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Mar 4th, 2008 by Jill

“If I think that you are my problem, I am insane.” — Byron Katie

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7 Responses to “Byron Katie: “If I think that you are my problem…””

on 06 Mar 2008 at 7:38 am1MT

Isn’t that extreme? “Insane”?

If you care anything about your mental health, you might want to do a search on “Byron Katie” and “cult”.

Not that you’ll post this, but I felt I had to say something. I used to be a fan of her “work” and finally figured out it didn’t deliver and was even harmful to me in the long run.

Best to you.
on 06 Mar 2008 at 10:00 am2Jill

G is not a big fan of Byron Katie’s approach, either. I like it — I haven’t used it deeply enough to say that it has changed my life, but it resonates with me. It sounds like you have a history with it — do you want to share more of your story?
on 06 Mar 2008 at 11:15 am3MT

Yikes, I’d rather not share about it, at least yet. I’m just starting to process my experience with Byron Katie’s approach - mostly over at Rick Ross’s message board, which investigates cults, spiritual teachers and the like. I’m also working with a psychotherapist, who is a licensed professional unlike Byron Katie and the “facilitator” I had been having sessions with.

But thank you very much for the offer, and for being open-minded enough to allow my comment to come through.
on 06 Mar 2008 at 11:52 am4Jill

Any time! If you have any more information you want pass on about it (links to message boards, articles, etc.) please feel free to post them. I might post a few more Byron Katie quotes here — because I like them and they speak to me. You are always welcome to talk about what you think of them and her, though! This is not a mental hygiene zone. Someone once explained mental hygiene to me as the idea of not reading or listening to any ideas or information that could change your mind — we love conversations that give us new information and that make us see things in ways we hadn’t considered. No ideas are sacred here.
on 06 Mar 2008 at 3:51 pm5MT

Okay, here are some links:

http://forum.rickross.com/read.php?12,12906,page=1

http://guruphiliac.blogspot.com/2008/02/byron-katie-is-either-going-to.html

http://shambook.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-wonder-who-gave-carlin-his-copy-of.html

Thanks!
on 20 Apr 2008 at 1:22 pm6AI

I appreciated those posts and learned a lot from reading them, and at the same time it is important to remember that just because people discuss Byron Katie (or anyone else) on the Rick Ross Message Board doesn’t mean that the Rick Ross Institute itself considers that person the leader of a cult.

As it is clearly stated at the top of their message board:

The mention and/or inclusion of a group within this message board does not define that group as a “cult” and/or destructive. Nor does the mention of an individual somehow label him or her as either negative and/or harmful. Instead, each message simply reflects the individual opinion of the author.

Rick Ross, culteducation.com and rickross.com, do not necessarily support or endorse any of the views expressed. All messages on this board should be evaluated critically, through a process of individual reflection and independent judgment.
on 05 Jul 2008 at 5:50 pm7Just Observing

You want to see a cult? Go to the Rick Ross message board on that Byron Katie forum and see how they behave. They even have a guy who serves as a cult leader (calls him/herself “The Anticult”) who seems to have a vendetta against several individuals; also he tells the others what to think, and if anyone new posts there and disagrees, they all flame that person off the message board. Meanwhile they post things like the above all over the internet so that the search engines will come up with lots of anti-BK results.

Anyway who cares what Rick Ross endorses or doesn’t endorse? Visit his page on Wikipedia and you’ll discover he’s a convicted felon. (You know the old saying, “People in glass houses…”) If he endorsed these folks that would be reason enough for me to dismiss them. Caveat emptor indeed.