Here's my interpretation of the forum - as I've been in it - take it however you wish:
I think your friend is forgetting to make a distinction between the physical realm and the mind realm. What lives in the physical realm is very much real - regardless of what anyone tells you. Try defying gravity with your mind, or keep telling yourself that you can do it - can you really do it?
Same with illness - it is a physical reality, perhaps invisible but very much present in your body in the form of either a virus, or bacteria or whatever it is that is ailing a sick person.
Enrolling someone in the possibility of a cure means that you commit to beating the ailment by finding a cure. Will that happen in the ill person's lifetime? No one knows. Will we cure cancer in this lifetime? I'd be presumptuous if I said I knew anything beyond what I read in the news. This does not take away your committment however.
There's also another distinction - people sometimes "think" themselves into an illness - because they THINK they are ill, so they FEEL ill - a.k.a. the placebo effect. Perhaps that person does not realize the distinction between these two things, so he thinks ANYTHING is possible. "Anything is possible" is a metaphore at best - left up to you to decide what it means to you. It meant a whole lot when you were 6. It doesn't mean that much anymore when you're 30, 40 or 50 now, does it? Why is that? What happened? And what story did you make up or choice did you make about and because of what happened?
It's quite simple. Don't be afraid. :)
cheers,
Martin
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I am new to this forum and am seeking some information.
I am close to a Landmark member who has completed up to and including SELP. I am very sceptical about Landmark and fearful about what it means for my friend. I have lots of questions but one issue is in view at the momnent.
My friend has made many disparaging remarks about those who are ill saying that this is "their racket". This seems also to extend to those who are dying through terminal illness which is apparently because those people "have not enrolled those around them in the possibility of a cure".
Whilst I would acknowledge there is a mind/body/spirit dimension to illness, particularly terminal illness, I don't think this is what is meant by these remarks. Can anyone shed any light on this part of the Landmark belief system?
Thanks for reading this :)