A couple of months ago I learned about an incident involving staff (Sutton) licking the face of one of the kids. What brought this incident about? I remember When this staff was new I got along ok with him and his wife and I worked closely with him. Am I surprised to hear that he licked a kids face? No, not really, that place had such strange occurances that I'll bet he thought it was a good idea at the time, for some reason only explainable by someone who works for one of these places. That the incident does indeed sound very irreverent and out of place in the "real" world is Oh so typical of what it is we are talking about, and in some cases, still dealing with.
About being made to lie in a coffin like thing or in any way to make pretend that you are dead or dying, the simulation thereof, replete with dirt being used for a burial like ritual also does not sound totally out there as far as the program was concerned. There are elements of this as part of the Summit and (I'm not defending it, just stating the fact) that is a valid form of "rebirth", changing,...transformation and it is found throughout the world in different manifestations. But the ringer is this: if it has to do with spiritual change or all those selfsame positive outcomes that THE PERSON would expect afterwards, it is a matter of choice. When it is not a matter of choice it something else entirely: spiritual homicide.
You agreed that you needed it all. How much of the program focused on just this. You agreed. You Comply. You lose your central identity. It is a beautiful thing, you are told. The entire context of what the program was striving to do was based on the idea of Choice. It is misnomer, and it was false.