Author: Diane Muir

Here’s an interesting set of distinctions that delineate the difference between healthy and dysfunctional forms of religion, taken from Brother Anansi’s customer review of When Religion Becomes Evil by Charles Kimball: Five warning signs of corruption in religion: 1. Absolute truth claims 2. Blind obedience 3. Establishing the “ideal” time 4. The end justifies any…

Power Transfer claim by (the founder) of Training In Power, A Spiritual Journey of Service “Ideology is the ass that carried the ark of the covenant” According to (the founder) there is a hierarchy of knowledge based on the amount of power transferred to the students and that they can only withstand so much without…

I think it says a lot about the fear of being alone as well as the fear of “Well, I’ve been ‘this’ for so long, what will I be if I’m not ‘this’?” Not knowing what will happen if you stop doing something you’ve done for so long scares the snot out of most people.…

You are a beautiful spiritual warrior doing the best you can. Just because you are an individual, doing your own journey and minding your own business, doesn’t mean you can ignore what is going on around you, spiritually, emotionally or physically. Trainers say it is their own journey and that they have not experienced what…

“You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection and their fear of debate” As a professional in the organization Training In Power: A Spiritual Journey of Service, you are ethically obliged to take seriously the matters brought forward by members and ex- members alike. In your professional life these…

The importance, power and significance given to the training system is based in superstition and fear. It exists in secrecy vows and oaths of silence. Discussing any of the teaching or practices challenges this aggrandizement, importance, preciousness, and places it in light for what it really is: a means to control perception, behavior and thought.…

The following relates directly to Training in Power with personal examples. It offers a degree of reality checking as to what contributes to the process of empowerment and what does not. The areas discussed have to do with major issues in Training in Power: Dependency Emotional Manipulation Authoritarianism Sacred Trust Accountability Healthy Spiritual Development Summary…

2006 A current tip student finds both value and problems in the training, and wants to sort out what needs to be changed. This student raises many questions and my responses show how very complicated this task is of sorting abuse from truth. A most admirable task for a trainer to take on; this student…

As modeled by the leadership of Training in Power Submitted Feb 2007, name withheld by request My observation with this sort of thing with trainers (and particularly those in higher levels) is that all of these accusations are made against someone speaking out or leaving in a desperate attempt by the trainer to avoid any…