Yes, sticking people in a car-pool and having them drive 3 hrs is an SGI tactic, adapted to USA, the land of the car.
As mentioned, that is 6 hrs in the car, plus the meeting, that is an entire SGI day.
In the old country, that would have been an all day hike to go and hear a lecture by the Master.
But in the USA, where people are too lazy for a hike, a 6 hr drive is better! SGI-USA strikes again.
While you are in the car, obviously its going to be SGI talk, if not SGI books and casette tapes for the SGI road-trip.
So they have the big build-up, and the there is a huge LOVE-BOMB with the SGI mass rallies, which creates strong emotions in people. That is powerful conditioning, that is brainwashing, that is salesmanship, American style.
SGI-UK even went so far as to make the video sound secret and forbidden and special.
And sending SGI cards on Mothers Day, is more loaded tactics, trying to make the SGI part of your family. It works.
SGI and cults spend a lot of money mailing out those high quality photo's. For example, if the photo is medium size, plus postage, it can add up to maybe a few dollars a person?
But if it goes to 100,000 people, that a lot of YOUR money SGI is spending, tax-free, to promote SGI.
Why do they do it?
It works.
It makes money, its Reciprocity.
Ikeda knows SGI members are not going to throw a photo of his family in the garbage, they will frame it. So the few dollar investment by SGI, pays off in your new donation.
SGI-USA would have to make a spreadsheet for example, showing they spent $500K of your money to propagandize you with Ikeda photos, and made $1,000,000 in new donations.
That is a 100% profit.
Sai Baba did the same thing, but to the point of LIFE SIZE posters of that psychopath in the Sai Baba meetings.
Byron Katie also has very high quality photos of herself all over the place, on her books.
She directs you to GAZE AT HER hypnotic EYES, which of course are Photoshopped like crazy.
PROLONGED EYE-GAZING TECHNIQUE [
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get intimacy-starved people to gaze into professional photographs of Byron Katie's EYES and manufacture a BK Projection in their imaginations [
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So SGI sending out photos of Ikeda is a direct tactic of psychological marketing and persuasion to manufacture false-intimacy. It works.
Maybe a little moustache drawn on the photo of Ikeda would fix it.