From: Jonathan Davis (jonathan.davis@lineone.net)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 11:07:20 MST
A friend dragged me to one of the taster sessions. It was a lesson in
coercive persuasion. Needless to say I declined to continue the "course".
Regards
Jonathan
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From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com] On Behalf Of
Michelle Anderson
Sent: 15 December 2003 17:11
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: RE: virus: Memetic engineers (xposted from memetics list)
[Lucifer] The Landmark Forum human potential cult has its origins in
Scientology and est.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=landmark+forum+cultsio
Do you know anyone that was recruited?
[Michelle] They tried to get me once, when I had graduated high school and
maintained contacts with a dear mentor and teacher. She brought me to a
forum, paid for it, and wanted to talk about it with me. Luckily my ex-wife
was suspicious and I dropped the whole thing to avoid conflict before I'd
even finished the three-day forum.
The whole thing was well-engineered for an average person to suddenly find
out how brilliant they are and "unlock their inner potential" and, much like
the early stages of Scientology, seemed harmless enough for all that. But I
could see the implications of a money-vacuum and a cultish ubertogetherness,
and by the third day of the forum I thought it was overly aggressive in the
sell and just felt uncomfortable.
But as Erik said, the methods were my first introduction to such techniques
and it was quite interesting. I would rather have been a fly on the wall
than have been there, being stared at, however.
:)
MIchelle
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