I didn't know it was possible to feel that bad. For all the damage that has been done, we are blessed to no longer be part of that deeply dysfunctional and dark world. Let's hope and pray that others in the midst of LGATS survive and eventually see the light too.
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"

@billy77 - What happened to you is not strange at all. It is in fact appropriate given what was being put into your mind. For people who go in and take it in and don't experience many ill effects afterwards (although I had over 60 people come as guests and over 50 people register for the courses and of those who took the courses, most that I have spoken to experienced some detrimental and il
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@billy77 - You are right. I was thinking today after writing my earlier post about where it is that they hook people. I realized that it is right from the beginning with the word 'distinction'. They tell you that a distinction is bringing something to the foreground. They then talk about your 'blind spots' and how there is an area in your life that you 'don't kno
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Oh, and they also believe that doing harm is for the other person's good. And anyway, there is no such thing as 'harm' - that's a story/racket and you trying to make someone wrong. There is just what happens, apparently and the rest you're making up. I had people shouting, cursing at me, even trying to suggest I was confused about my sexuality, bullying etc, all in th
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Lars Bergwik hit the nail on the head above when he says that landmark operates from a subjective reality only. They do not believe in an objective reality. I remember in the advanced course when the leader was shouting "there is nothing out there" and "it's all you - life is a mirror". She kept saying "there is nothing out there" over and over again. Anothe
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I experienced psychosis while involved with landmark. I believe that the psychosis is a result of the type of information that they give you. The information is false, misleading, circular, illogical, irrational, extreme and totally subjective. Yet they present is as factual, almost scientific, and objective. Your brain tries to wrap itself around all of this new, overwhelming and erroneous in
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@ajinajan - It is something of a 'new' strategy and I know this from having been part of this. They call it the 'reinvention of the enterprise'. It is new strategies for what the top people have decided landmark is now about and how they go about getting the world to buy into that. There is a whole document(s) about what landmark now stands for, 'the business are in'
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Check out this video of Byron Katie in which she tries to convince this woman that racism is pretty much all in her head, and then tries to convince the same woman that her father was a good father, and the woman made up her feelings about him being a bad father - Just terrible stuff that has NO basis in reality whatsoever. I can't imagine what kind of psychological mess the woman who was su
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Just heard this evening that Reverend Moon has died
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Thank you for this post. This is why being involved in landmark was such a head f**k for me - it is totally contradictory and mostly illogical. For example, they assert in the forum that "there is no such thing as 'is'". Well, if there is no such thing as is then why are they using the word 'is' in a sentence? Their very assertion is based on something which they
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@Unbroken7897.... Since you have challenged mrfox2010 to 'step out emotionally' I'm writing to ask if you could step out on some critical thinking and answer some of the questions I have put below. You said: "pathways is an experienced based training" - Please could you explain exactly what an "experienced based training" is and how exactly it works? Wha
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@OnceAgain - This website is a serious one, and is for people who have experienced (like myself) or are experiencing the damage and destruction that can come from involvement with a large group awareness training program. Please do not ridicule, diminish or be flippant about the very real, very disturbing and upsetting impact that these courses, which are using techniques which they do not di
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Believe me, I was one of the casualties of Landmark. It has taken me nearly one year to piece my mind and identity back together. Doing the courses nearly caused me to commit suicide and I am sure that I became bipolar as a result. I had no previous history of mental illness. It is a terrible, exploitative and predatory organization which teaches black and white thinking (they tell you that
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I've just come out of what was a hellish 3 years of involvement with Landmark "education". They should call it Landmark Indoctrination" because that is what it really is. I went deep into the dark heart of this place (I wanted to be a landmark forum leader) so really got to see what these people are really all about. And it's very nasty stuff. They are soul stealers who h
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The interesting thing about the website for the Direct Access course is that every single person who is giving a testimonial is in some kind of leadership position in the organization in the New York center. Of course, that is not stated. I know this because I know and recognize all of them. Michael Whalen leads the Self Expression and Leadership Program. Carla Elfeld Smith is also a leader. The
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