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by mindgam3 2349 days ago
If by “some” you mean the government of France, then yeah.

Another little known fact: Landmark was based on the IP from Werner Erhard’s Est seminars in the 70s, which in turn incorporated specific techniques from Scientology [1]. Some of these fun Scientology influences still exist in today’s forum trainings.

1. http://www.skepdic.com/est.html

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Of course it's based on est. I first did the Forum just after the name change. And the Six Day was still 100% est.

And yes, Werner did take some stuff from Scientology. But not the bits about ghosts of aliens nuked on Earth, millions of years ago ;)

Scientology is still probably behind many attacks on Landmark. And I wouldn't be surprised if they were part of the mess in France.