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Bakkagirl wrote:"Not one argument from me on this point. I still question, however, that money is the only, or even primary driver."From my perspective, power over people, and sadly money can buy...
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Yep, yep, yep, that is just the sort of driver I was suggesting.Utopian movements, or organizations with stated utopian goals happily use any strategy and means thought necessary to achieve, well, and...
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Another thought on this:If an organization's stated intention is to "transform the world", and it is infiltrating the academy, boardrooms, and, running members for political office, maybe, IT DESERVES...
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concernedprof,I am not an academic, but i remembered this paper, which a I read about a year ago. I felt that it was dead-on, in its description of the methods used and their effects, and very...
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I should add that the first link i posted, with the thesis, is not spefically about Landmark alone, but a very similar program, (from what i read, almost identical), in South Africa. Having been...
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Thanks kdagthe link (handle...) is not working (at least at this time)would you have any info on this document so I can attempt to retrieve it in an other way?CP
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concernedprof,The best thing i can think of would be to try sending a p.m. to egoldstein, with a request. The link is a couple of years old, so maybe the site was updated.
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Request for clarification:When you said,"If you know of any work of this kind or of other people involved in a similar endeavour in an academic context, please let me know.I would be particularly...
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The latter (ie work related to Erhard-Jensen's 'being a leader' course)
View ArticleAsch Conformity Experiment
The Asch Conformity Experiment is an exercise in which a group are shown a line called a target line in one box and in an adjacent box three lines of different lengths.The group are asked to say which...
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I know it is often said that people with higher IQs are actually more susceptible to cults, while those with mental health problems or learning difficulties are almost impossible to recruit.It would...
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Gotcha, thank you.One thing you may want to do is hit YouTube, and search "Being a Leader", because it appears that this 'program' is being hawked by Dave Logan (Barbados member) and others under that...
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I really like your question regarding ACE, IQ, mental health issues, autism spectrum, and CULT recruitment. I will look into whether any work has been done in this area.While not an LF, or LEC...
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Interesting you mention coaching conferences.There is an organisation that started in the UK called Common Purpose which is about leadership development.There was an attempt to expose the organisation...
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This is very interesting, thank you for the link.Of late, I have come to view the term, "X + leadership", or "leadership + X" as potentially coded language. How is that for paranoia!?!There is, to be...
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Also, and in re your Kool Aid reference,I spent my weekend reviewing many, many, many accounts of that Kool Aid-drinking event, and it sure seems like not more than a few of the victims actually...
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You can find some useful info on this site, which as I say has nosedived in credibility over the years. Though it does point to an organisation that found a clever way, along LGAT lines, to siphon off...
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Thanks for the link...very interesting.I would simply offer that I don't see money as being the primary driver for at least some of the LGAT's; or, to be more specific, money may be the driver for...
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and, back to the Kool-Aid drinkers at Jonestown -- how 900 plus people are now remembered, and thanks in no small part to the 'anti-cult' movement,150 (at minimum) were children who had been made...
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