Then how do we explain the WWASPS/Discovery seminars and the Straight/Seed/Synanon model being so similar?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Erhard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon
I think my point was is that we Cannot *explain* it currently on an evidenciary basis, we can only draw conclusions based on indirect evidence.
Unless you know something I don't know, no direct correlation between the Seed and earlier programs exists except some suppositions about Dupont influencing Art Barker. Will this is entirely likely, it has not been established by direct evidence. Further, other AA cults have sprung up with similar results to synanon independent of a direct link like Jim Jone's little cool aide cult, and the commonality of brainwashing and behavior modification techniques thruout all cults further muddy the water.
However, WWasp and the Seed both CLEARLY had common techniques that CLEARLY orginated in Synanon. The difference is WWASP can be Directly linked to the Synanon, and all the efforts to link Art Barker to the Synanon have failed to date, except for the indirect assumptions we can make about Art Barker, Robert Dupont, federal funding and the rise of the Seed cult in 1973. As I explained earlier, I have my theories but they remain just that, theories.
Fascinating stuff to me and others no doubt and I wish I could make that direct connection we ex-program inductees assume is there.
I wish you could understand the hours and hours people like wes Fager, Ginger, Bradbury, Kathy, myself and others have poured over documents, gone to local and national libraries and have not come up with the smoking gun.
If someone else can come up with it, you will earn my eternal gratitude and respect because I have been unable to date to establish the direct link, as have all others that I know of.
