The Harvard Hot Mess/Werner Erhard Connection
[www.economicprincipals.com]For researchers who are pondering how the Used-car dealer penetrated the Harvard Hot Mess, this article may shed some light.Looks like Michael Jensen, Hot Mess Emeritus...
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Actually I think there are a lot of parallels with LGATs and domestic abuse.The way participants are often treated in these seminars, alternating between psychological abuse and love bombing, it's a...
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Your likening of the psychology of domestic abuse and LGAT abuse makes sense to me in so far as:1) abusive spouses tend to impose new, and tyrannical sets of rules on their victims -- the walking on...
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By way of a 'thought experiment', I would suggest that folk read the article posted above and insert for Werner Erhard, the name of Keith Raniere, or Tony Robbins.I am hard-pressed to find significant...
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Additionally, I have interviewed people who encountered Werner Erhard in Tokyo, and during his exile. They inform that he had installed himself in a public library and was facilitating 'free'...
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StopLGATs wrote:"But violence is most likely just the tip of the iceberg of domestic abuse. I'm sure there are countless more relationships where physical violence is not a factor but nevertheless...
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I wrote:"By the time i realized what was going on, they were so deep into my personal life that I wanted to know:What do they want?What else have they done?I spent a lot of time trying to assess the...
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kdag wrote:"I wonder how many people stick around at this point hoping to do some type of "damage control," or even hoping against hope that, if they can figure out what these people want, the damage...
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Bakkagirl wrote:"Dealing with this violation of trust may seem more painful to the victim, than severing ties with the abuser(s)."And scary, because then one would be waiting for the other shoe to...
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Pulling out another little thread from what Bakkagirl wrote:"It seems to me that this logic may resemble what goes on in some domestic abuse scenarios, and where we have the abused spouse trying...
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Well, quite a lot has been written about Landmark's 'blame the victim' culture.Seems that this might be a perverse expression of its foundational denial of 'victimhood'.Really, I am much more...
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Yep, and to the list of enablers, you can add legislators and law enforcement.
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and, the media...Which takes me back to my "Drinking the Kool-Aid" post, BECAUSE, point of fact, these shit-bag cults would die a natural death were it not for 'sponsorship'.I would suggest that...
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Bakkagirl wrote:"As far as I am concerned, you can thank Harvard, Stanford, USC, the University of Pennsylvania (and other esteemed institutions) for your Landmark experience."True. I have read about...
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Beyond the Harvard case study dispute you mention, those, and other institutions have hosted Erhard as a speaker and provided Landmark with laboratory and other resources for 'research'. He/Landmark...
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Additionally, I think that to focus on Erhard in all of this is akin to focusing on Jim Jones, or Koresh, or Raniere, as the prime movers in various cult debacles.In all cases, there are many, many...
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"Additionally, I think that to focus on Erhard in all of this is akin to focusing on Jim Jones, or Koresh, or Raniere, as the prime movers in various cult debacles.In all cases, there are many, many...
View ArticleLooking for academic work on Landmark
I am a professor contemplating doing some research on the workings and impact of Landmark, and the penetration of Erhard's ideas within academia. As a first step, I plan to complete a review of what...
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"Additionally, I think that to focus on Erhard in all of this is akin to focusing on Jim Jones, or Koresh, or Raniere, as the prime movers in various cult debacles.In all cases, there are many, many...
View ArticleThe "Barbados Group"/enablers
This topic will focus on the lastest Landmark iteration and its academic, and institutional enablers.Details to follow in coming posts.Bakkagirl
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