"Letter to the Editor" written by Steve
Hassan to the Boston Globe, published on page A22, March
10, 1999
Steve wrote this letter in response to an article on the Forum,
titled "Soul Training", published by the Boston Globe
on March 3, 1999 in the Living/Arts section
March 10, 1999
As a licensed mental health counselor, former cult
member, and specialist in hypnosis and cult mind control issues,
I was disappointed in the Globe's story on the Landmark Forum ("Soul
training,'' Living/Arts, March 3).
The most basic research would yield a series of critical
articles and books. For Globe readers who might actually think their
soul can benefit from paying money to the Landmark Corporation,
I urge them to go on the Internet and do some research. I have a
link up to a consumer's Web page on awareness
trainings.
People who have undergone traumas and are having
severe problems with their lives would do better to see a trained
therapist than sit in a hotel ballroom with a hundred strangers
(many of whom are already converts) and be led, step by step, through
a regimented set of exercises by someone with no mental health counseling
training. A professional therapist will be honest and will have
no ulterior motives, such as recruiting you into a controversial
group. Caveat emptor: Let the buyer beware.
Freedomofmind.com fully supports religious
freedom and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The fact that a person’s name or group appears on our website
does not necessarily mean they are a destructive mind control cult.
They appear because we have received inquiries and have established
a file on the group.
The Freedom of Mind Resource Center Inc. was established by cult expert Steve Hassan.
