Dedicated Zen practitioners shudder at the thought of Alan Watts being a teacher of Zen Buddhism. Corboy and I had a conversation on this forum a few years back. I was totally enthralled with Alan Watts, as I read most of his books (he's so easy to read) at the request of my misguided Landmarkian doctor. Alan Watts' name popped up a lot in alternative medicine circles. The foll
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And perhaps that would be the beginning of a mass exodus of volunteers, if enough people did not sign up, business would start to fall off. If enough volunteers and employees felt dumped on enough, perhaps they would start job-hunting. If they saw how a simple bit of Landmark "technology" could be used against them... These are a lot of if onlies, but maybe it is what needs to start
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Do you mean the leader would blame the LE volunteers and other employees?
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Jack, My fantasy had been to fill the introductory night with plants and when they got to the table to register, all of them would say "I choose not to" and walk out.
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Thanks you, PD. I couldn't remember the jargon, already listening.
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BB, I just wanted to point out something I remembered from my introductory night, which is probably what your friend took you to. It was nothing like the Forum. First, it was short, very upbeat and there was a relaxed atmosphere. I recall discussing it with my husband who said it was like Oprah-lite. Between their well-oiled manipulations and the fact that this introductory night is set
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Excellent idea.
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:D :D :D :D :D :D YAHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D Good for you. Good for you for sticking to your guns and not getting sucked into their questions.
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I received a full refund AFTER doing the entire Forum. Call them and tell you want a refund. Period. They will persist in trying to convince you that you need to take the Forum no matter what reason you give them (illness, death in family, out of town, mental illness). When they do this, threaten to call the Attorney General's office, Office of consumer affairs, or similar entity, wh
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Estie - are you still around? PM me if you can. Hope
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Missing Bacliff teen had been on Dr. Phil show Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle 11/9/06 After her best friend was found dead days ago, the disappearance of Kimberlee Ramsey, 15, of Bacliff has taken on greater significance, according to Houston EquuSearch officials. Kimberlee, who was recently seen on an episode of the TV show "Dr. Phil," was last seen leaving her home in the 460
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When News Hits read that Dr. Phil McGraw, the TV shrink who got his big break by being a pal of Oprah, was accused of being part of a scam involving fraudulent diet products, we weren't all that surprised. The guy always struck us as a bit icky, you know. Like, no matter how much he professed to want to help people, there was always the sense that the No. 1 person Dr. Phil wanted to give a b
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I did the Forum in NJ and there were people who went up to the microphone who shared and were treated just as badly. I could not watch the entire set of videos, but I'msure they didn't portray how grueling the scheduling was. Though they said there were regular breaks, lunch and dinner, they didn't say the center was in a corporate park where there were no restaurants, stores o
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Quote and different experiences for different people. Exactly - which is why I'm very wary of Dr. Phil, as his history of sensationalism, breaking the rules, verbal abuse and public humiliation are very similar to the LF experience\LGAT trained "therapist" I encountered, which is how I ended up on this forum. It si great that he has put these clowns on the air, but he could be do
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She could also have been a plant. If not a plant, what was the follow up? What was her emotional state and her behavior one week, two weeks, months after LF? Was she afraid to come back looking the same? How did she go from one extreme to the next and not settle in somewhere in the middle where real grieving starts to heal?
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This site has been so important in helping me understand LGATs, covert emotional abuse, and all the New Age nonsense that is filtering into mainstream life. Thank you for having this resource available. 20,000 posts and one can only guess how many readers. Congratulations Rick.
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I'm glad to help. The AG doesn't take any crap, at least in my state, and I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of one of their investigations. Since anyone can slap up a shingle and call themselves a therapist, it is often the other stuff patients need to utilize to get restitution and\or stop these pseudoprofessionals before someone else gets hurt. In the end, my docto
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The above link will bring you to all the research on using psychadelics therapeutically. My doctor wanted to try MDMA (ecstasy) and claimed to have used it therapeutically on others. I attended one of The Prophets conferences in NYC with speakers Ram Das, Huston Smith, Stan Grof and others, and the audience was filled with psychologists and other providers boasting of their triumphs
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From a poster on another forum..... JZ Knight on Larry King Live - November 2nd, 2006 Check your local listings.
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Have you contacted your state Attorney General's office, charitable registration, IRS?
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Every Monday, "Dr. Phil" features guests who live together for a week in the "Dr. Phil House," a home located in the mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles. Peteski Productions, Dr. Phil's production company, purchased the residence last June. The inside was gutted and remodeled with the help of Phil's wife, Robin. We're told 45 cameras were installed in the h
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SOUTH PARK did a great job on Scientology.
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Jon Stewart might take it on. Even though he's a comedian, his "news" show sways opinion in politics and public opinion all the time. He has prominent political figures as well as autors, actors, satirists. John Ashcroft is going to be on in the next week, BIll Clinton was on a few weeks ago. Stweart and his "reporters in the field" are very clever in their intervie
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Exactly. She has many Scientology friends, launched Dr. Phil, who had his own LGAT way back when. I doubt she would jump on this, and it is a couple years old now, too.
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Wow! This IS great!! I had no problem watching it and asked my brother to download it to a CD. Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was so disappointed to hear the load of crap at the TCM World conference held this past weekend in NJ. This is the fifth Building Bridges conference, the goal of which is to present the research on acupuncture, Chinese herbs and traditional Chinese medicine, being carried out by both western and eastern researchers. The past four conferences were excellent, but this one, which explored spiri
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Just be careful with dealing with him, is all I'm saying.
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Notalone, I was not offended by anything you have written. Why would I be offended? My complaints about how he is handling this topic aren't that difficult to understand. His show is for entertainment, he has not provided enough followup and resources, and people are now writing to him via his forum, begging for help and being ignored. One woman stated she wrote to him three times, but
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