Landmark’s logic, New Age Medicine and What the Bleep ...
Date: June 04, 2005 10:53PM
[Thats it exactly elena, except that while you are participating within landmark you can't see that, you let it happen and you thank them for doing it. You thank them for hurting you and then fixing you but while they are fixing you they are really hurting you more!]
Yes. How about these, sonnie?
It is like the mechanic, who, while he is fixing a minor problem with your car, does something under the hood that will cause major problems in the very near future. Because he's done a good job on the first repair and hasn't charged you a whole lot, you keep going back to him and he keeps "fixing" things that will keep him in business and keep you grateful to him and dependent on him because only he knows how to find the problem.
Or:
The computer "geek" who does the same thing, only the bit of malicious code he hides is designed to make you think YOU are the one who keeps "breaking" your own computer in a hundred different ways but you have no hope of anything but remaining perpetually clueless and dependent on him and his superior ~technology.~
Or:
The "doctor" who "diagnoses" some serious, complicated disease for which he just happens to have some very special, secret (very expensive) medicine, which is just something like cheap Valium that relieves the very unpleasant anxiety he has instilled in you. You think you're OK but the real disease for which you consulted him in the first place becomes worse and worse. If you ever do find out what happened, it's too late. You conveniently die and he doesn't have to worry about you suing him.
Or:
The gray-market adoption "broker" who "buys" babies somewhere in the Third World. You are so thrilled you don't have to go through all the usual scrutiny, hassle, paper-work, expense, and long wait that you quickly pay his lesser fee and take the baby home. Of course he knows the baby has major incipient or potential problems but you can't come after him because you have colluded with him in a semi-legal or less-than-legal interaction.
Or:
(And named for the movie, "Gaslighting"), you become increasingly unsure of your own sanity as your husband, the "wonderful" man you found, conducts a secret plan of sabotage by hiding your keys and then "finding" them for you every morning, putting your mail back in the mail box, moving things around you thought you put away, adding money to your purse, substituting rum when you thought you bought vodka, telling your friends you are very ill but not to ask you about it, asking you why there are charges on the credit card for airline tickets you bought, pouring a cup of salt into the stew you cooked, repeating things your friends "say" you told them, and start calling you during the day to see if you're OK. By the time you figure out what happened, you are in an inpatient psychiatric hospital and no one believes you. What's more, he has control of your inheritance and is spending it on his expensive habits and living in your home with his girlfriend, all the while people think he is a hero for putting up with you and taking care of you.
Ellen