zeuszor:
You say you were "awestruck" and that somehow "meeting him was like meeting Neil Armstrong". You then poured him a cup of tea and he offered you a job as his research assistant. You explain that Bob and Judy Pardon introduced you to Steve Hassan after you graduated from Meadowhaven, which is their ministry for former cult members. As Dr. Mann points out the Pardons "get work and referrals from Hassan."
You now see Steve Hassan as your "boss", "friend" and "he has helped [you] in an enormous fashion, both personally and professionally". He also knows all about your history at this message board as "zeuszor", which you have explained to him "at length".
Now you wish to extoll his virtues as "a highly compassionate, sensitive and ethical man, and a man of great integrity". You go on to say "I respect Steve, I trust Steve, and I like Steve. He is my employer and in that respect he is my 'boss', but he is NOT my 'leader'". You also insist that he is not your "guru". And you want people to know that you "do not put the man on a pedestal"?
It seems to me that Hassan has become both your boss and guru, and that you have put him on a pedestal. Apaprently there are also little if any meaningful boundaries in your relationship.
I asked you previously if you worked as a subcontractor for Mr. Hassan, i.e. without benefits and paying your own self-employment tax. You refused to answer.
Fine.
But now you want people reading this thread to believe that "nobody is exploiting [you], much less Steve".
The facts seem to indicate otherwise.
Steve Hassan charges clients $125.00 an hour for research performed through his for-profit business "Freedom of Mind" (FOF) and you are the FOF researcher. Hassan charges no less than $200.00 for 45 minutes of his time according to information published on his Web site and other documents previously discussed here.
Who is doing the FOF research billed at $125.00 an hour?
It appears that you provide that service and whatever Steve Hassan pays you, I strongly suspect, is a fraction of the amount he bills to clients.
Pretty neat trick don't you think?
FYI -- the topic of this thread is not how Steve Hassan treats his colleagues, though it seems you are not treated all that well. The topic is Hassan's recently self-published book and the review of that book posted here. What the review discusses is Steve Hassan's penchant for copying the ideas of others without attribution, which can be seen as plagiarism, and also the overblown and unproven claims he often makes among other things.
Read the review.
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www.cultnews.com]
Frankly, your posts on this thread do seem to indicate that you are entralled with Steve Hassan like a "guru", accept what he says as "gospel" and are seemingly so devoted that you behave like a person involved in "some kind of 'anti-cult cult'".
If you use your own independent critical thinking and read Dr. Mann's book review she makes very valid points.
Also, if you review the links and information now posted on this thread you can see a pattern regarding the behavior and business practices of Steve Hassan.
Read the books "Snapping", "Cults in Our Midst", "Holy Terror", "Captive Hearts, Captive Minds" and note their ideas and footnotes.
Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman wrote about information control and emotional control years before Steve Hassan wrote his first book.
Hassan even admits within one video on YouTube that the BITE model name was actually the suggestion of Buddy Martin, an evangelist that once worked with him on interventions.
And as Dr. Mann points out in her review Steve Hassan's SIA process is little more than incorporating long established counseling techniques with what he learned as a cult deprogrammer.
Where are Steve Hassan's footnotes and attributions in his books giving proper credit to those who actually originated and first wrote about the concepts and ideas he uses?
Is that ethical? Does that reflect someone with professional integrity?
I don't think so, but then I don't work for Steve Hassan.
Edited 8 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/2012 04:39AM by rrmoderator.