To answer this question, one needs to understand that there are two processes running in the course:
1. The psychological process created by the room environment manipulation, restricting sustenance to only the meal at dinner, the long hours causing sleep deprivation and the implied threat of not breaking out from the group think, being at all times "coachable" and the use of "double speak";
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2. The hypnotic process that delivers the perverted existential philosophy of "being possibility", thinking that "everyone is out to get me" and "not fearing anyone or anything".
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These two processes are hidden from the participants.
It appears that almost all participants are affected to varing degrees by the process as outlined in point 1. This process affects participants in their mood. In respsonse to these stimuli, the brain produces large amounts of setetonin to combat the stress the brain is in. The affect of the seretonin gives the participant a "feel good" high. Large amounts of setetonin over a sustained period, (1 week), can induce a manic state, the direct opposite of severe depression.
The process in point 1 also assists the suggestibility of the participant by reducing their defences and critical thinking. (Parents would understand this well when their child persistantly asks for something right into the night when the parent is tied and finally relents.) Combining points 1 & 2, the participant enters a state of euthoria and connectedness while adopting this "new" philosophy that "I can create a life I love". The meshing of the affects of these two processes is what is termed as "getting it" or "transformation"
[b:3fa5fe77ec]So why do some people feel the euthoria but reject the philosophy?[/b:3fa5fe77ec]
As Ellen has said, only 10% of the population can be hypnotised while a further 10% cannot. The middle 80% have varing degrees of disposition towards hypnosis/trance induction/suggestibility.
However, combining the affects of point 1 with point 2 may increase a participants suggestibility.
I have spoken and conversed with people who have participated in Landmark Forum and other LGATs who experienced the "high" and connectedness but rejected the philosophy. One could summise that these people fall into the catagory that cannot be hypnotised.
One person I know a few years prior to going to the Forum, went to one of these hypnotist shows with his friends. They all went down to the stage to be hypnotised. He was the only one who could not be hypnotised. His experience with Landmark was that while he rejected all the philisophical teachings of Landmark, he experienced symptoms consistant with Mania for about 6 weeks, causing strain on his marriage.
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