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hampton
I was proudly told by a Forum leader that "Pay it Forward" and "What the Bleep Do We Know" are, in his words, "products of this education." I took that to mean that without Landmark, the films would not exist. I haven't seen either film so I do not know how the content is analogous to Landmark "technology." Can anyone here respond?
Both have nothing to do with LE. 'Pay it Forward' was the name of a book by Catherine Ryan Hyde that didn't acknowledge the origin and subsequent foundation that bore its name: The Heinlein Society named after the sci-fi writer Robert A. Heinlein who coined the term first in one of his books, 'Between Planets,' published in 1951, hardly a connection to LE.
The writer of the novel, 'Pay it Froward,' has a Pay it Forward Foundation which does not give credit to Heinlein or have any affiliation with Landmark Education. Catherine Ryan Hyde has no LE affiliation, past or present. I suppose it could be considered part of LE in the sense that LE appropriated the concept and film as their doing, as is typical est/LE modus operandi of stealing others' ideas and passing it off as their own.
But the conection to the movie as LE portrays is patently false. It is eerily similar to the way Werner ripped off the name "EST" for his organization from a sci-fi novel and then made it a backronym for Erhard Seminars Training and also standing for the Latin word "to be." The novel was a science fiction novel called 'est: The Steersman Handbook,' written by an author named L. Clark Stevens. In his book, Stevens wrote that "est" stood for "electronic social transformation," and heralded the arrival of "est people" who were computer-literate/technically-minded folk bent on transforming society.
'What the Bleep Do We Know!' is largely based on cobbled-together quackery and the teachings of JZ Knight (CEO of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment) who "channels" the spirit of "Ramtha," a "Lemurian warrior who fought the Atlantians over 35,000 years ago," among other spirits she "channels." Again, this has no connection to LE. Incidentally, the makers of said movie are embroiled in their own controversy. Regarding LE, this is another example of LE taking someone else's work and appropriating it for their own use.
Hope this clears things up. Landmark Education has a habit of Leaders who steal other's ideas and pass the off as part of LE's "work." The problem is that the people who attend LE are too stupid to do any independent research to verify anything a Leader or Coach presents as "fact." These are people (staff and participants) with bubblegum brains who obtain transformational advice from Oprah Winfrey.
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