Hi terramaid, I was surprised to find a new post on this thread. I got an automated email alert about it earlier this morning. Yours is the first in 5 years(!).
So you did the DC course at 16 unaccompanied by either of your parents? That was negligent of them. DC was already pretty bizarre by the time I left, but I guess it got even more bizarre afterwards. Tapping you on the head with a plastic hammer while on stage? Physical conflicts? Sex in front of a teenager without a second thought? Craziness was flourishing there, and I'm sure Bayard enjoyed orchestrating all of it.
I know someone, a fairly well-known and controversial writer, whose mom had her do the est training when she was 13 years old, way back in January 1979 here in New York City in the same training I did. She had been sexually abused multiple times when she was younger, and she absorbed the idea from est that she was responsible for her sexual abuse, a lesson that screwed her up for a long time. It's sad that parents were oblivious to the possible traumatic consequences of having their teenagers do these workshops, but then again, parents can be so oblivious to so many things. I'm sure there are countless other people with stories like this out there.
I'm curious about what motivated you to find this discussion about DC at the point in time. I'm always happy to correspond through private messages if you want.
So you did the DC course at 16 unaccompanied by either of your parents? That was negligent of them. DC was already pretty bizarre by the time I left, but I guess it got even more bizarre afterwards. Tapping you on the head with a plastic hammer while on stage? Physical conflicts? Sex in front of a teenager without a second thought? Craziness was flourishing there, and I'm sure Bayard enjoyed orchestrating all of it.
I know someone, a fairly well-known and controversial writer, whose mom had her do the est training when she was 13 years old, way back in January 1979 here in New York City in the same training I did. She had been sexually abused multiple times when she was younger, and she absorbed the idea from est that she was responsible for her sexual abuse, a lesson that screwed her up for a long time. It's sad that parents were oblivious to the possible traumatic consequences of having their teenagers do these workshops, but then again, parents can be so oblivious to so many things. I'm sure there are countless other people with stories like this out there.
I'm curious about what motivated you to find this discussion about DC at the point in time. I'm always happy to correspond through private messages if you want.
