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Anonymous:
as far as a i know, the founders of spring creek lodge are no longer affiliated with it at all.  they sold it and it now belongs to a corporate company.  just because you started something years ago doesn't mean that it is influenced by you anymore.  once they become huge and industrialized, the original founders from twenty years ago don't reflect the institutions.  spring creek lodge is a huge employer, and is a much more formal place than MMS.  i cannot say what it was like when it first started, but chances are that spring creek lodge today is completely different than it was back then.  just think of a small grocery store, and then it gets sold to a walmart or something... the new model is completely different...
i am not positive on this issue of spring creek, but i'm pretty sure on it.  its just important to keep the schools separate because it isn't right to blame current situations at spring creek on mercer and co.

katfish:
I don't blame think Mercer has anything to do with current allegations against Spring Creek, but I think it's interested that he comes from there.  Wonder how similar they are...?[ This Message was edited by: katfish on 2005-05-08 13:29 ]

Antigen:

--- Quote ---On 2005-05-07 20:05:00, katfish wrote:

Wonder how similar they are...?

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I think ya'll ought to compare notes w/ some fomer WWASP clients and see what matches.

Here's something that Ryan Pink posted recently talking about Cross Creek Manor and Casa by the Sea.


--- Quote ---The tactics used to create undue psychological and social influence, often by means involving anxiety and stress, fall into seven main categories.

TACTIC 1
Increase suggestibility and "soften up" the individual through specific hypnotic or other suggestibility-increasing techniques such as:Extended audio, visual, verbal, or tactile fixation drills, Excessive exact repetition of routine activities, Sleep restriction and/or Nutritional restriction.

TACTIC 2
Establish control over the person's social environment, time and sources of social support by a system of often-excessive rewards and punishments. Social isolation is promoted. Contact with family and friends is abridged, as is contact with persons who do not share group-approved attitudes. Economic and other dependence on the group is fostered.

TACTIC 3
Prohibit disconfirming information and non supporting opinions in group communication. Rules exist about permissible topics to discuss with outsiders. Communication is highly controlled. An "in-group" language is usually constructed.

TACTIC 4
Make the person re-evaluate the most central aspects of his or her experience of self and prior conduct in negative ways. Efforts are designed to destabilize and undermine the subject's basic consciousness, reality awareness, world view, emotional control and defense mechanisms. The subject is guided to reinterpret his or her life's history and adopt a new version of causality.

TACTIC 5
Create a sense of powerlessness by subjecting the person to intense and frequent actions and situations which undermine the person's confidence in himself and his judgment.

TACTIC 6
Create strong aversive emotional arousals in the subject by use of nonphysical punishments such as intense humiliation, loss of privilege, social isolation, social status changes, intense guilt, anxiety, manipulation and other techniques.

TACTIC 7
Intimidate the person with the force of group-sanctioned secular psychological threats. For example, it may be suggested or implied that failure to adopt the approved attitude, belief or consequent behavior will lead to severe punishment or dire consequences such as physical or mental illness, the reappearance of a prior physical illness, drug dependence, economic collapse, social failure, divorce, disintegration, failure to find a mate, etc.

These tactics of psychological force are applied to such a severe degree that the individual's capacity to make informed or free choices becomes inhibited. The victims become unable to make the normal, wise or balanced decisions which they most likely or normally would have made, had they not been unknowingly manipulated by these coordinated technical processes. The cumulative effect of these processes can be an even more effective form of undue influence than pain, torture, drugs or the use of physical force and physical and legal threats.

http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... =50#101071


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I believe this is quoted from Margaret Thayer Singer's work on cults, but you'd have to ask Ryan to be sure.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
--Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor
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Anonymous:
This makes me so sick! These tactics were used on me everyday! Especially Tactic 5. I felt so goddamn crazy, and they told me they did those things for my  good. That's bulsh*t! I knew it then and I know it now. They isolated and medicated me so I would keep my mouth shut. I didn't do it though. Goddamn I hate that place!
Aaaaaah!

katfish:
yup, hit nail on the head...how can this be legal, just don't undestand...

An interesting link that deals with this issue and describes how this violates basic human rights can be found here:

http://www.whyaretheydead.net/misc/Factnet/CPS.TXT[ This Message was edited by: katfish on 2005-05-08 13:48 ]

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