Re: gaslighting. The name of the movie is "Gaslight." Ingrid Bergman was in it. You can watch it for free on the internet. They do much of this in LE. The people who recruited me into LE leaned toward the metaphysical, (not all of them do), and would refer to gaslighting as "Coyote Medicine," in an attempt to legitimize it as spiritual. There are probably dozens of term
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Yes ~ this precision in speech was notable in some of the people I knew from there. One of the things that struck me the most was that I would have to listen very carefully for what they would NOT say. This would frequently tell me more than what they did say. If I tried to pin them down and question them, I would get the run-around, non-answers, redirects, be accused of being paranoid, and
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@ Gloria, this was in 2008. I think this was mostly the forum, and some for the advanced course. They do make an exception if you cancel for a medical reason. @ corboy and The Anticult ~ thank you for the additional info. I remember the waiver form, and also how my so-called friend told me to ignore it. As it was pointed out, you cannot give informed consent, because they don't tell
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Bouncing off of what corboy just posted - Landmark makes many thousands off of buyer's remorse. They have a $100 non-refundable portion of the deposit. So your friend, who is in the Introduction Leader's Program, (ILP), calls you up, crying, because she doesn't have enough people for her introduction that afternoon. The crying is the first hook. I could swear that they train th
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@sportsguy44 Yes.~ out of the fog is a great website for healing. I can also recommend another one. This one has a very active online support group, and was started and maintained by a psych nurse who had her own bad experiences. If you choose to check it out, posts by Dana and George are especially helpful and well-informed. (Moderator; I know you will not allow, if this is out of l
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Yes, Landmark can give some people some useful skills, but from what I have observed, this comes at the expense of their character and their free will. At Landmark, they define integrity as doing what you have said that you will do, and often it is. But consider this: What if you have promised to do something, and after rethinking it, you have decided that it is wrong? In my mind, it takes
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Hi All, After reading some of the comments here, and the warnings about going to an introduction, I can add that Landmark is very much aware of a process called "Amygdala hijack", in which someone, for reasons they can't explain, agrees to do something that they really didn't want to do. Five minutes after they've agreed, they are asking themselves what just happene
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From what little experience I have, yes, what visioneerie posted was true of the LGAT that I was in,as far as the privacy of the group goes. The problem is that I mistakenly assumed that it went both ways. The LGAT that I was in respected neither my privacy or my boundaries.
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Concernedandsad, I left Landmark over six years ago. I had taken the forum because someone whom I had considered a good friend had been pushing for a year, and swore that it would change my life. It did, but not for the better. After the forum, I did several seminars, and participated in the assisting program for about a year. By the end of the year, I could clearly see the sabotage that to
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