User talk:Concerned Friend

A Friend Swallowed by Landmark Education

I am the friend of a wonderful loving Irish family who has watched their son, brother and uncle disappear into the cultish abyss called the Philadelphia Center of Landmark Education. As a young man in his mid 20's, this man went to an introduction. His interest grew from participation in a course to obsession. While operating a very successful personal chiro business, he began to invest more of his time in the Landmark organization. Soon his business and his family took a backseat to his recruitment efforts for LE. His language was chock full of Landmark terms which he often used on his clients and friends and against his family. His marriage eventually went bust, and so did his business. He filed for bankruptcy, lived off the goodwill of a girlfriend who he then got rid of when coached by Landmark. He followed a self destructive path of a secret life filled with pornography, lies and deviant sex. Women became objects and he was warned about sexuall harassment on more than one occasion. He would lie, cheat or steal to win the favor of the LE leaders. His mental wellbeing suffered and soon it was apparent that he was going through a serious mental decline--whether a bipolar issue or somethng else, he became more bizarre and removed from his own reality. Subsequently, he moved on to a job as a practitioner in an accident/injury office which he used as a bully pulpit for recruiting unwitting clients as Landmark prospects.The man who was once a wholesome respectable human being became a brainwashed robot for an organization that willlingly takes the business he produces but acknowledges him in no other way. He is a fragment of the human being he once was-one who no longer has the clarity of mind to separate his thoughts from the organization's. It's pitiful. It has cost this family the happiness they would have otherwise had from a loving son. It has cost him the greatest thing of all-his own mind.