When I first found fornits.com, I was not comfortable thinking that I had been in a Cult. I had been fine for ten years. No one here knew what they were talking about.
But I like to get my own answers.
All I know is my own experience. And truly I know what I went through, and the people around me went through. I am describing it, and I haven't exaggerated or been biased in the content of my project. I have a good idea of what they were TRYING to do in the "program", and maybe for some people it was a "succesful transformation" done BY methods time- tested to do the kind of mental manipulation that could MAKE/ coerce most people/you to do anything. (manchurian candidate)
That didn't occur for me.
I didn't get a lot of the positive messages. I got the opposite, that was what was the pervading atmosphere for me when I was in RMA. I learned how to hate myself. I learned to feel guilty and express my anger at the world inappropriately, and to take responsibilty for things that are NOT my problem. A lot of things.
And I have posted about many things at this forum. Read up. Take your time, and see the program and how the normal outlook of the world and politics and economics in relationship paradigms was changed by raps, propheets, and personal internal functioning and thinking during the program stay.
The awesome thing that I am realizing is that CEDU has wanted me to do this. The Summit gave me the knowledge that blownaway (the Idaho way) is why I finished and graduated. It was represented to me in the Values propheet and in Challenge Night, and the Summit. I do say what I want. Maybe I don't want what YOU want. What is the best solution? How can I help accomodate voices to be heard? Intelligent discourse about the issues of Therapeutic Boarding Schools and programs that bill themselves akwardly as Behavior Modification Schools is the only that will promote change. I DO believe that changes are needed, as do most thinking people.
Ergo: if change is needed in the "troubled teen" industry, AND Cedu Education is, in my mind, known for using numbing mind control techniques to employ a treatment that is unwanted by the subject to MAKE him want it- and I'm supposed to write what I think about it, then that, my friends, is what I'm going to do.
Have a great day.