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AMORC Unmasked: The hidden mind control techniques of the Rosicrucian order

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After "Da Vinci Code" book companies has release a lot of books that follow terror propaganda. If you like a supersticious or a terror propaganda style this is highly recommended. If you want a accurate description and a judicious point of view about Rosicrucian Order, his history and what do expect from his teachings to improve life, this is not recommended. There are better books like "Rosicrucian History and Mysteries" (by Christian Rebisse), "New and Authentic History of the Rosicrucians" (by Frank Wittemans), "History and Doctrine of Rosicrucians" (by Sedir), "In The Pronaos Of The Temple Of Wisdom Containing The History Of The True And The False Rosicrucians" (Franz Hartmann), "An Adventure Among Rosicrucians" (Franz Hartmann), "Complete History of the Rosicrucian Order" (by H. Spencer Lewis) and "Rosicrucian Questions and Answers" (by H. Spencer Lewis). These are the most recommended, neutral and illustrative books about that organization as usually suggested by editors and booksellers.

my personal opinion in one sentence - it is all about attitude;

You can see your partner and love him/her, and 2 seconds later - in an angry mood - hate the same person, seeing nothing but the worst in him / her; Same with your work, friends and spiritual organisation / church;

I know amorc from inside and never had the impression of "mind control" even though some members have been annoying (well happens in any tennis club) Some members just like the social aspect, come for coffee and cake - and take part in the rituals; Sometimes I was really thinking of leaving amorc, nobody ever tried to keep me inside, I was absent for even 2 years and at one point I left the order ...thinking quite negative about the order; later I rejoined because I was just unfair in my thinking - both - leaving and rejoining has been easy and nobody judged me for that;

I simply didnt like some of the members and how they behaved - but this had nothing to do with the organisation itself;

Exercises:

Some of the exercises definitly work for me, for example:

intuition: I cant imagine to live without this inner voice in me - very often I get a feeling which warns me - its always right, very often I know eventh minute when my partner comes home and finish cooking for her with an perfect timing; it leads me always to the right people and helps me to keep away from trouble;

aura: I was even able to see / feel auras when I was a child - this ability is definitly real and something you can work with, who doesnt feel sympacy / antipacy for someone,..... some even see colours and can tell you if you are sick;

psychic projection: I have these "OBE's" since I am a little child, they are REAL! everything in between a lucid dream, or waking up and looking at your body, completly OUT of body, feeling, thinking and existing in another "realm" i dont say what it is, just claim that this EXPERIENCE is real, whatever you think it might be (astral projection, illusion, halucination ... but the experience can be made and is VERY real - as physical live or even more)

assumption: it works; in a 9th degree forum we had a discussion regarding morality, and everybodies experience was - this ability can only be mastered through higher aspects of your "self", its not possible to abuse this ability - as you most probably would just loose the contact to your "higher self"

like it or not, IT IS POSSIBLE to DO ASSUMPTION; it is not the question IF we should do it or not (only you yourself can make a decision) - but it is possible, AND even mentioned in 2000 year old manuscripts in tibet and india, where spiritual teachers knew their students like themself; if amorc people are fools, then all yogis, tibetan monks, christian mystics eg. are also fools

higher self: mentioned in so many religions, cults, even in psychology - its a fact that we are all "many", we have a lower self, higher self and many other aspects we might not be aware of;
I personally use a similar technique to "connect" with my higher self than the amorc exercise: it works, I feel relaxed, I feel "connected", peaceful, I get TONS of intuitions of how to run my business, dela with my loved ones, help my neighbours, write my new book !!!

if this is an illusion its a nice one - and it works for me .... I cant imagine not to meditate any more and connect to my "inner self"

invisibility: also mentioned in yoga sutras, christian mystical scripts, it is even REALITY for the pentagon, they just created vests for soldiers which makes it hard for others to see them; I definitly had a few experiences which PROOFED that it is possible to CHANGE the field of your aura (or candle / other object) to make it dissapear for a moment, esp in a room where is not that much light; (again: if I cheat myself with this exercise, its a very effective halucination which even other can experience!)

cosmic attunement: HEY this is mentioned in about every holy book, I spent a lot of time in india - stuying yoga - and experience AWESOME states of consciousness, including "astral flights", having a crystal clear mind for many days, withness state (sakshi bav in sanskrit) and oany others;

these states of consciousness DO EXIST, I experienced them myself; Amorc just has a special name for it; it doesnt matter how you think of WHAT it is ... the experience is real, and it is up to you to BELIEVE - it is cosmic consciousness ore only some synapses in your brain . going ballisctic ;-)

organisation of amorc: I never liked ANY structure, school, university, tax, police, army - all a horror for me; I spent some time with the imperator in hungary opening the lodge there, he seemed quite normal and relaxed; also the german and australian grandmasters are very nice persons and very busy working for the others! This is all I personally know - I dont see this "conspiracy behind closed curtains" at all;

serapis F.R.C.

My rating for AMORC Unmasked is the highest 5 star! The author, Pierre Freeman, is brilliant and brave. He boldly challenged a cult that never lets go of its members without fighting them back. As a former member of AMORC myself, I know how hard-hitting it could be for a member to quit and go scot-free. It's often very rare, in fact, it rarely happens. Every member that leaves will live to face severe troubles from the Order.

While the AMORC members themselves will get much new information from AMORC Unmasked, I want to say that the work is also a brilliant, scholarly piece on the subject matter of AMORC's experiments, and to a large extent, a guide and a source of encouragement for someone that is yearning to quit this assembly.

Pierre Freeman in his "Commentary on Section 107" in this book has, perhaps, rhetorically suggested the way out. I suggest that if you are still a member of AMORC, you should read this book yourself in order to be able to help yourself better.

AMORC Unmasked has pulled off the near impossible. It exposes all the falsities that AMORC subtly boxes up for its members. I call it self-induced mesmerism because as a member, you are made to understand that no one is helping you with the experiments. You do them all by yourself while alone while the contributions from the ethereal Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross come in the form of suggestions, which if you fail to adopt will lead to what may range from getting undesired outcomes to adverse consequences!

In an actual fact, AMORC Unmasked is also useful for those who want to join AMORC. Prospective members should read this book before taking further decisions. What I mean is if you aren't an AMORC student yet and are aspiring to become one, you should read this book first. It will give you some insight about the teachings of AMORC and the Order.

Similarly, if you are an AMORC or a Rosicrucian student, do not hesitate reading it for it will expose you to many hidden facts. It's a wonderful scholarly book written by someone who spent approximately a quarter of a century studying virtually all the customs and exercises of the Ancient and Mystic Order of Rosae Crucis, AMORC.

"AMORC Unmasked" is the sequel to "The Prisoner of San Jose", Pierre Freeman's exposure of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), a group he believes is a dangerous mind control cult.

"AMORC Unmasked" takes the reader on a journey through AMORC's voluminous correspondence courses, offering Freeman's own personal comments along the way.

AMORC turns out to be wackier than I expected. They promise their members supernatural powers of clairvoyance, precognition and telepathy. They even believe that they can somehow mentally influence UN and NATO leaders. One AMORC exercise is about entering meditative communion with...Mars. The order also teaches various hallucinatory techniques which make the members believe that they are having out of body experiences, travelling to other dimensions, etc. More mundane meditation exercises are also taught.

When I read "Prisoner of San Jose", I was somewhat incredulous and wrote a relatively negative review of the book. This book shows more clearly that AMORC are crazy, weird and cultish. In the final analysis, it doesn't really matter whether these people are "mind controlled" or simply delude themselves. Brooding over your own demons cannot be healthy by any standard.

Interestingly, Freeman still has a New Age, spiritual outlook on things. He believes that AMORC follows something he calls the Paradigm of the Magician, while he himself wish to tread the path of true mysticism and merger with the Divine. At times, he seems unsure whether AMORC's supernatural powers are bogus, or whether they actually work, but for evil ends. "AMORC Unmasked" therefore occasionally sounds like an in-house polemic between two different schools of esoteric thought. Freeman does seem reasonably sure, however, that AMORC's ancient credentials are made up.

This book isn't intended for general readers, and can get extremely tedious after a while. However, it might be of interest to cult-watchers and anti-cult groups, due to its detailed and almost encyclopaedic treatment of AMORC's secret teachings.

AMORC Unmasked is an unpleasantly disturbing but useful critique of AMORC. It's a good counter claim against the razzle-dazzle of the Ancient and Mystic Order of Rosae Crucis that promises its members the impossible.

I have always heard about AMORC's puritanical streak, which I see as a self-hypnotic strategy. Their members are talked into or, better still, "suggested" into socially and mentally isolating themselves from those who can help them out of the quagmire of self-hypnotism.

The author, apparently gripped by some ambivalence about the Roman Catholic pedagogies, sought further knowledge, but he, unfortunately, confused himself more by getting initiated into AMORC. That is, "he jumped out of the frying pan into the fire."

However, he finally escaped but, again, that comes with another set of battles--with himself and with AMORC. Now, he's put literally everything you need to know about his experience and AMORC and reality in this book.

Personally, I have learned a great deal from AMORC Unmasked.

The opinions expressed by the author about the monographs, to me, appear very well thought out and are worth ruminating upon, at least, by any individual who aspires to give up their allegiance to AMORC.

All in all, AMORC Unmasked is a wonderful book though it might bore you if you are the type that does not like reading scholarly journals because, in some ways, it resembles that sort of academic approach to a subject.

The publishing of AMORC Unmasked as well as the Prisoner of San Jose, which I have also read and reviewed some months back, should be a source encouragement to others who are presently suffering and wasting away their God--given destinies in AMORC. These two books are well conceived and perfectly executed!

In my honest opinion, I think AMORC is still in its growing phase -- just like several other religions, though I recognize the fact that AMORC is an occult organization. In fact, I found that in the last couple of decades, AMORC has tried to `re-brand' itself -- to the extent of even refuting its link with occultism so that people will see this Rosicrucian group as benign as other well-meaning religions like Christianity. But I think it's been pretty difficult for this cultic body, AMORC to change its monographs and make the techniques therein have less cultic elements.

AMORC Unmasked has pulled off the near impossible. The book describes and questions, so deeply, virtually all the inner rituals and other the undisclosed teachings of AMORC.

In reading the book, I found that any other person could have been coaxed into this cult just like Freeman was. I am saying this because a distant or ephemeral assessment of AMORC may not have revealed that it has cultic intentions.

But, on the flipside, AMORC recruits with clandestine cultic methodologies and trains its members with mysteries-laden techniques, which are ostensibly beyond the conventional human comprehension. For instance, most AMORC's techniques are geared towards helping its disciples get metaphysical powers to materialize, become invisible, assume (that is, to take over other persons' consciousness), etc. -- all of which must appear extranormal to any sane mind.

Another good example is AMORC's technique of spiritual alchemy, which, to me, is practically a self-hypnotic methodology that will put the victim's freedom in jeopardy -- AMORC's lock and key. Let the truth be told: There's nothing like the Philosopher's Stone, and if there was, it must be God Almighty, the creator of Heaven and Earth.

In this book, Pierre poses some questions to challenge AMORC's mysteriously confusing pedagogies. A good example is seen where he asks "Why all this confusion?" as he examines AMORC's psychophysiological system which treats the heart center and thymus center as separate centers -- blaa blaa... This teaching obviously contradicts the conventional medical teaching that describes a link between these two important organs in our body. Can AMORC authorities come out openly to answer all of these questions properly and quickly make necessary adjustments? I suppose that is the only way forward for AMORC otherwise, the entire world would see how foolish this cult has been, and its members whose thinking faculty fibers have not been totally denuded by hypnotism would pull out forthwith.

Summarily, Pierre did a great job and I sincerely hope God will give him the wisdom and strength to complete the battle with AMORC because I now know there is tension in the air. AMORC will fight Freeman tooth and nail -- of course, that's their style: they always fight any disciple that turns away from their cult.

Telepathy, Clairvoyance and Precognition

All information is obtainable with our minds. When information comes from another mind, it is called telepathy. Clairvoyance is in use when the information obtained about an object or an event does not originate from another person while Precognition, the most extraordinary of all, is in play when our minds obtain information that have not yet happened.

I agree with that school of that teaches the existence of these three psychic aptitudes, and often groups them as a single subject called Extrasensory Perception (ESP). This nomenclature, `extrasensory,' clearly evidences the belief that our normal sensory organs don't participate in the world of psychic. So, I think condemning AMORC's teachings on this topic would amount to some disrespect for widely accepted views, which correspond to AMORC's claims about the existence of such powers. Similarly, I love the Epictetus-like exercise in the Section 39 of AMORC's Monograph, and I do not think anyone should condemn its formulation. The author even corroborates its efficacy, too! My colleagues and I are presently discussing this book seriously from an academic standpoint.

However, I came across a wide range of pseudoscientific claims in the Monographs. I refer, at this point, to the concept of magnetic healing described in Summary Section 44 (in conjunction with Freeman's commentary on this section). In my view, this concept is not consistent with anything we know about healing, either from the standpoint of orthodox, allopathic medicine or from the standpoint of alternative, holistic medicine. Other claims such as in Sections 45, 46 and so on in which unorthodox (as well as highly paranormal and unverifiable) medical healing exercises are taught which serve to challenge the efficacy of medical science as well as psychology. AMORC needs to review these claims scientifically and subsequently strike out the counterfeit exercises that are inside its Monographs.

I bet you, the author of AMORC Unmasked, are a genius. AMORC would become a better "school" if only its leaders would allow the likes of Freeman to lead their institution. Then, I would be proud to be a student of theirs. Lol!

In pseudoscientific literature, as exemplified by AMORC's Monographs, it is quite normal to encounter various unverifiable claims, as Pierre Freeman rightly notes in his commentary on Section 85. AMORC touts two forms of telepathic contact, which are clearly analysed in AMORC Unmasked: (1) "Mental harmonization" in which there is a pre-planned transmission of thought between two parties and (2) "Intuitiveness" which involves sending a message at the propitious moment to the person primarily targeted to receive it.

I have read some other such claims in non-AMORC occult literature, putting forward the notion that certain people, often referred to as `psychics' or `sensitives,' have the supernatural ability to somehow "pick up" the thoughts of others as well as transmit their own thoughts to non-psychic people. I have read about such claims since I was a child, but haven't come across any human being capable of proving that they possess these powers, at least to my satisfaction!

In this literature, direct mind-to-mind communication is sometimes claimed to be instantaneous, whose effects are independent of distance. It is also often claimed that all people -- and even domestic animals such as cats, dogs, and horses -- possess this ability to some degree, and that various, seemingly random coincidences are, in fact, mysterious demonstrations of this supposed ability. For example, one suddenly thinks of `Uncle Charlie' for the first time in years, later only to learn that Uncle Charlie was in a serious accident at the time he mysteriously sprang to mind. All such pseudoscientific discussions of ESP or telepathy also claim that it this ability "proven beyond a doubt" and that, consequently, such powers are absolutely real.

The "proof" quoted is usually of an anecdotal variety -- that is, a large collection of unverifiable stories like the "Uncle Charlie" story above. Sometimes, however, it is claimed that "scientific tests" at "respected" research institutions have conclusively demonstrated that ESP exists- or that certain "government tests" have proved it. Sometimes it is cited, more specifically, that the Russians are "working hard" on it- or, that the CIA uses it, etc. Sometimes, but rarely, specific experiments are cited as having confirmed the existence of telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, or other such "supernatural" abilities in humans or animals.

Serious questions can be raised concerning all the claims listed above. First, it is the essentially unanimous opinion of psychologists that the existence of ESP has not been shown in any experiment conducted to date. In fact, all procedurally valid and reproducible experiments have failed to demonstrate the existence of any non-sensory channel for information; in experiments where fraud and trickery are ruled out by tight controls, no "extrasensory" abilities are ever demonstrated, even by world-famous "psychics." (See the first three references below for detailed reviews of the best-known experiments.)

It is also important to realize that the existence of ESP in humans or other animals would not be consistent with anything we know about nature, either from the standpoint of physics or from the standpoint of physiology. Let us consider the physiological aspect first.

NOTE: THE LAST PARAGRAPH IS UNFINISHED....

Whether we call it `out-of-body experience' or `psychic projection' or `astral projection/travel' or any other name (remote viewing), no matter the level of its complexity or simplicity, as long as it fails to share common denominator with the original and most recognized standard, the vision according to Christian culture, I will see it as another way of promoting falsehood.

Though as he runs his commentary on section 53 in the book Freeman says he cannot personally tell what to belief about visions but he still lays bare the AMORC-psychic projection, which is a very critical and dreadful step for many other members of this order. Being a member once and for a long time--over 2 decades--he has understood virtually everything about his former cult. Hence I suppose he, Freeman, still battles with the remains of what he suffered as a cult member, under several ambiguous exercises and suggestive hypnotism, which is the principal reason for his confusion.

Freeman wouldn't be so confused if he understood the Bible and Christian teaching on vision, although this has variants too, most of which are heretic. It is the most pleasant gift that God can ever give to a man--an exceptional ability to see and or experience an event or be in a place outside one's current location. It's one of God's characteristics that prove His divine nature and authorship of everything that exists.

AMORC Unmasked is good but, as it appears, it will be more relevant to and appreciated by esoteric researchers or anti-AMORC organizations or those who wish to abrogate their link with AMORC. The book is just too deep! A person who has no special interest as I mentioned above would rarely want to read it. In addition, AMORC at large can use it as a basis for correction towards becoming a more acceptable organization. It can be used to correct the monographs, truly they are far from being perfect, and strip every symbol of a cult there in--every single thing that is unverifiable by the simple mind.

I respect religions and religious beliefs very much, but I will not debunk the author's claims in any form. He is entitled to his opinions and so do others. He is even very bold to have come out to openly share his experience as an ex-cultist. As a person, I really appreciate and salute his audacity. He's got uncommon guts, which might land him into serious face off with his former fraternity.

Whatever, here is what I think about the book, the author and AMORC. The author's views aren't a bunch of trivia, as perceived by some people. All the supposed spiritual practices, which Freeman has already gone through, are complete violation of the rules of empirical reasoning.

On this account, I much agree to Eric Hoffer's words, just like Freeman refers to it in this very book--"the most effective cult doctrines are those `which are unverifiable and unevaluable'". A technique is more effective when the members cannot grab any clues by which the claims can be verified other than accept whatever is being stalked into their minds.

For example, the therapeutic effects of the exercises mentioned in Section 62 of AMORC's Monograph are not quantifiable in any sense. In this section, the sound THA is presented as having a dichotomous therapeutic effect on the body--it reinforces the cohesion taking place between cells, without which the cells will fall apart, and secondly, it increases intensity of the adhesive forces operating constantly between the organs.

Where is the documented, experiential basis for the above claim? Certainly, it's no where? Has the world of science gone so flaky that it cannot discover any of these baseless claims any more? Definitely, science is still the world's most respected authority in this vein. On the flip-side, science could visit the monographs to review most of the claims there.

It is sure that a mind that absorbs `tablets' of unverifiable claims of amorc's nature will live to fight with a troubled, mesmerized reasoning. Pure reasoning will be compromised for groundless practices like the intonation of MATHREM, which I personally find very funny and childish.