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Hope
Hossgal,
I think I did three, maybe four, nights of the seminar series (are there 10?). SInce the Forum was pretty disappointing, I thought the seminar series would help make up for that. It didn't. I had also experienced the "high" after Forum, and then the crash, so I thought maybe I needed to review (See - they got me even when I didn't think they did). The seminar series was clearly the training ground for some of the volunteers\employees to move up, and just a massive sales campaign. We lost about 50% of the participants by the time I left, and only started out with about 80 people.
I also had bronchitis by the 3rd week, which sort of put the icing on the cake as far as making a decision. Even though I was in contact with the seminar leader, and I had let her know I wasn't coming back for the above reasons, I continued to get calls from volunteers, some 11 pm because I hadn't "stated my intent" to some person I didn't know I was supposed to do that with. Turned out to be someone like a customer service rep. When I sent a letter, the calls stopped.
Thanks for the reply, Hope. Like you, I did have a high going after the Forum, and I felt like the seminars kept that going for a while. Seems that more and more time was spent on the "marketing" and less on the "philosophy/theory/review/whatever". So the prolongation of the "high" ceased to work for me. For a while after the Forum weekend I felt SO good I even reduced my dosage of (admittedly mild) antidepressants. That was a mistake! Reality slapped me back to my senses. My inner sceptic is back and stronger than ever. (Gee, thanks, Landmark!)
I have made it clear to the SL that I have no interest in any further Landmark offerings. I was lucky to get through the first one, knowing now how dangerous this can be for even mildly depressed persons. I shudder to think what could happen to someone who enters LE with an undiagnosed mental issue. More of this crap I don't need!
Never mind how "clear" I made my intentions to the SL. I just checked my voice mail, and sure enough, there's a message from LE about some damn "exciting new communication opportunity called 'The Transformers'"! Heck, I thought that was some kid's cartoon and plastic toy series from the '80's. Maybe there's a connection here? Transformer -- plastic -- Stepford Wives--
Toys -- games(of life) -- cartoon -- Matrix (SFX).
It may take a letter to get 'em to leave me alone. Misanthropic depressives like me have no business hangin' with this bunch!
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