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ON2 LF
I don't understand how she could use this mess as a success story. She tried and failed to recruit me, and failed to keep the friendship in the process. I can see being referred to as someone who was just holding her back that she walked away from, but not a success. At least I hope not. How exactly does landmark re-define the term success?
Success in landmarkia is whatever they say is a success. If you friend didn't manage to recruit you, the success is that she shared landmark with you and she did invite you without being stopped by 'looking good'. If you're still friends, the success is that she powerfully managed to share with you and give you the power of choice (which you just rejected: only "yes i'll join" is a 'choice') without making you wrong (your version does not count. As a non-landmarkian, you are by default running rackets therefore whatever you think or feel is only a 'story'). If there are problems, the success is that the 'inauthenticities' are now exposed and can be 'looked at'. Remember, Landmark save people from their rackets. So if you reject landmark, it's your racket trying to save themselves. You do want to join landmark. The 'you' that doesn't want landmark is not really 'you' but your 'act'. The real you is the 'possibility'. So it's all about sharing the possibility until you see it. "Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated". If a friendship is broken, well, it's your act that broke the friendship. Not the technology. If an adept loses a non-lekkie friend, it cannot be called a success, so they'll just say 'it's not a failure, just something that happened. 'Failure' is an interpretation, 'Failure' is not 'what happened'. Life is empty an meaningless. (repeat it in a 'hare krishna'-style until the group feels that you got it and gives you permission to stop).
By the way, the success part is only the second half of the coaching. Before anything else, your friend will be questioned until she admits that she ran rackets too, she tried to made you wrong etc...Only after she confesses her part of 'inauthenticity' she'll get the candy.