I think I missed the part where he got "fucked over." It sounded to me like he
ran into someone charismatic, fell for their spiel, and now years later is
trying to find some way to pretend that he didn't make the decisions he made.
For the record, some of the things he says about "Randy," his teacher, and his
over-enthusiasm to "recruit" him as a student may be true. I had already
*stopped* teaching new students (except to give free intro lectures) at that
point because the Rama guy had taken all of the fun out of teaching for me by
making it almost "competitive." Really. The schtick was "Find 12 students, get
them to sign up and then take them on as your 'apprentices' and I'll give you a
spiritual name."
My response was, "Big whoop...I've already got a name, thank you," followed by
"Well, that's certainly icky," so I had nothing to do with teaching any of
these guys. I gave intro lectures and if anyone was interested in learning
more, I passed them along to the sanest of my friends so they could take over
their 'apprenticeship.'
Basically, I disagree about his premise that he was "hypnotized." Except in the
sense that he hypnotized *himself*, aided by a guy who fed his delusions. As
the guy himself says, "Since we walked in wanting 1) to be special, and 2) for
life to have some magic, they had us, whether we saw the gold or not." He and
his girlfriend hypnotized *themselves*, by falling for the first charismatic
person who promised them both #1 and #2.
For the record, what this guy Jim Piciarello leaves out is his role in things
once he'd decided to blame the decisions he made on "having been hypnotized."
He started working with cult deprogrammers from CAN that were sicced on him by
his parents, in an era in which the term "cult deprogrammers" was synonymous
with "kidnappers."
The only way he touches on this aspect of his "cult experience" is when he says
at the end "I ultimately got out with help when my concerned high school
friends and family joined forces, did the research on how to communicate with a
cult member who cannot think critically, and engaged me in a peaceful
intervention." He fails to mention the part where he later *joined* these
deprogrammers and got paid by concerned Rama students' parents to kidnap their
adult kids to "rescue" them, earning up to $10,000 a pop for his services.
He also leaves out something even more essential IMO, which is that the cult
deprogrammers who recruited him so effectively that he wound up working for
them took advantage of the same naivete that Rama had -- they told him he was
1) special, and that 2) his life would be magic if he helped to kidnap his
former associates. And he fell for it again, having learned nothing.
From: "Michael Jackson [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
To: FairfieldLife <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 11:55 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Rama Trip
One guy's blabber about Rama, sort of.
The Time I Was Recruited Into A Cult
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| The Time I Was Recruited Into A CultOur innocent and lovable Jim is recruited
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