He's managed to change "there's nothing worse than a grown man crying" to his advantage. Wow, I'm speechless. Maybe his products aren't selling and he's not just shedding crocodile tears? :lol:
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QuoteCosmophilospher Wow, he counseled the troubled lady Di, and he met Mother Theresa. I guess everyone who met Mother Theresa is a Saint by association, eh? Coz I met Mother Theresa many years ago while volunteering at her mission in the South Bronx and was a total fan. However, a friend opened my eyes to the real Mother Theresa with a short book by Christopher Hitchins, "The Missiona
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elena, I went through a few of the articles, this site's agenda is anti-government, no matter what a situation really is. I found the Koresh interviews a bit disturbing, and nothing insightful on this group's agenda and how this disaster came about. I suppose there's those out there who feel that if Jim Jone's followers were ok commiting suicide, who is anyone to intervene?
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Aurora--Your professional experience with the casual attitudes towards hypnosis and the need for band-aid fixes speaks tons. Maybe that's one of the major problems, that so many seek to fill a void, QUICKLY, and practitioners, either benignly or deliberately, utilize a technique that could produce the after-effects of a bad acid trip. But as you say, hypnosis is so thoroughly accepted, to co
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Oops! Posted the wrong link for the .pdfs, can't find it, cleared my history. Yes, a lot of links are missing, I wondered about that also. But here are links that do work to quite a few of the articles (save for a rainy, paranoid day! :lol: ) elena, I wouldn't be a bit surprised about the open-air lab idea. And wouldn't be surprised either if the CIA feeds techniques to
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This extract is from the KUBARK COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INTERROGATION manual, July 1963. Kubark is a code word for the CIA. This information was declassified in 1997. This is from Chapter IX, The Coercive Counterintelligence Interrogation of Resistant Sources. Section I. Heightened Suggestibility and Hypnosis. Note: these are considered COERCIVE interrogation techniques. Thought the info was perti
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We usually don't use strong curse words in conversations with or in the presence of strangers. Cursing, especially the F and MF word, are generally only said with people we know very well. He probably uses this as a technique to instantly break down intimacy boundaries between him and an audience of thousands of strangers and forms a pseudo "one-on-one" buddy relationship this way.
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I am not seeking help here. I will make another attempt or two to clarify. Emphatically--my posts are NOT about my personal trauma. My personal experience with TR is limited to the PP II tapes, from which I got some good ideas. I did want to attend a seminar, but never was strongly tempted by the sales pitches. I do see how people could get "anchored" to TR as their "savior&quo
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Sylvia, Sorry, my intention was that I was agreeing with you, and I don't deny that a diagnosis gives you a starting point. I was just trying to state that some people will unequivocally reject a label because they want to be on top of the world and don't want to stop feeling like that, because as you stated, "teachers and leaders . . . see themselves as high energy people."
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Sylvia QuoteI don’t know if they do it intentionally or not. I tend to think that the teachers and leaders are often manic themselves but see themselves as just high energy people. Or, they know they are manic and don’t accept the psychiatric ‘label’, or the doctors don’t help them, so they go out and try to prove the doctors wrong. Can you spell L. Ron Hubbard? From my own experience and that
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Coz, The LGATs provide a sense, however ephemeral, of community and spiritual bonding that many people haven't experienced or no longer have in their lives. That these events have dark, devious undercurrents is blithely ignored by most, desperate as they are for an experience to make their life sparkle. LGATs are legal drugs, as they truly simulate the same effect as cocaine or other mani
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Quote Now--to Coz observations about Tony's use of profanity: 1) Is only Tony or members of his inner circle allowed to use profanity? If so, it could be a covert status symbol 2) The sudden use of profanity could be a subtle, thought stopping shock tactic. Perhaps he may use swear words to 'jolt' people and increase the impact of some verbal anchor/meme he's covertly
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