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Topic: My views of Lazaris
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Lynn Daniluk Member Posts: 242 Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-05-2001 12:00 PM
Hi Craig,Very interesting! These ideas bring me back to the point you made in your initial 5-part document. There is a very good chance that Lazaris is real, not whom they say they are and just playing with us like some 'god' up on Mount Olympus! I had a very intense time with one of my closest friends the other day about Lazaris. Ever since I found this site, we have been tearing this whole messing scene apart trying to make some sense of it. He knows the earlier Lazaris material like the back of his hand and uses it in his healing practice. He has felt Lazaris too intimately not to believe it is real. I understand that feeling only I for one did not feel comfortable 'blending' with it. He did. So we sat in my tree house and had it out... We talked about all of the material that you covered in your document but still he was hooked on the intense connection and the love and how real it is to him and I said "Your right! I believe it is real! But what if this Being is opening you up and loving you up so that it can manipulate you?" Well that hit like a ton of bricks. And he snapped. "Your right...I just got it," he said. He is still processing it and the pain is unbelievable. But after a day or so he told me that he had an enormous sense of relief. A very humbling experience for both of us. Cheers, Lynn
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Jade Member Posts: 790 Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-05-2001 03:06 PM
Hi Lynn, quote: I understand that feeling only I for one did not feel comfortable 'blending' with it.
From the Seth book, The Nature of the Psyche, quote: When a man's consciousness, for example, blended with that of a tree, those data became 'visual' for others to perceive. When a man's consciousness merged with an animal's, that blending became visual data also.
IMO, the Seth books are the probable source for the Orb's version of "blending", but "Lazaris" perverted it into a potent love bombing technique -- more like a psychic bleeding. How wonderful that your friend is setting himself free.  Jade
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Lynn Daniluk Member Posts: 242 Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-05-2001 03:15 PM
Hi Jade, Thank you It has been a tremendous release for me and one of the reasons I have not been writing as much here. We have been busy deprogramming our systems! Lynn
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Craig Member Posts: 698 Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 08-07-2001 09:09 AM
Hi everyone,I decided to start posting on the LL forum. In one of my posts, I referred to the story of Michaell being summoned by Lazaris to join C:S. The origin of that statement was questioned. I am 99.9% sure I heard that one myself at one of the seminars. Can anyone with first hand experience of hearing this from Lazaris please furnish details. Thanks. Cheers, Craig
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Pippa John Member Posts: 113 Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 08-07-2001 09:24 AM
Dear Lynn:[[[[So where are all of the healthy sexual teachings in the Lazaris material? This is a great power that most people misuse or use in a completely unconscious manner. It's is a huge topic and one that can not be ignored.]]] I remember hearing someone tell me that Lazaris says there are three kinds of people: those who are serial in their relationships, even if their serial relationships are twenty years each; those who are monogomous, and those for whom sex is unnecessary. He referred to Jach as one of those for whom sex is unnecessary. However, does anyone remember tha very strange conversation about sex where Peny said on the Forum that Michaell "gave" her a vasectomy for their wedding. I remember thinking that was nearly scandalous to announce to the public like that. Meanwhile, I also know that she was perhaps a little obssessed with which people at seminars were getting sex and from whom. She also liked to make up little stories about people that were untrue but apparently very entertaining to her about people's sex lives. Someone I know who has never been unfaithful was rumored by Peny to have been a rather hotsy little hound. She was wrong. PJ
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TedV Member Posts: 922 Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 08-07-2001 11:02 AM
Hi Craig,I definitely heard or read that Lazaris suggested that Micheall join Jach and Peny in Florida, against their better judgement. As I recall, Jach or Peny related the story, not Lazaris, but I could be wrong. I think I heard or read it several places. It might be in one of the interview books... Cheers, Ted
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Katie Administrator Posts: 3320 Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-07-2001 12:01 PM
Hi Craig, Lazaris told the story of intervening in the Peny, Jach, Michaell marriage at the Millennium event. I've heard several versions but they are all essentially the same. I also believe that Jach tells the story on one of the Manifesting tapes. I know I heard him tell it on a tape, and I'm pretty sure it was one of those. You will find that facts are of little to no interest to the LL posters. They each have their own understanding of the L materials, and just might get quite angry with you if you seek to come to any factual understanding. We all create our own realities you see, so you create the one in which Lazaris might be a fraud, so that is your problem. I wish you well on that site, I suspect you will find it to be an exercise in futility if you are seeking to provide factual information. Check your facts at the door, Mac, and just put on a .  Katie
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Craig Member Posts: 698 Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 08-07-2001 05:31 PM
Hi Katie,Thanks for the info! I am actually looking for my thoughts to be challenged at the LL site. I certainly don't expect to sway any opinions. However, if my own thinking is clarified as a result, it will have proven useful. I can forsee a point at which the cumulative frustration becomes overwhelming. At that point I will bow out. Cheers, Craig
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Jade Member Posts: 790 Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-08-2001 12:20 AM
Hi Craig, Have to compliment you on your response to Angel's post today. On the issue of the Orb's health advice, much of it was unsolicited, not a result of L being asked as she implies. Loved your closing question about what information it would take. That's a big one! As for emotional reactions , the Lazaris Lite dance of denial is certainly based on emotion. Possibly bask burn. Jade
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Pippa John Member Posts: 113 Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 08-09-2001 09:55 PM
Hi, Craig:[[[[Your questions about sex are most thought provoking. I think there are other areas where Lazaris also doesn't have a clue. The biggest that comes to mind is family. Of course, without sex, you don't have much of a family to worry about!]]] I agree pretty much with this. Sigh. When I think about how stupid a lot of his advice on family is--for example, he did some tapes with some woman named "Beky" who is so annoying to listen to and mostly shallow--I get really, really sad and angry. My spouse and I made some decisions about our family directly due to things we heard Lazaris say. But, even though a lot of the Lazaris information I have used to heal my own relationship with my parents--shame, abuse, etc, I am not sure the "advice" my spouse and I have used in our own family now was not more than the twisted way Peny and Jach seem to view family, and thus, hurtful and damaging to our homelife. Something I always noted, but chose to ignore (one thing of many) was how much it seemed to me the Gang, from Jach on down, viewed parenthood with condescension. One of the most disturbing things I ever heard about the whole slimy mess of Orlando is that Michaell left his daughter. While no one knows the reason why, and perhaps there is a good one, how can a person do that? I am sure, though, that whatever the reason, Peny would NOT have been a willing stepmother. Christ, I shudder at the thought of her being a mother at all. [[[[Why do we have such a restrictive view on certain topics? Does Lazaris need to experience physicality through Peny and Jach to be able to comment on it? If so, are we all destined to become like Peny and Jach if we follow the material "good enough"?]]] These are really great questions. I hope if Lazaris is real this is not so. Like you said in one of your posts on the other site, if so, then Lazaris has no right to present himself as knowing more than we do, bar none. He needs to give us the disclaimer and let us know he is limited by being intheir "set" to use his own terminology. But, then, if he experiences humanity through Jach and Peny, it would seem more likely that it is all not real, and just a break in Jach's psyche. [[[[Are we all part of one huge experiment? That would be somewhat OK if Lazaris had the integrity to admit it. But he hasn't.]]] Yeah, I have wondered that, too. Well, as my spouse said, if they planted all these weird ass things in me, I can't tell so they "got me." I too feel that there is nothing waiting to blow up in my consciousness, but how the hell would I know since I can't tell anyway. As Lynn was saying, it has crossed my mind that if Lazaris is not just Jach wanting to keep Peny with the aphrodisiac of Lazaris, then what if Lazaris is real but not all that he says and he has been helping us heal, but with a sort of Dorian Gray extraction of which we are unaware? He has talked to us about how we are helping to bring about the new world, and that others in the universe were jealous of this, blah, blah, blah, but that the choice was given to us humans and that there was some influence on this decision. Really, what the hell does all that mean? Are we part of some grand experiment. There is a whole new meaning to the Great Work, the Grand Adventure Lazaris talks about if so. It is when I think about this kind of stuff that I question my certitude of the actual help I received from Lazaris. Two seemingly unrelated things come to mind: one is that at the Millennium event, the climax music of the midnight meditation was the instrumental version of "My Heart Will Go On" from "Titanic." I thought this was creepy. Whose heart will go on? And where will the rest of the being be? Why are we letting a heart go on anyway? What else stopped? And the other is that I can't recall ever meeting anyone who ever found Lazaris in a time of complete wonder and fun in his or her life. Maybe those people exist, but anyone I have ever talked to seem to have found Lazaris in their hour of darkness. Is this a weak time when we are easiest to manipulate? These two things come together in my mind to pose the question: when Lazaris refers to "they" and "we" just how many different they's and we's are we talking about here and what the hell do they really want? I don't want to get manic about this: most of the time I just realize that I am not ever going to trust Lazaris again and that I am moving on, but then other days I let myself go deeper into wondering if I can't trust lazaris now, what in the past should I reconsider? And yet there is a lot of growth I gained from working with the materials and I haven't heard it as succinctly anywhere else. Is it a needless excerise to wonder if I was somehow baited and switched? Or, not. PJ
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Jade Member Posts: 790 Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-09-2001 10:38 PM
Hi Pippa John, quote: I just realize that I am not ever going to trust Lazaris again and that I am moving on, but then other days I let myself go deeper into wondering if I can't trust lazaris now, what in the past should I reconsider?
Easy, everything. Much as it might be nice to just move on, I think it is really important to reconsider all the whys, whats and hows of having been hooked into and staying with L and Con:Sin. This is exactly what they don't want you to do -- of course they'd rather have you move on without a glance backwards. Also, for almost everyone who has realized that "Lazaris" and C:S are deceptive, manipulative and exploitative, it is necessary to go through an unhurried process of sorting through one's own thoughts and beliefs in order to decide what really is of value and true for you. quote: And yet there is a lot of growth I gained from working with the materials and I haven't heard it as succinctly anywhere else.
You probably would have grown anyway, one way or another Pippa John, since you had that intent. As for succinctness. I believe J/L synthesized others' material and added much more that he actually made up, having zero validity. And think of how many tapes he made repeating the same theme, like success. Maybe that initial synthesis was concise, but the rest is a wild goose chase. Jade
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Jade Member Posts: 790 Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-09-2001 10:52 PM
Hi Again PJ, quote: Something I always noted, but chose to ignore (one thing of many) was how much it seemed to me the Gang, from Jach on down, viewed parenthood with condescension.
Good point. How fundamental to love, life, commitment, caring, and growth parenthood is. But the Orb focused us on negative energies we have with our parents, not us as parents or our children. About "shame." He made that into something you can't be done with on your own -- need that "higher" self (buy tapes, book, attend workshops to find) at a minimum to be done with it. Who is to say that his definition and prescriptions on dealing with shame are even as good as John Bradshaw's or any other reputable therapist/philosopher? The problem with children is that there is a huge temptation to spend money (and time) on them instead of seminars and crystals. Jade
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Katie Administrator Posts: 3320 Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-12-2001 03:53 PM
Hi Craig, quote: I'm actually looking for my thoughts to be challenged at the LL site. I certainly don't expect to sway any opinions. However, if my own thinking is clarified as a result, it will have proven useful.
No, it certainly is not worth the effort to try to sway opinions, I agree. As it appears, it seems that you are functioning there to clarify quite a bit, and not just for yourself. Good going! quote: I can forsee a point at which the cumulative frustration becomes overwhelming. At that point I will bow out.
There is a certain set-up for frustration there, agreed, but it seems that the board is not as restrictive as some would have hoped it to be. The questioning continues, and the cracks in the walls of belief continue. That is always an exciting process for some, and a phenomenally upsetting one for those who are invested in just maintaining the status-quo. I'm very much seeing that much thinking around Lazaris, and most issues for that matter, can be very emotional rather than thoughtful, but I'm also seeing that thinking still seems to be holding it's own. That's an awesome reality. As long as we keep thinking, as well as feeling, I believe we'll all do great. I really applaud your clear headed thinking and compassionate participation on both of these boards.  Katie
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Katie Administrator Posts: 3320 Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-12-2001 03:53 PM
Hi Jade, quote: As for emotional reactions , the Lazaris Lite dance of denial is certainly based on emotion. Possibly bask burn.
Yes, there is lots and lots of denial going on there, it's sad, painful, frustrating, and puzzling for me to read some of the posts there. I do believe there are some with hidden agendas posting there, possibly even Con:Sinners trying to manipulate the board into a mindless little place of "safety, peace, love, and good vibrations" by creating a kind of sense of joy and happiness with the L materials served up to tranquilize and create a sense of well-being in the face of all this questioning and conflict. The good news is that it isn't really working. Those who are invested in actually thinking this dilemma through seem to be doing just that, inspite of all the free cotton candy being offered there. Bravo, I say.  Katie
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Katie Administrator Posts: 3320 Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-12-2001 03:54 PM
Hi Pippa, quote: When I think about how stupid a lot of his advice on family is--for example, he did some tapes with some woman named "Beky" who is so annoying to listen to and mostly shallow--I get really, really sad and angry. My spouse and I made some decisions about our family directly due to things we heard Lazaris say.
Yes, Ted and I did so also, and it also makes me sad and angry. In a nutshell, the advice sucked, and was harmful. It's interesting that some of the most harmful moments for me came during an intensive that Craig and I both attended, the Archetype intensive in LA back in 89 I think. The Orb was working with us on our parent issues because allegedly if we projected our unhealthy attitudes toward our parents onto the Archetypes we would get fried like bugs or something. There was a lot of bad advice given all leading to the conclusion that parents were screwed up and the best thing was to release them. I may be simplifying this to an extent, but I don't think so. Maybe Craig has more detailed recollections. I do recall deciding during that intensive that I was best served to sever ties with my mother. quote: But, even though a lot of the Lazaris information I have used to heal my own relationship with my parents--shame, abuse, etc, I am not sure the "advice" my spouse and I have used in our own family now was not more than the twisted way Peny and Jach seem to view family, and thus, hurtful and damaging to our homelife.
I think this is an example of how the Jachzaris materials wove scholarly theory into personal dogma. I won't at this point even go so far as to say that I agree that the shame work, or any of the lifted information is valid, but I will agree that it is at least based on thinking and philosophy which has come from respectable sources. quote: Something I always noted, but chose to ignore (one thing of many) was how much it seemed to me the Gang, from Jach on down, viewed parenthood with condescension.
I recall Peny latching on to a question I asked in the Forum during a very odd discussion about parental responsibility. The question was "why do we deify motherhood?" Peny wanted people to roll with that one, but as I recall, it died a quick death. quote: One of the most disturbing things I ever heard about the whole slimy mess of Orlando is that Michaell left his daughter. While no one knows the reason why, and perhaps there is a good one, how can a person do that? I am sure, though, that whatever the reason, Peny would NOT have been a willing stepmother. Christ, I shudder at the thought of her being a mother at all.
I believe, based on information I have been provided that Peny insisted that Michaell sever ties with his daughter. I speculate that she was too jealous and possessive to "share" him with anyone. I also have information which indicates that Jach has recently begun to contact his own family after an absence of somewhere near 30 years in which he failed even to attend his own parents funerals. If true, this would indicate that Peny also pressured Jach to sever ties with his family as well, and that now that Jach is free of these restrictions he is anxious to renew his connections. Along with this information came the speculation that Jach is very lonely now. Wouldn't that be an interesting bit of Jach lore? How could someone with such a large, passionate, and devoted following feel lonely unless he truly does not feel any of the love and intimacy with followers and loving Gang that he claims to have? Is is possible that with Peny gone, there is no one left in Jach's life who is capable of filling his emotional void? Isn't his channelling career fulfilling and gratifying enough, as he claims, that he feels the need to now re-connect with people who have not been in his life for decades? quote: But, then, if he experiences humanity through Jach and Peny, it would seem more likely that it is all not real, and just a break in Jach's psyche.
My sentiments precisely. quote: Well, as my spouse said, if they planted all these weird ass things in me, I can't tell so they "got me." I too feel that there is nothing waiting to blow up in my consciousness, but how the hell would I know since I can't tell anyway.
Although I have concerns about the potential impact of subliminal suggestions via the hypnosis sessions we all allowed, I don't feel a tremendous concern about how much power this may have had ultimately. I just can't credit that much power to what I believe to be a pathetic side-show perpetrated by a clever and arrogant huckster. Clever? yes. Powerful? Only to the extent that we allow. IMO of course. quote: As Lynn was saying, it has crossed my mind that if Lazaris is not just Jach wanting to keep Peny with the aphrodisiac of Lazaris, then what if Lazaris is real but not all that he says and he has been helping us heal, but with a sort of Dorian Gray extraction of which we are unaware? He has talked to us about how we are helping to bring about the new world, and that others in the universe were jealous of this, blah, blah, blah, but that the choice was given to us humans and that there was some influence on this decision. Really, what the hell does all that mean? Are we part of some grand experiment. There is a whole new meaning to the Great Work, the Grand Adventure Lazaris talks about if so.
Again, I believe this all to be cotton candy fluff, effective to fill up time and space. I don't choose to give it any power beyond what I would give to a dishonest "friend" who deliberately lied and betrayed me for fun and profit. quote: It is when I think about this kind of stuff that I question my certitude of the actual help I received from Lazaris.
Absolutely, me too. Show me the money, I say. Where are the stellar successes and exceptional relationships and lives we were promised? Where are they within the Gang? I say this from the perspective of someone who has not done too shabbily in creating a productive, comfortable, secure life, and a not insignificant number of loving, gratifying relationships. All well and fine, but I can't see that as a common thread throughout the followers of Lazaris. I am too personally familiar with the many steller failures of others to create even a modicum of stability in their lives and relationships. I credit myself, and my own intentions for my successes, not the Orb. Although life has moved along quite satisfactorily, that is not what I was shooting for with the L materials. I was shooting for the promise of much much much more. I still ponder where my life would have taken me had I never bothered with all this ridiculous fluff and nonsense and followed my own instincts rather than investing in that invention of Jach Purr-Sell's. quote: Two seemingly unrelated things come to mind: one is that at the Millennium event, the climax music of the midnight meditation was the instrumental version of "My Heart Will Go On" from "Titanic." I thought this was creepy. Whose heart will go on? And where will the rest of the being be? Why are we letting a heart go on anyway? What else stopped?
Hmmm...interesting recollection, I had forgotten about that. I am sure that as that music was playing, my mind was most engaged with trying to sort through that creeping sickening feeling I was having as a result of having just met Peny face to face. I was literally in shock and dismay over my "unexplainable" inability to feel anything but a cold chill down my spine at the thought of her. quote: And the other is that I can't recall ever meeting anyone who ever found Lazaris in a time of complete wonder and fun in his or her life. Maybe those people exist, but anyone I have ever talked to seem to have found Lazaris in their hour of darkness. Is this a weak time when we are easiest to manipulate?
Ted and I were not at all in crisis or darkness when we were introduced to the L materials. We were actually doing work that was quite similar on our own, and impressed that some extra-terrestrial endorsed by Shirley Maclaine was of the same mindset. We then defaulted to him rather than pursuing our own paths. I had an interesting experience over the weekend, a friend asked me to conduct one of the sessions we were experimenting with prior to our L involvement, about which I have written elsewhere on this board. It was just a curiousity experiment, and I had reluctance, but did some research before revisiting the techniques we had evolved from our own experiments and what I came up with is that we were doing what is now defined as "Alchemical hypnotherapy", almost to the letter, except that we did not provide any therapy, but allowed for the "subjects" to provide their own. Once again I was very taken with the fact that what Jach is doing is really not all that revolutionary or profound. For God's sake, we stumbled upon it in our own kind of naive enthusiasm for all the "new-age" dogma that was floating around in the 80's. We had a kind of interesting session actually, which I'm still pondering. quote: I don't want to get manic about this: most of the time I just realize that I am not ever going to trust Lazaris again and that I am moving on, but then other days I let myself go deeper into wondering if I can't trust lazaris now, what in the past should I reconsider?
Again, I echo you're thinking here. No, I don't want to get manic either, but I very much want to know exactly what did happen to me, and for some reason, I am compelled to know why. quote: And yet there is a lot of growth I gained from working with the materials and I haven't heard it as succinctly anywhere else.
I wish I could agree. I consider it to have all been a poisoned laced cocktail. I know it sure tasted good at the time, but this hangover is wicked!! Like anyone remembering a drunken revelie, I know it all sure seemed fun in the moment, but what kind of fool did I make of myself during that party, and what is the state of my liver today?  quote: Is it a needless excerise to wonder if I was somehow baited and switched? Or, not.
IMO, it is never a needless exercise to wonder. PJ, I'm happy to have the opportunity to wonder, and maybe wander along with you, and maybe you will understand when I tell you that there is something particularly gratifying to me that you specifically are here.  Katie
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Katie Administrator Posts: 3320 Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-12-2001 03:55 PM
Hi Jade, quote: The problem with children is that there is a huge temptation to spend money (and time) on them instead of seminars and crystals.
No wonder you make such beautiful jewelry, you really know how to put these little gems together to create something of undeniable beauty and value.  Katie
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Katie Administrator Posts: 3320 Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-12-2001 04:04 PM
Hi Lynne, quote: Well that hit like a ton of bricks. And he snapped. "Your right...I just got it," he said. He is still processing it and the pain is unbelievable. But after a day or so he told me that he had an enormous sense of relief. A very humbling experience for both of us.
How well I understand, but how joyfully I share the sense of relief. It is like a ton of bricks being lifted, isn't it? That in itself speaks so many volumes to me. What the hell have we been carrying around, all the time believing it was something really important and good, and what will we accomplish now that we are unburdened of the load? I love your sharings here, it is really touching to read your posts.  Katie
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Lynn Daniluk Member Posts: 242 Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-14-2001 01:56 PM
Hi Katie and All,On the path of conversion! LOL. I am kidding really. Another two 'friends' have left the building. They too can not justify the bullshit any longer. I am breathing easier now that my 'family' is feeling clearer. Oh Happy I. Lynn
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Jade Member Posts: 790 Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-14-2001 03:17 PM
Hi Lynn, quote: I am breathing easier now that my 'family' is feeling clearer.
That's wonderful Lynn. I can imagine the happiness and relief you are feeling with more loved ones freeing their minds. Jade [This message has been edited by Jade (edited 08-14-2001).]
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IMO Member Posts: 293 Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-09-2003 11:35 AM
I was rereading this thread recently and thought it worthy of a pop up. Some great stuff here. IMO
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