All very good points.
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It would still be nice if someone had the tenacity to find more publicly available documents on the financial dealings of this controversial organization. The best defense that individuals have against potentially dangerous "cult-like" organizations is as much factually accurate information as possible.
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Very very funny stuff. Ring any bells for anyone? Sounds like your favorite confrontational LGAT?
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QuoteDuring the past twenty-five years, over 80,000 people in 27 countries have participated in trainings created by Robert Fritz. His insights on the creative process and structural dynamics serve as the foundation of meaningful and lasting change for both individuals and organizations. Yeesh, there they go again, spouting out and bragging about unfounded statistics. QuoteThe workshop help
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QuoteCurious about what I might discover this time, I clicked on my Google alert link to see which of my namesakes has ties to a cult. There, to my surprise, was me. Someone had posted a recent column I wrote after attending the Landmark Forum - a personal growth seminar that, according to some of the site's members and some news reports, messes up people's lives and has the trap
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from France 3 documentary: "Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus"/May 24, 2004 Directed by Karima Tabti Mona Vasquez is the author of the book: Satan Created the Cult: Memoirs of an escapee. She was a member of Scientology for seven years, and succeeded in winning back 60,000 Euro from the organization through serving a hunger strike at Scientology's Paris, France headquar
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Green Party detects a scandal in hall rental From: "Frankfurter Neue Presse" May 29, 1998 by Kristiane Huber QuoteLiederbach. They are suspected of having connections with the Scientology Church. It has been said that they, themselves, have characteristics of a sect. For at least ten years, they have been having meetings in the Liederbach hall. They are the internationally
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Soul Strip Tease Germany April 2, 1998 "Stern" The advertisements sound tempting, what personality trainers promise. For example, "more success in profession and studies." Caution is advised: the psychological market has its share of charlatans. QuoteOtherwise, psychological training can quickly turn into a nightmare of the sort experienced by Martin Lell. Frustrat
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fm pg 217 of Steven Pressman book OUTRAGEOUS BETRAYAL : QuoteIn July 1984 a company named Transformational Technologies was incorporated in the state of New York. The corporate charter listed a successful management consultant, a small, wiry man named James Selman, as the company's chief executive officer, but the sole owner of the new firm was Werner Erhard. Selman was a longtime est
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QuoteTekniko, the successor company to Transformational Technologies, Erhard's company that franchised and now licenses consultants. TTI was and Tekniko is wholly owned by Erhard.
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Yeesh. Anything with the words "empowering" , "to empower" , "paradigm" just makes me sick nowadays.
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Google's copyright fix Barely two months ago pundits were predicting a litigation explosion for Google and its new YouTube video-sharing unit. But look what's happening instead. By Chris Taylor, Business 2.0 Magazine senior editor December 11 2006: 7:08 AM EST Could be fodder for a related WWW.SLASHDOT.ORG article/submission - accompanied by related stuff from this thread ...
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I thought Art Schreiber was Chairman of Landmark Education , but this site refers to someone named Terry M. Giles ? QuoteNow completely retired from the practice of law, Giles serves as chairman of Landmark Education Enterprises, Inc., a company with 43 offices in 20 countries, which delivers transformational educational seminars. “We use the word ‘transformational’ because our courses chang
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QuoteJack Oskar LarmRick, I'm really starting to miss that EDIT button. I know I can PREVIEW or use a word processor to make life somewhat easier, but... Would it be possible to grant an EDIT feature after a certain number of posts? Jack. I don't mind not having the EDIT feature. Because it was REALLY annoying that when Trolls saw that their arguments were going nowhere,
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Quote"In my opinion Asiaworks is an evil 'cult-like' group" July 25, 2002 By a concerned relative of an Asiaworks participant
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Quotejack/werner not only capitalized on the 'tidbits' he borrowed from scientology in the creation of his cult, but he is also intending to further capitalize on the Hitlerian Maxim; 'when a lie gets big enough, it will become accepted as the truth'. His 'legacy' sitcom is about doing just that. Spread the deception until it overtakes reality. But like Hitler, he
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www.whatthebleep.com/herald16/HeraldPrint.pdf Though I'm sure we all already know that "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" was heavily supported by Landmark Education, perhaps we did not know that the marketing manager for the film was a Landmark follower : QuotePavel Mikoloski is the former marketing manager for What the Bleep Do We Know!? and is currently working in London, En
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And the book was written in 1992, which according to Jane Self 's own quote above, would have been right around the same time that she was enrolled in Werner Erhard and Associates "communication" courses! Maybe her Forum Leaders in her "communication" courses, helped her "communicate" about Werner Erhard better in her book!
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I wonder how Dr. Jane Self got hired to do the puff piece book on Werner Erhard? Here is a quote from page 3 of her book : QuoteA few months later, my mother was back in New York taking the Forum and my sister was doing the same thing in Atlanta - at $650 a shot. Five minutes into the meeting, I saw why my family was so excited about this program. I wanted to find out more. I paid a deposi
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QuoteI can assure you he hadn't lied to you about the cost, the tuition cost is only applied to participants who haven't had to travel and the cost in nz was $125.00. As for the hours and committment it is huge. When I did ILP it was friday night classrooms plus one assisting agreement per week and we we all had buddies and teams that also met at least once per week. often it was mo
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A very interesting idea.
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Victim's Widow Working To Change Oklahoma Law Thursday May 11, 2006 10:30pm Reporter: Jerry Giordano Posted By: Kevin King QuoteTulsa - An insanity defense put a killer back on the streets. Now, his victim's widow is working to change the system by changing the law. NewsChannel 8's Jerry Giordano has a look at her struggle. Amber Jenkins still finds it difficu
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Attorney Says Jason Weed Should Be Released From Prison Hospital Tuesday March 09, 2004 5:01pm Posted By: Kevin King Looks like he ended up getting released sometime in 2005. But it sure is interesting how both the attorney's for Jason Weed AND the attorneys and family of the deceased murder victim Robert Jenkins BOTH stipulated that they thought it was Landmark Education
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Lawsuit Alleges Seminar May Be Responsible In Postal Worker's Death Copyright 2004 The Tulsa World April 04, 2004 Sunday Suit targets firm in postal killing NICOLE MARSHALL World Staff Writer
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QuoteAnd from the Tulsa World, I have a report on a pending lawsuit claiming that "Jason Weed was driven insane by his treatment during a motivational seminar. Attorneys for Jason Weed and the family of the Tulsa postman he killed agree on one thing -- that a motivational seminar he attended days before the shooting drove him insane." Landmark was added as a defendant in December. The
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Sunday, 13 August 2006 Insanity Verdicts Stir Debate: The Recent Decision in the Daniel Fears Case Brings This Hot-Button Issue Back to the Forefront. By Rod Walton, Tulsa World, Okla. Quote"I think the system is designed to provide treatment that patients need and, at the same time, ensure that patients are compliant," Nigh said. Not always, Jeanne Been pointed out. She
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Looking over the information from these 2 articles, it appears that the lawsuit filed in France is unrelated to the France 3 video: French filmmaker sues Google Video Flach Film sues Google for copyright infringement QuoteFlach Film says that Google acted not as a simple host but as a fully responsible publisher in allowing Google Video users to stream or download the Flach-produced docume
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I believe this is what you are referring to: QuoteAfterschool Special The Wave July 9, 1991 This program was designed to explain to kids how the Nazi party came to power in Germany. You can go to the above link to watch the program from the XenuTV website. www.xenutv.com has lots more interesting stuff as well ...
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And why is it that brainwashed zombies always try to defend the accusation that their Large Group Awareness Training organization is a cult - by just throwing out the accusation that all the world's major religions are also cults. I wonder if Werner Erhard is just plain anti-religion, and if this shows up in his brainwashed "Forum Graduates" ???
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Anyone have any updates on the financing of this film ? Anyone know anything more about EAGLE ISLAND FILMS ?
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