WHY DO PEOPLE FOLLOW EVANGELISTS AND GURUS ?

  

 

DAWN MCSWEENEY

Happy Tree Yoga Guru

 

 

The thief who destroyed my family, Dawn McSweeney, is employed as a yoga guru by Happy Tree Yoga in Montreal, Quebec. I have been reporting the crimes of Dawn McSweeney openly for many years. I can't understand why people follow gurus, even when their wrongs have been revealed. How can people give over their money and their minds to leaders whose actions have done so much harm?

I decided to review history - to research the question of why people follow evangelists and gurus without question, even when their misdeeds are well known. Here is what I found.

There was Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker

Tammy Faye Bakker

American televangelist Tammy Messner was born on March 7, 1942, in International Falls, Minnesota. She married fellow devout Christian Jim Bakker, and together they hosted television ministry shows in the 1960s and '70s, including The 700 Club and the Praise the Lord Club. In 1980, scandal ensued when Jim Bakker was caught having an affair with his church secretary, Jessica Hahn. Numerous other affairs surfaced, and the Bakkers fell from grace. In 1989,

Jim Bakker was convicted of fraud and conspiracy. Around the same time, Tammy filed for divorce, which was finalized in 1992.

 

And

This is a list of scandals related to American evangelical Christians.

(Roman Catholic clergy and high-profile leaders from New Religious Movements are not within the scope of this list.)

List of American evangelical Christians involved in scandals 1.1 Aimee Semple McPherson, 1920s–1940s 1.2 Lonnie Frisbee, 1970s–1980s 1.3 Marjoe Gortner, early 1970s 1.4 Billy James Hargis, early 1970s 1.5 Neville Johnson, 1983 1.6 Jimmy Swaggart, Marvin Gorman, Jim and Tammy Bakker, 1986 and 1991 1.7 Peter Popoff, 1987 1.8 Morris Cerullo, 1990s 1.9 Mike Warnke, 1991 1.10 Robert Tilton, 1991 1.11 Melissa Scott, 1992 1.12 Jim Williams, 1994 1.13 W. V. Grant, 1996 and 2003 1.14 Bob Moorehead, 1998 1.15 John Paulk, 2000 1.16 Roberts Liardon, 2001 1.17 Paul Crouch, 2004 1.18 Paul Cain, 2005 1.19 Kent Hovind, 2006 1.20 Ted Haggard, 2006 1.21 Paul Barnes, 2006 1.22 Lonnie Latham, 2006 1.23 Earl Paulk, 2007 1.24 Coy Privette, 2007 1.25 Thomas Wesley Weeks, III, 2007 1.26 Joe Barron, 2008 1.27 Todd Bentley, 2008 1.28 Ergun Caner, 2010 1.29 George Alan Rekers, 2010 1.30 Eddie L. Long, 2010 1.31 Marcus Lamb, 2010 1.32 Vaughn Reeves, 2010 1.33 John Langworthy, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_involving_American_evangelical_Christians

 

 

AND THERE WAS JIM JONES 

Jim Jones, byname of James Warren Jones    (born May 13, 1931, near Lynn, Ind., U.S.—died Nov. 18, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana), American cult leader who promised his followers a utopia in the jungles of South America after proclaiming himself messiah of the Peoples Temple, a San Francisco-based evangelist group. He ultimately led his followers into a mass suicide, which came to be known as the Jonestown Massacre (Nov. 18, 1978).

                             

In the 1950s and '60s in Indianapolis, Ind., Jones gained a reputation as a charismatic churchman, and, after moving his headquarters to northern California in 1965 (first settling near Ukiah and then in San Francisco in 1971), he apparently became obsessed with the exercise of power. In the face of mounting accusations by journalists and defectors from the cult that he was illegally diverting the income of cult members to his own use, Jones and hundreds of his followers emigrated to Guyana and set up an agricultural commune called Jonestown (1977). As ruler of the sect, Jones confiscated passports and millions of dollars and manipulated his followers with threats of blackmail, beatings, and probable death. He also staged bizarre rehearsals for a ritual mass suicide.

On Nov. 14, 1978, U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan of California arrived in Guyana with a group of newsmen and relatives of cultists to conduct an unofficial investigation of alleged abuses. Four days later, as Ryan's party and 14 defectors from the cult prepared to leave from an airstrip near Jonestown, Jones ordered the group assassinated. When he learned that only Ryan and four others (including three newsmen) had been killed and that those that had escaped might bring in authorities, Jones activated his suicide plan. On November 18, he commanded his followers to drink cyanide-adulterated punch, an order that the vast majority of them passively and inexplicably obeyed. Jones himself died of a gunshot wound in the head, possibly self-inflicted. Guyanese troops reached Jonestown the next day, and the death toll of cultists was eventually placed at 913 (including 276 children).

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/305924/Jim-Jones#md-slideshow-tab-image-content

 But I still don't know why people give their lives into the hands of gurus.

All I want from Dawn McSweeney is the return of everything she stole from me and from my family, with the help of those she called her "partners in crime" on her own blog - and the Montreal Police. I am offering a $5,000. reward at http://dawnmcsweeney.blogspot.com

 

THIS LOYAL DOG HAS HIS BADGE - DAWN MCSWEENEY STOLE MY HUSBAND'S BADGE

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May 14, 2013

Cheryl L Bullock shared K-9 Officer's photo.

 

K-9 Officer recognizes K-9 Officer Bodi whose end of watch was this past Sunday. In more than seven years with the Colorado Police Department, Bodi, an 11-year-old Belgian malinois went on 509 deployments, helped locate 49 suspects and assisted with 119 arrests.

Bodi joined the department in February 2003 and served his time with Officer Troy Rosenoff. During his time, Bodi helped sniff out evidence from numerous crime scenes including clothing, guns and knives.

In 2009, Bodi was deployed with a SWAT team to search for an armed felon who had barricaded himself inside a building. Bodi led officers into the building after negotiations failed, and the suspect was arrested after Bodi found him hiding in a bathroom. The dog helped drag the man - who weighted 240 pounds - into the hallway.

In 2010, Bodi helped officers arrest eight men who were armed and suspected of robbery. The suspects were accused of several robberies throughout the county and allegedly shot at people during one of the robberies. Bodi was called in to search for two of the suspects, armed with a shotgun, who led officers on a short foot chase. A short time later, Bodi located officers to the pair.

RIP Officer Bodi

Phyllis Carter 

 

Animals are so helpless. We can do with them what we will and they have no choice. But we can choose to love and respect them.

 

Phyllis Carter  

 

This photo reminds me of my husband, Cliff Carter's New Jersey Deputy Sheriff's badge stolen on October 7, 1996 at 4995 Prince of Wales, NDG, Montreal, Quebec by the thief, Dawn McSweeney. (See photo below)

 

I am offering a $5,000. reward.

 

Details and photos at Dawn McSweeney, the Guru Thief - http://dawnmcsweeney.blogspot.com.

 

 

CLIFF CARTER'S BADGE,

STOLEN BY DAWN MCSWEENEY

ON OCTOBER 7, 1996,

IS VERY SIMILAR TO THIS ONE,

BUT CLIFF'S BADGE IS SILVER WITH BLUE ENAMEL 

 

I will never stop pursuing this case

until everything stolen by Dawn McSweeney

and those she calls her "partners in crime"

is returned to me and to my family.

 

Detailed reports of these crimes are open to the public at

http://dawnmcsweeney.blogspot.com

 

PHYLLIS CARTER'S JOURNAL

It is all about Justice

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com

 

 

DAWN MCSWEENEY, THE GURU THIEF

http://dawnmcsweeney.blogspot.com

 

DAWN MCSWEENEY STOLE DEPUTY SHERIFF CLIFF CARTER'S BADGE AND MUCH MORE

  

May 1, 2013

 

Now with more than 97,000 readers

From America to Australia, Africa, China and Russia.

But still no justice for victims of the Montreal Police.

 

I am fighting cancer,

And I am fighting for what is my own.

 

Dawn McSweeney stole Passaic, New Jersey, Deputy Sheriff, Cliff Carter's badge and much more - and I will pursue this case until my husband's precious badge and all our belongings are returned to us.

 

I will pursue this case to my last breath. And if I die before everything is returned to me and to my father's heirs, I trust my friends and my readers around the world will pick up this case and pursue it until everything Dawn McSweeney and her accomplices stole from us is returned to my heirs and to my father's heirs. This criminal case aided and abetted by the Montreal Police will not go away.

 

Marlene Jennings,

Member of Parliament

and

Quebec Deputy Police Ethics Commissioner,

Stated at two public meetings in Montreal in 2008,

 

"Mrs. Carter's rights were violated three times."

 

I am fighting cancer and I am fighting for what is my own. I am fighting for justice. I am fighting for my own precious belongings and everything Dawn McSweeney and those she calls her "partners in crime" stole from me and from my parents and my siblings and their children  - with the help of the Montreal Police - their complicity, negligence, irresponsibility and corruption.

 

This I vow.

 

Phyllis Carter

 

Detailed reports and pictures at  -  http://dawnmcsweeney.blogspot.com

 

I am offering a $5,000. reward.