You are right.  Old premies signed for the keys, those who bought the IDEA that without him life is to become stinky as a ton of rotten vegetables.

A customer forver!  The fear tactic works well for his bussiness, but premies find many ways of justifying what they feel and by not understanding their minds have been very deeply programmmed to depend on him forever.  They don't see themselves as victims of brainwashing.  They now why they hold on the dream.  I say, FEAR.

I read some of this EPO section last night: 

 http://www.ex-premie.org/pages/sitenews.htm

 I wonder if premies can make sense of this mental torture. 

I remember being invited to that "seminar". I surely can't imagine been there and how I may have felt.  I probably would have walked away.