The Landmark Education Forum
Someone close to me has informed me that they will be attending one of these Landmark Forum seminars based on it being “highly recommended” by their peers at work since the founder of the company they work for apparently once attended a session and he loved the results he got. Skeptical, I asked this person what it was all about and they couldn’t give me a real honest to goodness straight answer as to what goes on in these things. Basically, everyone raves about it, no one tells you what happens in these 3 day long sessions, and everyone just recommends they try it for themselves.
“It’s amazing.”
“It changed my whole perspective on life.”
“I’ve had so many breakthroughs after taking this course/seminar.”
Blah blah…
Here are a few other things that people recommend you try because of it’s sheer awesomeness and/or life altering experiences in no particular order:
Ecstacy, cocaine, skipping school to go to the beach, marijuana, botox, acid, sex in public, bungee jumping, boob job, finding Jesus… You get the point.
So I did some minor research. This is a basic summary of what this Landmark shit is all about. At the end are some tips to maybe help prevent yourself from buying into whatever it is they are selling.
Here’s another link with a transcript of a EST Seminar. EST is an earlier incarnation of Landmark.
Also below, here is a video that I have stumbled upon as well, that exposes a very different point of view to any potential recruits. Beware, its about an hour long and is French with English subtitles.
Basically, it looks like it’s worse than any system of mind control that any Religious Organization has ever used. Landmark, much like Religion, gets you to toss out all logic, and critical thinking and buy into their form of self improvement, but by using forms of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), the Forer Effect, and good old fashioned sense deprivation. Going to Church on Sunday however is free.
I’ve seen enough online to know that I don’t need to check it out just to see what it’s all about, even if the $500 tab is being picked up by someone else.
Here’s a sweet YouTube video to check out as well.
Please read this before you consider registering for a course: http://www.rickross.com/reference/landmark/landmarkvisitor.html
There is definitely a link between people who feel an overwhelming urge to get ridiculously rich in a very short amount of time, by not really doing anything in particular, and people who try to market a way of life and road to success for the wandering souls of the world looking for the same thing, or just happiness. people need to stop trying to buy happiness, whether through someone’s packaged method of life, or through owning fancy material things. and shame on those who are trying to sell happiness. this shit makes me sick!!!!!!!!
If I was asked by my work to take a course on this, I would suggest that they give me $500 to fly to New York for the weekend instead. A trip like that would be more beneficial to my personal growth and would be far more educational and fulfilling than being stuffed in a room full of strangers and being submissed into being told how to live. But that’s just me.
Landmark Education
by anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous)
Doug Shelton dshelton@nps.navy.mil wrote
>Please give any info on landmark “forum” program. Is this similar to
>scientology. Was this previously called EST? Why did they have to
>restructure thier entire program? Thanks in advance
It was previously called est (lowercase) for Erhard Seminar Training; then
became The Forum; then after Werner Erhard was described on national TV as
being less than reputable (I seem to remember allegations of wife beating and
molesting his daughter) he transferred his holdings to a corporation
which became Landmark.
est was a seminar where the instructors would scream at you, inform you what
a worthless piece of dreck you were, where you had to stay in your chair,
and you were not allowed to take rest room breaks (stopping to pee might
interfere with your “getting it”).
It metamorphosed into the Forum where you had more frequent breaks and the
instructors didn’t shout as much (kinder and gentler cult found to be
necessary when the novelty of paying to be verbally assaulted wore out).
It’s similar to the CO$ in that it’s an institutionalized way of separating
a sucker from his money and it always has new courses/seminars for additional
bucks. It never made it to legal religion status, but it could be considered
a cult. Erhard is probably as much of a megalomaniac as LRH was.
Best wishes,
SP ace
Taken from http://www.religio.de/therapie/landmark/landmark.html#2