Sorry but if you didn't stay for all of it you missed the gold and conned yourself!
If you must leave early, much better to walk out at 04:52 on Sunday afternoon ;-) It is the exact opposite of looking good, in fact the entire conversation is about giving up looking good... Sent from an iPhone On 23 Jul 2010, at 05:52, Anandanand <[email protected]> wrote: > If it is the same forum we have in India, the I really have done it ! > if it's the three and half day thing. > > I came away the second day half time. Eventually, as I see it here, > it's 'looking good' or the emperor's clothes. > I shamelessly accept I have been conned, told them as much. > > On Jul 22, 10:42 pm, Mahakali <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi >> >> my experience of the Forum was that it was very powerful in creating a >> clearing space into which one could have reinvented himself. I was not >> attracted to their policy whereby the enrolled has to sell their own >> programs. Coaching was okay and the main teaching points were clearly >> taken from EST. >> >> I assisted on the Advanced course (did not have the money to pay for >> it). I liked it but I saw partecipants taking it far too seriously and >> ending up in tears, nervous breakdown etc etc. >> >> I can say that it helped in deconstructing the person/individual, but, >> the numbers of breakdowns may outnumber the number of breakthroughs. >> >> I can only recommend it if one is a perfectly mentally stable >> individual; otherwise, one may risk to fall into another "cult" and >> may become dependent on it. >> >> Kali >> >> On 22 Lug, 15:33, Mark Ty-Wharton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 22 July 2010 12:24, Mahakali <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> With all due respect, it all sounds very self development (i.e. an >>>> improvement of your own self) rather than an opening up to the real >>>> Self i.e. to the reality of what is. >> >>>> Kali >> >>> Okay, thank you. >> >>> My experience of Landmark Education is that it carries a message that has >>> two distinct qualities, a little like The Simpsons, where humour is divided >>> between children's humour (the obvious) and adult humour (the background >>> message - usually political or the parody of a famous film). >> >>> Landmark Education seems to have a hidden message that parodies spiritual >>> teachings, either that or I am filtering that meaning into it? >> >>> What you don't know that you don't know for example can be interpreted in >>> two ways, a superficial one, where a person wants to develop that area and a >>> more profound one where there is a realisation, a knowing (of that which was >>> not previously known). >> >>> Landmark Education tend not to call their courses "self development" for >>> that very reason. >> >>> The Invented Life seminar is by design a discovery of Self and if you are >>> into advaita, well worth doing. >> >>> Cheers >> >>> Mark
