Tuesday, 13 March 2007

Day 17 - in search of identity

I am still waiting for feedback on the first completed chapter of How To Survive Your Twenties In One Piece - I have a slot booked for 15.00 today which should reveal much...

I am worried i may have an awful lot of work to do.

But yesterday proved to be fruitful, despite tiredness from the weekend.

I spent most of the day picking subjects and developing prose for chapters 2(the b's)&3(the c's), and have hit upon something that is holding me back.

Who do I want to be to my reader? Do I want to be a guru like figure and clearly promote all of my different experiences and advice? Or do I want to pitch myself as a sympathetic figure - someone who has been chewed up and spat out throughout his 20's and now wants to share?

I could do both I think.

But how can I be a guru? I still have no real control over my own life, let alone be in a position to offer others advice on the subject.

When reading the prose I have created thus far, there is a fine line between offering simple advice and preaching. I think this, added to the fact that my life is hardly complete and secure at the moment, is stopping me from creating top quality work.

A solution has been offered, by a guru like figure in my life.

They have suggested I do the Landmark Forum. This is a 3 day seminar designed to raise self awareness and may enable me to find my best possible path. If it does what it says on the tin, I think it may be of huge help to me in manifesting HTSY20's in good time and thus leading my best possible life.

We shall see. Watch this space.

Writing time: 4 hours

Manifestation: 80%

One more note: I have a strong sense that love is just around the corner. I can feel it manifesting right in front of me.

1 comment:

GuruTruth said...

Dear Manifesting Jack,

The Illusionist was really an awesome movie! The Prestige I have not seen yet, but I have it on DVD and am going to see it soon... The other two, well, suffice it to say I have not heard many positive concrete things about those. More at the blog...

Here is some more information on that seminar that your friend suggested to you. It is always best to be as highly informed of a consumer as you can be with these sorts of things:

Landmark Education is conducted in a Large Group Awareness Training setting, information about it and its "The Forum" course, previously known as "The Forum" under Werner Erhard and Associates, the "technology" of which was developed by Werner Erhard and utilized in his prior "EST Training" or "Erhard Seminars Training" - is available through the links below:

A documentary came out in France, Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus, which details some of the for-profit company's interesting practices. The film aired to 1.5 million people in France. One month after it aired, the company shut down in France. The company attempted to use the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in order to get this video off the internet. More about this at Landmark Education stumbles stupidly to hollow settlement, Landmark Education wants to make French news report a “forbidden video” on the Net and at Why did Landmark Education leave France? as well as at the Electronic Frontier Foundation's legal page, Landmark and the Internet Archive and in an article from Reuters which went into The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, among many other papers, at Google faces legal challenges over video service.

Landmark Education has been labeled "sect" by the government of France, a "sect" by the government of Austria. They were investigated multiple times by the United States Federal Department of Labor - and an investigation in 2004 by the Federal Department of Labor in France led to Landmark Education shutting down their operations in all of France due to unpaid labor practices.

Landmark Education is currently a defendant in a wrongful death case in Oklahoma, and also a young man named James Brian Rowe went missing in Colorado directly after attending a Landmark Forum in 2004. His family has not heard from him since.

More information about the company's history itself, at The Rick Ross Institute, the Skepdic site, Cult News, Introduction to the Landmark Education litigation archive, Landmark Education litigation archive, Apologetics Index, and Cult Awareness and Information Centre. The book OUTRAGEOUS BETRAYAL by Steven Pressman is also a great resource. Chapter 4, A Door to Door Mind Salesman, and Chapter 7, Enlightenment in Two Weekends - The est Training are available online.

For more information about other Large Group Awareness Training organizations and their methodologies, visit:

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