tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28181174.post8093703782221834826..comments2023-05-26T02:10:19.263-07:00Comments on Deftly Dodging Sanity: Self awarenessJoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13676206595571599662noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28181174.post-7183794146871348092006-12-19T15:39:00.000-07:002006-12-19T15:39:00.000-07:00Tarken,
I like the title of your blog, "Deftly Dod...Tarken,<br />I like the title of your blog, "Deftly Dodging Sanity". However, in order to do that, one must be able to maintain the ability to question everything for himself - and fully and independtly educate himself about the various courses and programs he is getting into.<br /><br />Large Group Awareness Training can be a positive and "transformational" experience for some, but can induce negative outcomes in others. In addition, the benefits of the course as weighed against the costs are debatable.<br /><br />It is interesting that you are planning on going to your course in February, for it is possible that there will be more press on this organization before that time. This may raise more questions for you.<br /><br />I have compiled a list of useful links and resources, which are described below. Let me know what you think after checking some of them out!<br /><br />There is a wealth of information available on the internet about the controversial <b>Large Group Awareness Training</b> organization Landmark Education and its associated "The Forum" course, previously known as "The Forum" under Werner Erhard and Associates, the "technology" of which was developed by Werner Erhard and utilized in his prior "EST Training" or "Erhard Seminars Training".<br /><br />A documentary came out in France, <a href="http://www.rickross.com/reference/landmark/landmark220.html">Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus</a>, which details some of the for-profit company's interesting practices. The film aired to 1.5 million people in France. One month after it aired, the company shut down in France. The company attempted to use the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in order to get this video off the internet. More about this at <a href="http://www.cultnews.com/?p=2189">Landmark Education stumbles stupidly to hollow settlement</a>, <a href="http://www.cultnews.com/?p=2176">Landmark Education wants to make French news report a “forbidden video” on the Net</a> and at <a href="http://www.cultnews.com/?p=2124">Why did Landmark Education leave France?</a> as well as at the Electronic Frontier Foundation's legal page, <a href="http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/landmark/">Landmark and the Internet Archive</a> and in an article from Reuters which went into The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, among many other papers, at <a href="http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-11-11T122922Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-275857-1.xml">Google faces legal challenges over video service</a>. <br /><br />Landmark Education has been labeled <a href="http://www.rickross.com/reference/landmark/landmark220.html">"cult" by the government of France</a>, a <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/home/RSDCOI/450fb0b1a.html">"sect" by the government of Austria</a>. They were investigated multiple times by the <a href="http://www.metroactive.com/landmark/landmark1-9827.html">United States Federal Department of Labor</a> - and an investigation in 2004 by the Federal Department of Labor in France led to Landmark Education <a href="http://www.rickross.com/reference/landmark/landmark227.html">shutting down their operations in all of France</a> due to unpaid labor practices.<br /><br />Landmark Education is currently a <a href="http://www.cultnews.com/?p=1594">defendant in a wrongful death case in Oklahoma</a>, and also a young man named <a href="http://lgattruth.blogspot.com/2006/11/missing-james-brian-rowe.html">James Brian Rowe went missing in Colorado</a> directly after attending a Landmark Forum in 2004. His family has not heard from him since.<br /><br />More information about the company's controversial history itself, at <a href="http://www.rickross.com/groups/landmark.html">The Rick Ross Institute</a>, the <a href="http://skepdic.com/landmark.html">Skepdic site</a>, <a href="http://www.cultnews.com/?cat=81"><i>Cult News</i></a>, <a href="http://www.rickross.com/reference/landmark/landmark193.html">Introduction to the Landmark Education litigation archive</a>, <a href="http://www.rickross.com/groups/landmark.html#Litigation">Landmark Education litigation archive</a>, <a href="http://www.apologeticsindex.org/l30.html">Apologetics Index</a>, and <a href="http://www.caic.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=8&id=73&Itemid=12">Cult Awareness and Information Centre</a>. The book OUTRAGEOUS BETRAYAL by Steven Pressman is also a great resource. <a href="http://perso.orange.fr/eldon.braun/awareness/door2.html">Chapter 4, A Door to Door Mind Salesman</a>, and <a href="http://perso.orange.fr/eldon.braun/awareness/pressmn1.htm">Chapter 7, Enlightenment in Two Weekends - The est Training</a> are available online.<br /><br />For more information about other controversial <b>Large Group Awareness Training</b> organizations and their methodologies, visit:<br /><br /><a href="http://lgattruth.blogspot.com">The Truth about Human Potential Seminars</a>GuruTruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17342952332962188557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28181174.post-26009431251869015692006-12-19T11:55:00.000-07:002006-12-19T11:55:00.000-07:00Goddamn you. I was just thinking about the landmar...Goddamn you. I was just thinking about the landmark stuff, probably at the same time you wrote this entry.<br /><br />I didn't go last week (again) because I'm afraid of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com