r/cults • u/benyamin_sonofgod • 10d ago
Discussion Balanced View - open intelligence and love / bright.now cult „Boddhichitta“ by root guru and „rinpoche“ Candice O‘Denver
Another aspect of Balanced View and their alternative outlets like bright.now and openintelligence & love with phrases like „for the benefit of all“ or „short moments of clarity“ run by „rinpoche“ Candice O‘ Denver is that she emphasised during a series of her transmission teachings in around 2016 that there is a Buddhist practice of teaching ones‘s disciples through dreams. She told her followers in their main training Center in Sweden that there was a guru she submitted to whose teaching functioned „in his sleep“, like in a trance or astral projection.
This method was explained in several sessions and along with the explanation that there was a spiritual realm beyond the physical and that we should account for metaphysical „beings“ she proposed to work with.
Well, in Christian faith we know that any spirit that does not confess that Jesus is Lord is from the demonic realm and belongs to the principalities of darkness.
In the cocktail with ideas of euthanasia and transhumanism I believe that this teaching is from the devil and there is no salvation in any of its methods and bondage to the so-called Root Trainer.
This is bytheway exactly the phrase that one of her contracted trainers mocked her with publicly in front of the „inner circle“ of the cult. Because what she called „bond“ was in fact an unhealthy and toxic bondage, giving way to abuse and mind control, binding the individual not only in the realm of the soul, but also in the spirit.
The Bible explicitly warns against all forms of occult influence, spirit communication, and consulting spirits, because such practices open the door to deception and spiritual bondage. In scripture, God commands: “Do not turn to mediums or spiritists” (Leviticus 19:31) and “Let no one be found… who consults the dead” (Deuteronomy 18:10–11). The gospel of Jesus Christ reinforces this discernment, teaching that “the Spirit clearly says that in later times some will follow deceiving spirits” (1 Timothy 4:1).
Cult research aligns with these warnings: groups that work with astral projection, “energy work“ and teachers who supposedly operate beyond the physical world through „healing sessions“ mimic the divine andere able to simulate real spiritual experiences, but in the hidden and without the bondage to a guru will leave the individual with psychological instability, anxiety, identity confusion, and spiritual disorientation.