The key difference, though, is that Robbins, who began coaching in the s, came up through the seminar circuit, spreading his message in venues that have the energy of mega-churches. Through this direct interaction with attendees Robbins has, over the years, come to understand that his seminars attract a vulnerable demographic. Robbins was recently accused of abuse by some former students, a claim that he denies. He had already explored the writings of other self-help gurus, like Eckhart Tolle and Adyashanti, but he found Bentinho more immediately relatable.
I felt super happy, super energetic. I could distance myself from this suffering Lukas with a very mediocre life. But Jansen explained that what really held him was this sense of manufactured intimacy that Bentinho cultivated. I spoke to several other Bentinho followers, a diverse demographic, who described a similar feeling.
He told them that all they needed to improve their lives was to believe that their lives were good, and in front of the screen, with his unceasing affirmation, they could momentarily believe it was so. Though they never met Bentinho, these followers were the silent engine behind his spiritual movement.
They shared his content, commented on every one of his posts, and were often responsible for moderating his Facebook page. They were repaid with new spiritual content from the guru. But the joy they derived from the videos was hallucinatory, dissociative, fleeting. When they looked away from the screen, they were once again faced with the reality of their lives. So they went back online. It was definitely like a drug. But others, including her close friend, Brent Wilkins, remained loyal adherents.
Parry met Wilkins several years earlier, at her first Bentinho retreat. A former tennis pro, Wilkins was tall, square-jawed and handsome. But he was plagued, Parry felt, by anxiety and low self-confidence. He began consuming his content in large volumes and attending retreats. Eventually, he was spending long stints living with the Trinfinity community in Boulder. His friends outside the community felt that the more committed Wilkins became, the more anxious and dissociated he grew.
At one point, his parents convinced him to move home and seek psychological help. But no matter where Wilkins lived, his teacher was just one click away. But she avoided discussing this with Wilkins. On 4 December, Wilkins began the day program. At some point during the sixth day, he quietly left the group and drove his Toyota to a nearby bridge that passed over a river some ft below.
He parked, walked over to the ledge, and jumped, plummeting between the red sandstone cliffs to his death. Scofield had moved to Sedona a few months earlier, attracted by its New Age history.
She liked the people she met at the various group meditations and ecstatic dance sessions — they were young, welcoming, free-spirited. But they also appeared to suspend their better judgment when it came to their teacher. One acolyte unselfconsciously told Scofield that they believed Bentinho could change the weather. Having encountered people that she considered to be manipulative gurus in the past, she came to the conclusion that Bentinho was using social media to build a cult-like following.
She wrote a Medium post outlining her concerns, and on 1 December, posted it to Facebook and then left Sedona for Texas. In her article, which was shared hundreds of thousands of times, she levelled serious accusations against Bentinho: that he was verbally abusive to students; that he pushed some people away from family and close friends; that he traded freely in bizarre conspiracies. She also dug up archival footage of Bentinho saying that he had tortured a cat as a young child.
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