On 2005-02-03 08:17:00, ~-=Sara=-~ wrote:
And as far as the TCs go - it's more like faith healing.
Its a great analogy!
Faith healers and their customers sort of participate in a type of passion play. The particpants know they got interviewed coming in the door, they know they sent the little cards in with their donation and name explaining what they needed to be healed for, the know they walked in and were asked to sit in the generic wheelchair, they know when the preacher yells "baby" in their ear that they were never really totally deaf to begin with, they observe no one with a visible ailment gets healed, only very vague internal problems or things with wiggle room, like "blindness and hearing" (very loose terms) and they fall and writhe on the floor on command, many with smiles on their face.
Why? Because they believe if they just comply, just play along, maybe they will, in spite of all the fraud and bullshit going on around them, receive a bonafide honest to goodness miracle. They are even willing to fake it for a while afterwards, hoping that their "miracle" will come to fruition.
I think it is somewhat the same for parents of these Seed derivitive programs. That is, they are willing participants in a passion play as well. They see the "motivating", the strange unsocial action of the participants,the isolation, the cultic behavior, the bizzare notions of awareness, the punishments for thinking, the absolute childish oversimplistic "steps", "signs" and "prayers"....however, just maybe if they play along they will get the result they were unable to get by themselves..the kid they think their child should be.
It is a form of self delusion and magical thinking...and it is dangerous.
To further the analogy, there are documented cases of people throwing their medicine up on stage at faith healer rallies and going home and dying, and their are documented cases of suicide, self mutilation and mental duress under the TC model of treatment.
Once again, great analogy!
