"Hustling" is also recognized as part of the disease of addiction. Scheming and
hustling and gaming to recruit for an entity such as Landmark is no different
than hustling for gambling money or going "on a mission" score heroin, speed or crack.
This is just a lay person's hunch on my part, but I dare wonder if there are similarities between people who create cult empires such as Werner Erhard, and persons addicted to gambling.
Cult leaders are never still. They have to keep moving, keep the momentum going, keep conquering more and yet more people, just as gamblers need to keep cash flow going to pursue yet another dream of victory.
There's an interesting book entitled America Anonymous.
Cult leaders talk. They are spell binders. Now read this about gamblers.
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Later in America Anonymous, a counselor at an inpatient treatment facility described how gambling addicts required a different approach than drug addicts and alcoholics.
The counselor noted that the addicts and alcoholics mostly wanted to isolate. Unless given a structured schedule of activities, they'd stay in their rooms, isolate and sleep.
By contrast, the gambling addicts always had a scheme going. They were thinking, planning, scheming.
The counselor said that the gambling addicts denied all access to telephones and computers. The gambling addicts were mentally and physically active; for them inactivity was painful, to be avoided at all costs.
Only by being deprived of all outlets for planning and scheming could the gambling addicts begin to face their inner demons - whatever it was that drove them to hustle and gamble.
Bucky Sinister wrote Get Up, a gritty and readable guide for people in recovery. He states that many hard core addicts need an outlet for their energies.
These are the risk taker addicts, the creatives, the ones who do not take no for an answer.
To sum it up, Bucky says that many addicts of which he was one, are hustlers. If you are a hustler, you will spend hours finding a way to scam just a few bucks for
your next drink or next hit of whatever drug you need.
You use people, you wait, you plan, you scheme.
Bucky calls this the Hustle Monkey. And if a person like this goes into recovery, they will relapse unless they find an honest, compassionate non exploitative way
to put that hustle monkey to work.
Honest work, work that respects people and respects them when they say NO.
My hunch is that cult leaders are like gamblers and perhaps other very hard core drug addicts. They have to hustle, always need a scheme going.
But the cult leader just has to conquer people, the way the gambler wants to conquer betting odds and the way the junkie or crackhead needs to get his or her next shot.
Each addict has a different life story, a different set of motives.
But they all have the same effect -- they hurt people.
And not all of them are interested in recovery.
The only realistic thing to do is find ways to warn the general public
so the general public can avoid these people, or get out of their
clutches as soon as possible.
We know plenty about the harm done by speed freaks and methamphetamine
addicts.
People are dying from opiate overdoses.
But the general public does not yet know enough about
a special group of "people addicts" -- cult leaders, who are never content
but who always want more, more more.
That is where Cult Education Institute comes in.
hustling and gaming to recruit for an entity such as Landmark is no different
than hustling for gambling money or going "on a mission" score heroin, speed or crack.
This is just a lay person's hunch on my part, but I dare wonder if there are similarities between people who create cult empires such as Werner Erhard, and persons addicted to gambling.
Cult leaders are never still. They have to keep moving, keep the momentum going, keep conquering more and yet more people, just as gamblers need to keep cash flow going to pursue yet another dream of victory.
There's an interesting book entitled America Anonymous.
Cult leaders talk. They are spell binders. Now read this about gamblers.
[books.google.com]
Later in America Anonymous, a counselor at an inpatient treatment facility described how gambling addicts required a different approach than drug addicts and alcoholics.
The counselor noted that the addicts and alcoholics mostly wanted to isolate. Unless given a structured schedule of activities, they'd stay in their rooms, isolate and sleep.
By contrast, the gambling addicts always had a scheme going. They were thinking, planning, scheming.
The counselor said that the gambling addicts denied all access to telephones and computers. The gambling addicts were mentally and physically active; for them inactivity was painful, to be avoided at all costs.
Only by being deprived of all outlets for planning and scheming could the gambling addicts begin to face their inner demons - whatever it was that drove them to hustle and gamble.
Bucky Sinister wrote Get Up, a gritty and readable guide for people in recovery. He states that many hard core addicts need an outlet for their energies.
These are the risk taker addicts, the creatives, the ones who do not take no for an answer.
To sum it up, Bucky says that many addicts of which he was one, are hustlers. If you are a hustler, you will spend hours finding a way to scam just a few bucks for
your next drink or next hit of whatever drug you need.
You use people, you wait, you plan, you scheme.
Bucky calls this the Hustle Monkey. And if a person like this goes into recovery, they will relapse unless they find an honest, compassionate non exploitative way
to put that hustle monkey to work.
Honest work, work that respects people and respects them when they say NO.
My hunch is that cult leaders are like gamblers and perhaps other very hard core drug addicts. They have to hustle, always need a scheme going.
But the cult leader just has to conquer people, the way the gambler wants to conquer betting odds and the way the junkie or crackhead needs to get his or her next shot.
Each addict has a different life story, a different set of motives.
But they all have the same effect -- they hurt people.
And not all of them are interested in recovery.
The only realistic thing to do is find ways to warn the general public
so the general public can avoid these people, or get out of their
clutches as soon as possible.
We know plenty about the harm done by speed freaks and methamphetamine
addicts.
People are dying from opiate overdoses.
But the general public does not yet know enough about
a special group of "people addicts" -- cult leaders, who are never content
but who always want more, more more.
That is where Cult Education Institute comes in.