The documentary is described in Steven Pressman's 1993 book OUTRAGEOUS BETRAYAL, and is also described in the puff-piece book, by Jane Self: "60 Minutes and the Assasination of Werner Erhard" The program aired March 3rd, 1991, on CBS. However, if you call trying to get a transcript or video copy of the 60 Minutes piece, they will tell you that there is a "legal hold"
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Looks like that March 2007 "major city release" got pushed back to "Spring 2007" : QuoteMajor city release beginning Spring 2007. More details to follow soon. Also, saw this quote about the movie on the main page: Quote“Like P.T. Barnum said, you can fool all the people some of the time – and Werner Erhard did. The film shows that he was in it for the attention a
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Quotemauricethe coach reply: "if that's what you feel, there's no reason for you to do the program. to be honest, i always find you really hard to coach. you've always been pretty uncoachable." that from ms "oh maurice you are soooo inspiring". then the leader mentioned bad press, i googled and BINGO. This is the part that always gets to me. Why oh why di
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QuoteON2 LFTonight's 48 hours episode was previewing next weeks, the Mack episode. The preview touched on the Mack's lifestyle somewhat. It would seem amiss if landmark isn't mentioned too. Marriage, Sex And Murder Saturday, Feb. 24 at 10 p.m. ET/PT Darren Mack was a charismatic millionaire with a beautiful wife. Their breakup was explosive – even a judge got shot. Co
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Motivation Biz Insanity: Is Any Speaker Worth $50,000 an Hour? By Joan Oleck Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) QuoteA lot of what they do, he thinks, is ``a sideshow -- clumsy, hyperbolic entertainment. But then, well, something brings you up short. Or someone.'' Cross-Country Tour Black keeps us chewing on that possibility as he escorts us on a cross-country tour of motivational sp
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QuoteTemplarNow they are defendants??? This is freaking awesome!!! BURN BURN!!! YES YOURE GONNA BURN!!! Time to party!!! Does anyone know any more about this group and/or have personal experiences with it? NXIVM and Interfor lose in court, counterclaim moves forward, which may further expose “fraud” NXIVM leader Keith Raniere loses again
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QuotemauriceHi guys my name is Maurice, i'm writing from london. I did the landmark forum in april 2005, then i left the landmark and came back in august 2006. I did a seminar, their advance course and i was in the final s.e.l.p program until monday. The program is due to finish in at the beginning of march, but yesterday night the 'leader' mentioned vaguely some 'bad media t
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Here is the link without the mishmash at the end:
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QuotecaligariAt a tech event I talked to a EFF lawyer about Landmark continuing to issue take-down notices to video hosting sites where the French video, "Voyage Au Pays Des Nouveaux Gourous", is uploaded. He said that someone who uploaded the video that gets it take down can contact EFF who will send a counter-notice to the video service for the video to go back up. They will have at
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QuoteThe AnticultIf anyone wants to analyze the techniques used in this New Age propaganda-brainwashing style movie...don't forget, you can watch if for free on Google video.. (you need high-speed internet...if you don't have that, you can book a computer at your local library, bring your own earphones at watch it like that). Free online version of the "The Secret" video b
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QuoteON2 LFQuoteAnyone hear of it, know anything? A friend told me about it today, it was on Oprah. Sounds like "you create your reality". This crap is EVERYWHERE!!!! skeptic heard of it and watched it too. My landmarkian friend felt compelled to spend some time with me after avoiding me for a long time, and wanted to watch a 'movie'. It was 'The Secret'. I
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QuoteajinajanStarting to get some interesting press: Woman sues alleged killer, company on behalf of son's estate KSWO, OK KFDA also at KTEN, TX Mother of slain mailman sues alleged killer, company Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise, OK - Feb 7, 2007 Slain man's mom suing accused By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer 2/7/2007 She's also suing a company t
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Starting to get some interesting press: Woman sues alleged killer, company on behalf of son's estate KSWO, OK KFDA also at KTEN, TX Mother of slain mailman sues alleged killer, company Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise, OK - Feb 7, 2007
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Quoteenriquegg34My girlfriend has just been to the LandMark Forum session held FEB 2,3 & 4 and my god what did they do to her? She was already a little confused when she signed up for the event and man it has totally taken over her life, she is no longer happy in the relationship, she wants time for herself now to re discover herself and see if i am right for her; thus, she i
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Quotejoe6Due to the ruling on Jan. 18, the case has been transferred back to Tulsa county. New case page: No date set for the trial yet. Did not catch that one... Thanks for the update.
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QuoteI wonder if either of the founders of the company had previously undergone any sort of training in Landmark Education or other types of Large Group Awareness Training or Human Potential Movement seminars and decided to branch off on their own instead? Looks like they have now modified their website to remove some of the loaded language/jargon that seemed similar to certain types of controv
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QuoteeccentrkHello everyone. I am new to this forum, but a veteran to this mind altering cult bs. In 1992/3 my husband dragged me into this basic Lifespring thing. After putting up with that, he pushed me into the next level. (Yes, I allowed myself to be pushed by him and manipulated by them). Well, I flunked the second level because I wasn't into pretending I was dying and calling out
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QuoteMaggieRead Point #4 -- he flippantly tells the reader to "Go to Landmark Forum or a Tony Robbins seminar" The column is called " A letter to Jerry ", in the " Saipan Tribune ". by a " Walt F.J. Goodridge ". Interesting how this individual can be so "flippant", as you put it, when recommending readers to such controversial groups as tho
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QuoteON2 LFanyone wanna lay bets that Landmark has been all over this turn of events from the beginning, to make sure that LE doesn't get mentioned in any of it? It will be very interesting to see if "48" hours includes all aspects of Mack's life leading up to his committing murder. Can't wait to see it! I wonder if LE 'leadership' have contacted Mack to remi
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Quotemidonov123LATEST NEWS: DARREN MACK ARRESTED Darren Mack Apprehended In Mexico, Arrested In Dallas It would be interesting if he pleaded not guilty for reason of insanity and put the blame on Landmark Education for his mental breakdown or "snapping"! That would be a very interesting case and not an isolated one. How can someone be pushed to the edge and "snap
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QuoteJack Oskar LarmWell, I don't think I'm being slanderous. The words are my experience: perceptions and research. Landmark is a public company, open to scrutiny, open to different points of view. Right? Yeah, I should get something up on YouTube. The reason it is not slanderous is because it falls into the category of comedy/sattire/parody.
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QuoteHopeThere is a thread somewhere called "Cult Speak", I believe. Do a search on vocabulary, language, jargon and you should be able to find it. It had a lot of the catch phrases and other nonsense that LGATs sell as technology. Here is an old page on Wikipedia that no longer exists, that discusses Landmark Education jargon: Landmark Education jargon
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QuoteMaggieI'd like to explore this with a new topic. Maybe if we can get the PROCESS out into the open, then people will recognize it when they see it and (hopefully) work to create some conscious anti-suggestion techiques (dare I say TECHNOLOGY?). In another thread, ON2LF said: QuoteThe twistedness in this cult stuff blows the circuits in my brain.....it's hard for me to think a
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QuoteThe Landmark Forum -- are the products of extensive research and produce breakthroughs in effectiveness and communication. Extensive Research??? In WHAT??? HOW??? BY WHAT ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS??? WITH WHAT DEGREES??? Hehehe, the answer is, none.
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QuoteON2 LFQuoteIt is used often in conjuction with "I want you to be unreasonable with yourself" which means "I want you to do something and not give me any excuses why you can't" This brings a burning question to mind: How does landmark propose or suggest a person deal with the issues of immediate life concerns vs spending 100% of time doing landmark activities? Wh
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Quoterrmoderatorrorybowman: You don't wish to "see" anything, much like other active LGAT participants that come to this board, that are not really here discuss anything, but rather to defend their group, attack and/or dismiss any ciriticism. The private messaging system was repeatedly abused by such people. Previously, members could use it immediately, but after spamming
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Quotebb01234thanks for the reply, I would have guessed something like what you say. I only asked because I recollect reading on a page on this site that a figure of, say 125,000 was quoted for membership of scientology in the UK. Probably understated and out of date 125k out of our pop. of about 6.6 m sounds is 1.89% which sounds low, until you then realise that that's nearly 2 in 100
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QuoteelenaQuoteEurope-girl@Elena After I did my posting I took some time to start reading about the jargon in SOC. I can see the similarities. It's not that I don't believe it, it's just that I want to grasp it for myself. I asked you about the clearing thing because it seemed Landmark uses it differently, and I think they do. It's not like in COS a state of mind or whatever,
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QuoteEurope-girl@Ajinajan and Elena, just out of curiosity, have you been involved in Landmark? I think we have all been affected in one way or another.
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Quotesonnie_deeQuoteIt's sickening how much these scammers are able to control people who actually believe they should "honor" their ~agreements.~ They use the people who are the most honest, even though THEY feel no such obligation. Do you really think they are "honest" about where the money goes and who gets what? These are con artists. They don't care about ~agree
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