Re: [FairfieldLife] Re:the Teacher recertification course

[Vaj]

On Jun 26, 2006, at 1:14 AM, jyouells2000 wrote: Qh, well: Patrick L. Ryan -Cultic Studies Review,  Editorial Board; AFF Webmaster Patrick Ryan, a former member of Transcendental Meditation, has been a Thought Reform  Consultant since 1984. He is Editor of AFF News: Recovery Information About Cults And Psychological  Manipulation and designs and implements AFF's Internet Web site. He is the founder and former head of TM-EX, the organization of ex-members of TM. He has contributed to AFF's book, Recovery From Cults, and has presented programs  about hypnosis and trance-induction techniques at several AFF workshops conferences. In 1997, he received the AFF Achievement Award. Scarey stuff - stranger than the stuff they oppose. Lots of old TM-ex articles under new banners. All under the cover of psychology. Didn't they start out by kidnapping people and 'deprogramming' them?  Maybe, maybe not. Weird things happen to people when groups like EST (now Landmark Forum) weave their way into the corporate world and people find their performance evaluations contingent on attending courses they never would've attended on their own. If the TMO successfully does what Landmark did--get itself affiliated with a number of corporations and institutions--there will be a huge backlash from people who have psychotic breaks, etc. from employees doing these courses because they are recommended for their job or performance and they go against that persons own internal compass. In one prominent New England psychiatric facility I know of firsthand, a young LCSW was told in his performance review he should take a Landmark Forum course over a weekend. The hospital paid for it. He ended up having a breakdown during the course, which really he should never  have attended. The only people who came to this guys rescue (other than his own attorney and psychiatrist who stabilized him) was the AFF. It was a huge embarrassment to this hospital, because Landamark had already woven themselves into this org. Just before it went to court, the hospital settled out of court and all the transactions were kept secret. The public never knew. Suffice to say that this young college graduate became rather wealthy because of this. If you see TM coming into the corporate world and people begin having similar experiences, these same groups will come to the fore. No person should be unduly encouraged, as part of their jobs or job description, to take courses like these that go against their own inclinations. If and when they do, there will need to be some group to help support and back them. __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Buddha shakyamuni Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___