Hi Wendy,
that's my hope, that the book will reach people who have been through something similar and maybe still aren't all the way out, and at the same time, people who, like myself, think it could never happen to them.
The person you met who was "very close to JDR" - if they were at a cult conference does that mean they left his community? Was it his ex-wife? (I ask because I am always interested in talking to any leavers.)
Corboy (interesting name: "Cor" was the name of JDR's father)
thanks for the advice but I'm not sure it applies in this case.
a) I have already spoken to JDR himself about my book (he gave me a blank look and very little else, true to character)
b) I have also thrashed it out with his community at their google group. See these links: [
aeoluskephas.blogspot.com] and [
aeoluskephas.blogspot.com]
c) I've given up trying to get a publisher to take the book, too tiresome and fruitless, and even Steve Hassan, best-selling author, suggested self-publishing is the better route these days. That means self-promotion also.
It may be that JdR or his people try and discredit or sabotage me, we'll see. If so they will only add fuel to the furnace.
Jason
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"Calling his approach 'strategic intervention [sic] therapy,' Hassan (1988) stresses that, although he too tries to communicate a body of information to cultists and to help them think independently, he also does formal counseling. As with many humanistic counseling approaches, Hassan’s runs the risk of imposing clarity, however subtly, on the framework’s foundational ambiguity and thereby manipulating the client."
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