When undergrads have Socrates week in their Ancient Philosophy class and they hear about the Sophists, they turn off because it’s such ancillary information. But look, from Wikipedia:
Many sophists specialized in using the tools of philosophy and rhetoric, though other sophists taught subjects such as music, athletics, and mathematics. I...Read More
The takeaway from Landmark Worldwide courses is …context is decisive.
What does this mean? Well, if you “get it,” then you will be all powerful. The only reason people fall off the omnipotence wagon is they forget their complicity in every moment.
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Attention America. Have you ever suspected that some things are valuable merely because of the price? That a thing’s value might be nothing other than the perceived value created by its ridiculous price? If so, you have probably also supposed that this trick, which we might as well call price-invented v...
Read MoreA huge part of integrity that is barely glossed by Landmark is future planning.
I can see it:
Q: What is there to get excited about?
A: The possibility that you can HAVE definite excitement in your life.
About what? About the possibility of being excited.
The happiness that is sold in Scientology and Landmark is the excitement you feel about the possibility of being excited in the...
Read MoreBeing X is easier if you live in integrity after you oath it. Pure positing, which is how some interpret the Law of Attraction, is not efficacious.
Positing is helpful only if it (or there) is a power that pulls current Doing into Doing that generates the desired self Being....
Read MoreIf Landmark really loved you they would give you a mantra and make you say it. Take the goddamn Tech home with you.
So, for 98% of the participants, the benefit is a fleeting perception that never precipitates into a different (transformed) Being-Doing-Having.
Read MoreConsider Scientology and its children:
(1952 – …) Dianetics/Scientology
(1968 – 1973) Mind Dynamics
(1974 – 1995) Lifespring
(1971 – 1984) est
(1985 – 1991) The Forum
(1986 – …) Avatar
(1991 – …) Landmark Worldwide
Consider that these cults are not useless. Their silly exercises work under certain conditions. That condition is o...
Read MoreIt must have been something like this …
One day, while Erhard was firing up his sales staff, he really let himself go. He was lecturing at peak power. His listeners had fully opened to him and were being rebuilt in Erhard’s forge of zeal.
Suddenly, he realized that he was...
Read MoreErhard discovered that the training that makes you a great salesperson also makes you the chipper, confident, powerful, friendly, high functioning winner that you really want to be.
At first glance, it appears that the pitchman is promoting his product by praising it. But there is something else going on—the p...
Read MoreThis is the joy of Landmark Worldwide, an organization that uses sales technique to program people to be successful. There’s a power flowing in the group—the impatient laser-affirmative intentionality of the pitchman. He believes in his product so much that spacetime warps around his head and you feel God warming ins...
Read MoreYes there are two paths you can go by:
Your choices create your future.
Every moment is full of potential consider and choose.
Consider means sense, perceive, announce, compare, and reflect. To consider is to make a meaning in a context.
The next time you notice that automaticity is running you, what will you do? You might tell...
Read MoreThe attitude for writing well is the desire to be fearlessly honest about what is present and its deepest ground. The focal point for writing well is the horrible transparency present at every moment. Look into the heart-core of the horrible transparency present at every moment. Desire to be totally...
Read MoreThe self that exists for any subject is the one that has been created for others. It is the self’s existence-for others that creates the public self. And this self is the one that the witness-consciousness, the self as subject of knowledge, relates to.
Read MoreWe are falling into possibility yet we demand, from our very constitution, that the world cohere into intelligibility. Doing so superadds fictional necessity to a world that, in itself, is only bound by physical necessity. To this we add an additional layer of pseudo-necessity, a context of meaning and value,...
Read MoreWhat is the counterforce to impulse and automaticity? Nothing more than the “conversation”—i.e., sustained community practice. Being open to a healthy social reality makes you healthy merely by communicating inside it. Think of all the agreement that would have to be in place before you could converse with a fly. Conve...
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