I can never tolerate such an awful experience - an awful evening. It was the evening in which the Landmark Forum tried to make me a slave to their addicting practices. Not much of the forum irks me, the stupidity with which the people who have been to the forum behave is the one that does. Those who have been to the Landmark Education or Forum have turned utterly stupids!
In one of the Landmark Forum's practices or Marketing ploy, it sure seemed to me as a give away of their ways. The Landmark Forum organized a session (the session I attended was organized in Chinmaya Heritage Center, Chetpet, Chennai). The entry fee for the session was Rs. 1,100 minimum which is the ploy. I walked in straight into the Landmark Forum and was welcomed by a slew of young girls who forged a smile on their faces which would immediately command a smile back from you.
I was asked for my profession in a form for which I had written 'Writer'. I slowly went inside and saw a man talking about his ' New Laptop broken and that the upset did last for only a few minutes - the magic of Landmark Forum'. I felt nauseated about the kind of crap I had put myself into. I later moved over to the first row (not because I grew interested but because my friends were there in the first row).
A popular director of Tamil Cinema or Kollywood endorsed the Landmark Forum. I enjoyed it. Soon another one spoke. The first half of the session came to a conclusion. There came the problem in the form of a teary eyed girl (don't know for what reason) tagged 'volunteer'. She came and sat right next to me and said in a pleasing tone, "Hi, My name is ______________, and I joined this forum and are you willing to register?"
"What?"
"You can pay Rs. 1100 to register and you can pay the rest of the money after some time."
"What the hell for?"
"Of course! Everybody feels it is a marketing tactic... but......."
It is I thought to myself and said, "I had not thought to that extent before you said that."
"But it is not.... Don't think I am forcing you but that is the way we do it. You can take down my phone number and...."
You disgusting, dewy... I don't need it. "Well, I am not saying it is a marketing ploy or Scam... but it is a bad way of treating the visitors. You cannot force anybody to join."
"It is because people might just not take it serious if they get out of this place. We want everybody who has gathered here to take home the benefit."
The girl's face twitched in a manner as though I was the one who asked her to transfer money to my bank account. "I will take care of it myself. I will think over it myself and get back to you." I was disgusted with that approach.
Then, half a dozen people started advising me on why it is good to join the Landmark Forum. I was never forced in my life to do anything and I never did anything that was forced upon me. I did everything only if I wanted to do it. I did what I did not like for the first time. I paid the Rs. 1100 with my heart bleeding.
There was a man sitting on the stage as though he was suffering hemorrhoids. I watched the proceedings and it was all crap with rehashed material from the Self-Help Books. Many of the graduates of Landmark Forums stupidly applied whatever is learned from Landmark Education and forced their friends and relatives to join the forum.
They tainted even their relationships with friends and family members to get them joined in the Landmark Forum. Stupidly and artificially applying the learnings from Landmark Forum left them with a disrepute which they are not aware of. Sometimes they are not aware of this disrepute and at other times they are ready to face it to make anybody join Landmark Forum.
Those who have joined and forced others to join are not average people but stupid Vice-Presidents and CEOs of various top companies, actors and directors. The Landmark Forum programs them to act in a mechanical way which makes them to act in a way that does not care even about self respect in the process of making people join.
I was left in the nauseating hall with a severe half-baked American accent of a man completely incomprehensible. He spoke two more hours of crap and wound up the show. Landmark Forum makes people turn overjoyed by saying something that makes them feel energized. I pronaavunce (the awful accent of the trainer) you oaalll as graaduwhites."
He is or probably was an Indian. I witnessed utter crap, nothing of any use and only for a mere three days of seminar with loads of stupid crap stolen from self help books, you have to pay the Landmark Forum Rs. 7500. Do a Google search and see that they have purchased the first ten slots of the Search Engine results with different websites to not let any negative views infiltrate.
However, they are caught in the related tags and keywords 'Landmark Forum Scam', 'Lanmark Forum Brainwashing', 'anti landmark forum', 'Landmark Forum Criticism', 'Landmark Forum Fraud', 'Landmark Rackets', and so on. The Landmark Forum is a complete brainwashing scam and a racket that fraudulently and forcibly tries to make people join the forum. The Landmark Education Forum does not care about people's money and cares only about making its own money.
Beware, brutal tortures are awaiting you in the Landmark Forum and going to that crap means you will have to make decisions forced upon you by others and you will be taught and brainwashed with some crap that you will almost harass and torture others to join the Landmark Forum. I have worked as a Knowledge Management Analyst in a training company and know of the ways in which they try to brainwash their students or trainees.
They make even the most intelligent people turn stupid and subject them to what they want you to do. The Landmark Forum will not set you free even after you complete. You will be forced upon by the stupidity to proceed further. Till death, the Landmark Forum will haunt you. My statements might look like it is over the top but please note that you will be subjected to severe brain washing in the Landmark Forum.
Although I do not have much to say as I have refrained from joining this Landmark Forum or Landmark Education crap, I have gathered significant proof from other sources. All you have to do is read on and educate yourself and not get crap education from the stupid Landmark Forum:
http://www.rickross.com/reference/landmark/landmarkvisitor.html
http://motherjones.com/media/2009/07/landmark-42-hours-500-65-breakdowns
http://motherjones.com/media/2009/07/landmark-42-hours-500-65-breakdowns?page=2
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=50326
