Well, she's alive....on the outside anyway. But she has not been able to work or sustain a relationship for many years. Hopefully, she can still function to a certain degree as long as she stays on her lithium. She's also alienated most of her family and friends over the years with her behaviors during many manic episodes. I had to back away from her completely when she called me up at 3 AM one day and threatened to kill me. And although I no longer feel safe around her, I still feel for her deeply. So much for the LGATs' assertions that there are no victims in life.
To be fair, Money and You didn't mess her up as much as Est/Forum did. But that's ONLY because she spent much more time over there than with the Money & You crowd. They both pull the same mind control shit on people, both use/manipulate their graduates to keep their office and marketing expenses almost nil -- and both have deep roots going back to Scientology and Alistair Crowley. BTW, did you ever read the L. Ron Hubbard JUNIOR interview from Penthouse? Its here on the Rick Ross site. Here's the link: [
www.culteducation.com] --- ya might want to take a 'chill-pill' first, though.
Interesting how almost all the LGATs represented on this board have questions on their registration forms to try and screen out people with known psychological illness. (Its just to cover their asses, legally, however.) But they sure don't screen well for bipolar disorder -- and they should, because the high with which most people come out of these seminars is a form of hypo-mania itself. And for most of THOSE people, its the pleasant, endorphin-filled, high which then subsides (as the body cannot physically maintain that beyond several weeks: MAX) which then keeps people coming back for more pricey seminars to try and 'get back to' that "enlightened" place. Never really happens COMPLETELY, though -- which is but another of the evil beauties of the LGAT 'business model.' It's to keep 'em comin' back for more - even though the subsequent 'advanced' courses are really mostly (and covertly) about enrolling others into their basic trainings. I call it 'putting earrings on the pig.'
Unfortunately, bipolar people, even those with simply a genetic pre-disposition towards the disorder (which would be MY family) are at HUGE risk with these late-night mind control seminars. One guy i knew, who knew he was bipolar, answered 'no' to the psychological screening questions, and came out of the training as a
rapid-cycling manic depressive. He graduated from Est, dumped his (sane) girlfriend, married another bipolar Est graduate, and the two would proceed to cycle up in tandem. One day when they were both manic, he shot her in the face and then shot himself in the face. May their tortured souls rest in peace. Now you know why I don't feel safe around my Sister.
I've seen these LGATs destroy minds, wreck families & careers, and even take lives. Now I know how fortunate I was to have dodged the bipolar bullet with my involvement with Est 30 years ago. I think of my Sister, and often say to myself, "There but for the Grace of God go I."