On 2005-01-08 08:09:00, Jimmy Cusick wrote:
"I cant belieive I've heard so much anger about the seed program. They saved my ass.
Really Jimmy? Lets explore some of your own words on this website...
"I really bought into the brainwashing, I thought we were going to reach out and save the world. I stayed clean and sober for 5 years so that was a good thing but I continue to resent art barker for what he did to kids."
"Glad I found this, havent thought about the brainwashing in years"
"I remember eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and watered down cool-aid (1 cup)."
"he told us that we would save the world,(I believed him). Art was our higher power"
"I rememeber Suzy Conners telling me to stand up and the entire group ripped me a new ass for the whole afternoon and I had to start over in the front row. Someone had turned me in for being in a bad mood"
" As a seedling I thought we were the choosen ones and I looked down upon everybody else."
"I rememeber sitting on those hard chairs at the seed on Alligator Alley from 10:00 in the morning until 10:00 at night."
"I was never a drug addict, actually I just experimented with pot and L.S.D."
"I was never accepted for who I was, I had to be a phony and pretend to be all "bubbly" about the seed."
" I was successfully brainwashed for a few years and it took me a while to realize it was all about Art Barker becoming a wealthy Guru."
"What a mind-bending experience we all had."
"I remember singing lots of songs (some of them were "I love Art" or "We love Art") How Cultlike."
So Jimmy, is it your contention that as a 15 year old non addicted kid, you needed a brainwashing cult that only would give you a little food and watered down cool-aide and make you worship a guy that isolated you from the normal world and told you you were going to save the world?
Do you not find it a little strange that you went in non-addicted and now are fighting addiction 30 years later but yet keep repeating the Seed "saved your ass"?
These are legit questions here Jimmy..I am very interested in your answers. Thanks.