David.Carpe.Diem
Anchorage,#2General Comment
Fri, December 19, 2014
Thank you Rev Kevin for contributing an insider's perspective. There is no reconciling PSI with the Gospel and we will all be held accountable for our decisions and actions, regardless of whether you believe it or not. True solace and salvation is in the Word of God, not PSI Seminars.
Helen
Mesa,#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sat, June 19, 2010
2. Written by Kevin, on
Tom and Jane Willhite sat right next to Werner Erhard/Jack Rosenberg in
Alexander Everetts Mind Dynamics class in 1971. Mind Dynamics was bought by
Holiday Magic owner William Penn Patrick in 1970 to complement his Leadership
Dynamics course. All managers in the Holiday Magic company were required to
take the Leadership and Mind Dynamics courses.
William Penn Patrick (Tom Willhites tutor) was a mean and greedy man who ran a
Federal Trade Commission indicted pyramid scheme that didnt pay salesmen
commissions and loaded up garages of unsalable cosmetics on poor unsuspecting
saps. WPP physically slapped his wife Marie and his children as well as kick
and punch vulnerable non self-confident Leadership Dynamics participants. WPP
stole Alexander Everetts mindful and thoughtful approaches to self help and
twisted them into to a highly profitable mind-bending money machine for his
minions.
Werner Erhard/Jack Rosenberg and Tom and Jane Willhite learned their crafts
from the Leadership/Mind Dynamics courses to create EST, Forum, Landmark
Education, and PSI Seminars.
Many others came from these classes to create other Large Group Awareness
Trainings and Encounter Groups. The results are easy to find.
To find out more about how EST/PSI Seminars started read: Outrageous Betrayal:
The Real Story of Werner Erhard from Est to Exile by Steven Pressman,ISBN-10:
0312092962, ISBN-13: 978-0312092962
To find out about what went on in the early days Leadership Dynamics at Rickys
Hyatt House and how Tom Willhite's mentor acted, read: The pit: a group
encounter defiled by Gene Church & Conrad D. Carnes, ISBN-10: 0876900872,
ISBN-13: 978-0876900871
To find out more about the techniques taught in PSI Seminars read: The Power of
Alpha Thinking: Miracle of the Mind by Jess Stern, ISBN-10: 0451072782,
ISBN-13: 978-0451072788.
To understand why PSI minions get sucked into spending every cent they have on
the seminars read: Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in our Everyday Lives,
(Hardcover-is the complete text, the paperback version is not the complete
text) by Margaret Singer, Hardcover: 381 pages. Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1
edition (May 1995), ISBN-10: 0787900516, ISBN-13: 978-0787900519. PSI World is
noted on pages 41, 202-203.
Margaret lists six conditions that create the atmosphere in which
indoctrination takes place:
1. Keep the person unaware that there is an agenda to control or change the
person.
2. Control time and physical environment (contacts, information).
3. Create a sense of powerlessness, fear, and dependency.
4. Suppress old behavior and attitudes.
5. Instill new behavior and attitudes.
6. Put forth a closed system of logic.
Now for the answers to the above conditions: 1. Youll have to experience it
for yourself. 2. No watches, long classes, no eating or gum chewing, drop
friends who will not attend PSI. 3. You need help-thats why you are here in a
PSI class. 4. Move out of resistance of holding onto your money.
5. Move into the idea of freely giving it to PSI. 6. PSI IS the answer to all
of your problems and changes you to be a better person within a week.
Tom and Jane Willhite learned their lessons well.
1. Written by Rev Kev, on
Thoughts from a former PSI facilitator who came to know The Lord Jesus Christ
and shucked off cultish New Age practices:
1. First, does the seminar stress visualization as the key to success? Yes.
Visualize a pleasant and passive scene from nature. Place your imaginative
workshop in your passive scene from nature. See yourself in a comfortable
command chair in which to operate your workshop tools such as: books, how-to
books, phones, TVs, computers, clocks and calendars that run forward and
backward, elevator, platform, a stage/platform on which your assistants stand,
flood lights illuminating your platform, and medicines, etc. Develop your
"screen of the mind" in which you can project "perfect end results"
such as seeing yourself as wealthy, healthy, or happy, etc. Place this screen
in back of your platform and operate it from your comfortable chair. Visualize
your present situation as it is with a dark border around the "movie"
screen and then see yourself as you want to be with a light border around your
"movie" screen. Also visualize two assistants to help you make life
decisions. The assistants are to be a man and a woman. These inner advisors act
as "spirit guides" and can be contacted through a meditative state by
going into your levels. Visualize your assistants rising up out of the floor
atop an elevator into your workshop. As they stand on their platform ready to
serve you, you can ask them for advice and directions. Ask them what their
names are and if there is anything that they want to tell you or anything that
you should know. Your assistants are there for you at all times. They are there
for extra guidance, wisdom, knowledge, inspiration, love, support, and
companionship. You can bring anyone or anything into your workshop from
anywhere in time, past, present, or future. Before you enter or as you exit
your workshop, visualize a white light washing over you to cleanse yourself of
all negativity.
Be careful though, you may usher in a "demon" acting as an
"assistant." Many have ushered in demons only to find their lives in
complete upheaval. Once they realized that they were "dancing with the
devil" they turned to the true Lord and Savior of the universe, Jesus, and
have turned their backs on PSI.
2. Second, is heavy emphasis placed on praising yourself? Tom Willhite states
on page
3. Third, are Eastern meditative and other so-called
"phychotechnologies" being peddled as stress-reduction techniques? Relaxation
meditations are used to break down one's barriers especially the critical
thinking skills. Relaxing and praying The Lord's prayer is completely different
than going into your levels to "relax" or "visualize your new
car!" But, unless one is versed in God's Word, they can be easily duped
into PSI as being the be-all and end-all to life. Woe be to the one who dares
to question such non Biblical techniques!
4. Does the seminar promise to transform your life? Your life can be
transformed within 4 days. If you still don't get it, your life can be
transformed even further in 7 days with PSI VII and even further in 9-10 days
with the Women/Men's Leadership courses. And, if you still need transformation,
you can do a quick touch up for only 7 days with Principia. Basically PSI is
just expensive entertainment. True transformation comes from reading The Bible
and sharing The Gospel with all.
5. Fifth, does the seminar come with an expensive price tag? Yes, the basic
course runs about $600. PLD runs around $500. PSI VII runs around $5,000.
Men/Women's Leadership courses run around $5,000 each. Principia runs around
$5,000.
The total nut on all the seminars can cost you about $15,000-$20,000 with added
staffing fees. The food is good at the ranch but living quarters are not
private. Hearing other men snore can be a nuisance.
Each basic brings in abut $20,000 per class or roughly around 200K per year.
All the basics bring in about 2 million a year to PSI. The Leadership courses
bring in about 3 million a year. And Principia brings in about 3 million a
year. So PSI roughly makes around 10 million a year from classes. This does not
include PSI Shop sales, High Valley Ranch Cattle Co sales, Round Mountain
Winery sales, or the suggested donations per instructions on page 163, 4th
paragraph down in the PSI bible.
6. Sixth, is there a high degree of secrecy about the program's actual
contents? "You have to experience for yourself." What PSI doesn't
want you to know is that each course is designed as a hard-shelled sales pitch
geared towards you taking further courses for the above listed fees. If you
don't sign up for further seminars during for PSI VII sales pitch at the end of
the basic, you are taken to the bar and bought a drink to lower your inhibitions.
"Giving back" means to use free "graduate" labor and
donations to run the seminars. It's your choice whether you want to be
motivated by external influences such as PSI Seminars or discover your inner
God-motivated desires by reading the true Word of God known as the Holy
Bible.
Finally, does the seminar require long hours outside of normal working
schedule, along with mandatory attendance by your spouse? Classes run from
Spouses are greatly encouraged to attend. If they dig in their heels and refuse, it is advised to replace them with a PSI graduate. Where's the diploma? Many have done this and have lived to regret it.
Some of us have taught it and now know the truth.
2. Written by Kevin, on
Tom and Jane Willhite sat right next to Werner Erhard/Jack Rosenberg in
Alexander Everetts Mind Dynamics class in 1971. Mind Dynamics was bought by
Holiday Magic owner William Penn Patrick in 1970 to complement his Leadership
Dynamics course. All managers in the Holiday Magic company were required to
take the Leadership and Mind Dynamics courses.
William Penn Patrick (Tom Willhites tutor) was a mean and greedy man who ran a
Federal Trade Commission indicted pyramid scheme that didnt pay salesmen
commissions and loaded up garages of unsalable cosmetics on poor unsuspecting
saps. WPP physically slapped his wife Marie and his children as well as kick
and punch vulnerable non self-confident Leadership Dynamics participants. WPP
stole Alexander Everetts mindful and thoughtful approaches to self help and
twisted them into to a highly profitable mind-bending money machine for his
minions.
Werner Erhard/Jack Rosenberg and Tom and Jane Willhite learned their crafts
from the Leadership/Mind Dynamics courses to create EST, Forum, Landmark
Education, and PSI Seminars.
Many others came from these classes to create other Large Group Awareness
Trainings and Encounter Groups. The results are easy to find.
To find out more about how EST/PSI Seminars started read: Outrageous Betrayal:
The Real Story of Werner Erhard from Est to Exile by Steven Pressman,ISBN-10:
0312092962, ISBN-13: 978-0312092962
To find out about what went on in the early days Leadership Dynamics at Rickys
Hyatt House and how Tom Willhite's mentor acted, read: The pit: a group
encounter defiled by Gene Church & Conrad D. Carnes, ISBN-10: 0876900872,
ISBN-13: 978-0876900871
To find out more about the techniques taught in PSI Seminars read: The Power of
Alpha Thinking: Miracle of the Mind by Jess Stern, ISBN-10: 0451072782,
ISBN-13: 978-0451072788.
To understand why PSI minions get sucked into spending every cent they have on
the seminars read: Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in our Everyday Lives,
(Hardcover-is the complete text, the paperback version is not the complete
text) by Margaret Singer, Hardcover: 381 pages. Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1
edition (May 1995), ISBN-10: 0787900516, ISBN-13: 978-0787900519. PSI World is
noted on pages 41, 202-203.
Margaret lists six conditions that create the atmosphere in which
indoctrination takes place:
1. Keep the person unaware that there is an agenda to control or change the
person.
2. Control time and physical environment (contacts, information).
3. Create a sense of powerlessness, fear, and dependency.
4. Suppress old behavior and attitudes.
5. Instill new behavior and attitudes.
6. Put forth a closed system of logic.
Now for the answers to the above conditions: 1. Youll have to experience it
for yourself. 2. No watches, long classes, no eating or gum chewing, drop
friends who will not attend PSI. 3. You need help-thats why you are here in a
PSI class. 4. Move out of resistance of holding onto your money.
5. Move into the idea of freely giving it to PSI. 6. PSI IS the answer to all
of your problems and changes you to be a better person within a week.
Tom and Jane Willhite learned their lessons well.
1. Written by Rev Kev, on
Thoughts from a former PSI facilitator who came to know The Lord Jesus Christ
and shucked off cultish New Age practices:
1. First, does the seminar stress visualization as the key to success? Yes.
Visualize a pleasant and passive scene from nature. Place your imaginative
workshop in your passive scene from nature. See yourself in a comfortable
command chair in which to operate your workshop tools such as: books, how-to
books, phones, TVs, computers, clocks and calendars that run forward and
backward, elevator, platform, a stage/platform on which your assistants stand,
flood lights illuminating your platform, and medicines, etc. Develop your
"screen of the mind" in which you can project "perfect end results"
such as seeing yourself as wealthy, healthy, or happy, etc. Place this screen
in back of your platform and operate it from your comfortable chair. Visualize
your present situation as it is with a dark border around the "movie"
screen and then see yourself as you want to be with a light border around your
"movie" screen. Also visualize two assistants to help you make life
decisions. The assistants are to be a man and a woman. These inner advisors act
as "spirit guides" and can be contacted through a meditative state by
going into your levels. Visualize your assistants rising up out of the floor
atop an elevator into your workshop. As they stand on their platform ready to
serve you, you can ask them for advice and directions. Ask them what their
names are and if there is anything that they want to tell you or anything that
you should know. Your assistants are there for you at all times. They are there
for extra guidance, wisdom, knowledge, inspiration, love, support, and
companionship. You can bring anyone or anything into your workshop from
anywhere in time, past, present, or future. Before you enter or as you exit
your workshop, visualize a white light washing over you to cleanse yourself of
all negativity.
Be careful though, you may usher in a "demon" acting as an
"assistant." Many have ushered in demons only to find their lives in
complete upheaval. Once they realized that they were "dancing with the
devil" they turned to the true Lord and Savior of the universe, Jesus, and
have turned their backs on PSI.
2. Second, is heavy emphasis placed on praising yourself? Tom Willhite states
on page
3. Third, are Eastern meditative and other so-called
"phychotechnologies" being peddled as stress-reduction techniques? Relaxation
meditations are used to break down one's barriers especially the critical
thinking skills. Relaxing and praying The Lord's prayer is completely different
than going into your levels to "relax" or "visualize your new
car!" But, unless one is versed in God's Word, they can be easily duped
into PSI as being the be-all and end-all to life. Woe be to the one who dares
to question such non Biblical techniques!
4. Does the seminar promise to transform your life? Your life can be
transformed within 4 days. If you still don't get it, your life can be
transformed even further in 7 days with PSI VII and even further in 9-10 days
with the Women/Men's Leadership courses. And, if you still need transformation,
you can do a quick touch up for only 7 days with Principia. Basically PSI is
just expensive entertainment. True transformation comes from reading The Bible
and sharing The Gospel with all.
5. Fifth, does the seminar come with an expensive price tag? Yes, the basic
course runs about $600. PLD runs around $500. PSI VII runs around $5,000.
Men/Women's Leadership courses run around $5,000 each. Principia runs around
$5,000.
The total nut on all the seminars can cost you about $15,000-$20,000 with added
staffing fees. The food is good at the ranch but living quarters are not
private. Hearing other men snore can be a nuisance.
Each basic brings in abut $20,000 per class or roughly around 200K per year.
All the basics bring in about 2 million a year to PSI. The Leadership courses
bring in about 3 million a year. And Principia brings in about 3 million a
year. So PSI roughly makes around 10 million a year from classes. This does not
include PSI Shop sales, High Valley Ranch Cattle Co sales, Round Mountain
Winery sales, or the suggested donations per instructions on page 163, 4th
paragraph down in the PSI bible.
6. Sixth, is there a high degree of secrecy about the program's actual
contents? "You have to experience for yourself." What PSI doesn't
want you to know is that each course is designed as a hard-shelled sales pitch
geared towards you taking further courses for the above listed fees. If you
don't sign up for further seminars during for PSI VII sales pitch at the end of
the basic, you are taken to the bar and bought a drink to lower your inhibitions.
"Giving back" means to use free "graduate" labor and
donations to run the seminars. It's your choice whether you want to be
motivated by external influences such as PSI Seminars or discover your inner
God-motivated desires by reading the true Word of God known as the Holy
Bible.
Finally, does the seminar require long hours outside of normal working
schedule, along with mandatory attendance by your spouse? Classes run from
Spouses are greatly encouraged to attend. If they dig in their heels and refuse, it is advised to replace them with a PSI graduate. Where's the diploma? Many have done this and have lived to regret it.
Some of us have taught it and now know the truth.
Ellen
Damascus,#4Consumer Comment
Fri, May 28, 2010
I experienced insightful and rewarding personal and professional growth from attending this seminar. It's my experience that growth and change of any kind requires an "open mind". It's been many years, but I recall that PSI tries to identify and discourage people with psychoses (panic attacks) from attending their seminars. The seminar you attended was what "only you" could make of it for yourself.
Thomas
Anderson,#5Consumer Comment
Thu, July 27, 2006
I would hate to hear about your enemies.....