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Myles
I was unaware of this site before taking the Landmark Forum in March 2006. I might not have taken it based on some of the posts that are here.
For those of you that are curious, here is what happened with me during the weekend forum in Boston, MA.
I saw that I avoid difficult situations.
For example:
My sister had been sexually abused by our father when we were little. I never knew about it until we were already adults. Once she told me about it, I avoided her for the next 12 years.
I called my sister during the Forum to acknowledge what I had been doing with her. I told her that I no longer invalidate her story and invited her to create a new relationship together. She told me that she had been waiting many years for me to call. I got my sister back.
I'll tell you anything you want to know about what I have experienced so far. I would also like to hear what you have experienced?
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midonov123
P.S.: What is the purpose of you're pool? Suppose I say No. Does it mean I know nothing about what Landmark is? Is there a "secret knowledge" that can be acquired only through personal experience, emotions and feelings? If you answer yes, that sounds "cultish" to me. Same old song ...
I've experienced being humiliated in front of 200 people by the leader in the advanced course for even hinting on that Landmark might be a scam. I've experienced my best friend threatening to never talk to me again if I kept saying bad things about the organisation. I experienced being ratted on by the staff for not doing homework and being called "pathetic" because I wasn't coachable. I've experienced being told I was going to end up in a mental hospital if I left the group. I saw many, many people besides myself being subjected to the peer pressure of the group until they 'get it.'Quote
I would also like to hear what you have experienced?
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Hope
There was a woman in my group who had been abused by her Dad and hadn't had a relationship with him for about 20 years. After she got up and shared all the things he did to her, the leader blasted her for "making him wrong" and running a "poor victim whose daddy doesn't lover her" racket. The leader rationalized that if he was really a sick person, he wouldn't have gone to work and put a roof over her head. How dare she!
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Myles
Once I saw the avoidance with my sister, I could finally see the difficult situations I had been avoiding in my company.
I don't see why I wouldn't want to share this with my brothers and mother?
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P.S.: What is the purpose of you're pool? Suppose I say No. Does it mean I know nothing about what Landmark is? Is there a "secret knowledge" that can be acquired only through personal experience, emotions and feelings? If you answer yes, that sounds "cultish" to me. Same old song ...
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Not to mention that he left "did you do est?" out. <sniff, sniff> We just don't get no respect no more.