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sonnie_dee
I remember doing integrity files as a staff member and they were the most painful things we had to do. we had to write down everything we were 'out' integrity on and share with our managers what we had written we then had to apologise to others impacted and create possibility.
Centre managers were horrible to be around when they were doing their integrity files. I remember our manager was just plain nasty at times, he would yell at us and belittle us regularly. in fact given the number of centre managers we went through all of them were like that when they were doing their integrity files.
I remember David Miles and one other landmark forum leader blaming me and our centre manager for failing to meet the required stats after a landmark forum. on both occasions we were told that it was due to our integrity being out. We were coached and coached until we had found the 'out' integrity and then coached and coached until we generated a new possibility.
This sounds just like scientology. I suspect it's a direct lift. In the earlier years, Werner Erhard hired scientologists to adapt material in addition to his own "borrowing" from the mother cult.
It turns into a self-censoring mechanism, according to the scientologists who have written about it, because they eventually train themselves to stop thinking about anything they might have to endure another "sec-check" to eradicate.
It's no wonder an earlier observer, Joost Meerloo, called this type of thing a "rape of the mind.*"
Ellen
*The Rape of the Mind the Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing by Joost A. M. Meerloo, 1956