Taking a stand for you – I'm committed to your making your goal. Ex: "I'm taking a stand for you having everything you've ever dreamed of." (29) "In creating a future, we discover in The Landmark Forum how powerful taking a stand can be in having possibilities be brought into reality." -Landmark Forum Website.
"There are no words to describe the Forum" –There are no textbooks, notetaking, or recording allowed in the Introductory Forum. There are catch-phrases and it's described as something that must be experienced to be understood.
"There's something wrong" –Interpretation of your past and your life that you give up. Things happened and they were not good or bad (getting a job you liked, being raped, etc.)
Technology –Landmark's technique of using marathon-training sessions to open enrollees to the beliefs that there is no inherent meaning in life; humans are meaning-making machines, and one's potential is limitless if old thought patterns are broken. Ex: "This technology is all about empowering people to have a choice about how they live so they aren't the powerless victims of their past."
Things being just "what happened" – Humans assign meanings, interpretations and explanations to them instead of accepting the past as a non-meaningful collection of events.
Transformation - After transformation, according to the theory, people put their past behind and became more effective in achieving their life goals.
"trust the process"- Answer if you say "I'm not interested in Landmark." (30)
What runs your life, what you do – rackets with payoffs. Ex: "_____ is what obviously runs your life" "is this what you do. do you do this?"(31)
Winning Formulas -tricks people rely on as tools for survival in the world, like good looks.
"your stories" – explanations you've made up to explain your past.
For more Landmark verbiage, visit
Ilovepossibility.info
Landmarkdating.com
Endnotes
(1) "Shadowlands." [
www.geocities.com]
(2) K.Truitt. [
www.ktruitt.com]
(3) Karl Ericson. [
www.primechoice.com]
(4) Shadowlands.
(5) Landmark Graduate and Advanced Course drop out, July 1999. [
www.culteducation.com]
(6) Mark, Feb. 25, 2001. [
www.satori.org]
(7) Amelia Hill, The Observer. "I thought I'd be brainwashed. But how wrong could I be...". December 14, 2003
(8) Dr. Mukesh Bavishi. [
www.ilovepossibility.info]
(9) Hope. culteducation.com message boards.
(10) Amelia Hill.
(11) Acid reindeer. culteducation.com message boards.
(12) Shadowlands.
(13) Bob Carp. [
www.angstrom.net]
(14) Verbomaniac, October 7, 2003. [
www.livejournal.com]
(15) Funny, since words are conveying the Forum philosophies to you. –Shadowlands.
(16) Jana Martin, November 1998. The Con-Forumists Swing Generation [
www.culteducation.com]
(17) Hope. Rickross.com message boards.
(18) Acid reindeer. culteducation.com message boards)
(19)
another_ga@hotmail.com. [
www.geocities.com]
(20) Andy Testa. [
www.caic.org.au]
(21) Corboy. culteducation.com message boards.
(22) Testa.
(23) Karl Ericson. [
www.primechoice.com]
(24) Stephen Peace. "LANDMARK FORUM And The Red Flags"
[
www.stephenpeace.homestead.com]
(25) Liz. culteducation.com message boards.
(26) Bavishi.
(27) Wyera. Sept. 3, 2003. "Tomorrow, I will be assisting at Landmark for the first time. I'm running the AV equipment for the Advanced Course this weekend. When I did the Advanced Course last June it was one of the single most profound experiences in my life. This year, because I volunteered, I have the chance to take it again. And while I'm nervous and scared about how good a job I'll do running the AV equipment, I know in the end, it's ok. I'm going to learn a lot from this weekend. And, I already know that even if I'm scared/nervous, it's ok to admit that and be with it. In fact, it makes it easier to cope with. I'm looking forward to more breakthroughs, especially as this summer has been particularly trying for me."
(28) Amelia Hill.
(29) Francie, Sept. 16, 2003. [
www.mix-up.org]
(30) Liz. Rickross.com message boards.
(31) Two Forum Participants. "Out of Control"? December 23, 2000. [
www.culteducation.com]