Friday, June 1, 2018

LGATs? (Large Group Awareness Training)


Considering the hundreds of LGAT1 programs that dot the global landscape and the millions of dollars many of these programs generate for their owners, one wonders how aware participants are (or will become) concerning:
▪ the antiquity (the déjà vus) of human programming through intense, exhausting, extended instruction sessions — manoeuvring “learners” into vulnerable states regarding facilitator's beliefs and messages?
▪ the use of peer, group, and event pressure to promote conformity to / acceptance of ideas, demands and expectations of the program and programmers?
▪ how polar many LGAT events are to best-practice learning paradigms?
▪ the use of “stress & release” strategies to manipulate thoughts, feelings, emotions, actions2?
▪ how the erratic mix of criticism / praise, abuse / affection (breakdown) are well-worn techniques used to create dependency, co-dependency, confusion, submission, increasing susceptibility to control and domination, and, in extreme cases, to DID (dissociative identity disorder)?
▪ the confessional nature of inner explorations that reveal personal secrets (a frequent power strategy of individual and institutional power-abusers)?
▪ the likelihood (in our Orwellian world) that many of these LGATs are used by surveillance operatives to find, assess, recruit, and/or control “useful assets”?
▪ how unaware many LGAT attendees seem about the massive shift in the last century toward technology-assisted domination systems that keep people focused on the singular power, privileges, and RIGHTS of the self, yet divided from the equally critical aggregate power of WE THE PEOPLE — an aggregate-power essential to protecting and preserving individual and community rights against domination systems?
▪ how the selling of spiritual insights / gifts through pricey LGATs may constitute “priestcraft”3?
▪ how similar most LGAT programs are to each other?
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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-group_awareness_training
2. “McWilliams gives examples of various LGAT activities called processes with names such as "love bomb," "lifeboat", "cocktail party" and "cradling" which take place over many hours and days, physically exhausting the participants to make them more susceptible to the trainer's message, whether in the participants' best interests or not.[27]” from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-group_awareness_training
3. http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2015/09/priestcraft.html ;
http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2015/11/in-vain.html