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From One Cult To Another...
Anonymous:
Was Hyde aware that Paul and Vanda are involved in this cult? Hyde just gave Vanda a Diploma this year. Is Hyde endorsing this cult?
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Was Hyde aware that Paul and Vanda are involved in this cult? Hyde just gave Vanda a Diploma this year. Is Hyde endorsing this cult?
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I'm not sure. Perhaps they consider it relatively harmless, perhaps they no longer consider it their concern. From what I have been able to find out, Paul has been involved in it for at least 6 or 7 years, quite probably longer. Vanda I am not sure of, I am guessing less time, but I could be out in left field. It's my impression that Paul does tend to go back to Hyde for at least the major reunions, so I imagine he has talked to some former classmates about it. Any of you out there to lend more insight or confirmation?
Ursus:
From an essay about an anti-war demonstration appearing on Vanda's website; color emphasis my adddition...
http://www.vanda.us/
--- Quote ---I joined in a morning camp orientation. I introduced myself and got a big welcome. I told the circle of 30 or so newcomers I represented a whole bunch of amazing folks from the Pacific Northwest...
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Is this supposed to mean the Ramtha community?
--- Quote ---I remembered sitting in a restaurant in Fremont with my friend Anurag who leads transformational courses. "You can't stop war any more than you could have stopped fire. People stopped using fire when electricity came along. People stopped using vinyl records when CD's came along, The new technology renders war obsolete." To Anurag, The work done at Landmark Education is that technology. I agree with him.
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So Landmark Education is supposed to end all war?
And again later:
--- Quote ---That night I slept on a really comfortable air mattress in Pallas's tent. Pallas had done a lot of work "creating possibilities" at Landmark Education, like me, so there was instant rapport. She created the possibility of being dazzling with her appearance and I created the possibility of being carefree in my work before we went to bed...
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Very sad, very depressing... Well, someone else brought up the similarity between Amway and the family seminars on another thread, and Amway and Landmark share many similarities...
Ursus:
More from the same essay from http://www.vanda.us/
--- Quote ---I found myself sobbing, not just crying, but sobbing. I could let it rip here. I hadn't been in touch with that sheer pain inside me about the state of our civilization, when such a brainwashing occurs that can break the strongest human bond that exists, between a mother and her child. And for what cause? So that the administration and it's corporate bedfellows can perpetrate themselves. So that Halliburton and Bechtel can get even wealthier.
It's really an experience to have a video camera in your face when you're crying. I uttered a few words to the woman behind the camera: "These are our babies; women, wake up! No More War! These are our babies!" I sobbed. SHE started crying.
Later she told me how moving that was for her and that she is producing a documentary about the vigil. We had shared an intense moment and I felt an affinity with her. I joked as I signed the release form: "I'm an actress and I can turn it on and off whenever I want for the camera." I was sorta fishing to see if her sense of humor stretched that far. It didn't.
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Sorry, but my sense of humor doesn't stretch that far either. Maybe it is because I have witnessed and experienced and have felt very much betrayed by that same faucet being turned on and off. To sob on my shoulder saying one thing, and to then go around and publicly state the opposite... I guess not much has changed.
If you read the rest of the essay (5p long, PDF download), it is filled with glib and oh-so-smart denunciations of middle America mainstream Texas culture. I suppose on some level one could find it funny, but doesn't she have anything more relevant or substantial to focus on? Maybe I'm just not hip enough, or cool enough, to be sufficiently amused.
I dunno, maybe it is here that I should be older and wiser. Maybe I should find it in my heart to forgive and forget. After all, she is a victim, too... But I can't help but think that this is one cold cold chick here...
Anonymous:
Ursus revertitur ad vomitum suum.
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