckankar high initiate osteopath doctor also making records that employees there in the restaruant are fit to work. This, even taking place, during Covid days!
As, has already been mentioned, the useful good German doctor works at trying to get rid of noncompliers to this Eckankar mafia style members only club. Consequently mandates usually being randomly spun as an excessive hate at misbehaving members not controlled by demeaning, cultish company rhetoric.
The Doc, thereby passes fraudulent medical details onto German legal authorities in the hopes of getting these misbehaving Eckankar members, trashed and done away with, for good.
Doc, who also passes this intel onto the Eckankar Church’s intel branch, held in its foreboding temple located in Chanhassen, Minnesota. This, Eckankar Temple holds its noncomplying members ‘F’ records; outside usual far effective reach, of the United States Federal Governments, Justice Department. Moreover, has moved the whereabouts of its only, Eckankar represented attorney, as an unknown location?
Andrea Shnider, has been Germany’s Boss of Eckankar. Working there for Reise Bank in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt, is Europe’s Banking Capital, where Schider has gathered the names and credit Information of Eckankar members throughout Germany as well as others, whom, have large sums of available cash.
This regional Eck Spiritual Aide and other Eckankar representatives that will approach these designated donors, already looked at on paper, as high rollers; to become Eckankar substantial paying members.
With, this same mentioned credit information, Boss Schneider and her conniving pals, can press still other more chintzy Eckankar members, for even higher cash donations refused by them, in the past. Donations not readily available to give, that said have so far refused to make, to the Eckankar church.
Donations such as the ones already mentioned overall as those having built the Eckankar temple, at a village on the far outside stretches of Frankfurt am Main.
Donations made by the faithful who reached into deep pockets; expecting a return on their money, invested in such. Outsiders, discovering, as abundant donator’s, the well revealed made up Eckankar story, which, may cause some of them to revert to murder, perhaps? David Lane PhD could have had a run in by people like this, when he published his classic book, on Paul Twitchell’s, Eckankar?
In relation to this is Scientology that was exposed for basically supposedly robbing its parishioners to the point of bankruptcy, in places like Germany; but Eckankar, which is Scientology in an already proven clandestine form, has managed to avoid any detection for decades, while doing terrible damage to its non complying members, not following Chanhassen’s, cult orders.
A Federal lawsuit was executed against Eckankar in the United States, supported by the United States government, a number of years ago. A legal case as a willing, to be looked at, by the Feds; involving many damaged members. Some, whom petitioned the case before the United States, were again pegged as basically being insane. Mentally deranged, so said, could be imprisoned.
Others, who had petioned the Gov, that crimes had been committed against them, were then deported to their home countries of origin way outside of American borders where they could have caused lots of damage, to Twitchell’s, fully made up, esoteric organization.
A nonprofit supposedly IRS compliant Eckankar Church mentioned, now kept afloat by dubious real estate deals made from abroad by Eckankar members hiding out in other international jurisdictions.
Germany Romania Switzerland France England as Jurisdictions mentioned . Authorities, unaware of said, illegal real estate deals, forwarded, as cash flows to, the Eckankar church in Chanhassen. Not for its membership though but for the private business interests of investment profiteers as outsiders; making money on the inside from members situated as paying, membership dues pawns, used. But, said, members, knowingly getting cash in hand kickbacks from their participation in these business schemes, using high initiates with full knowledge as numerous Eckankar officers.
Matilda Tobbler is a high initiate in Eckankar who was recommended to that position by her mentor, as a higher up in London’s, Eckankar hierarchy of compliant parishioners. The mentor completely stunned and sickened later on by her past decision to sponsor this women who became a cash mule, for Eckankar.
Tobbler thus has been dabbling in legal studies ever since she moved her corporate signature out of Switzerland, and on into hiding cash in the cracks, Germany.
Tobbler moving her ‘Swiss Signature’ so as to rub shoulders with other Eckankar executives, aiming to control the monetary resources of its miserly, last hold out, members; as well as to recruit those displaying high figures, in their credit scores, situated in Germany. Thus, to make said holdouts, prime targets for Eckankar’s, recruitment. Sounds like some of the supposed, stories, of Scientology, doesn’t it.
Furthermore, Tobler, has regularly spied out Eckankar members to ruin them, in her home country, if they had gotten out of line; meaning her-line of narrow cult thinking.
Eventually, though, Tobler has been run out of Switzerland with fire on her tail because the Swiss authorities are less lenient on pseudo churches, aiming for their member’s, monetary resources.
Germany now is where Tobler gets the most cash, by importing her dubious practices from Switzerland where she was run out of town; into Germany, under the noses of Constitutional Authorities in this republic, unawareness of her activities there to launder cash from illicit real estate deals and send, it on to the Eckankar Church, in the United States of America.
Rajeev Sharma named next is an adherent of getting pegged (his nick name is peggy) by his female companions. Regardless, of such unreliable heresay, Sharma has had, an ongoing subservient glow about him, situating him to write multiple letters to the Eckankar leader, whom; finally decided to take a chance on Sharma; thus do his monetary and also information gathering work, throughout Europe and also Northern California, where Rajeev’s relatives own very high real estate holdings, merging across state lines into, conservative Oregon.
Sharma was moved free of charge from London to the Munich area to suss out the local Eckankar members, and then report them to Eckankar headquarters in Chanhassen.
Thus, Sharma has been useful in reporting bad guys to the current Eckankar leader who has attacked said, day and night, with Eckankar techniques in an attempt to quiet them. Maybe, even, of them?
Something, the current leader had also done to those that attempted to follow another former Eckankar master, who had been thrown out of Eckankar, after a dispute he had made with the current leader, over getting a pay issue sorted out. As well as womanizing, and alcohol and pharmaceutical drug, overuse.
In like kind, Eckankar members who also raised concern over this pay issue of the former Eckankar master, were summarily attacked with what the industry calls, “Black Magic. Many of these persons died coincidently, while others, became gravely ill.
Check out California Arizona Nevada Oregon and Minnesota medical records, it’s all there. Legal Evidence, of wrong doing by the current Eckankar administration now in power was so alarming at its breeching point in the 1980s; that the camp in charge had to move out of state to avoid prosecution of their designated chief executives.
Prosecution, due to, a very large array of felony chargeable legalities being lodged against them; inclusive of copyright theft and an alteration of local, set, in house, corporate by-laws.
To, this, potential harm was definitely there in place to strike down just installed Eckankar officers then, and in the future.
Subsequently, internal corporate changes have been made over decades to shift wording; thus any potential prosecution for those past multiple violations of established corporate law mandates; that were operating presently, when it’s charity incorporation took place, furthered from origin in time to future potential prosecutions by legal authorities carefully examining inconsistencies in, corporate compliance, and otherwise.
Perhaps, it wouldn’t be all so bad or even sneaky, if said church corporation was actually spiritual, but obviously, it is not. Eckankar’s, aim, is more a psychological control of its membership, done, in completely mean ways; meant to harm and hinder its paying out the Ying-Yang, parishioners.
The whole structure of Eckankar currently is set up to injure, not create spiritual enlightenment, of its paying members and initiates. The founder himself, of Eckankar, was less intense about making money.
This, previous behavior, on the part of the creator of Eckankar, Paul Jacob Twitchell, seems diametrically opposite to the current leadership which is completely lost from its founder’s starting spiritual principles lodged deeply at its forefront despite the new age religion writer’s, copious acts of excessive plagiarism
Major plazerism, which has caused current leadership in Eckankar to take those copies of copying other writer’s works, out of circulation, permanently. Regardless, Twitchell was less apt to injure. Currently, Eckankar Chanhassen doesn’t give a s**t.
Forward, onto, Eckankar high initiate Lela Arivello as a health nut and an Real Estate licensed broker formerly of Palm Springs, California. Her son used to launder money for the Italian mob in Palm Springs via a parking lot, rental scheme.
Sonny, has recently joined his Mom in Germany to help her out along with another Real Estate man, wanted for murder in the United States, called, Greg Walter Zimmerman. Whom, just happens to be friends with still yet another Real Estate Tycoon from Portland Oregon named, Jerry Fay. Fay, having right of abode within Germany because of his original non-adoptive, birth, there.
These named persons being the three amigos, Lela, Greggy and Jerry, amongst many others, with similar credentials; have worked the laws in Germany to acquire property for Eckankar, there. One, such property holding which has been an acquirement, is the Eckankar temple, situated outside of Frankfurt am Main.
Oh, gee wiz, did I mention that Zimmerman and Fay are, associated with having, a life membership, in the Eckankar church? Greggy runs funds though through the gypsy league of Munich, and then streams the rest through Scientology in Germany. Greggy is a well known murderous nutter, wanted by the police everywhere.
Zimmerman, Fay, and Arivello, go way back. The trio themselves having been brokers in a whole series of schemes that they have participated in together; while appearing nonchalant in the public eye.
Fay, being a general contractor and painter, Zimmerman and his Mother Jeanne Klein, being silent partners fronting cash to illegal businesses up, and down, Europe. With said Ma Arivello working at a low end Aldi store in a village outside of Munich piling up dosh in her company locker along with apples and sandwiches resting on, international currencies inside the steel compartment .
Sonny, Arivello’s boy, one day, being observed retrieving a large black duffle bag of rifles and manchine-guns from a boating shed during a winter storm; all the while sneering aggressively when he realized a government agent had been watching him; in his gun running retrieval that was heading towards snowed in, Austria. The alps too covered over by snow to be patrolled that day by German Austrian and Italian customs officers.
Sonny Arivello having scurried away in his waiting running compact Fiat, to speed away without snow chains. Then, the car, eventually crossing over the border into Italy to his employers, requiring they’re already paid for Martian, hardware.
Thus, all Eckankar members to whatever extent, are guarded by a brick and mortar shield of pseudo nonprofit sanctuary; yet eating their donated funding nonetheless, by scattered confusing efforts rarely displayed, outright. This clandestine activity train therefore made by movers and shakers bending and breaking legal limits to accommodate dark forces, vamping off, a hypnotized membership.
Constellated Eckankar players feeding the big hungry dinosaur in Chanhassen with a rabid appetite. An unconcerned cult not disturbed over the bodies falling under a heavy weight of servitude. But, consequently, being extremely punishing in its effect on victims, who unknowingly are supplying fuel to the growing all consuming Moloch fire eating cash paying, fodder.
Blah blah blah… where is my report headed? Why, has so much structure been applied to the building of an Eckankar church, where, in the beginning this was not in the least bit necessary? So, then, why is such structure, necessary now? Why, then, so many worded structural changes in Eckankar doctrine, to affect the use of such in its application to the world at large, as well as to its Eckankar membership?
Here-say, initially wiped out the reputation of a man and his minion corps, as associates. Revealed, in an Portland located Federal court happening, about a decade later, after the fact.
Destruction, then, carried out over employment contracts drugs alcohol bed hopping, and so much cigarette smoking, that Virginia made this man in question, an honorary citizen.
They, all lost the plot. All, of them. Eckankar parishioners are submerged in it, now. They, are all, drowning. Nothing, is left, of its spirited, and original paradigm.
I can't tell people who might make contact with Eckankar, what to do. Eckankar, is not, what it says, it is.
It may not be about exposing Eckankar, or shutting it down.
Scientology, which parented Eckankar, exists and thrives as does, Eckankar. But, the public, you, really need to understand, the people who are running this outfit. They, them, are twisted, and if you participate with them, you will become twisted too. For sure.
I got scammed. But, you can avoid it.
Recommendation: Don’t Use This Outfit To Try To Get Any Enlightenment
Eckankar Complaints 12
Told me a lie when it was made up, invested my donation for personal gain and victimized me
I have a doozy to tell you. This is real. I didn't make it up. I got scammed, really bad. There is an outfit called Eckankar that has lied to me for years. My friend that runs a cult exposure network emailed the following to me. I didn't believe it. I spent months emailing and calling around to verify what they wrote me about. Most of it was dated. It was hard to piece together. I was concerned over defamation. Wow the entire account has been authenticated. I will try to simplify it. This information comes from the United States and is connected to activity happening also abroad. It pertains to donations contributed to Eckankar. With my own donations taken for years, then used to hurt me with that. I just couldn't believe I had been scammed so badly. Victimized right under my nose. With the RESA smiling to my face and holding my evolution back but profiting himself, financially! There is a whole network of them taking charitable donations and then pocketing them for private use:
Eckankar’s All Star List of
Big League Money Fixers
Tony Gneck, a Kenpo Karate Master, whose mentor was friends with Paul Twitchell; and his student, followed him to Nuremberg Germany to thereby further Eckankar’s aims, of hiding their non chairitable business assets; going into the pockets of Eckankar higher-ups, not using said, for any spiritual reasons, but to become well off at the expense of, paying chelas.
Gneck, a former Marine veteran and CIA operative in Vietnam, had been a former teacher of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club. After a massive heart attack Gneck, became a member of Eckankar. He then moved into parts of Germany to help out Real Estate licensed, Eckankar members; who are in effect, land barons. Gneck, used in the hiding of Eckankar’s non charity designated money; capital converted then in the money laundering capital of the world being, Stockdorf, Germering, and Gauting, Germany.
Oh, by the way, Tony Gneck supposedly died over twenty years ago in Asia from a lethal death blow to his head. Yet, he has been spotted all over Bavaria. Gneck was raised from the dead by one Jerry Fay, a life member of Eckankar; as well as one, Greg Walter Zimmerman, an escaped murder and also, former, life member of Eckankar whom, is a high level Scientologist now.
In case you don’t know it, Eckankar is a made up spiritual path fantasied and then put together, by Paul Twitchell; a former writer, for Stars and Stripes magazine. Also Twitchell a former Scientologist and past member of the Radha Soami and Self Realization Fellowship paths.
Twitchell’s wife threatened to leave him if he didn’t come up with a money maker. Gail Anderson, Twitchell’s wife, paid all of his bills, until said sprouted his creation, as Eckankar. Then, Anderson, left him, to party with Darwin Gross who was later appointed by Anderson to, take over Twitchell’s fantastic, fantasy path.
To this historical fact moving forward in time, is the Hu restaurant, a popular place for Eckists to converge after being fleeced of their funds from Arahata training programs held in Germering, Germany. The Hu, working escaped Chinese nationals from Hong Kong who labor in droves at this restruant, on slave labor programs offered them, to get out of China.
This, Hu restaurant, which launders Jerry Fay and Greg Walter Zimmerman’s real estate cash proceeds on behalf of Eckankar money laundering schemes; also has provided documents of escape for those workers at the named restaurant; that holds said, until their debt is paid. Fay has Real Estate holdings in North Korea. Fay, also holds lucrative real estate lots just outside of Portland, Oregon, that Eckankar is a beneficiary to, in terms of workable, liquid assets which can be moved quickly.
Zimmerman, has laundered millions through this Hu restaurant on behalf of his Mother, who has spendy real estate holdings in Laguna Beach, California. Moroeover, a high Eckankar initiate, osteopath, in Pasing, singled out, as one dubious character there; regularly for a fee, passes on derogatory made up medical records on marked Eckankar dissidents. The osteopath regularly funnels his large sums of paper cash through, the HU.
The good doctor also works at trying to get rid of non-compliers, to the Eckankar mafia club. He thus passes fraudulent medical details onto the German authorities in the hopes of getting these misbehaving Eckankar members trashed and done away with. Doc, also passes this intel onto the Eckankar church in Chanhassen.
Andrea Shnider, has been Germany’s Boss of Eckankar. Working there for Reise Bank in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt is Europe’s Banking Capital where Schider has gathered the names and credit Information of Eckankar members throughout Germany as well as others, whom, have large sums of available cash.
This regional Eck Spiritual Aide and other Eckankar representatives who will approach these designated doners, already looked at on paper, as high rollers; to become Eckankar substantial paying members.
With this same mentioned credit information, Boss Schneider and her conniving pals, can press still other more chintzy Eckankar members, for even higher cash donations refused by them, in the past. Donations not readily available to give that said have so far refused to make, to the Eckankar church. Donations such as the ones already mentioned overall as those having built the Eckankar temple, at a village on the far outside stretches of Frankfurt am Main. Donations made by the faithful who reached into deep pockets; expecting a return on their money, invested in such. Outsiders, discovering the donator’s made up Eckankar story may cause some of them to revert to, murder, perhaps? David Lane PhD could have had a run in by people like this when he published his classic book on Paul Twitchell’s, Eckankar?
In relation to this is Scientology that was exposed for basically supposedly robbing its parishioners to the point of bankruptcy, in places like Germany; but Eckankar, which is Scientology in an already proven clandestine form, has managed to avoid any detection for decades, while doing terrible damage to its non complying members, not following Chanhassen, cult orders.
A federal lawsuit was executed against Eckankar in the United States a number of years ago, by damaged members, some of whom were pegged as basically insane; so they could be imprisoned and then deported to their home countries of origin way outside of American borders; where they could have caused lots of damage to Twitchell’s, made up, esoteric organization. A church now, kept afloat by dubious real estate deals made from abroad by Eckankar members hiding out; in other international jurisdictions. Jurisdiction authorities, unaware of said, illegal real estate deals, forwarded, as cash to, the Eckankar church in Chanhassen. Not for its membership, but for the private business interests of investment, profiteers.
Matilda Tobbler a high initiate in Eckankar recommended to that position by her mentor, a higher up in London’s, Eckankar hierarchy of compliant parishioners; has been dabbling in legal studies ever since she moved her corporate signature out of Switzerland, into Germany. So, as to, rub shoulders with other Eckankar executives, aiming to control the monetary resources of its miserly, last hold out, members; as well as to recruit those displaying high figures, in their credit scores. Thus, making said holdouts, prime targets for Eckankar, recruitment. Sounds like some of the supposed, stories, of Scientology, doesn’t it.
Furthermore, Tobler, has regularly spied out Eckankar members to ruin them, in her home country, if they had gotten out of line; meaning her-line of narrow cult thinking. Eventually, though, Tobler has been run out of Switzerland with fire on her tail because the Swiss authorities are less lenient on pseudo churches aiming for their member’s, monetary resources.
Rajeev Sharma is an adherent of getting pegged (his nick name is peggy) by his female companions. Regardless, of such unreliable heresay, Sharma has had, an ongoing subservient glow about him, situating him to write multiple letters to the Eckankar leader, whom; finally decided to take a chance on Sharma; thus do his monetary and also information gathering work, throughout Europe and also Northern California where Rajeev’s relatives own very high real estate holdings, merging across state lines into, Oregon.
Sharma was moved free of charge from London to the Munich area to suss out the local Eckankar members and then report on them to Eckankar headquarters in Chanhassen.
Thus, Sharma has been useful in reporting bad guys to the current Eckankar leader who has attacked said, day and night, with Eckankar techniques in an attempt to quiet them. Maybe, even, off them?
Something, the current leader did, to those that attempted to follow another former Eckankar master, thrown out of Eckankar after a dispute he had with the current leader over getting a pay issue sorted out. As well as, alcohol and pharmaceutical drug, overuse.
In like kind, Eckankar members who also raised concern over this pay issue of the former Eckankar master, were summarily attacked with what the industry calls, “Black Magic. Many of these persons died coincidently, while others, became gravely ill.
Check out California Arizona Nevada Oregon and Minnesota medical records, it’s all there. Evidence of wrong doing by the current Eckankar administration now in power was so alarming at its breeching point in the 1980s; that the camp had to move out of state to avoid prosecution of their designated chief executives.
Prosecution, due to, a very large array of felony chargeable legalalities being lodged against them; inclusive of copywrite theft and an alteration of local, set, in house, corporate by-laws.
To, this, potential harm was definitely there to strike down just installed Eckankar officers then, and in the future. Subsequently, internal corporate changes have been made over decades to shift wording; thus any potential prosecution for those past multiple violations of established corporate law mandates; that were operating presently, when it’s charity incorporation took place, furthered from origin.
Perhaps, it wouldn’t be all so bad or even sneaky, if said church corporation was actually spiritual, but obviously, it is not. Eckankar’s, aim, is more a psychological control of its membership, done, in completely mean ways; meant to harm and hinder its paying out the Ying-Yang, parishioners.
The whole structure of Eckankar currently is set up to injure, not create spiritual enlightenment, of its paying members and initiates. The founder himself, of Eckankar, was less intense about making money; seems diametrically opposite to the current leadership which is completely lost, from its founder’s starting spiritual principles, lodged deeply at its forefront, despite his copious plazerism. Twitchell was less apt to injure, currently Eckankar Chanhassen, dosn’t give a [censored].
Eckankar high initiate Lela Arivello is a health nut, and a Real Estate licensed broker, formerly of Palm Springs, California. Her son used to launder money for the Italian mob in Palm Springs, through a parking lot, rental scheme.
Sonny, has recently joined his Mom in Germany to help her out along with another Real Estate man, wanted for murder in the United States, called, Greg Walter Zimmerman. Whom, just happens to be friends with still yet another Real Estate Tycoon from Portland Oregon named, Jerry Fay; having right of abode within Germany because of his original non-adoptive birth, there.
These named persons being the three amigos, Lela, Greggy and Jerry, amongst many others, with similar credentials; have worked the laws in Germany to acquire property for Eckankar, there. One such property holding which has been an aquirement, is the Eckankar temple, situated outside of Frankfurt am Main. Oh, gee wiz, did I mention that Zimmerman and Fay are, associated with having, a life membership, in the Eckankar church? Greggy runs funds though through the gypsy league of Munich, and then streams the rest through Scientology in Germany.
Zimmerman, Fay, and Arivello, go way back. The trio themselves having been brokers in a whole series of schemes that they have participated in together; while appearing non chalant in the public eye. Fay, being a general contractor and painter, Zimmerman and his mother Jeanne Klein being silent partners; fronting cash to illegal businesses up, and down, Europe. With said Ma Arivello working at a low end Aldi store in a village outside of Munich piling up dosh in her company locker along with an apples and sandwichs .
Sonny, Arivello’s boy, one day, being observed retrieving a large black duffle bag of rifles and manchine-guns from a boating shed during a winter storm; all the while sneering aggressively when he realized a government agent had been watching him; in his gun running retrieval that was heading towards snowed in, Austria. The alps too covered over by snow to be patrolled that day by German Austrian and Italian customs officers.
Sonny Arivello having scurried away in his waiting running compact Fiat, to speed away without snow chains; and then eventually crossing over the border into Italy to his employers, requiring their already paid for Martian, hardware.
Thus, all Eckankar members to whatever extent, are guarded by a brick and mortar shield of pseudo nonprofit sanctuary; yet eating their donated funding nonetheless, by scattered confusing efforts rarely displayed, outright. This clandestine activity train therefore made by movers and shakers bending and breaking legal limits to accomadate dark forces, vamping off, a hypnotized membership.
Constellated Eckankar players feeding the big hungry dinosaur in Chanhassen with a rabid appetite. An unconcerned cult not disturbed over the bodies falling under a heavy weight of servitude. But, consequently, being extremely punishing in its effect on victims, who unknowingly are supplying fuel to the growing all consuming fire.
Blah blah blah… where is my report headed? Why, has so much structure been applied to the building of an Eckankar church where in the beginning this was not in the least necessary. So, why is such structure necessary now? Why then so many worded structural changes in Eckankar doctrine to affect the use of such in its application to the world as well to Eckankar membership?
Here-say initially wiped out the reputation of a man and his minion corps associates; revealed in a Portland located Federal court about a decade later, after the fact. Destruction carried out over employment contracts, drugs, alcohol abuse, bed hopping, and so much cigarette smoking that Virginia made the guy in question, an honorary citizen. They all lost the plot. All of them. Eckankar parishioners are submerged in it now. They are all drowning. Nothing is left, of its spirited original paradigm.
I can't tell people who might make contact with Eckankar what to do. Eckankar is not what it says it
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I am writing about experiences had in Eckankar as it is the only option left open exposing leadership behind Eckankar continuing victimization of so many people.
Eckankar ruined me. I didn't know that was going to happen for many years. Because Eckankar was constructed day one to hide lies piled over with ongoing deception carried on into present time which I bought into. All this was aimed to overtake my intelligence, logic. What was left of my self-worth and belief in a higher power.
Why did I crash and burn? Because Hubbard had been in naval intelligence. He could be called on any time to aid clandestine projects, same as his partner in crime Twitchell, founder of Eckankar, also a former intelligence man. Twitchell was institutionalised and Hubbard medicated, then counselled, both for being insane.Twitchell’s plagiarised enhanced brainwashing on the sly then used and gone out of control. Eckankar misusing his formula, to reduce me and others down as high paying members. Yes over the years the costs for membership materials adds up big time.
Hubbard was blatant. But Eckankar always is subtle and sneaky. It has full control on the inside of its members. My mind was painted over to fulfil the needs of the organisation. Controlling my financial behaviour, and feelings, thoughts, and my soul. Eckankar members never find this out. They are totally enhanced with the organisation’s deception. So Eckankar stayed in my life through brainwashing.
Eckankar also stayed in my life as a menacing influence because it was given hidden donations from abroad. Many key Eckankar contributors are real estate developers that hold distant properties via corporations owned by them located outside the countries in which they hold the properties in.
The top country operating in cash only off the radar is Germany. Unaccounted for cash gets lost in the cracks as untraceable donations sent out to Eckankar. Eckankar sources own the largest temple of its kind in the world, outside the United States located in Germany.
Illicit tax write off Eckankar member foreigners domiciled on paper as distant parishioners in Germany coincide their inaccurate cash earnings as charitable contributions; back to Eckankar though an shadow based Siemens avionics, branch. They write off their taxes owed as a tax credit as though it is charity contributions made, from the USA.
No mater, Eckankar parishioners fixers ran for cover when they were exposed recently operating large scale real estate projects near Munich in the villages of Gauting and also Stockdorf where many Americas are housed. They then converged again in Herrsching to manage a new Eckankar training facility after doing due diligence to cover their tracks better from government observation .
Two Eckankar parishioners that did a runner, were former Hitler Yugen (Hitler Youth) during the Second World War. These elderly ladies were the top Eckankar administrators in Germany. One was seen with an Eckankar higher initiate (HI) from the States, speaking her concerns over Justice Department observations unravelling Eckankar’s threads, back to the USA carried out from one of these old woman’s houses in Germany.
The U.S. government has found it necessary to put their satellite converge on this area because of ongoing but illegal cash transactions engineered from the USA using Germany as its pet operating area. Second is Germering a suburb of Munich, used as another real estate development, Eckankar cash cow mover local. On the sly is sending undocumented funding back to Eckankar, that is not part of, Germany’s economic zone of operation. Sent back to the main Eckankar church in Chanhassen by tax write off parishioners, using an illicit loophole, to increase their billions.
Thus caught red handed on satellite imagery and audio was high Eckankar initiate Jerry Fay domiciled in Germany, amongst other locals. Fay a friend of the deceased dark real estate entrepreneur Jeffrey Epstein; told by Eckankar to become invisible. Fay’s customer base stretches from Nigeria to North Korea. Fay and other Eckankar parishioners own Sandwich franchises in Germany, used to employ undocumented illegals to send cash only illicit donations back to the main church in Chanhassen.
Fay is known to trade in real estate drugs and also small children. Clandestinely as a helping cash for higher hand to Fay, one of the Gypsy Councils in Germany uses child spotters in Germany to observe cars and license plates, known to be used by local policing authorities. Greg Walter Zimmerman a known felon and silent partner with Fay in one of his Subway Sandwich franchises, acts as a go-between with councils, in Germany, to supply children that are used to harass the police and investigators; at stores, restaurants and other facilities where these threatening persons are considered, getting too close. Intruders dealt with by extreme distractions.
Sachet, written about earlier as running the Eckankar Church in Germany has had her family involved in dubious Eckankar dabbling. With one of her nieces photographing with other Eckist’s helpers, threatening persons situated on trains and local coaches. Anywhere potential problem people congregate. This niece is married to Fay.
Sachet’s niece, a licensed German psychologist, writing up false reports on detractors her family considers are attacking Eckankar. Her Father an M.D. freely passing over his patient data, to the Eckankar Church. Although doing so is a crime he does this anyway. B.T.W, Germany, only recognises two Churches in the country for legal, and other government based purposes. Yet, Eckankar, operates, as though it is a Church there; unabated by any legal restrictions that would normally curtail their illicit behaviour in the country if they operated normally as other non-churches there did.
Eckankar has maliciously systematically with intent harmed others and myself. Dragging all down past the point of no return because the people at the top of this knew initially, and now, that their Church is and was, a complete scam constructed secretly out of Neville Goddard, Julian Johnson, L. Ron Hubbard, Paramahansa Yogananda, James Mitose and Alister Crowley the child violator. Mitose, was a trained assassin who ended up in prison.
Eckankar’s leader has said that no damage is being done to parishioners or the public in general because the essential nature of the religion made by Twitchell is still the same good thing. That of spreading truth light and spiritual sustenance, so no need to alter or disband it. Trashed me, but is recognised by the United States government as a bone fide religion, still hurting so many people. Spending years trying to fix myself, because I’d been an eckankar member.
To this, you only feel good in this church, if you get initiations as an outwardly directed mind control. Without these pats on the back bringing knee-jerk reactions one is made to believe, they are not making progress. Moreover happiness joy and all good then only comes from being that highly recognised Eckankar member. An approval, by significant dubious high initiates, like those I mentioned. Having a bountiful life then because of paying yearly membership dues mainlining progress?
No one really knows where they ultimately stand in Eckankar deliberately set up that way from the beginning. Naive members, just don’t get it. The dog chasing its tail in end results. The top dog as head spiritual leader doesn’t get it either, that’s why he continues to perpetuate this lie. Don’t buy into this. Spiritual truths generally, reflect a consistent behaviour of so-called, high initiates and leaders, supporting their own, as well as the public, in general. Erratic skittish policies taking away your personal power reveals just blatant puppeteers working the parishioner's weaknesses to an Eckankar advantage not abating any time soon, so it seems?
Don’t join this religion. Take my advice, Stay Safe.
Desired outcome: A full refund
I know about Greggy, Greg Walter Zimmerman. I lived close by him growing up, and was friends with his whole family. He has done some bad exploits which are legendary. I know Zimmerman was bragging at one time to me, and some of his other friends, about how he had poisoned a friends cat, which died. He did that because he had an argument with this friend, and then murdered his cat. Greggy then went on to take part in another murder, in which he was never charged, because he fled the state and country. Right now he’s involved with underage girls; both both sexes; that he uses to do favors for him. They are used as lookouts because I know he’s involved in black markets, laundering his money and involved in other crimes. Greggy is well into his 60s, but has altered his appearance, to look years less. He changed his birth year in public records with the help of his brother in law, who is a lawyer. The lawyer switched around birth digits, for Greggy, so in the public eye he is younger. I’ve been told recently and know myself, that he hangs out around now, with some pretty bad criminal gangs; and people in order to help out Jerry Fay with his business activities. Greggy’s parents used to be cops. They have taught him how to keep out of sight, because of his record. I’m worried now because he has a baby daughter, and his wife you could say is a real tramp, like he is? They are both into a religious cult that the government recognizes, as such.
I’m just agreeing in my rebuttal comment, with some of what the other person wrote about; and telling what I know, because it’s in the public interest to stay clear of Greg the real estate broker and felon, also Jerry Fay. Jerry Fay is the real estate person commented about in the other person’s report above; whom, is now involved in a company that he owns offshore; which leases out buildings for companies to do business in, in Portland, Oregon. I heard the local police were onto him because of bad home selling deals he had made in the Pacific Northwest, and especially in Portland. So Fay, Greggys friend, went into Commercial Real Estate leasing; done so I’ve been told to hide his name, by using a corporation ownership, offshore. These two Greg and Fay are real pieces of work it seems? Both, Zimmerman and Fay are dubious real estate entrepreneurs; actively still selling and leasing in Portland, and Germany, I have been told.
I know about Greggy - Greg Walter Zimmerman. I lived close by him and was friends with his family. His bad exploits are legendary. He was bragging one time to me and other friends about how he had poisoned a friends cat that died, because he had, had an argument with him. He then went on to take part in a murder, in which he was never charged, because he fled the state. Right now he’s involved with underage girls, both sexes; that he uses to do favors, for him. They are spotters to alert him, with his black market businesses. He’s well into his 60s, but alters his appearance so he can get along with a younger bunch. He changed his birth year by switching around digits, so he is younger. He hangs around with some pretty bad gangs, and people, he does business with all tied in directly with Fay’s real estate scams. His parents used to be cops. They have taught him how to keep out of sight. I’m worried because he has a baby daughter now, and his wife you could say, is a real tramp like he is. They are both into a religious cult. I’m writing this to add that what’s written in this report favors accuracy. Greggy is a bad seed and he works with Fay. They both are legendary bad guys.
Duped myself and my family with lies and used us to propagate a fake spiritual organization
I have restrained myself but I can’t anymore. I have been duped and fooled by people who just don’t care about anyone. I joined Eckankar because I was fooled into believing a made up lie. Now I’m ruined after being played for over twenty five years of my life and also drawing my children into Eckankar as well. My ex-husband laundered millions of dollars through Eckankar projects that he sponsored through his businesses so he could wash what was taxable.
Eckankar is run by witches. There, I said it. Women I know who are cunning and shrewd that know every thing about every Eckankar member so that if they go off company policy are reprimanded and attacked with ferocity. I constantly have had to pay bribes to Eckankar so they don’t attack me and I am not seen badly. Yearly dues soul adventure dues for meetings and monthly dues requiring me to show my face and support my local center financially which if I stop will lead to being singled out and harmed.
Because the police have become involved in investigating the local Eck center, my husband and I have had to start wearing disguises. At a recent Eckankar event during the past Christmas holidays my daughter’s boy friend even wore a disguise like an 80s rocker because my daughter is so into getting him to like her. She has become obsessed with him joining Eckankar. It’s like an honesty test to see now if you can trust friends family and new people. If they don’t join then suspicion abounds regarding them.
I heard an unconfirmed rumour that the government has begun watching Eckankar members by satellite because so much dabbling is happening with moving large sums of cash abroad and back again back into the hands of Eckankar supporters who then contribute to the Eckankar company.
My ex-husband now in the United States, has used a lot of his washed proceeds to start an Eckankar temple in Europe so I’ve been told that is regularly used to then send this back again to the United States. I divorced him because I could not associate with him any longer when I found out what he was doing. That he is still doing and involving my daughter his sons and others too naive to understand his scheming through this overseas temple he helped to create to wash business assets in his own companies. What shocks me though is, it does not appear anything is being done about this by those involved. If they know than they must not have any conscience.
The membership is heavily sedated with lies and borrowed techniques gotten from other metaphysical groups covered over with Eckankar dogma to obscure where this came from. Cultish admiration for a man as leader too feeble to present something new and also highly afraid to pass the baton to someone else because concern that an otherworldly control is not exerted on the membership so the lie is furthered like a sickness indefinitely.
Bubbly abandon in restricted heads too dumbed down to even know they are being manipulated for profit and cunning control. Witchcraft played out on the membership off course from the founders creation executed on the stupefied who don’t know they are studying a watered down version of the original. A badly off Christianised version inclusive of fire and and brimstone karma threatening control over a highly frightened membership.
I couldn’t see my daughter her friends or my son being lent to these people any longer to rub their sickness on her or them anymore. Eckankar’s members children are just so sick. You would have to sneak into their private meetings to witness this. I have not observed this before even in popular religious groups I had been involved in.
If you have children and a family and respect yourself don’t sacrifice them to Eckankar. Steer well clear of this group because they will hurt you.
Desired outcome: Expose these people get them to quit hurting children and families
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Eckankar earns a trustworthiness rating of 91%
Highly recommended, but caution will not hurt.
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Used as representative paying member by higher ups who caused me bodily harm getting pathologically ill later from carrying out their orders
People don’t know the nickname attached to Eckankar higher initiates and their stooges. Known the world over as the Eckankar mafia because of slippery manoeuvring behind the scenes wrecking marriages friendships livelihoods and demographics where ever they plant themselves.
I was one of the those stooges for decades until I came down with a pathological illness taking years to fix. I was so sick I had to move away from any past persons I knew in Eckankar. You can’t quit they hound you until your almost dead.
For years I besmirched what we all considered problematic members to get them out of association with other members done, legally protected by cleaver shunning. I even became our spokesperson to represent legal problems and disputes, receiving training from headquarters on how to deal with members voicing dissent. I had an open telephone line to headquarters where they would coach me on how to do the most damage to flagrant members.
We all made a network of cellphones to call one another when one of these undesirables showed up out of the blue at stores shopping malls parks what have you to give them frowns and taunt them cruelly carefully masked to avoid confrontation and possible prosecution legally. We were taught to burn a hole in the back of their head by standing in line behind them when they were checking out with grocers or other goods and services.
What really caught me off guard was when I found out that Eckankar was an offshoot of Scientology. I refused to believe this long after I was told this. But similarities started to add up but Eckankar turned out to be more insidious because getting hurt did not show up until physical and mental health issues took over. Way after what we call high initiates had accumulated harm done planted way deep in them and they could not get any help for fear of becoming marked as pests.
I read High initiate books about making money by mimicking sanctimonious behavior toward ordinary non eckists not compliant with our beliefs. I stood at attention when I thought higher ups had shown up to monitor my labours in the local area. But besmirched all others not HI’s or not following along.
Eckankar should be banned like Scientology was until they can be held responsible for the bad things they do to members. And if they can’t be held responsible then the government should should shut them down not as a religion but mind control cult. Funny that I should say this. I would have never thought I would get to the point that I thought Eckankar was so dangerous to me and others.
For all who read this Eckankar is dangerous not discovered ever.
Over decades, I've seen/learned of several "Religions"
As with most, information is not freely provided, as with politics.
Why so evasive about "spelling the beans" about such important truths ?
Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Hindus & never ending faiths.
Each professes their 1 & only to be 'true'.
Some decades of listening, learning to no avail.
God is what is in ones soul, heart and a way of life.
Again, why so vague ?
Yolu call ...
Books, discourses, seminars, on based on lies and a made up religion
I was a paying member for about 20 years and received absolutely nothing, which really empowered me.
Instead, I was made weak and subservient.
I Left Jehovah's witnesses for the very same reasons I left Eckankar. Eckankar became worse than any experiences I had with the witnesses.
Studying Dianetics helped me to grasp this. The 2 systems are similar. Thus praying and paying while getting nothing for it. Self reflection with strings attached.
You can't be free if the intent is to get a high initiation in Eckankar. It requires taking on a dysfunctional persona.
The politics in Eckankar rule its decisions, beyond giving out any spiritual knowledge.
I was constantly made to be uncomfortable because Eckankar is all about conforming to beliefs, which are not true. It is made up with a whole crew of fake masters. Imagined by Paul Twitchell to satisfy his wife who wanted him to get a job.
The high initiates in Eckankar are clueless, and just lead me on a chase to grasp my own tail. They were bubbly in public but sarcastic and vicious in private against so many people inside the group and towards others.
I realized these people were not enlightened and it cost me a lot to attend meetings, buy books and year membership dues.
The weight really piled on me when I discovered the degree of their deception, knowing the teaching was made up yet continuing on with it for monetary reasons, with me paying for it! I can't get my money back because I contributed to a church.
Jehovah's witnesses to a degree had some integrity, but these people don't. Give one of them a pink piece of paper and they will believe and do anything.
Gobbledygook best sums up Eckankar but it takes years to unravel it. By that time, you are completely stewed.
I'm going to put down a blog I discovered that is more technical in terms of the law.
I'm thinking this relates to Eckankar, but you will have to read over it to understand why, and then apply it. So here it goes down below written by a person familiar with Eckankar laying out a strategy which may be used to get your money back.
ECKANKAR should be sued and shut down under the US federal 'False Claims Act' - Henosis Sage
Feb 14, 2017, 2:57:07 PM
Someone should tell these people to get real and do the job properly
- plus make a small fortune in the process http://eckankarlawsuit.jimdo.com
Take this current court case against Lance Armstrong: a known liar who repeatedly made false claims and gained financial advantage from the US Government because of those lies, that FRAUD.
ECKANKAR has had the advantage of Religious TAX FREE Status afforded it by the US GOVT since 1970. That status is founded entirely upon the Fraud and Lies of Twitchell, Gross and Klemp to this day.
a cpl of extracts:
"The lawsuit was filed by Armstrong's former US Postal Service teammate Floyd Landis. The federal government joined in 2013 after Armstrong publicly admitted he cheated to win the Tour de France seven times from [protected]. Armstrong was stripped of those titles and banned from competition."Armstrong has also taken huge hits financially, losing all his major sponsors and being forced to pay more than $10m in damages and settlements in a series of lawsuits. The Landis lawsuit would be the biggest by far, and the ruling from US district judge Christopher Cooper in Washington was a major setback for Armstrong with a trial most likely in the fall.
"Landis, himself a former doping cheat who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title, sued Armstrong under the federal False Claims Act, alleging Armstrong and his team committed fraud against the government when they cheated while riding under the Postal Service banner. According to court records, the contract paid the team, which was operated by Tailwind Sports Corp, about $32m from 2000 to 2004. Armstrong got nearly $13.5m."The law allows Landis and the government to sue to get that money back and for "treble" damages, or triple the amount, and Armstrong could be forced to pay all of it. Landis stands to receive up to 25% of any damages awarded."https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/feb/14/lance-armstrong-lawsuit-government-fraud
The False Claims Act (31 U.S. C. §§ [protected], also called the"Lincoln Law") is an American federal law that imposes liability on persons and companies (typically federal contractors) who defraud governmental programs.
It is the federal Government's primary litigation tool in combating fraud against the Government.[1]
The law includes a qui tam provision that allows people who are not affiliated with the government, called"relators"under the law, to file actions on behalf of the government (informally called"whistleblowing" especially when the relator is employed by the organization accused in the suit). Persons filing under the Act stand to receive a portion (usually about 15-25 percent) of any recovered damages.
As of 2012, over 70 percent of all federal Government FCA actions were initiated by whistleblowers.
Claims under the law have typically involved health care, military, or other government spending programs, and dominate the list of the largest pharmaceutical settlements.
The government recovered $38.9 billion under the False Claims Act between 1987 and 2013 and of this amount, $27.2 billion or 70% was from qui tam cases brought by relators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act
31 U.S. Code § 3729 - False claims
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/3729
In other words Eckankar is listed as a tax-exempt religion but knowingly being informed and then continuing on with their enterprise when they know they are peddling falsehoods to the public dating back for decades and asking for paid donations for their products using their status as tax-exempt to hold back a charge on their services to themselves, that they would normally owe as tax to the IRS.
Desired outcome: Exposure of their operation and possible refunds, to those who have paid for membership
all personal spiritual experiences had that edge on phenomenal may be deemed as real to the individual. But exploiting said, packaging a method, and then mesmerizing buyers into believing that what is totally not connected with some thing that has been canned; comes from that product, is, highly criminal. Especially if it’s all made up from fantasy, or near to it. Problem with america, that freedom can mislead and harm without careful scrutiny exercised. Imagine, if one basis their whole life on such a lie, then dies. They have wasted a lifetime.
It is impossible to see Eckankar being fake until you see what Eck really is(bani, Shabd , light and sound , ki-onkar,…differently named all talk about the same thing). Eck teachings is not about a person being Mahanta and pass a rod of power to anther by a dream as Darwin claimed , or what Harold claimed after that. Eck being a religion is fake. The fight for power as Harold orchestrated against Darwin is not what masters do. Calling someone a master and then throwing him out with court order, and many violations of spiritual laws after that is not what masters do. It happens when a master leaves this world, his followers make a religion or fake masters after him. It exactly happened after Guru Nanak as well.
Looking over the entire slew of comments made by people about Eckankar still does not change the fact that its teachings are useful and gives insight to solve hard problems. Look at the censorship in an ever growing decent down of the human race. Look at right being taken away under the noses of the supposed free. You all need Eckankar, not the religion, the teachings. When everyone has been silenced, when big brother is in your living rooms and watching your every move; you could appreciate a soul center, not touched by this enslavement. And it’s going to get worse. Masters are masters and they are real but you can only make contact with them from within your self. It’s not made up, it may be in the future an act of desperation. Think about it. Dog the religion if you must, as its had some bad ups and downs. But don’t dog the teachings that can help you ride out of enslavement.
the path of spiritual freedom
I was duped with lies for years. Eckankar is a fraudulent sham based on observations from my own personal experience with its henchmen trying to live off the backs of those who did in some way benefit initially from ideas devised in part by paul twitchell.
Don't misinterpret my intention though of presenting this text to you. Twitchell's ideas were intriguing but in my own case as I discovered later on influenced me to the edge of disaster because they were not based on sound principles governing astute behavior.
I am writing this perhaps as the only person alive who can accurately describe last wishes and days of paul twitchell. Revealing what I know from the last period of his life to outsiders would not in his time be considered ok, yet he would probably support this letter, because of how deadly and destructive eckankar has become today to those who join its ranks.
In twitchell's final days he wanted to provide a linkage to those he cared for through his writings, teachings and published materials, to guide these person's continued self discovery after his death. I was around in the early 60s before the formation of paul's scientology based teaching which he shared as a contributor with the dianetics founder as an extension of teachings above level ot8.
Despite what onlookers attempt to point out, paul was no backwoods ignoramous hick as has been inferred copiously across the www. Twitchell was reasonably educated with college study requiring ability to read and write in english understandably. He plazerized much of his esoteric writings which was common practice during his lifetime because there was no internet available, not even the most basic copy machines to plazerize texts from; thus essentially the man was winging it to build an image of himself as a spiritual adept when actually he was just a caring beginner trying to free people from traditionalists holding a majority of people down, with no promise of them ever breaking out of limiting culturally biased paradgyms.
On appearance this may appear very noble of twitchell but in his frantic attempt to break out, he has caused a lot of damage because he suggested and taught many things which are just not possible for people to achieve; so they stretch themselves dangerously thin right by the edge just shy of falling off and from my experience, many people did, and do today, from an even further distortion by eckankar to cover up the founder's shady past, subsequently a need on eckanka's part to bring this tomfoolery forward to still dupe people today into thinking their teachings are legitimate but really just based on a hodgepodge of disassociative ideas which fractures people's peace of mind and stability, in relationships and day to day interaction, with the world.
The practice during the 1940s through 70s was legitimate respected well known writers who lacked sophistication in philosophical matters, copied full sections of others people's books authored elsewhere because getting to a library and forming their own ideas was time consuming. On top of that photo copying was reserved to those with access to very primitive machines. I know this as one of my friend's parents owned and ran an offset press. We observed crap copy machines operating there sitting broken, with repair requiring qualified technicians traveling far to fix temperamental devices.
Initially twitchell considered continuing on through an ongoing distribution camp after he died to propagate his home brewed teachings for ongoing support of those he had taught after demise, yet hubbard had a hand in twitchell's pie.in reality twitchell's writings were extensions of both authors combined. Moreover twitchell became seriously ill therefore not picking a replacement for his advanced scientology courses he constructed from various new thought sources, and offering them to the public.in late 1960 and early 1970 paul gave a group of us eleven a request to disperse these teachings he had devised outside our early eckankar camp created initially with hubbard's hand.
Nevertheless again no suitable replacement was chosen before twitchell died to carry out his joint spiritual venture. Twitchell's thought was he did not want these writings up for grabs and an interpretation as high profit return by his overly cash conscious wife, and her manipulative female cronies, directed to make as much cash as possible off his writings. Twitchell's wife was frantic about making her millions of dollars regardless of the consequences this would have as damage onto other people.in twitchell's wife's estimation she was footing the bill for paul's pseudo esoteric lifestyle and getting no large monetary returns from this.
Later twitchell's wife made her millions of dollars off a vitamin company twitchell co-founded, with a well known nutritionist. When twitchell died his wife and her unscrupeoulous cronies spun a web of tall mystic tales, to keep their eckankar money maker going, and choosing twitchell's wife's lover, as a master replacement, who built a formidable cash machine that made millions of dollars which he pocketed, to run a musical jazz band he formed, and being privately jetted across the united states, as the replacement's bad health and addiction crept up on him in the late 1970s, to force him into retirement, just.
Compounding this pseudo spiritual fiasco evolving as a menace to society for over 50 years in duration, is another totally outlandish phenomena which acted to spur on the continuation of this fraudulent spiritual camp to assault the public.
If you examine carefully handwriting by paul's hand scribbled onto a poster given to twitchell's wife's lover, who became the next eckankar master; knowing explicitly twitchell's personal handwriting script style, you will note that it is excessively feeble and faulty in placement onto the poster, caused by a shaky hand and excessive fatigue based on heart failure.
Later on twitchell's replacement as eckankar master, and his wife's lover, would claim this hand written script written onto the poster given to him and displayed at the eckankar headquarters in menlo park california at one time; was in fact this new eckankar replacment master's, spiritual name.
The hand written script written onto the poster was obviously scribbled mindlessly and haphazardly onto it which twitchell's wife's female pseudo spiritual accomplices used in part later on to prove that this new master brought forward a continuation to carry twitchell and hubbards cash making creation. On close examination by those familiar with twitchell's handwriting, these people were not fooled and left in a concerned hurry.
This fabrication as a fake eckankar camp continuation giving out twitchell's captured writings, re-edited, censored, with most never published, has continued to this day, through the activities of flimsy maladjusted females pushed into action by totally fake eckankar masters, never meant to carry on twitchell's creation. With absolutely nobody in the know, speaking out to reveal a flagrant violation of paul's final wishes carried out in secret by loyal supporters of his, who knew where he was coming from and tried to propagate what they initially, thought were genuine spiritual teachings.
New thought teachings these designated persons believed they would disperse in a respectful manner to benefit those in need. Again, it may appear that I have supported this fiasco, or support it today. On the contrary it was just a small matter of time before twitchells fold on the run knew that any association with twitchell would lead back to hubbard who was wanted on numerous continents for all kinds of misdeeds
There you have it in a nutshell. Each designated twitchell propagation driver promised they would never tell this inside information to any one, but eckankar has just gone way too far, with no one putting them in check as has happened in the past with scientology, which eckankar is an extension of, regardless of eckankar refusing to admit this.
Thus the public is getting severely hurt and damage is being done to innocent people maliciously; which goes beyond what is right or deserved by sincere spiritual seekers, just out there seeking truth. If you have it in your self pass this information on for consideration, to any who would benefit with these hidden revelations.
If you need support and are a current or past eckankar member seek it through twitchell's original contacts who are based in religious science and new thought; as he was a member himself in a wide array of those teachings, which he belonged to, which included asian religious teachings.
However, I am not talking about seeking support from scientology, although that is your business. There is still a connection with very genuine caring sincere people who will help you to find your way to stability beyond any deception, with those groups other than scientology, that twitchell belonged to, and studied with. Yet despite the offered support by these groups I am refering to you have to know what is best for yourself, and what does not feel right, through any association with any person or group. Go with your gut and you will never be let down. New thought is based on traditional world religions which have shown integrity in their support of all people in need regardless of class, sexual orientation or monetary condition. Seek them out, they really care.
As one who studied under both Paul and Darwin, I find your commentary mean-spirited and not reflective of
these great teachers. Sorry you didn’t have the experiences you were looking for but maybe it’s time for you to heal the bitterness.
You could use somebody to help edit this for grammar and syntax. Why don't you say anything about the HU I always found it interesting that Eckankar would not copy write the HU song because the HU song belongs to everyone. According to Pike's book, Morals and Dogma, the Mason bible, the people of ancient
Briton sang HU.
Chris, I have wondered that myself. But eckankar uses the hu to attract seekers, so it wouldn't copyright it while it is trying to use it to attract new followers. hu is packaged as "belonging to everyone" which is hypocritical for the organization to suggest, when so many other terms such as soul travel and even the word eckankar are trademarked. wouldn't soul travel also be for everyone? Would the "spiritual teachings" of eckankar also be for everyone? however, you have to become a member in order to enjoy the "secret teachings" which are sent to you in book format as discourses. this is NOT available to everyone. But you can be hooked in with the hu, if it is presented properly to give the seeker a "spiritual experience." So for example, a seeker can come to a light and sound service (or worship service) and experience singing hu for the first time, and feel a sense of bliss and joy, etc. any study of cults will demonstrate this is just a cult tactic (using love bombing and natural psychological processes to manipulate the seeker). singing hu is no different that singing "om" in a group - as those people would tell you the very same thing - singing "om" is blissful and uplifting for them. religions and cults are simply co-opting the natural processes of the brain to claim their methods are spiritual. Being in a group of nice people will make a person fell blissful and happy. we are social creatures and need others to survive. singing hu which may sound beautiful to the singer or listener, may interpret that as a spiritual or divine experience, just like listening to a beautiful piece of music by Beethoven or looking at a beautiful peace of art by Monet. Experiencing beauty is a normal psychological experience and it is religion that likes to say it is a spiritual experience.
Also, given that twitchell wide-spread plagiarized his initial writings in Eckankar, and the eckankar spiritual center came out several years ago saying that he was simply a compiler of spiritual truths, and did not condemn this illegal practice, why would eckankar trademark so many terms? There is a lot of contradiction and hypocrisy in the organization and writings of eckankar. using critical thinking will help clear much of this up.
spiritual fraud racket, tax evasion, money laundering, illegal searching of personal belongings.
I joined an eckankar study group thinking it would be informative and fun. I was searching for a spiritual study group and thought I had found a good one but I was wrong. I joined an eckankar study group and watched as a horrible drama unfolded before my eyes. I watched annette weihreter along with the area eckankar representative look into a carry bag while one of the class participants was using a toilet. It is very odd rummaging through other peoples personal belongings while those people are in another room. I know she passes information onto another woman who calls herself annette. This woman is a known police informant. This study group was so corrupt that I went back to the regensburg study group because so much illegal money business was going on. I heard a crippled man say at a meeting at this corrupt study group that he got money to pay for his auto from a foundation when I know he got it from a visiting american business man who regularly passes his money through this study group's eckankar center. The president of eckankar in our location does not go to that study groups eckankar center because he does not want to jeopardize he and his family by being associated with them. It is appalling to see how much people get away with using this eckankar center and study group to do their dirty business. I have never witnessed a religious study group doing these things. These eckankar members do tax avoidance and other illicit things as business transactions under noses of tax police here. They make claims they are a student study group when their whole purpose is to use the eckankar center as a tax shelter and do illegal business transactions under guise of religious meetings. Now I am wondering what I got mixed up in! I am leaving these eckankar study groups. You should know these things before you join them. I have always felt like I was a science experiment with this eckankar group and my reactions to their teachings either brought praise or I would be shunned and ignored. I would recommend that one chooses a more honest group of people.
Another completely bizarre account of someone who claims to have been part of an Eckankar study group. I don’t believe any of it, at all! Absolutely wacko claims. No one would ever go through another person’s bag, or purse, never, and supposedly this happened while the bag owner was in a bathroom, and the supposed kooks then took advantage of the situation, rummaged thru another person’s bag, Two of them, in front of witnesses! This is an insane claim! And NO, I don’t believe for one second the claim that her mother was getting prescription drugs from a Dr. Who was there unless it was a legal prescription by her own physician. And, her “mom is sleeping around town for pocket money.” Another super bizarre addition to her ramblings. OMG. I hope she gets help. Just an fyi, Eckists are encouraged to live by the highest ethical standards, Then, again, the poster writes about illegal money making! This is exactly like another complaint on this site. Outside business of any kind does not happen at any Eck events, and the complainer has a very very negative & wild imagination. I’m not saying this complainer is mentally ill, but she sounds exactly like another one here, and it’s making me wonder about the mental state of each. Lots of paranoia, money making schemes, money laundering, helping her mom illegally, people breaking the law, and on and on and on. After 40 some years of attending & leading events, I must say all of this stuff is made up & it sounds as if the writer is a paranoid schizophrenic. There are no quotas or tithing in Eckankar, and no crime underworld in Eckankar, but definitely in the writers mind.
no it’s all real, where your wrong is in your own sick mind by supporting fraud and worse by a already called out cult that you belong to because you are morally corrupt and twisted. It’s all legit and really happened part of a police report dummy. Get your info straight. Know the difference between facts and your own cultish delusions
I know what you mean and am adding what happened to me taking part in a class.
My Mother asked me to blatantly lie about a man in our eckankar satsang group because he works for the government. Mom wants to discredit him because he discovered Mom and Dads tax scheme that they use to not pay taxes they owe.
My Father is so frantic that he is hiding his businesses so the government wont imprison him and force payment of back taxes he owes for back years. Basically Papa has used our Eckankar study center to avoid paying taxes he owes. Now my Dad is affraid of getting caught ever since the government has been investigating our families earnings.
The police have been following my Mom to see where she sells her artwork.The tax department wants to catch her secretly selling her art and not paying back taxes owed. Mother has gotten frustrated because her cash cow has been discovered by the police. Now the IRS knows Mom's strategy in using our eckankar satsang group to network so she can sell her artwork. Making tax money owed disappear through our Eckankar tax exempt bank account.
That's why she told me to lie about the man who works for the justice department. The man was told by our center money manager that is what mom is doing with the eckankar satsang groups bank accounts by selling her artwork and using the bank accounts to make it look like the money going through are from satsang donations. Mom makes her art profits disappear through our Eck centers bank account.
Mother shared her profits with the eckankar centers business manager to make him be quiet about her using the eckankar center bank account to put her profits through as donations so it looks like the sales are for books and other eckankar items. Our study center business manager has also been taking moms profit money and sending this through the business managers wife's bosses business accounts also. His wife's employer knows nothing about this.
Mom has issues with sleeping around town for pocket money although my dad does not approve. She has been trying to convince my cousin and I to sleep around also to pay off taxes owed by my parents! My Dad does not object to this either!
Our satsang group is supposed to be learning spiritual principles . What a travesty. Our Eckankar study center is entangling the public and its members so that my parents can make large sums of money to pay back taxes owed. Nobody would believe this if I told anyone but this is the god awful truth. All the while everybody thinks we are a legitimate spiritual satsang group.
Mother is so depressed she has been getting free prescription drugs from one of her friends at the Eck center who is a doctor. The doctor makes bathtube methedrine and antidepresesents and is not concerned about breaking the law. Making drugs and giving mother perscriptions without prescribing them. Mom has shared her profits with this doctor for doing this for her. Mom takes her profits and then sends the money through her doctor friends clinic as well. I am sick at heart that eckankar supports my parents behavior. Eckankar is sneaky about covering up money making schemes that members are involved in as long as eckankar receives some of the profits.
My advice is not get involved in Eckankar unless you want to associate with people actively breaking the law. The members in charge at the Eck centers are heavily involved in illegal money making schemes so they can pay off quotas required for being registered Eck centers by Eckankar headquarters and the registering authorities in their countries.
not real, fake, scam religion
Eckankar is a false religion, as all religions are. It is how they get new members to believe that is disconcerting. Eckankar takes natural phenomenon and then try's to wrap it in mystery. Any odd occurrence is considered golden tongue wisdom, and in fact many members spend their days looking for these "golden: occurrences. When really they are creating confirmation bias as for weeks on end a member may not get anything that looks like a spiritual message, but then one strange item on a bumper sticker that they are consciously looking for and presto — they are connected with the divine who is actively guiding their life. Also dreams are special and confusing because of the mental filter, when we know how the brain works, and even that dreams are caused by a chemical our brains emit at night called dmt, and can be easily recreated in a lavatory. But to the eckist, they will spend much time writing down their dreams after the fact, and looking for anything that can be interrupted as divine, and throwing out all the rest that does not match up to what they are hoping or looking for. 15 minutes with a good atheist book ("the god delusion"by richard dawkins), or a book on skepticism and most if not all would lose their faith in this religion. But, as eckists put so much faith in the inner master that they conjure up through imagination it is unlikely to never happen as they may never think critically on this subject. Plus eckists have a fear of their devil called the kal, just as christians have the devil to blame and fear eckists have their own version to keep them close to the faith. This keeps them from thinking critically about their faith, and truly questioning it. While their faith is false, I can say, I have meet and been friends with many good people of the faith, and they have built a solid community where they are. They are no worse than most religious groups and in some ways I would say even better, however, these good people, need to put away their childish thoughts on dreams, magical karma, soul travel, and that they are special because they are more spiritually evolved than non-members. This belief that they are special often leads to hard hardheadedness and massive ego's and a disconnection with people outside the faith. Many in the group even believe that they are the next great spiritual master in training while a few would not even qualify as a decent people, even thought they have leveled up in the eckankar community to so called higher initiates. For those reading this that our current members, do not fear the threat of leaving. The threat that your karma will get worse, that you will be left without any magical protection, and that you will spend eons reincarnating, as I have left, and since I did, life has only gotten better and brighter. Now I rely on science to guide my way. Only things I can prove with real evidence do I believe in. And I can say a book like"the happiness advantage" by shawn achor, has done more for my life and happiness than all the books of eckankar combined. Please take a chance on true spiritual freedom, or freedom from magical thinking and start your life anew in a safer, sounder, brighter, grounded world of amazement that we already live in! For those not eckists, please understand, eckankar is no stranger than any other religion (although it is very strange). I have spent time as a christian and and an eckist, and I found eckist's to actually be as good or better members of the community at large. These people need time and space to come out of this faith, and I would not say it is a cult, although it does has some cultist tendencies, although I think any religion does that has a current leader that most in the faith believe to be a god-man or right hand man to god which eckankar does in the mahanta character (very dangerous if that person abuses power in any way, which we have seen in so many faiths across the world throughout history...)
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Another one that writes about religions and mystical experiences without ever having practiced any religion or ever having had a true spiritual experience. You self-righteous Atheists are too afraid of what you can't understand and worse of all, you want to impose your ignorant point of view to everybody, to stay as supposed "saviors". Some day you'll learn that every religion has its true things and you'd have to be a fool if you don't take advantage of them.
You wrote some interesting comments about your POV of the authenticity of ECKANKAR. I've not been an eckist since about 1993. I think your very first statement kind of says it all: "Eckankar is a false religion, as all religions are." My question is if your first premise is true, then why go to all the trouble to expand how that is true for eckankar? I personally believe in nothing (if that's possible). If all religions are false then can one religion (ie ECKANKAR) be extra false.
I simplify the interest in any religion as a commodity and a service. Believing in something alleviates the believer from having to figure out how things work and what is real and what is not real. Socially we tend to imitate each other even if its only a shadow of what the last guy was doing. If the Joneses believe in MLMs, Flat Earth and ECKANKAR - I think that's just really about identity. Who are you? I'm a sales rep for this great pyramid scheme. I'm a student of conspiracy of the round earth lie. I think of myself as a flat earther. I follow a teaching that lets me soul travel and offers a way for me to stop reincarnating in the lower worlds, I'm an ECKist.
There is a rule on the internet "People will buy anything!", that rule applies to belief as well, people will believe in ANYTHING. I think as we evolve as a species the instinct to fill in our "I don't knows" with magical thinking about invisible beings of awesome power will fade away.
I am happy in Eck
Ignorance is bliss. The masters of Eck are manipulating you for their own profit.
invasion of privacy
I have bit my tongue for years and have restrained myself by bitting my tongue. I cannot in clear conscience do this another day. I do not want my friends, family and people in general to include me as one of those deranged eckankar people. I must tell you this so you know the depth of deceit and control placed on us in eckankar. I have been so afraid not to cooperate with eckankar. I have regularly invited detective and police friends to cleverly question and spy on eckankar members here at cafes and coffee houses while we sat under the guise of pleasant day out with them. Members that higher ups in the eckankar headquarters and locally are consider threatening. Threatening because of finding out schemes our members have been utilizing to use our study groups as fronts to launder their personal monies and not pay required income tax on incomes. It is downright illegal and I know it. We are registered as a study group and not religion in our local area. Now my husband and I have been forced to use our local media business or loose our eckankar initiations. We have videotaped and photographed members and sent this on to eckankar headquarters. We have forwarded photographs and video films across the world to eckankar headquarters to alert resa's and higher initiates of threatening members. Our activity is illegal here as we are using film and image distribution without written authorization to do so by those we photograph and video tape. We have been instructed by the local resa to call local and international centers to report the geographic location of eckankar members who are considered a threat legally to our centers and the eckankar headquarters. Eckankar members who will expose our tax avoidance and money laundering schemes. I just feel awful for having photographed and video taped these eckankar members. I am being run ragged by constant surveillance of questionable members and threats of being thrown out of eckankar if we do not continue to cooperate. I am in so much fear of being looked upon by my eckankar friends as being a bad person if I do not do what the eckankar headquarters and the local resa asks us to do. It is time people realize eckankar is a fake spiritual path out for control of members and non entitled tax privileges.
you are wearing filters over your ability to SEE, I saw the comments made by the originator and know, by insiders, ALL the writer said is FACT. Tax exempt does not mean not breaking the law under an umbrella of tax exemption status you dumb dumb. Exempt requires certain rules, which, can be violated. Eventually it will all come out. Love? Harming people is not love. Using people to perpetrate a lie, is not love. Check your ethics bro. I can see why you’ve been a member so long.
Wow, what an incredibly bizarre complaint. Tax avoidance and money laundering? For whom? Eckankar is a religious organization, there is no need for scheming. Like other religious orgs. It is tax exempt. And money laundering for what? Absolutely absurd comments. I’ve been a member of Eckankar for nearly 45 years, and have been active at times, and studied on my own other times. There is never pressure to do anything, ever. And that includes money, or membership, books, classes, or seminars. Some people Are involved, others aren’t. What a person gives or not, is entirely up to the individual. There is no set donation for the study materials or membership. Those who have little can give a dollar a month or whatever they want. When I renewed my membership a couple months ago, the staff person, taking my small donation, which is the same as last year, asked ME if I wanted to go lower because of the high cost of living right now. (5/22). Eckankar is about one thing only. And that is the individual’ relationship with with God. Never EVER would anyone spy on another person, Eck member or not! (The “complainer” states that she is filming people at events!? OMG!) Never would anyone in their “right mind” ask another member to break a spiritual law, which is to respect others & their privacy. (Holy cow!) I’m from NY, and now in Florida & i have known many many Eckists over the years. How in the world would anyone be a threat to Eckankar? People are free to come & go as they please, to be a member or not, to donate or not, to hang out with Eckists or not. We’re all different & unique but no one would ever be asked to do anything unethical, ever! Self- responsibility & love are keys to this path. We live by the laws of society, but even more importantly is an understanding of divine law, and that is to see God within each person, and treat each and every person with kindness and respect. Spying on someone, NO, absolutely NOT. It is NEVER done, unless perhaps the person is really breaking all kinds of rules & is secretly way, way “off the deep end” , as they say.
you are wearing filters over your ability to SEE, I saw the comments made by the originator and know, by insiders, ALL the writer said is FACT. Tax exempt does not mean not breaking the law under an umbrella of tax exemption status you dumb dumb. Exempt requires certain rules, which, can be violated. Eventually it will all come out. Love? Harming people is not love. Using people to perpetrate a lie, is not love. Check your ethics bro. I can see why you’ve been a member so long.
Spiritual and business fraud
I have had association with Eckankar since the middle 1960s to current times. I have witnessed all of its phases trials and tribulations as a religious spiritual group. There was some integrity in the early years despite claims and proof of use of other religious groups written materials. Now let me focus on the here and the now as this is important. Have no doubt that the current Eckankar business is just that, a business and nothing more. It is geared to make money and keep people spending their money for Eckankar products.
If you look at the box it looks pretty much the same as the 1960s. However, if you examine the contents it is not the same as the 1960s. Individual spiritual achievement was propagated then. Now the propagation is in putting all the power in a singular man known as the Mahanta. Self empowerment and individuality is frowned upon and discouraged. Complaints are made against members who do not donate enough money for products, and they are put on a list, so they do not receive further initiations.in the field in all parts of the world members are sited for unacceptable behavior and put on computer, so they are singled out to be watched and passed up for advancement in the organization.
Unacceptable behavior is noted as not following the party line and not joining in personal attacks against those the local Eckankar centers deem as being a threat to the current Eckankar doctrine.in one written book their current Mahanta was really proud about writing how an old woman died for kicking his seat from the back in an aircraft.in another suppressed and censored book that was altered before publication there was a chapter on how to kill a person. Paranoia and feelings of being prosecution is widespread in the Eckankar group aimed at dissidents who appear to not agree to doctrine and behavior.
Members are routinely called by telephone or met in public to feel them out as being potential threats to their organization. It is not uncommon for Resas and his to drive hundreds of miles to check out threatening members and reduce them to feeble participants in the party line or suffer excommunication. Members who are of various professions are put under the microscope whether their respective profession is a threat to the organization. The most singled out are public servants, politicians, lawyers and doctors; those who have access to resources to put Eckankar under the scrutinizing microscope for the general public to view with clarity.
The reason the public has never read in detail any of the major court cases placed in motion in relation to Eckankar is evidence has been cleverly suppressed either through legal motion or gray area loopholes to cover critical glaring evidence. Witnesses have been threatened and attacked with voracity to wear them down and make them terrified to provide substantial evidence of illegalities and attack against the reputations and credibility of evidence. Numerous gag orders have been filed to shut up witnesses.
Eckankar has a very skilled legal counsel yet if they are correctly and legally cornered it will be found by the courts and the legal system that their corruption is apparent and of interest to the authorities. Eckankar is on numerous cult watch lists in various countries worldwide who consider their conniving cleverness to suppress evidence and its members to be of concern and worthy of investigation. Eckankar has been banned in countries due to bad reports filed by former members and the public in general. Now you may ask if all of what has been written in this report is true why has this not been reported in the major news services?
Instead of just asking this question why not try the following as an experiment. If you have some reasonable complaint against Eckankar go and file a motion of complaint for review at your local court. Let their counsel take the bite and see what happens. That will reveal some very interesting details to you. Eckankar is a business that should have been investigated ages ago but was not. The amount of suppression of evidence and scaring witnesses has been so pronounced that it would dwarf any of the so-called cults known traditionally in the American society. No one really ever gets the goods in Eckankar.
It is definite that many did many years ago before the Eckankar thought police arrived on the scene and edged into the personal thoughts of its members. Go and dig up the old fossil exist high initiates of maybe 40 years ago and be surprised that they have a mystic about them that current main players do not have now. Why? Because Eckankar is running a business and not a spiritual path. To all lawyers, solicitors, judges, IRS agents, respected government authorities ask yourselves what is hidden about Eckankar beyond supposed transparency?
What are you not seeing that is distressing so many people who are too afraid to come out and tell you about their personal experiences interacting with this group. I do not think money laundering internationally through the facade of a religious organization is what is classified as a bona fide spiritual movement. If you were to check out where the thread ends it would make your head spin and on every continent. Do not take my word for it. Authorities do your own secret intel investigations, and you will hit the jack pot.
I gave up a very long time ago trying to make heads or tails of why this group touts itself as a religious order. It is beyond me. Quite frankly the public would get more joy joining a common church. These people are as guilty as sin, and it is high time the public tears down the walls of their secrecy which they are not entitled to use. All persons who made a public expose of this group have been punished; legally, materially, mentally and emotionally.
The Eckankar organization sees this as the wrath of god striking the wicked yet if you force them to release secret files you will see techniques used to harm and injure in malicious and cunning ways. Am I just venting frustration? No, beyond the social good I am submitting this factual report so all of those I lead to this teaching are informed. Authorities believe me you will have to spar like hell with these people before they give over their smut, and they will only do it by force. They are capable of hiding evidence all over the world and quickly.
Reply to comment of Connection Coach of May 30, 2018
The question asked was what type of mind finds Eckankar so appealing that it could be susceptible to mind control?
It’s not the mind that finds Eckankar so appealing and susceptible to mind control but rather the ego which, as Paul Twitchell explained, is an entity created by the mind.
As all con men have known for ages, the best way to gain the confidence of the “mark” is to appeal to the victim’s vanity and greed with the biggest lies possible.
To sincere people who are searching for a purpose and for more answers than their current religions can provide what could be more appealing to their vanity and ego than to be offered a chance to be a co-worker with God?
What could be more appealing to their vanity and ego than to be assured that the leader of their spiritual teachings holds the highest state of consciousness in all universes and on every plane of existence; can provide them with the highest spiritual guidance; has the ability to connect them to the light and sound of God; and, most importantly, can free them from the cycle of reincarnation?
What could be more appealing to the vanity and ego than to be promised ever more recognition and status through a structure of initiations as they progress along a spiritual path to ever higher states of consciousness?
Generally, “[F]fraud occurs when a person or business intentionally deceives another with promises of goods, services, or financial benefits that do not exist, were never intended to be provided, or were misrepresented. Typically, victims give money but never receive what they paid for.” [The link for this definition was lost]
There is no question that members of Eckankar are victims of the crime of fraud. Paul intentionally deceived interested members of the public by misrepresenting who he was and what he could provide for a fee.
The proof that he misrepresented himself with the intent to deceive is found in the huge volumes of text that he plagiarized and then sold as his own original works. That’s a fact, not an opinion. And, anyone who bought one of his books is a victim.
Consequently, the fraud that Paul committed and Eckankar has perpetuated is far more insidious than merely acknowledging that Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny are not real. There is no equivalency. Santa and the Easter Bunny have no intent to deceive for gain. There is no victim.
Instead, Paul purposely and with great intent uses subtle psychological devices to gain the trust of his followers and their continued donations. Paul’s own wife, Gail, according to testimony, confirmed the fact that Paul just made it all up. Darwin and Harold continued the lies with Harold building substantially upon them.
It’s all a colossal ego trap. Followers are charmed into Eckankar by thinking they are special, smarter, and more spiritual than all the other religions because Paul tells you so. He tells you that you are a member of a special club…a secret society…with few followers because the masses are not evolved enough spiritually to understand the deeper, esoteric teachings of Eckankar.
Then once he’s filled you with such great purpose and pride he threatens to take it all away should you decide to leave and/or say anything against Eckankar or the Living Eck Master. Paradoxically, the very same ego Paul uses to seduce and gain your confidence into believing you are so special he now vilifies as the cause for your doubting the teachings because you failed to fully surrender your ego to the Master.
What’s worse is that he warns that you will be stuck on the wheel of never-ending reincarnations which is the worst punishment possible given that the whole stated purpose of Eckankar is to break free of incarnations…a “service” not provided by most other religions.
The irony of it all is that straight from the start Paul tells you what he’s doing…he tells you his scam…throughout all his writings (well not really his writings). He tells you that any religious leader or group that makes this or that claim is not the true teachings. Then a couple of pages later he makes the very same claim! It’s disquieting when you first see it because you question it, but by that time he’s already won your confidence so you believe it…for a while.
Inevitably, all but the most vain and egotistical leave Eckankar because everyone likes to be thought of as intelligent and nothing hurts more than to admit that you have been tricked or made a fool. The longer someone stays in Eckankar the harder it is to admit being duped.
There are a couple of ways that members come to the realization they have been deceived and that is after they get a few years and a few initiations under their belts they begin to realize (if they are honest with themselves) that they are not evolving or gaining any of the claimed spiritual capabilities that are supposed to come with each initiation.
Paul would say that you just aren’t practicing the spiritual exercises enough. He blames the student for being spiritually lazy. But, then you have to ask yourself, why would the master give me another initiation if I’m lazy and incapable of out of body travel at will? He’s supposed to know all things, right?
Another way members realize they’ve been scammed is that once they attain greater initiations and begin to be exposed to other high initiates they see that not all of them live by the ethical standards required in the Eck teachings. Some are overbearing bullies; some regularly drink alcohol or even do drugs; others use their congregations to sell products or services they probably don’t need; and still others knowingly or unknowingly succumb to the sexual advances of a bottomless pool of admiring young women seeking the attention of such obviously highly evolved spiritual beings as signified by their initiations. Any single, modestly attractive, male higher initiate is literally a rock star within the organization and has access to an unlimited number of women vying for their attention…which incidentally appears to have contributed to Darwin’s downfall.
The real “kill shot” for Eckankar though is the realization that while Paul claimed to be a Godman he stole almost every word he wrote.
If it wasn’t for Julian Johnson and his book, “The Path of the Masters” Eckankar wouldn’t even exist because Paul plagiarized almost every word of it. The knowledge of this deception was not readily known until after the internet became more available. So, you have to ask yourself, why would the highest manifestation of God on Earth need to steal another person’s words? You’d think a Godman could easily manifest his own original words by going straight to the source.
Paul could have just as easily compressed and compiled the writings of all the religions and philosophies without plagiarizing other’s works and offered this service to anyone interested. Instead, he chose to lie for the purpose of sustained monetary gain to satisfy his wife.
This brings to light another aspect of the fraud to consider. Why would a woman who had been married to two Godmen sell her rights to Paul’s books and disappear into Palm Springs, California if Eckankar is the highest spiritual teachings on earth as claimed?
Anyway, few things could be more arrogant and condescending than presuming to be the “adult” in the room and then ridiculing former members of Eckankar for whining and complaining like children about being victims of fraud since as everyone knows all religions are frauds.
Mocking others after boasting about being an active and high profile member of Eckankar who rubbed elbows with the “cool kids” for ten years seems to be merely an attempt to “take the high road” so as to avoid looking stupid or foolish at being duped by Paul’s deception.
On the other hand, anyone aware of Paul’s deception the whole time they were a member of Eckankar and in a leadership role would make them a hypocrite of the highest order and an accessory in the scam leaving little room to criticize the complaint that Eckankar is a spiritual and business fraud, or, worse, to claim that there were no victims of fraud.
I studied EK and Shabda yoga, as with all spiritual practices works well in the parameters of the practice.
I especially liked the anthropologic use of masters as an mnemonic device to describe states of consciousness.
Somehow I never did encounter any of the above.
Look, long story short, if you have that free booklet Eckankar sends you and you find yourself stranded on a deserted island for the rest of your life guess what? You don't really need anything else. Yeah, to get "normal" initiations you need to be a member but that's if you want them- again, you do NOT absolutely need them.
If along with that booklet you have a Bible and you want to read it and learn more about the Christ then guess what? Nobody is stopping you. I stopped using "Jesus Christ" as a curse because of Eckankar- all right, every once in a while I still slip up but Rome wasn't built in a day.
The problem with Eckankar is it's proof of "as above so below" or "ask and you shall receive" which is as much a warning as a promise. You go in trying to be fleeced in anything you'll find a way to do it. Remember the PTL scandals of the 1980's? Did that make Christ a phony? Hardly.
Human beings have an amazing ability to take anything good and ruin it. That's the problem.
Nobody in Eckankar ever intimidated or bullied or ripped me off and I'm not exactly Walker Texas Ranger or Bruce Lee. That is because it just didn't work that way.
I never had these problems with Eckankar and it has helped me through some pretty terrible times. Because that's what I decided I wanted. Just as Christianity can be a huge help for many or a total rip-off (PTL Club). It's what YOU make of it in the end.
@Griswald1985, I am sure you know that just because these things didn't happen to you, that doesn't mean they don't happen to a lot of people. The same is true for any religion when people are hurt - there are those who experience trauma and those who don't. It is not a flaw of the individual that makes them experience a religion as traumatic, it is the religion that is causing the trauma.
Good for you. But your comments disregard the real problems people have faced by being involved in Eckankar. It is not what YOU make of it in the end. That is a thought-stopping cliche that basically blames the victim of abuse/trauma. Religion is traumatic for so many people. Eckankar is a religion and has harmed people with pushing false beliefs and causing people to think in harmful ways about themselves. Just because no one has bullied YOU or ripped YOU off, doesn't mean that the teachings are free from harm. Abuse doesn't have to be extreme to be abuse.
Once a person starts applying critical thinking and skepticism, it doesn't take much to see that the teachings of this cult are false. Since a god-belief or any supernatural idea is unfalsifiable, it is intellectually dishonest to explain things by god or spirituality. It is more honest to say, "there simply isn't evidence to support this, so I don't know." Like all other religions, eckankar places 100% veracity in the individual's experience. However, individual personal experience is not enough to prove something is true. If that were the case, then we all would have to believe the claims of members of all other religions who also vehemently believe in their personal experiences. This is a long-standing cult tactic, to place so much emphasis on personal experience instead of critical thinking.
There is a wonderful book which does an excellent job describing the tactics and impacts of cult behavior - "Recovering Agency" by Luna Lindsey and it describes how a former member of the LDS church found her way out. If you give this a read, or listen, you will find the very same tactics are used in Eckankar, and every other religion.
Eckankar makes promises just like every other religion. Those promises are never fulfilled, however, except in the mind of the believer who has been indoctrinated to see the world through a spiritual point of view. For example, eckankar teaches that "everything happens for a reason" and an offshoot of this idea is the concept of "waking dreams" which is an experience that happens when you are awake, that is somehow teaching you something. This is simply confirmation bias is full effect. We as humans want to find evidence to support our beliefs and ideas, even if our beliefs are incorrect. So, we seek out confirmation and validation. so, the Eckist who finds "confirmation" in the world around them is simply in the psychological loop of confirmation bias.
Most people, when "looking for a sign" to prove that something it true or right will typically say to god or the universe, "show me a sign that this is what I am supposed to do." doing this is already setting up your brain to find only evidence that will support your desire. Instead, if you really want to test this method, say to god or the universe, "show me a sign that this is NOT what I am supposed to do." This would be a much more honest approach. However, since this method isn't a good method for making decisions in the first place, because it is only confirmation bias, I am not suggesting that god or the universe is actually answering you. I am saying that you will still interpret any sign you get as confirmation because that is what you are seeking.
There is much to say on this subject and how eckankar teaches followers to believe in harmful ideas. the foundations based upon plagiarism should be enough to ward off any potential seeker. However, even if the beginnings were Twitchell's original ideas, this by no means would prove that those ideas are actually true. Skepticism and critical thinking are still needed to decide if any god claim or spiritual claim in true.
I was a member for over 40 years and rose to the rank of clergy. I was raised in eckankar since childhood and was a very well-known member. It took me having some distance from it to see that I had been indoctrinated into many harmful beliefs, such as believing in karma (which blames the victim) and believing that anger is "bad". You will find numerous writings in Eckankar about how expressing or feeling anger is the work of the "negative force" so people are indoctrinated to experience shame if they feel anger as it means "they are not spiritual enough." This is harmful because it creates compliance and learned helplessness in the Eckankar member which keeps them hooked into the cult. Very dangerous psychologically indeed.
Looking over all the complaints made about Eckankar and your reply also, troubles me because of my own past membership in Eckankar, which is still running a flimsy money making operation unabated hurting thousands of people, like they did to me. I’m still recovering from their mischief, but may never.
I noticed Eckankar designed a new website but their reasoning in doing this, is in order to try to force Minnesota law makers to reverse decisions to change what Eckankar has been termed as. A cult like organization. This website has been well thought out by them because in the future I’m sure there will be even more complaints aimed at them.
Eckankar offers a useful service if only the people who manned it truly were honest and had integrity. Yet since 1981 have made it a consistent practice to punish ferociously those opposing them. The premise behind their teachings, are sound, to support people in reaching higher states of awareness.
But Eckankar unfortunately slam dunks when it’s members do not adhere to rigid psychologically dangerous practices of holding their religious figures higher than one’s own, common sense. Religious practices put together even as late by past mental patients which I discovered in superseded court records. The founder of Eckankar was in a mental hospital and its current head was in one also.
However the most disturbing thing still going on after so many years is nobody has been able to successfully carry out the pining of criminal charges on all of those at the top of the Eckankar pyramid scheme.
Yes indeed Eckankar is a pyramid scheme that rewards those at the bottom who make it to the top by putting excessive pressures on the public, to buy and continue to buy membership goods of all sorts including attendance of events. Pressure in also eliminating Eckankar detractors by ferreting them out after sizing them up, and then exposing them to those at the top.
Eckankar will continue its tomfoolery and assault on members, with new comers included, as long as people need to be, victimized. To be made into victims, of theft and brainwashing. Schemed assault to be done with a soft touch, and conning cunning strategies all spruced up in an air of love, yet with a gun, pointed at love’s, head. Thus their legal counsel looks like an undertaker, and its Eckankar president primed and proper to appear, above reproach. So as to work around what really boils down to just religious prostitution with a heavy hand striking down those who feed it. Truly, Eckankar feels extremely dead and propagates death by advising the dying daily of its members, but in a sinister way.
There are previous court precedents - statutes combing other relevant classifications, of what these conniving Eckankar affiliates, HIs, RESAs, as well as other higher-ups are actively doing to people criminally. Yet, to catch them in the act you have to do what well trained investigators do in hard to prove cases, namely, record and video tape their conversations in plain view while they act out their crimes.
Devices can now be purchased online with the intent of legally recording criminal activity. These listening and recording devices are easy to use and hard to detect on a person’s body. Media News services join in with investigative teams regularly now to present programs for the public to watch on television.
Approaching said services carefully if you have reasonable, cause, will get your issues into the public eye. However don’t bother if you just want attention, or are psychologically disturbed. You have to have sincere genuine complaints that can be proven, for, the public good. Television Networks, Film Companies, You Tube Channels and Charitable Foundations for instance, have deep pockets in terms of legal protection, and they will support you. Use your imagination, I’m sure you will succeed. The reason why lawsuits against Eckankar have failed in the past was because of lack of monetary resources.
The inexperienced will cry out, “isn’t this illegal”? No, not in this case, because of an extensive damaging hate spree practiced by Eckankar done aggressively upon its membership and also; legal, as well as policing communities in general. Bad behavior orchestrating the establishment of hidden ordinances having been set up to net dodgy Eckankar subjects.
Think of it, Eckankar is considered so bad that it has brought down upon itself a legal netting worse than anything having been experienced before; by its original genesis in the church of Scientology! Even Hubbard and Twitchell would be impressed by the nasty SP (suppressive persons) weapons created by Eckankar that has been harming so many people through the control of their souls.
However, if you want to prove criminal activity you have to organize your surveillance carefully, by legally etching upon it, time and date, occurrence, whereabouts, and those who participated, in it. Clearly your efforts cannot be haphazard, or just frivolous. Thus, legal cause of concern must be explicitly explained in detail, backing your surveillance action on potentially, guilty parties.
You must also explain what exactly they did to warrant them being recorded; such as violation of various civil rights for instance, and the breaking of specific laws. Inclusive of slander and the passing on of confidential information outside legal constraints of a designated church, seeking to mar a person’s character, and their reputation in a community. Make triplets and pass these on to supportive persons, in case you are offed. You think I am making a joke here. I guess you never read the missing chapter, in one of Twitchell’s’ books.
A common Eckankar ploy for instance to silence dissent is to call a person criminal, a drug user, insane, or sexually immoral. There are other ones’ but you would almost have to figuratively waterboard their staff, to get the truth out of them. Thus, recoding is the very best, option, open to you. Get on their good side, and then, record away. Of course they will complain in court but, the law, is the law. Wrongdoers are subjected to the same law, as are good people.
These Eckankar heads are really slimy so you will have to get down in the dirt with them in order to trick them into converting their past opinions about you, into a converted and accepted confidence, in you. Thereby, give over their private confessions and also expose the rude behaviors which really displays, their true characters. Remember, in order to cross over the line from civil to criminal proceedings you must show a blatant violation of laws in criminal, and not civil, terms.
Regardless, enough damning dirt on Eckankar has been gathered to place them into legal straits which will, turn their lights off. Yet, legal protocol has to be followed to the T, so those responsible fit under the established umbrella of what they have been doing to their membership and other facilities for over 45 years. Consequently there are criminal specifics in law which they now neatly fit into. Yet better to have said walk into, to solidify evidence. Nonetheless, accurate explicit documentation is required, done by your hand or other’s digits, if they have credible evidence in hand, to present to courts and magistrates.
Thus, shop around to find the very best leaning magistrates, and counsel, motivated to put cultish interests out of business. The world will be a better place when the current form of Eckankar is done away with, successfully.
My mother, my father, my brother and cousin are all Eckists ( mom and dad have passed away ). I understand your issues with Eckankar fully. I never have confronted them about the truth of Eckankar, because I don't see the point. I mean, Eckankar is, essentially, a repackaged version of the Radhasoami sect in India, with all the austerity and discipline removed, so that it is palatable to the west. What difference does it make if they are Eckists, Sikhs, Hindus, or Scientologists? I mean, all religions are the same, pick one. Me? I just meditate, it's free and I don't have to surrender to anyone.
Normally I don't get involved in these sort of things, but- here goes.
I first became involved in Eckankar back in 1985 while studying psychic phenomena (in this case, Astral Travel). It actually took a bit of time to realize the difference involved here, but eventually I became an Eckist.
Sure I bought a couple of books and did order some of those initiation courses way back when, I was after all in college and the mid-1980's was certainly a brighter time than now. But was I EVER, at any point, pressured into buying anything? No.
In fact, at a little meeting place in Kirkland I used to post that famous "Bill the Cat Joins the Rahjneesh Cult" comic from "Bloom County." Nobody got mad, because it was funny ("START THE CAR!").
Aside from stuffing a few bucks in a donation jar for heating expenses from time to time, again nobody ever pressured me for money. Maybe some would say people were too scared to- I look like a hillbilly- but no, nobody was.
The idea behind Eckankar is simple: there is a sort of science behind reaching God, and Eckankar just tries to consolidate it. Since other religions have a lot of truth in them about this, reading the Bible as an Eckist shows me this ("the Third Heaven" Paul spoke of in second Corinthians and Christ's reference to a mansion with many rooms, Buddha's "middle path, " etc.), they are valid paths to God for different people, like glass globes in a Galileo thermometer. Christ and Buddha are highly respected, and it was because of Eckankay I try not to say "Jesus Christ" as a curse, though I still slip up.
The biggest problem has is and will always be the same as anything else on this planet: human nature. Absolutely nothing on this planet can be free of it. Those insane SJWs and ANTIFA; the origins of the leftism that drives them was actually sensible and in fact good. The NRA merely was about protecting the Second Amendment. Animal rights was about ending the horrific abuses other life forms endure from us. But humans find a way to ruin EVERYTHING.
The basic idea behind Eckankar is and always will be good: finding a way back home to God and to understand other faiths and other ways. The same with true Christians, Krishnans, even Wiccans. Just as the most satisfied Christians are those who reach for the Christ, and those of other faiths remember the heart and soul of their beliefs, so it is with Eckankar. Long story short, it's what ECKISTS make of it, and after more than 3 1/2 decades I still believe. But I also understand humans are SERIOUSLY flawed, and anyone who thinks any organization with humans is going to be 100% crystal clear pure is going to be disappointed no matter where they are.
So may the blessings be, and to everyone in these crummy dark times, here's hoping for you and strength in whatever faith you have.
I want to comment on eckankar because I notice on this website nobody has pointed out Twitchell never intended to continue his made up religion past his death.
Eckankar is a fraudulent sham based on observations from my own personal experience with its henchmen trying to live off the backs of those who did in some way benefit initially from ideas devised in part by Paul Twitchell.
Don’t misinterpret my intention though of presenting this text to you. Twitchell’s ideas were intriguing but in my own case as I discovered later on influenced me to the edge of disaster because they were not based on sound principles governing astute behavior.
I am writing this perhaps as the only person alive who can accurately describe last wishes and days of Paul Twitchell. Revealing what I know from the last period of his life to outsiders would not in his time be considered ok, yet he would probably support this letter, because of how deadly and destructive Eckankar has become today to those who join its ranks.
In Twitchell’s final days he wanted to provide a linkage to those he cared for through his writings, teachings and published materials, to guide these person’s continued self discovery after his death. I was around in the early 60s before the formation of Paul’s scientology based teaching which he shared as a contributor with the Dianetics founder as an extension of teachings above level OT8.
Despite what onlookers attempt to point out, Paul was no backwoods ignoramous hick as has been inferred copiously across the www. Twitchell was reasonably educated with college study requiring ability to read and write in English understandably. He plazerized much of his esoteric writings which was common practice during his lifetime because there was no internet available, not even the most basic copy machines to plazerize texts from; thus essentially the man was winging it to build an image of himself as a spiritual adept when actually he was just a caring beginner trying to free people from traditionalists holding a majority of people down, with no promise of them ever breaking out of limiting culturally biased paradgyms.
On appearance this may appear very noble of Twitchell but in his frantic attempt to break out, he has caused a lot of damage because he suggested and taught many things which are just not possible for people to achieve; so they stretch themselves dangerously thin right by the edge just shy of falling off and from my experience, many people did, and do today, from an even further distortion by eckankar to cover up the founder’s shady past, subsequently a need on Eckanka’s part to bring this tomfoolery forward to still dupe people today into thinking their teachings are legitimate but really just based on a hodgepodge of disassociative ideas which fractures people’s peace of mind and stability, in relationships and day to day interaction, with the world.
The practice during the 1940s through 70s was legitimate respected well known writers who lacked sophistication in philosophical matters, copied full sections of others people’s books authored elsewhere because getting to a library and forming their own ideas was time consuming. On top of that photo copying was reserved to those with access to very primitive machines. I know this as one of my friend’s parents owned and ran an offset press. We observed crap copy machines operating there sitting broken, with repair requiring qualified technicians traveling far to fix temperamental devices.
Initially Twitchell considered continuing on through an ongoing distribution camp after he died to propagate his home brewed teachings for ongoing support of those he had taught after demise, yet Hubbard had a hand in Twitchell’s pie. In reality Twitchell’s writings were extensions of both authors combined. Moreover Twitchell became seriously ill therefore not picking a replacement for his advanced scientology courses he constructed from various new thought sources, and offering them to the public. In late 1960 and early 1970 Paul gave a group of us eleven a request to disperse these teachings he had devised outside our early eckankar camp created initially with Hubbard’s hand.
Nevertheless again no suitable replacement was chosen before Twitchell died to carry out his joint spiritual venture. Twitchell’s thought was he did not want these writings up for grabs and an interpretation as high profit return by his overly cash conscious wife, and her manipulative female cronies, directed to make as much cash as possible off his writings. Twitchell’s wife was frantic about making her millions of dollars regardless of the consequences this would have as damage onto other people. In Twitchell’s wife’s estimation she was footing the bill for Paul’s pseudo esoteric lifestyle and getting no large monetary returns from this.
Later Twitchell’s wife made her millions of dollars off a vitamin company Twitchell co-founded, with a well known nutritionist. When Twitchell died his wife and her unscrupeoulous cronies spun a web of tall mystic tales, to keep their eckankar money maker going, and choosing Twitchell’s wife’s lover, as a master replacement, who built a formidable cash machine that made millions of dollars which he pocketed, to run a musical jazz band he formed, and being privately jetted across the United States, as the replacement’s bad health and addiction crept up on him in the late 1970s, to force him into retirement, just.
Compounding this pseudo spiritual fiasco evolving as a menace to society for over 50 years in duration, is another totally outlandish phenomena which acted to spur on the continuation of this fraudulent spiritual camp to assault the public.
If you examine carefully handwriting by Paul’s hand scribbled onto a poster given to Twitchell’s wife’s lover, who became the next eckankar master; knowing explicitly Twitchell’s personal handwriting script style, you will note that it is excessively feeble and faulty in placement onto the poster, caused by a shaky hand and excessive fatigue based on heart failure.
Later on Twitchell’s replacement as eckankar master, and his wife’s lover, would claim this hand written script written onto the poster given to him and displayed at the eckankar headquarters in Menlo Park California at one time; was in fact this new eckankar replacment master’s, spiritual name.
The hand written script written onto the poster was obviously scribbled mindlessly and haphazardly onto it which Twitchell’s wife’s female pseudo spiritual accomplices used in part later on to prove that this new master brought forward a continuation to carry Twitchell and Hubbards cash making creation. On close examination by those familiar with Twitchell’s handwriting, these people were not fooled and left in a concerned hurry.
This fabrication as a fake eckankar camp continuation giving out Twitchell’s captured writings, re-edited, censored, with most never published, has continued to this day, through the activities of flimsy maladjusted females pushed into action by totally fake eckankar masters, never meant to carry on Twitchell’s creation. With absolutely nobody in the know, speaking out to reveal a flagrant violation of Paul’s final wishes carried out in secret by loyal supporters of his, who knew where he was coming from and tried to propagate what they initially, thought were genuine spiritual teachings.
New Thought Teachings these designated persons believed they would disperse in a respectful manner to benefit those in need. Again, it may appear that I have supported this fiasco, or support it today. On the contrary it was just a small matter of time before Twitchells fold on the run knew that any association with Twitchell would lead back to Hubbard who was wanted on numerous continents for all kinds of misdeeds
There you have it in a nutshell. Each designated Twitchell propagation driver promised they would never tell this inside information to any one, but eckankar has just gone way too far, with no one putting them in check as has happened in the past with scientology, which eckankar is an extension of, regardless of eckankar refusing to admit this.
Thus the public is getting severely hurt and damage is being done to innocent people maliciously; which goes beyond what is right or deserved by sincere spiritual seekers, just out there seeking truth. If you have it in your self pass this information on for consideration, to any who would benefit with these hidden revelations.
If you need support and are a current or past eckankar member seek it through Twitchell’s original contacts who are based in religious science and new thought; as he was a member himself in a wide array of those teachings, which he belonged to, which included Asian religious teachings.
However, I am not talking about seeking support from scientology, although that is your business. There is still a connection with very genuine caring sincere people who will help you to find your way to stability beyond any deception, with those groups other than scientology, that Twitchell belonged to, and studied with. Yet despite the offered support by these groups I am refering to you have to know what is best for yourself, and what does not feel right, through any association with any person or group. Go with your gut and you will never be let down. New Thought is based on traditional world religions which have shown integrity in their support of all people in need regardless of class, sexual orientation or monetary condition. Seek them out, they really care.
You wrote:
" He plazerized much of his esoteric writings which was common practice during his lifetime because there was no internet available"
First, please learn the correct spelling of 'plagiarize'. Now then, in response, well, NO! Writing, esoteric or otherwise, was and is NEVER a common practice in the last few centuries since the advent of the concept of authorship and copyright. Moreover, your logic that he did it because there was no internet is absurd, as he did have access to libraries. But your point is a non sequitur. How does the presence of libraries or the internet have any bearing on plagiarism? It has no bearing on it whatsoever because it is a literary crime and it's all on the perpetrator. In fact, it's a rather asinine comment.
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I read the comments in this post. Some of them make sense and some of them are claims that are hard to believe. By the way, I was a registered member before and I stopped paying Eckankar Center since I believe they are a fraud.
I found ECK with my soul and my heart. Eckankar is a spiritual knowledge not a religion. it's a personal path. In fact, according to Sharyiat making religion and organization out of eck is against spiritual law. You can see the result of making religion in Christianity and Islam or other religions. Many people have suffered by religious rules and governments. Eckankar is no better. We are planning to file a lawsuit against Eckankar Center. For destroying many people by introducing Eckankar as a religion. We have gathered lots of documents. We are just regular eckists that really believe in eck but we believe after Paul there was no Mahanta, no living eck master. And what the eckankar has become is different from eck. If you can help me with legal information or any documents please send me an email : Children.of.eck@gmail.com
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If for instance you were a professor at the University of Oregon in Eugene and arguing about all of the good Eckankar has done and represents, and what a fine bunch of people they are I would have to tell you your trying to misdirect the public from the damages that have been done by this cult to peoples peace of mind, resources, friendships and close family ties.
You are not telling people about Eckankar’s reputed not reported shady business deals done under the table involving very bad people who regularly contribute monetary gifts to Eckankar.
I am not much of a writer so I include what I found elsewhere on the World Wide Web recently. This entry pretty much sums up what Eckankar is about and, it is not spiritual, that is for sure. A religion having any ties with organized crime pretty much makes that group void. Eckankar is all about controlling the naive from the inside out, to fill the group’s finances chest.
So Here Goes:
I cant stomach another day without expressing an outrage that eckankar continues to exist off of the pain and suffering of other people based on deceit.
I am really shocked at the nativity of eckankar members, me being a former member that just could not deal with the outright lies and deception of higher initiates controlled by the church in Chanhassen. After decades of evidence revealing outright fraud in the making up of eckankar by Paul Twitchell, then brought forward by Darwin Gross and now masterminded into new forms to cover up its fraudulent past by the current president and the current master.
Despie knowing for years that all of us members had been lied to and robbed of membership money we contributed, no body bothered to tell us we had all been lied to, and kept us in the dark by higher initiates and the Eck master that tried to cover up the eckankar past.
I find it shocking that members do not know that the resources they contribute, go toward criminal activity, by deceiving the public in presenting a made up lie, then knowingly covering up this fact and keeping paying members in the dark who would probably not support them if they knew eckankars roots.
This point is summed up nicely by a person who wrote into this forum with the following concerns, as to the legitimacy of what others have wrote in, about eckankar member monetary resources that are used for profit, by private parties who are high up in eckankar.
So I will write here an original commentary on what I know to be true, about the concerned parties questions, that I will answer.
The concerned party wrote in relation to the following, and is answered question by question:
Thus Concerned Person’s Opening Statement as: in Eckankar centers, numerous individuals have access to a non-profit bank account? (Sorry, but I find it very difficult to believe that so many people could possibly be allowed access to an organization's bank account.)
My Answer: Abroad for instance, and basically in other countries, far away from our safe U.S. shores, Eckankar has required Charity Business Accounts, that Eckankar officers have designated access to.
Harry Kebbel now deceased, fortunately for himself, because the C.I.D. and IRS apparently have an interest in him. Kebbel was a high initiate and signer officer to an Eckankar charity banking account, which he used to launder his personal resources through, as well as other Eckankar finances from abroad. How do I know this? His widow in a troubling moment told me this at a seminar in the United States. She also got an instant 5th invitation from Eckankar, to remain silent to the government, if they pried further into this fact. In the United States designated center officers have access to tax exemption accounts, which they frivolously use for private purposes from funds given over to them by paid members of Eckankar.
Another unknown fact is that, key hackers in Anonymous, are actual Eckankar paying members. These hackers tried to take Scientology down, because Eckankar, was designed by Twitchell and his boss Hubbard, that he paid with eckankar proceeds, because eckankar is a hidden Scientology unit.
In Nigeria, an ex-president of Eckankar, with the help of chelas there, laundered millions of dollars through charity bank accounts there, for their own private interests use, as higher up officers in Eckankar. Member supported funds which were supposed to go to study programs associated with paid membership service. Those same account users with private interests, are still paid officers of Eckankar and despite court proceedings to expose other groups in Nigeria like them. That is so because, key banking authorities who regulate laws pertaining to charity accounts there in Nigeria, are eckankar high initiates.
Space and time do not permit documenting other Eckankar Charity based accounts, doing similar scams in other countries, for private officers of the corporation, mostly carried out through shelf companies hiding real estate holdings, not charity associated, nor structured for charity status in the United States.
France squashed one of those real estate charity scams, yet other countries in Europe who are over their heads in other matters, are unable to make quick conclusions to other Eckankar real estate scams there, involving money laundering on the continent, based on dilapidated real estate holdings, hiding behind shelf companies.
Concerned Person Statement: (In my experience, the treasurer of a group monitors the account, and makes deposits and withdrawals. )
My Answer: Yes, this is supposed to be the way it is done by honest people, following legal protocol, established by the government for charity accounts. Nevertheless, Eckankar officers designated for this purpose, have acted outside of legal protocol, and thus moving resources into their own pockets, intended originally for paid membership purposes.
Concerned Person Statement: (If so many people have access to an organization's bank account, then any one of those unstable, unsavory, drug-addicted people could simply withdraw all the cash in the account - and drug addicts certainly would.)
My Answer: Yes absolutely, and these parties have over time, smartly procuring interest on deposits, as more resources continuously go into the charity based accounts that supports these persons.
Concerned Person Statement: (If you dislike the organization, just say so. This is obviously fabricated lies which make no sense. Thus, I won't even both commenting on the rest of the report.)
My Answer: You may believe previous reports in scam report are based on fabricated lies, yet the Unites States Justice System does not. The Federal Government does not consider the accumulated evidence, which has been gathered as fact, as nonsensical, otherwise it would not have pursued due process as an expanding effort which is taking shape very meticulously. The United States Federal Court in Minnesota has designated Eckankar as a cult like organization, based on facts, furnished by frightened harassed witnesses, some of whom were jail confined, to gag presentation of evidence against them.
The New Mexico Attorney General is in process of bringing to trial and prosecuting private affiliates associated with Eckankar, who laundered resources, using Eckankar as a charity contribution option, and using shelf companies to hide behind, making real estate deals in the United States and abroad, then cleaning their resources through designated Eckankar charity facilities.
One of those affiliates is hiding behind a German “Bankers Passport”, and is wanted in New Mexico for fraud, however Germany, does not extradite its citizens, so this party apparently, thought out their scheming carefully. The wanted party lives in a protected suburb of Munich, that does not allow car access to an exclusive housing area, with the wanted persons house, owned by a corporate entity, and managed by a German attorney. Yet, in this subjects case other extraneous evidence waives their rights and precludes them. Fortunately, this particular subject is tied into other more alarming extraneous crimes tied into misuse of other particulars indirectly associated supposedly with the Clinton Foundation, as damning evidence, that therefore waives the parties non extradition rights, and precludes them.
If anyone has any further questions or concerns about charity fraud strategies and practices, pick up your telephone and call the F.B.I. or New Mexico Attorney Generals office, to become educated against any potential naivety. In the United States, it is still a crime to use a charity facility designated as church exemption, to accumulate wealth for private interests not associated with charity status, regardless of where such activity takes place as it pertains to the Parent Organization located in United States territory.
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Harold klemp, the living eck master, was given his opportunity by rebazar tarzs and the real universal guides, as was darwin gross, who came before him. Originally, it was paul twitchell, who provided the nupresentation for this world, and realfreedom. Darwin gross, soon turned paul's presentation into a 'religion, ' and harold klemp, has kept what is now referred to as 'the corporation, ' a defined religious following. Rebazar tarzs, brought paul twitchell into what is very well known as, 'the rod of power.' darwin gross and harold klemp, were given the opportunity to earn their way into the same realposition, as did paul twitchell, but they never did. Actually, they went entirely the other way with their own business in mind, and that's all the corporation is today. I personally knew paul twitchell in 1970, and to this very day, right now, I stand with rebazar tarzs, paul twitchell, yauble sacabi, gopal das, fubbi quantz, and all the real universal guides. There is only one man on earth who stands in the rod of power with rebazar tarzs and the real universal guides, and for those who have the realcourage to find out, ask for rebazar tarzs in your dreamvisions, and he will show you who really has the rod of power.
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