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Deborah:
Yeh, I was getting a sense of that too with the 'subliminals', etc.

That is risky business. Definitely sounds like new-agey affirmationy stuff. Ya need to be careful with that stuff. I've read that in order to be useful at all, the subliminals need to be carefully constructed. The use of one wrong word could be detrimental. Was this woman certified? Self taught?
 
Also, considered 'evil' and of the 'devil' by most religious people. I'm curious... did any of you christian/religious parents understand that your child would be doing affirmations and subjected to subliminals? Or was it not a concern?

Anonymous:
As a parent I did not know anything about subliminals until I read the first weekly reports on the Whitmore weblogs written by the students. I emailed and emailed asking what are subliminals? This question was only answered in a vague way--BUT I knew from the reports that the kids MUST DO THEM, and were PUNISHED if they didn't do them, and lost privileges for not doing them. SO, I knew it wasn't some take-it-or-leave it exercise. From postings on this forum, I now understand what subliminals might be. Why does Cheryl Sudweeks find them so important? What HER is real purpose? Does SHE have any formal training in subliminals? Is this a good or bad idea? What are the subliminals based on? I do not know the answer to any of these questions.

HOWBIZARRE:
You guys are reading too much into this subliminal stuff.

THEY ARE MOTIVATIONAL CASSETTES RECORDED BY KAROL TRUMAN. Look her up on Amazon.com. "I FEEL HAPPY" "I AM HAPPY" over 'soothing' music. I don't think you need to get "certified" in order to hand cassettes out to kids so they can play them in the morning. I was at my mom's house and I looked in my step dad's CD player and he had "THE POWER OF NOW" in it. Maybe I should've confiscated the CD because as far as I know, he doesn't have any formal training in subliminals. The tapes don't have any religious overtones and if you played them backwards you didn't hear the Sudweeks telling you to abandon your family and join their "cult". They are harmless. I didn't like hearing some old lady telling me I was happy in the morning so I put my pillow over my head. Problem solved.

And I wasn't aware the churches of this world condemn those who listen to motivational tapes and tell themselves to be positve.

And to that skeptic who thinks Cheryl is the one behind all the former students posting you are MISTAKEN. When I walk out my front door and look at the liscene plate on my car I don't see Utah plates. I haven't been in Nephi for almost a year.

I'm not trying to be a dick. I'm trying to set this shit straight.

Anonymous:
Thank you. Now we know what to buy and listen to for ourselves, IF this was exactly what you students were required to listen to upon awakening each moring at Whitmore. Wonder why parents couldn't simply be told what you just relayed to us? It's the element of "secrecy" that causes parents to worry, you know.
I surely was impressed with your answer, right up until the "dick" and "shit" ending. Guess I'm just old-fashioned that way, and expect more out of today's young people.

Don't think anyone said you were not posting for YOURSELF....just that most of us do not believe the posting "from students at the Whitmore..and a couple of the other postings are anyone other than Cheryl Sudweeks."  Your postings always seem sincere and gunine.

Could you explain "scripting?"

HOWBIZARRE:
I don't mean to come off as edgy or harsh, I apologize if I have.

Maybe I replied in the wrong thread but someone is going around claiming Cheryl is posting under various names and whatnot.

Scripting is kind of hard to explain. It wasn't a part of the "curriculum", if you wanted to try it one of the former students was all about it. It's basically a paragraph with a blank where you fill in with a negative emotion you are feeling and what to get rid of.

Ex.
"I want to know the source of my depression. I want my depression to go away." etc. etc.

It's basically a non religious prayer to get rid of bad feelings. You can do it yourself, you just read the thing out loud.

When first heard about it I thought..."Wow, that is insanely stupid." I wasn't down with it from day one and I have never been scripted.

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