The Ishayas' Ascension / The Bright Path - a podcast by Sarah Steel
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Carolyn Millemon learned about a form of meditation called ‘Ascending’ at a weekend workshop in Western Australia when she was 21. A couple of years later, in North Carolina, she decided to dedicate her life to the teachings. A decade later, some of the behaviours of her own teachers weren’t sitting so well with her.
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Links:
- MSI and the Ishayas— posts by user ‘scribe’ archived from now defunct FACTNet forum, late 2004 to early 2005
- The Ishaya’s Ascension— by MSI, Sedona Journal, May 1997
- First Thunder: An Adventure of Discovery— by MSI, 1996
- Group Claims TM Movement is a Cult— by Phil McCombs, The Washington Post, 2 July 1987
- Para— by R. Vaughn Abrams, Seven Suns Publications, 1986, The University of Sydney Rare Books& Special Collections listing
- The Society for Ascension— North Carolina Secretary of State listing, accessed March 2023
- The Bright Path Ishayas + Maharishi Krishnananda— Cult Education Institute forum, includes post by user ‘FlatEarthRound’ which shares an email circulated to teachers in 2008, posted 19 July 2020
- the bright path— Cult Education Institute forum posts from 2009
- The Bright Path— official website
- The Lineage— page on The Ishayas’ Ascension website, accessed March 2023
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