Bakkagirl wrote:
"In reading numerous accounts of how people found themselves inducted into Landmark, there is this element there -- they don't want to believe they are being duped, so they do their own mental back flips to rationalize the experience."
Yes, there's that. There is also the fact that most people were duped into it by family or friends. My experience was that I did not want to reassess whether or not my recruiter, ("friend"), was trustworthy. I still WANTED TO BELIEVE that she was a decent human being, and would not deliberately do me harm. I did not understand that Landmark had changed he entire character. I didn't think that any group could take a normal, decent adult and turn her into what I basically consider a socuopath.
"In reading numerous accounts of how people found themselves inducted into Landmark, there is this element there -- they don't want to believe they are being duped, so they do their own mental back flips to rationalize the experience."
Yes, there's that. There is also the fact that most people were duped into it by family or friends. My experience was that I did not want to reassess whether or not my recruiter, ("friend"), was trustworthy. I still WANTED TO BELIEVE that she was a decent human being, and would not deliberately do me harm. I did not understand that Landmark had changed he entire character. I didn't think that any group could take a normal, decent adult and turn her into what I basically consider a socuopath.