Thanks for all your help. Best of luck to you and Jane! -Valerie
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Absolutely frightening! Haven't seen any signs for this in the NY area, thank G-d. What is that Landmark advanced "sexuality" course about, anyway? -valerie
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QuoteExcaliburLandmark Education Corporation is despicable from beginning to end. What I find particularly repugnant is their business practices, especially how they trap unsuspecting people into their cult. They use the trust of family, friends and other people in your life to lure you into their meeting centers so they can put the high-pressure sales pitch on you. This is how they do it: wh
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QuotecorboySpeculations The childhood blocking program may continue to make people vulnerable unless they can access it and then, eventually remove the bug. This may affect both body and mind. Its like adding 2 plus 2 and realizing at the unconscious level that you're afraid to see how the numbers add up to 4. So you block, and there may be several ways to impletment the block. Po
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Quotemidonov123“Be racket free: Give up being right even when you know you were”. This sentence is paradoxal (very cleverly though). For example, if you think you’re so right about Landmark, why don’t you give up that you’re right about it? Why don’t you listen to the other side of the story with an open mind? Don’t you get that Landmark is your new racket, but the system doesn’t allow you
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Good one! Love your writing! -valerie
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A NYC SELP graduate told me that all police/firefighters can sign up for free. Is this just a NYC/ post 911 thing or nationwide? All I could think of -Hm, smart way to gain influence in an organization of societal control (the police). Anyone heard of something similar in their area? -Valerie
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Vive la French!!! -valerie
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QuoteCosmophilospherBad news story here. One buddy of mine became so obnoxious and confrontational with his Landmarking, i warned him numerous times to stop it, he just kept at it. Bottom line, the friendship ended. Coz Sorry to hear that, Coz. My friend says that she's going to take a break after SELP to work on her own businesses. I hope the break becomes permanent. I was tel
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your scenario sounds familiar. A month ago a landmarkian friend who's now taking the SELP class and I agreed to disagree that "landmark is not a cult (because it has no religious leader) but has cult-ish aspects." a few weeks later she told me that someone in her class had THE SAME OBJECTIONS to landmark, but he 'embraces' the idea that some of the landmark ideas or pr
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QuoteCosmophilospher (Below is an excerpt from a post describing ONE of Robbins MANY DIFFERENT Sales techniques.) Yes, there is very powerful persuasion going on underneath the surface with Tony and the sales people at his seminar. Here is a little of my story: So I am in the hallway / lobby area and up comes "Jason" (I cant remember his name, so this is made up). Jason asks me
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Thanks, Oz! Fortunately this was more like the 360 job review process where you ask a bunch of people who work w/you about how they perceive you. (Perhaps the better to bring the 2 communities together for the project they're working on- or to ensnare more people.) If she consistently got the same answers from people, she'd know she had issues to work on. Before we began she promise
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Hi guys- My Landmarkian friend is doing a SELP project, with a day long workshop this Sat. which she's invited me to (that I declined). She wanted to have a 10 min 'interview' with me about herself before the workshop. I was wondering if anyone knows what sort of questions are asked in this type of interview?
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One of my Landmarkian friends (sad now that it's not just one) has done some research about the reality TV show "Starting Over." This show, where six women live together in a house in Chicago, uses Landmark techniques to encourage participants to break through old habits and thought patterns. Someone high up in the show -a producer or developer- went through Landmark. The "
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Whoever coined "love bomb" -kudos!
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Whoever coined "love bomb" -kudos!
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One of my Landmarkian friends said that on the Sunday of the intro course people were challenged to bring in ppl to the Tuesday meeting- ANYONE who looked like it could transform their lives. She brought a homeless person she met in the subway that night to the Tues. meeting, and offered to pay for his tuition. Yeah, but you're right, in general they're looking for semi-affluent p
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iScared of the deliberate attempt to make the name sound catchy/cool/trendy/techie...ugh! I guess this is the population with disposable income to spend on an LGAT.
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I've no intention of attending another Landmark Forum meeting. I'd just like to be better informed about their techniques. If someone was determined enough to create a mind-manipulation lgat or pyramid scheme, they'll find the info out there anyway. I think arming people with knowledge about techniques that can be used on them -in Landmark and in other situations -rather than o
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Online journals might be easier to break into than print journals.
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bah ha ha!!!
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by inputting the url into AltaVista's "BabelFish" translator. and selecting French to English.
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Hi guys- My Landmarkian friend told me of a recent disappointment. She met a French friend (of another Landmarkian) who'd signed up for the Forum in France. Very recently a French talk show had an episode that described Landmark as a cult, and so her French friend cancelled her reservation for it. I know some Spanish and a little Hebrew, but I'm not able to translate an articl
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Take each person who posts with a grain of salt, until you see the general tenor of their messages. I pay more attention to the reasoned arguments than angry posts that are clearly based on a personal vendetta.
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Quotegc4062Valerie, There is no substance in that discussion. It is all jargonistic nonsense used to break down mental barriers that opens you up to programming. To quote another author, there is no cheese at the end of that tunnel. Darn! (But thanks for telling me.) --Valerie
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QuoteAcid ReindeerA reference in the other thread piqued my interest. Who could list the "four distinctions" LEC makes and the "three hooks" that people have? Don't keep me in suspense! I don't want to have to enroll in the Intro Forum to find out! --valerie
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thanks, tricky!!! --valerie
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I'm dealing with a friend who is still in Landmark land. She's done Intro, Advanced, and the 10 wk program and is going to take SELP. She was especially bugged by my assertion that Landmark was a cult and keeps going back to it to try to change my mind. I've conceded that Landmark is not a 'cult' in terms of not having a venerated central leader, but that it is 'c
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I just got this email from a friend who took the Advanced Course. They ARE trained only to reproduce with each other. Ack! -- Thanks! The 10 week seminar is attached to the Forum and it's almost over. D is my seminar class and it ends next week. But the Advanced Course is something else! It looks like now I've really limited my resources as far as lovers go...it's important
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Just glad you didn't get sucked in! Hmm....some Glenfiddich sounds good about now... -valerie
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