Thanks for your take on the Landmark experience.

Unfortunately, it's just like the Maharaji cult

I have no direct experience of Landmark, but from what I have heard about it, I am sure you are right.

There are no facts, just beliefs. When we forget this, when we think that we know something just because we just do know it, that's what starts wars.

I like your conclusion.

I think the biggest danger today, both in the world as a whole and in the individual, is holding unexamined beliefs. Note I say 'unexamined'. We all have beliefs, and probably cannot avoid having them. But we can bring some objectivity to them, and at least examine them a little.

Applying this to committed premies, the problem for my money is not their belief-system as such, but their denial that they have a belief system and their unwillingness to examine it.

Maharaji has a philosophy which I personally disagree with, and premies hold a belief-system about Maharaji and the Knowledge that I also disagree with. But that is no big deal; I may disagree, but so what - they have a perfect right to have what beliefs they want. But the fact they will not examine these beliefs does, I must admit, annoy me. And this leads directly to all the premie revisionism about the history most of us regulars on this site lived through, and in fact to the reason we call it a 'cult'. (My latest definition: 'Cult' implies a group with unexamined beliefs).

And that is why I keep my website up and post here occasionally.