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Psychological rebirth was Jung's particular focus. Induced by ritual or stimulated by immediate personal experience, it results in an enlargement of the personality. He acknowledged that one might feel transformed during certain group experiences, but he cautioned against confusing this with genuine rebirth. One of today's 'rituals' is the training or conference world, where transformational leadership and other protocols are taught.
If any considerable group of persons are united and identified with one another by a particular frame of mind, the resultant transformation experience bears only a very remote resemblance to the experience of individual transformation. A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due to the fact that, when many people gather together to share one common emotion, the total psyche emerging from the group is below the level of the individual psyche. If it is a very large group, the collective psyche will be more like the psyche of an animal. …
… The group experience goes no deeper than the level of one's own mind in that state. It does work a change in you, but the change does not last.
--Jung, "Concerning Rebirth," CW 9i, par.225f.
From T-Groups to Six Sigma
Subversion in Personal Development & Leadership Training
Iona Miller, © 2015
* Changing your mind because of emotion is faith.
* Changing your mind because of thinking is philosophy.
* Changing your mind because of facts is science.
* Changing your mind because of manipulation is mind control.
Summary: Millions flock to group trainings and leadership programs to improve their personal lives and business acumen – to increase their personal power, adaptation, and effectiveness in the world at large. Such protocols have a long history, rooted in the dark soil of programs developed through Tavistock Institute, and spread via the T-groups of Kurt Lewin through MIT and mainstreamed through academia, the military, and the corporate world via the University of Michigan.
Such programs create what were once called "change agents", then "transformation agents", and now "subject-matter experts" who seed large groups with process-oriented change. They are presented as necessary reforms within bureaucracies to keep pace with the times. But they function as directional drivers of cultural change. Such notions arose and were spread by think tanks funded by large Foundations. Thus, ideas mediated and facilitated the consolidation of power in the hands of the few in the name of social and educational reform.
Such "sensitivity training" formed the basis of Gestalt, EST and Esalen-type therapies that are the foundation of the Human Potential Movement, personality psychology, and transpersonal therapies. Esalen never aimed at training individuals for group activity. Naturally, they produced personal value for many, but the process also has a naked underbelly that can be seen in its shadowy effect on our culture and consciousness today. This protracted revolution can be seen in the so-called "Aquarian Conspiracy" of the new age to the halls of the Pentagon.
"Effects", rather than alleged "intent", is a way to focus on the meaning and practical results of such training, and who it serves. The bottom line is that what is transformed is the paradigm, zeitgeist or worldview of the general population. It dominates business and how the world is controlled with psystrat. No one can resist what they cannot detect. The result is a metaphorical "fracking" of your brain.
A T-group or training group (sometimes also referred to as sensitivity-training group, human relations training group or encounter group) is a form of group training where participants themselves (typically, between eight and 15 people) learn about themselves (and about small group processes in general) through their interaction with each other. They use feedback, problem solving, and role play to gain insights into themselves, others, and groups.
The concept of encounter as "a meeting of two, eye to eye, face to face," was articulated by J.L. Moreno in Vienna in 1914-15, in his "Einladung zu Einer Begegnung" ("Invitation to an Encounter"), maturing into his psychodrama therapy. It was pioneered in the mid-1940s by Moreno's protege Kurt Lewin and his colleagues as a method of learning about human behavior in what became The National Training Laboratories (now NTL Institute of Behavioral Science) that was created by the Office of Naval Research and the National Education Association in Bethel, Maine, in 1947. First conceived as a research technique with a goal to change the standards, attitudes and behavior of individuals, the T-group evolved into educational and treatment schemes for non-psychiatric patient people.
A T-group meeting does not have an explicit agenda, structure, or express goal. Under the guidance of a facilitator, the participants are encouraged to share emotional reactions (such as, for example, anger, fear, warmth, or envy) that arise in response to their fellow participants' actions and statements. The emphasis is on sharing emotions, as opposed to judgments or conclusions. In this way, T-group participants can learn how their words and actions trigger emotional responses in the people they communicate with. Many varieties of T-groups have existed, from the initial T-groups that focused on small group dynamics, to those that aim more explicitly to develop self-understanding and interpersonal communication. Industry also widely used T-groups, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, and in many ways these were predecessors of current team building and corporate culture initiatives. [Wikipedia]
Networked Unconscious: The transformative process happens to all of us during the course of our lives. For most it remains unconscious [non-conscious] and takes part largely in dreams. Some intentionally try to raise it to consciousness and facilitate its unfolding, adding a meaningful sacred dimension to experience that is fulfilling and rewarding. Such work can lead to a worldview that integrates spirit and matter. The wisdom of psychological and spiritual knowledge partners with a contemporary knowledge of the physical nature of universe. Life passages or crises may precipitate radical psychological change. How we frame and relate to these changes determines if the effect is for better or worse.
Group Transformation
Worldview Warfare in Personal Development & Leadership Training
"Nothing at last is sacred but the integrity of your mind."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
"In singleness every man shall place himself above the other,
so that every man may come to himself and avoid slavery."
--Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 352.
"And you can see the marks are wising up,
standing around in sullen groups and that mutter gets louder and louder."
--William Burroughs, Nova Express
The Transformation Paradigm:
Inner Wisdom and Relational Understanding
Man must after all be changed from within; otherwise he merely assimilates
the new material to the old pattern. --Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 39-41.
Millions voluntarily flock to group trainings and leadership programs, forking out large fees to improve their personal lives and business prospects – to increase their personal power, adaptation, relationships, and effectiveness at work and in the world at large. Few realize the pernicious history of such self-development training with its "missionary zeal." The least effect is letting powerful sociopaths tell us what makes us happy. As the saying goes, those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
People may be born with different traits and capacities that suit them for leadership. Unfortunately, many of these qualities are shared with psychopaths, whose charming and aggressive ploys help them rise to the top of their chosen fields. Learning a skill is not mastering one and can imply most leaders are born, not made. You cannot teach charisma. Vision and persuasion are arts we cannot implant. Leaders rise to a challenge, but narcissistic, monetary or political secondary-gains may be involved.
Many well-meaning people have participated enthusiastically in variations of "sensitivity training" and group relations. We need to recognize the 'paradigm war' to own the shadow side of the group method to grasp where these ideas come from. Those forced into training sessions are less zealous. Spoken and written language is a technology that changes how we think about the world. Social groups are a high-leverage force for influencing behavior.
The Frankfurt School/Tavistock/T-group axis turned Eros into a weapon against democracy and the nuclear family, steering a paradigm shift toward a "politically correct," hypersexualized tyranny of tolerance, with dehumanizing drugs, sex, and violence. (Steinberg) Thus, metaphysics, as alternative spiritual practice, is introjected as antidote to "a longing for certainty." This stage is characterized by an expansion of consciousness after a crisis in development.
In "The Joyful Wisdom" (1887), Nietzsche pointed out that "Belief is most desired, most pressingly needed, where there is a lack of will. . … When a man arrives at the fundamental conviction that he requires to be commanded, he becomes 'a believer'. Reversely one could imagine a delight and a power of self-determining, and a *freedom* of will, whereby a spirit could bid farewell to every belief, to every wish for certainty, accustomed as it would be to support itself on slender cords and possibilities, and to dance even on the verge of abysses. Such a spirit would be the *free spirit par excellence*."
Traditionally, myths help us understand the world and our place in it. Myth is a means of self-discovery, like history and science. Contrasting with a pre-ordained or fundamentalist worldview, it's no 'secret' that the human relations perspective assigns human "agency" or will with the ability to change things, to alter one's life circumstances in seemingly meaningful ways. We have active desires, make plans, and carry out actions.
Unmediated experience is one way to find personal agency in our spiritual and mundane lives - self-concept, the choices we make in life, the paths we follow and their natural consequences. An agent is an individual engaging the social structure.
Agency can be unconscious, involuntary, purposeful, or goal-directed intention. Sense of agency is a pre-reflective sense of control, initiation and execution of volition, like motor movements and thoughts. But often we have no direct control over social conditions and institutions that affect our lives and well-being. Agency in Nature subsumes our pretentions to "free will", hence many influences of the environment remain profoundly non-conscious.
But the notion also functions as a 'myth of potentiality' -- a reified notion that doesn't always live up to its collective promise of limitlessness. In the social world of status quo, we are often unconscious actors, giving unwitting consent and collaboration to corrosive social pressure. Even our rebellions support the false choices of authoritarian regimes. Thus, group transformation is group trance-formation.
Emergent Change Strategies
When sensitivity training is defined as, "Psychological techniques and programs designed to change the standards, attitudes and behavior of individuals," the relationship to mass brainwashing is omitted. The formulaic group process is delivered under a variety of experiential group trainings and brands for "developing personal potential" through learning metaphors of dialogue, acquisition and participation.
Notions about skill development are rooted in beliefs about the malleability of awareness, upon which such programs are based. Some embrace the assumption that humanity is undergoing a paradigm shift in consciousness, despite the fact we know next to nothing about what 'consciousness' is. But is the paradigm a perception or a reality? Just because we routinely employ such concepts doesn't mean we shouldn't look at them critically. What experiences are considered worthwhile?
We are endlessly remaking or discovering ourselves and therefore always transforming -- neurologically, cognitively and emotionally. We make tacit assumptions about evolution, progress, collective consciousness, complexity, and why they matter. They permeate the environment, couched in religious, psychological, and new agey lingo from metaphors of "paradigm shift" and "awakening" to "ascending", and "transhumanism." This radical change in consciousness mimics the spiritual ascent to the temple at the peak of the mountain of the philosophers.
The umbrella term, "transformation," becomes the new doctrine with its own dogma and sophisticated psycho-social marketing techniques with new accountability and top-down authority structures. Since 'transformation' is about moving toward the unknown and awakening the intellect to insight and realizations, it is virtually impossible to evaluate change processes meaningfully. How do we assess authenticity, validity, and issue-oriented change? Experiential reports don't always coincide with events. The fulcrum of the process is our psychic being that includes our external nature.
What are the criteria for assessment? Correspondence between inner events and experience can be difficult to distinguish. Jean Piaget describes how, "Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality." Sensory input is transformed by cognition and experience.
Qualitative transformations change form, content and meaning. We change internal structure to adapt to changes in the environment. We structure comprehension to serve the existing cultural system. Metaphors help us understand and remember. They are our ordinary conceptual system. They are central to the origin of meaning. When they emerge they create new perspectives. But when imposed they create detours and psychic cul de sacs of imported or imposed beliefs.
There is no such thing as an unprocessed perception. Perceptions are structured by emergent gestalts (images and tropes), anchoring experience and describing global self-organizing dynamics. Language-acquisition is self-organizing. Language develops from images and tropes. Tropes help us grasp concepts and mold semantic notions which 'signify' fundamental change.
We discover, describe and grasp the world conceptually as tropes that reflect our fundamental understanding of reality and resonant patterns. Tropes shape thought, helping mind echo the world. They generate imagery with connotations. Poetic logic helps us interpret the world of our direct sensation and imaginal perception -- semantic and perceptual restructuring from comparison and contrast. Narrative organizes the structure of our experience.
Rituals help us systematically transform experience. 'Signifying', a trope, is one of those rituals. Each frame of experience is a context-dependent gestalt. Psychology has recipes for transformation. Transformation is rooted in understanding and applying a system of profound knowledge. Knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Challenging assumptions continuously is at its root. Yet, few changes are truly transformational.
Real transformation is motivated by the survival urgency to change. It means adapting the most difficult and challenging strategy because we must. Crises are experientially critical and difficult stages of transformation involving one's entire being. Completing a transformation can be a long, painful process in no way confined to a weekend workshop.
This overused and misunderstood buzzword gets bandied about in a variety of contexts and disciplines but is rarely explicitly defined. Cognitive transformation depends on successively shedding outmoded belief sets and adopting new ones. In some cases, "manufactured" or "imported" beliefs and metaphors disrupt the internal compass. A discontinuous process, it involves leaps of faith -- transforming and rediscovering meaning. The transformative promise anticipates our desire to somehow become more than we are.
Commercial claims of transformation offer orchestrated, systematic, and revolutionary overhauls for culture and the marketplace. Yet, commercialization and overuse makes it a virtually meaningless term. Governmental and educational reformers use it in the same way as new age Theosophists. Calling it a "transformation of consciousness" compounds the euphemism, implying a global revolution -- changing the boundaries of collective identity. We're taught to yearn for the supernatural blessing of the catalytic process.
"Individual consciousness is only the flower and the fruit of a season, sprung from the perennial rhizome beneath the earth; and it would find itself in better accord with the truth if it took the existence of the rhizome into its calculations. For the root matter is the mother of all things." -- C.G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation
"Hence, unless we prefer to be made fools of by our illusions, we shall, by carefully analyzing every fascination, extract from it a portion of our own personality, like a quintessence, and slowly come to recognize that we meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life." ~Carl Jung, The Practice of Psychotherapy, Page 316.
It is the responsibility of each individual to bring about their own transformation and be free to reincarnate now, to embody that transformation fully. The outer is the inner, and the inner is the outer. Lived reality is only experienced reality and is always transformed before it is experienced.
"Consciousness" means the individual, subjective, dimension of Reality. Of course in the case of nonduality, which is (an aspect of) Reality in Itself, Consciousness is no longer individual but Universal In the realm of duality however, Consciousness, as individual subjectivity, is one of the three primary perspectives, the other two being Intersubjectivity and Objectivity.
Whole Person Transformation
A perennial theme of humankind, transformation as a basic change in character, cognition, and direction has been explored in religion, psychology and art. There is individual and collective transformation. Dependence on the later erodes individuality. Rites of passage, as a summons to wisdom, can include a psychological and sacred dimension. It addresses the question of how a person finds a personal path worthy of the soul. We're taught to strive for this mythic "thing" at the physical, mental, and spiritual level. Transformation is thorough, radical and dramatic -- a power that can be deployed for good or ill.
Classically, 'transformation' describes the path from initiation to liberation from social conformity, helping us let go of the worn out to find deep dialogue with psyche, adventure and renewed life. The process is mediated by symbols and imagery. If they arise organically ego is transformed; if they are imposed ego is hijacked. Solitude is the furnace of authentic transformation. Personal growth is an individual process of self-determination. In this sense, it is incompatible with group programming. But the real self as divergent perceptions and dynamic understanding of interrelationships is dangerous to tradition, the church, the state, and the crowd.
In psychology, transformation has been curiously defined as "the procedure used when unconscious desires or urges are costumed in order to emerge in consciousness." Psychobiological transformation is a key theme in depth psychologies. It begins at the point where there is no hope and leads through overwhelming challenges, fraught with depression, fragmentation, dissociation, resistance, symptoms, pain and anxiety. We are at our most vulnerable at the threshold of transformation.
The key to personal transformation is story transformation. It is symbolic, life-changing -- a massive reorganization of attitudes, behaviors, and meaning. Metamorphosis is the classic metaphor of major life passages and restructuring. Latent potentials emerge and outworn characteristics decline. Some qualities are hidden until our true nature is revealed as a new form of life and self-identity.
Imaginal psychology urges us to move beyond the monotheistic myth of self-domination by the abstract concepts of a rational heroic ego, self, or god. James Hillman noted the ego too is an image. It makes problems to solve them with will and intentionality, but that is an illusory perspective. Consciousness is not based on concepts of ego or self, though it has been identified as such. Archetypes generate the transformational images and the universal material of myth and drama, but they bear the mark of personal and cultural conditioning. They provide archaic and timeless meaning.
Hillman dubs ego a "myth of inflation", not the secret key to the development of consciousness, but a source of fallacies, defining its literal fantasies as reality. In A Blue Fire (pg. 34), he suggests, "placing in abeyance such metaphors as: choice and light, problem solving and reality testing, strengthening, developing, controlling, progressing." He condemns new age insistence on transformation - sloughing off the old self and interpretive schemes for an idealization that is essentially another self-delusion.
Jung (CW 12, par. 32) cautioned that we must be alone to find out what it is that supports us when we can no longer support ourselves. Only this experience, he said, gives us an indestructible foundation. "Individuation and collectivity are a pair of opposites, two divergent destinies. They are related to one another by guilt." He concludes, "we must be able to stand alone vis a vis the unconscious for better or worse." (Letters, Vol 1, p. 458-459) Jung also notes, "Individuation is just ordinary life and what you are made conscious of." (Letters, Vol. 1, pg. 442) It isn't rare, but it is a move toward self-actualization or self-realization.
The path from the oblivious to self-aware life is beset with obstacles. How do we know what a genuine transformative experience is? We transform ourselves by every act of self-knowing. Jung felt that self-realization was a natural process of transformation, orchestrated by the unconscious. The infinite depth of dynamic reality informs our worldview and personal sovereignty. Such is the journey of meaningful solitude into silence, ratified by the perennial wisdom.
Krishnamurti said, "To stand alone is to be uncorrupted, innocent, free of all tradition, of dogma, of opinion, of what another says, and so on. . . .What matters is to understand for oneself, not through the direction of others, the total content of consciousness, which is not conditioned, which is the result of society, of religion, of various impacts, impressions, memories -- to understand all of that conditioning and be free of it. But there is no "how" to be free. If you ask 'how' to be free, you are not listening."
Kahlil Gibran claimed, "Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms." Yogananda suggests that self-realization is "to know truth through yourself, and not through others." Ramana Maharshi says, "your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world."
The Dalai Lama says, "With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world." Rumi was poetic: "I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul." Hermann Hesse and others, such as Thoreau, Emerson and Whitman, echo this approach in their own writings.
Hesse felt that, "We must become so alone, so absolutely alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for in our innermost soul, we know ourselves to be one with all beings."
"Transformation connotes a more-or-less dramatic shift in the context of an individual's meaning system, beyond any attempts to re-brand or commercialize the field. Real transformation takes place in the furnace of the heart. However, institutional transformation can mean an imposed or enforced social change. In McLuhan's vernacular, the "invisible" environment of new technologies creates an "erosion", not enhancement, of the conscious and unconscious -- by means of "audience as workforce." We unconsciously conform to such environments. The subconscious works on emotion. Business strategy is transformed into emotion.
Transformation is a model of a process. In this theory, personal and social transformation promotes self-actualization and compassionate service. Radical change involves new habits, range of emotions, and worldview -- concerns, interests, goals, ambitions, and behaviors. A reordering of values can change the basis of self-identity. Significant transformation can mean a radical reorganization of one's identity, meaning, and purpose in life -- a turning point -- transformations of earlier worldviews. Embodied transformation sustains over time. Wisdom to know the difference between one's ego and one's Self is embodied in your individuality.
Or, does holistic repatterning just mean structural transformation of old elements into a new configuration in the internal landscape -- a restructuring of psychic space? Only a profound change in structure creates something new. Infiltrated consciousness is such a result, changing how we perceive the world and act on those perceptions.
Organizational strategies and state or corporate coercive transformation don't serve the individual. For them, imposed transformation means collaborative, consultative, directive and coercive manipulations. Ultimately, it means international competition and state formation. The state exerts coercion for control.
Covertly Overt
Transformation is qualitative change. What really gets transformed is meaning, ideology, and worldview -- the conceptual field. True meaning arises with value-freedom -- a polytheism of worldviews with competing systems of meaning, knowledge, nature and metaphysics. "Believers" choose without justifying the universal validity of their convictions. Incompatible thoughts become compartmentalized by intellectual sacrifice -- loss of integrity for a social role (persona).
Fixating on self-deluding ideas, or contentment in shared delusions, can also simulate 'transformation.' Thus, we learn to ignore the factual relations of "things" and focus on the conceptual relationships of problems -- a renovation of problem-history, including a reconceptualization of disenchantment. Disenchantment, the fate of our times, raises questions about how we relate facts to values and boundaries, focusing on affinities and disjunctions.
Conceptual disjunctions serve the strategic aims of historical actors. Perhaps the biggest disjunction lies on the "social engineering" - "nobody is in charge" spectrum. Social engineering only works in the mid-range of that field, while chaos and self-organization dominate the extremes. Momentous unforeseen events emerge from seemingly trivial initial conditions. Foreboding problems still loom at the systemic planning level.
Engineered Outcome
Esoteric epistemologies are based on modifications of reason-faith-gnosis. But how do we "know what we know"? In many cases it can only be expressed metaphorically, moving from the supposedly known into the unknown territory, describing what it is "like". These epistemological metaphors and analogies are part of our dreambodies, new realms of possibility and action. Dreams supply a fresh source of authentic feelings.
Metaphors create realities in our conceptual system. We relate emotionally to the notion of 'transformation' in typical metaphors, such as from being asleep to awakening. At best, they are "as if" realities. Classical metaphors of transformation include death to rebirth, darkness to enlightenment, fragmentation to wholeness, journey to destination (arriving; homecoming), and organic unfolding. In the master narrative, we are travelers, or miners, or ascender/descenders.
The fundamental assumption is that higher knowledge can be achieved by those who seek it. Disenchantment arises from rationalization, intellectualization and evidential discourse. The disenchanted mentality is the hallmark of bureaucracy and governance, which support the technology of production, social ordering and management of nature. This ideological superstructure creates a hunger for re-enchantment that can be channeled for its political or corporate ends.
Knowledge and experience create a feedback loop. Perspective transformation is cognitive and emotional. Transformation of meaning is linked to therapeutic change, a modification of behavior by modifying attitudes and beliefs. It is also linked to large scale infiltration of professional and social lives, recruitment, and methodical conditioning in the name of improving personal skills. In 1967, Marshall McLuhan suggested, "all of us have become the unwitting workforce of social change."
John Rawlings Rees developed the prototype Tavistock Method for "psychologically controlled environments" to manipulate participants with peer pressure. Despite the nondirective rhetoric, managers provide the perception and conditioning -- replacing external restraint with internal compulsion. "Psychotechnologies" induce trance states and encourage dissociation. Individuals are vulnerable to 'soft' social technologies as well as the hardware of communications systems and digital life. Emotional states transfer through emotional contagion, with peer pressure echoing "audience as workforce."
Exploiting Your Unconscious
Reducing defensiveness erodes self-integrating preferences of self-identity. Myths develop around the cult of leadership when it is actually the followers who follow. In many cases, they would be fired if they didn't. Myths of "transformational culture" and "regenerative society" center around redefining "planetary citizenship" with positive and negative pressure. Digital identity was an airbag promise of existence in multiple dimensions with boundless potential. It seems the more we communicate, the more superficial it becomes.
Knowledge is transformed into or through experience deemed valuable or meaningful. The world seems full of possibilities because of a strong sense of rediscovered meaning. If the collective unconscious is our source of knowledge, strength, and inspiration, it is also the source of utter nonsense and self-delusion. Surface spirituality is simply materialism in disguise, especially when teaching it drives a branded method or personality cult. Busting the myth of spiritual meritocracy is a political and spiritual imperative.
Without discrimination, unconscious responses can be turned against an individual into a twisted perception of reality in which the apparent description is its virtual opposite. In a crowd we become dehumanized by anonymity, suggestibility, contagion, and disinhibited behavior. "Transformation of beliefs" has not led to a sustainable or just society. It has led to "design principles" at best and "social engineering" at worst.
This includes the lie of corporate spirituality to justify power grabs and bourgeois spirituality to mollify wealthy housewives who parrot "the secret" of Pollyanna positivity and ersatz "love" -- confounding a rich spiritual life with a rich material life. Beliefs may or may not create your reality, and negative self-talk isn't healthy, but neither are "trendy" introjected beliefs, pre-packaged for ready consumption at a price.
Transformation also involves the ego's journey through a symbolic death/rebirth process -- cultivated renewal through contact with the depths. In short, whether spiritual or non-religious, it is a "conversion experience," promising to melt us down and refashion a collective synthesis. Conversion involves inputs, intermediate experience, and modified output of the meaning system.
But that process can be co-opted merely to increase the conformity of "groupthink." It is accomplished by breaking down or symbolically "killing" the old ego and self-image with cultish conversion to a deviant perspective. Buzzwords pepper the narrative. Those eager to be part of the coercive group may betray their own nature, becoming "colonized."
Rambo (1993) described a seven-stage model to study and identify the process of spiritual transformation. The seven "stages" are: context, crisis, quest, encounter, interaction, commitment, and consequences. Rambo suggests that during these processes "relationships, rituals, rhetoric, and roles interact and reinforce one another." Lofland and Skonovd (1981) describe six conversion "types" or "motifs":
1. INTELLECTUAL: A private, intellectual investigation into a religious faith that results in a spiritual transformation. Generally, the individual experiences little or no external pressure or influence from "believers."
2. MYSTICAL: This "motif" is marked by high emotional intensity, even trauma at times with a brief period of physical stress followed by a cathartic event, demarcated by a high level of emotional arousal followed by an active intensification of belief and practice.
3. EXPERIMENTAL: Those on a quest for meaning and divine inspiration frequently "try out" an eclectic mix from the spiritual supermarket, searching for "truth."
4. AFFECTIONAL: The key element in this "motif" is a personal attachment to a mentor, teacher, practicing believer or believers. A personal and emotional relationship with another person or a group is central to transformation.
5. REVIVALISM: Ecstatic arousal in a group or collective context that has a transforming effect on the individual is the central element of this "motif."
6. COERCIVE: A relatively rare "motif," this type includes brainwashing, cultic and coercive persuasion marked by intense pressure. http://www.metanexus.net/archive/spiritualtransformationresearch/research/pdf/STSRP-LiteratureReview2-7.PDF
Utopian ideas are rooted in the hope that this hypothetical shift in collective awareness will rescue civilization from its economic and ecological predicament. The paradigm shift or new perspective is therefore presented as a "salvific" formula as well as worldview. It is adaptive self-overcoming.
Many individual and collective approaches have been suggested for raising awareness, but numerous obstacles form roadblocks to such idealistic transformation. Who decides which transformations are admissible, which cross the line, and which are trickster transgressions? "Regression in the service of the group" becomes necessary and seemingly adaptive, especially where participation is mandatory.
Researchers report that T-groups show such regression, conflicts, anxiety, and dissociation -- sometimes to the point of hallucinations, delusions, and loss of space-time orientation. They become the transformers and arbiters of human character. But the end result is more homogenization than individuation, because it comes with historical baggage and a political agenda aimed at cultural transformation. Under any brand name, techno-social engineering is emotional engineering that increases tolerance for manipulation, maladaption and dissociation.
Transformation can be imposed. The game is purposefully rigged to reinforce the illusion of free will. Transformational leadership means the leader identifies the needed change, creates a vision to guide the change through inspiration, and executes the change with the commitment of the members of the group. T-groups facilitate the process by manipulating behavior patterns for organizational or institutional transformation needs.
Seeing through the Game
Few bother to question the origin of such redemptive notions. Many of these issues were introduced to the public in the works of Carl Jung. But in Civilization in Transition, even he said, "It is all very fine to be swept along on a tide of enthusiasm, but one cannot enthuse indefinitely. Enthusiasm is an exceptional-state, and human reality is made up of a thousand vulgarities . . .If good can come of evil self-interest, then the two sides of human nature have cooperated. But when in a fit of enthusiasm we begin with the good, our deep-rooted selfishness remains in the background, unsatisfied and resentful, only waiting for an opportunity to take its revenge in the most atrocious way."
"Community at all costs, I fear, produces the flock of sheep that infallibly attracts the wolves."Man's moral endowment is of so dubious a nature that a stable condition seems possible only when every sheep is a bit of a wolf and every wolf a bit of a sheep. The truth is that a society is more secure the more the much maligned instincts can, of their own accord, start off the counterplay of good and evil. "Pure good" and "pure evil" are both superhuman excesses." (Jung)
Control Variables
Integral theory contends that the once unbridgeable chasm between spirit and matter is closing. Quantum physics has changed our view of matter as solid, objective, and obvious to a view that is more complex and includes a possible role for consciousness in manifesting reality. Unlike previous spiritual realizations, the supramental realization claims to have the power to unify spirit and matter and usher in a life divine on earth. Yet redemption remains more elusive than rhetoric.
Even today, new age marketers tout "Conscious Agents -- people like you who give voice to the transformational culture that is shaping our collective future." If the proof is in the pudding, we have yet to see tangible results from group processing that exceed material gain and self-delusion. Krishnamurti did not believe in psychological evolution at all. He denied the notion of "becoming better" due to time or intention.
You and I realize that we are conditioned. If you say, as some people do, that conditioning is inevitable, then there is no problem; you are a slave, and that is the end of it. But if you begin to ask yourself whether it is at all possible to break down this limitation, this conditioning, then there is a problem . . . .The fact is that we are conditioned, and that all thought to understand this conditioning will always be partial; therefore there is never a total comprehension, and only in total comprehension of the whole process of thinking is there freedom. (J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life)
Our transformational fantasies may just be mental arrogance and spiritual immaturity. In the evolutionary sense, we still walk on all fours. How can we become suprahuman without first becoming more fully human, especially if "the wolf" guards the door -- or is it now "the portal"? Ancient wisdom finds itself in an uneasy marriage with modern management science, triangulated by an elitist agenda. In the quest for understanding, who profits?
Protocols for ferreting out and morphing unconscious personal and group dynamics have a long history. They are rooted in the dark soil of models developed through the Tavistock Institute. In the 1940s, British psychoanalyst Wilfred R. Bion conceived the Tavistock Method to influence groups as entities. Bion claimed the group unconsciously allocates particular functions to particular individuals in order to have its covert emotional needs met. But it is not necessarily benign or growth promoting. The method of institutionalizing groupthink and consumerism is attached to a globalist agenda spanning decades.
This social-engineering approach was exported to the American Tavistock clone -- the A.K. Rice (AKRI) Institute for the Study of Social Systems. Rice and his colleagues at the Tavistock Institute in London held their first conference in 1957. They focused on studying authority and the dynamics of institutional life. AKRI describes Group Relations as "a powerful and unique method for understanding how our unconscious thoughts and feelings significantly impact our lives when we are in groups; from family to workplace to nation." They claim "dazzling insights into the complex mysteries of the human psyche" for their "40-year old" technology.
At the core of group relations work is an event known as the Group Relations Conference. This is an intensive participatory process that provides participants the opportunity to study their own behavior as it happens in real time without the distractions of everyday social niceties and workplace pressures and protocols. In this unique environment, many often hidden aspects of our ways of being and working are brought to light and more consciously considered in terms of what supports our effectiveness and what detracts from it. Participants in our experiential conferences often report "ah ha" moments that can last for days, months or years. http://akriceinstitute.org/
Social Unconscious
Tavistock invented think tank and conference culture as part of their Great Plan agenda to influence politicians, educators, military, and corporate leaders. Culture functions as our "operating system". They spread their Executive Leadership program for communication, consulting and change management through National Training Laboratories within conference settings and in the workplace.
In this model the group functions on two levels: conscious and unconscious, Bion's "work group" and "basic assumption group." The "work group" focuses on the task of the group, using available resources to accomplish its stated goals. The "basic assumption" group functions as a group defense against anxiety, using behaviors motivated by unconscious dynamics to address the group's needs for security, dependency, and affection.
The Method targets unconscious organizational behavior for modification, as well as the relationship between the individual and larger systems. It helps distinguish what we think we are doing from what is going on, including the unrecognized and disavowed shadow and group shadow -- the hidden reality of emotionally-based interpersonal conflict. The Method facilitates behind-the-scenes management. All group behavior includes individual perceptions of reality as well as conscious and unconscious interactions of all those present. Defensive group cultures can be homogenized, institutionalized, or autocratic. Is it group relations or dupe-relations?
Group sessions are presented as a "sanctuary" where such issues can be aired, relieving chronic conflict. The shadowy world of interactive group dynamics includes: social defense systems, authoritarianism, conformity, collective disturbance, traumatic reenactment, groupthink, responsibility, scapegoating, projecting, alliances, circular causality, role lock and engulfment, assumptions, peer pressure, fight/flight, energy levels, gossip, narcissistic wounds, dependency, boundaries, collusion, fantasy systems, behavioral paradox, dysfunctional and destructive subsystems.
Ignored, they gain power. Similar dynamics drive family systems and social microcosms. The social system can be a defense against depression and persecutory anxiety, or the very opposite. The Method itself has a shadow-side. Critics claim that such training doesn't sensitize anyone to the feelings and ideas of others. It is really crafted to change everyone's attitudes, standards and beliefs. Peer pressure finally wears people down until they conform to the mentality and views of the group.
Behavioral Science Paradigm
Kurt Lewin combined Freudian trauma theory with behavioral programming. From 1946, his Training Groups (T-groups) mainstreamed such ideas from MIT and National Training Laboratory. Edgar Schein was NTL's expert on brainwashing. When he helped repatriate American prisoners of war, he learned that peer pressure -- not drugs, hypnosis, conditioning or even torture -- was the most powerful tool for leveraging change, especially in isolation.
Subsidized by the Office of Naval Research, change agents penetrated academia and the corporate world via the National Education Association and the University of Michigan. They percolated all the way down to the growth seminars in your own neighborhood or Tiny Town. There are many group process theories and interventions. The net effect of independent training groups is a decentralized autonomous organization, whose effects have no single source or direction. The self-organizing network field forms numerous autonomous centers.
NTL still promotes "self-awareness". For $3000 they will help you process your "unresolved issues."
This advanced workshop is an intensive personal growth experience focusing on the vital elements of the influence process – awareness of self (moving toward emotional maturity and wholeness) and being your essential self. The learning process utilized in NTL's Self Awareness and Being, while largely intrapersonal in scope, employs both cognitive and experiential methods enabling you to use thinking and feeling, as well as introspection and interaction. During this workshop, you will turn inward in your search for greater self-awareness. Being in a community of other self-seekers will empower you to better understand and integrate rejected aspects of yourself (i.e. the child, the shadow, etc.) and to uncover and release limiting beliefs and feelings, thereby enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness. You will emerge with a better understanding of your own patterns of behavior and how to facilitate getting out of your own way. http://www.cvent.com/events/self-awareness-and-being-september-29-october-2-2014/event-summary-9f5dad2f2b83470cacdf3e67e630c0b0.aspx
Critics allege that these controversial group manipulation techniques mimic brainwashing tactics. The government gold-standard was the Six Sigma program. Six Sigma is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It is about quality control not personal development -- about products, not people. It was developed by Motorola in 1986. In 1995 it became the business strategy at General Electric. By the late 1990s, about two-thirds of Fortune 500 organizations used Six Sigma to reduce costs and improve quality. It is still used in many industrial sectors. But it's more of a management fad -- "process excellence" -- than a self-development training.
Such programs create what were once called "change agents", then "transformation agents", and now "subject-matter experts," or even color-coded belted "ninjas" who perform organizational diagnosis and seed large groups with process-oriented change. Meanwhile personality cults, social seminars and conferences adapted their strategies aimed at individuals for their own ends. Facilitators help participants experience group-based opportunities to study their own behavior. But is this transformation or imposed role implementation? How about when applied to corporate gamesmen with a relentless desire to win?
Such techniques don't seem toxic on the surface. They are presented as necessary reforms within bureaucracies to keep pace with the times. But they function as pacification and directional drivers of cultural change. Such notions arose in and were spread by globalist think tanks funded by large Foundations. Thus, ideas mediated and facilitated the consolidation of power in the hands of the few in the name of social reform.The term 'smart power' was coined to complement U.S. military and economic might with greater investments in soft power. Government and foundations subsidized group relations training as a form of psychological warfare.
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"Think tanks function as the intellectual engines of empire: they establish consensus among elites, provide policy prescriptions, strategic recommendations, and the personnel required to implement imperial policies through government agencies." --A.G. Marshall, "Engineering Empire," 2013
"In singleness every man shall place himself above the other, so that every man may come to himself and avoid slavery." --Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 352.
"The group is greater than and different from the sum of its parts." --Kurt Lewin
Groups for Growth
Douglas McGregor wrote The Human Side of Enterprise (1960). He developed a humanistic (anti-authoritarian) management theory of "sensitivity training". This happened at Berkeley under the Industrial Relations Institute, which combined labor-management relations with community service. It evolved into OBIR (Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations).
They brought NTL to UCLA in 1954, forming the Western Training Lab. Other new developments came from Western Behavioral Science Institute (WBSI) in La Jolla, California. Encounter groups are the most effective way to manage social change by manipulating peer pressure. "Sensitivity training" formed the basis of humanistic psychology, Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, EST and Esalen-type therapies that are the foundation of the Human Potential Movement, personality psychology, and transpersonal therapies.
They echoed the occult potential described far earlier in the Corpus Hermeticum. The promise of "infinite potential" is the mental health equivalent of the promise of the equally elusive "free energy" of vacuum physics. But what is presented as therapy is actually social engineering, no matter how "nondirective" the processing designed to catalyze personal transformation claims to be. Catharsis can be healing, cleansing, and transformative; it can also be toxic, as the Milgram Experiment shows. A stress breakdown is also a transformational experience.
Esalen recruited staff members from NTL who made bolder experiments in radical confrontation with encounter groups than they had previously by extending the time-frames. Encounter became overwhelmingly popular and pushed out some other modalities, while encouraging psychotropic drug use for individual repatterning. Carl Rogers claimed that, "...encounter groups lead to more personal independence, fewer hidden feelings, more willingness to innovate, more opposition to institutional rigidities."
Esalen was the counterculture vanguard -- a heady mix of existentialism, hedonism, exaggerated emotionalism, unbridled narcissism, and the psychology of rebellion. But by 1967, there were misgivings. "[Abraham] Maslow was referring to the self-actualization which encounter groups were supposed to bring about as "S. A. stuff," which had become, in turn, just part of the "Esalen-Dionysian" enterprise. One year before his death, he could now detect in all of these activities the odor of "insanity and death" (May 17, 1969 journal entry)." (Jones) http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/rogers.html
Large groups (above 30-35 people) are a social matrix or groupmind that mobilizes the social unconscious: confusion, aggression, conflict. The "internet unconscious" is easily visible on any social network. Large groups work best with societal or organizational issues. Even group therapy has been criticized as pop psychology and brainwashing. Group therapists train in T-groups.
Outside the professional psychology arena, EST pioneered large group marathon awareness training (LGAT), a dynamic tactic also deployed in personality cults to wear down individual resistance and induce trace states. Naturally, many participants report subjective personal value from such seminars and "awareness centers"; others just find it manipulative and traumatic. Some report a heightened-sense of well-being even though the training systematically undermines ego functioning and promotes regression that impairs reality testing. People still want the panacea of strongly experiential transformation they have been programmed to desire.
Detractors define sensitivity training as "group meetings, large or small, to discuss publicly intimate and personal matters, and opinions, values or beliefs; and/or, to act out emotions and feelings toward one another in the group, using techniques of self-confession and mutual criticism." Such group criticism has been likened to old Soviet suppressive tactics of self-confession, relativistic values, and group consensus. It is considered by many a great threat, not an asset, to our society. The group unconscious demands your collusion with the covert and unconscious elements at work in the group.
NTL/NEA's own 1962 training manual for group leaders literally describes the method as a "coercive persuasion in the form of thought reform or brainwashing." That is either radical honesty or a self-indictment the public knows little about. Once NTL established a California division, Western Training Labs, their leadership taught group therapy sessions at Esalen.
NTL trained the trainers of government and industry. Tavistock was only interested in control, not "peak experiences." Esalen mass marketed the method to the counterculture and self-help industry. NTL was much more conservative, academically grounded, and cautious than Esalen. It was said that Tavistock groups are emotionally right wing of the NTL. They are to the NTL what the NTL is to Esalen. Together, they spanned the political spectrum. Conference and seminar culture permeated society.
The process has this naked underbelly that can be seen in its shadowy or covert effect on our consciousness and culture today. If you've seen one Encounter Group, you've seen them all. They all compete for your limited dollars in the commercial market. Only the brands change to fool the "marks" -- er, the innocent. The process remains the same, regardless of branding. The basic premise is, "change the attitudes and the behavior will follow." Thus, "leadership training" while promising inner satisfaction with outer success produces better conformists through engineered consent, persuasion, and thought-reform. It homogenizes them, like processed cheese.
Group Field Patterns
If we "chunk up" our level of observation and look at the Big Picture, we can see the delivery system of this protracted revolution – the IBM missiles aimed at the public's collective psyche. With every hit by their charismatic leader you can hear the sighs and a-ha's of the audience, who will later parrot the cognitive portion of the model to their friends. What this pre-meditated attack on the self actually facilitates is the shape-shifting of self-identity through a mock death-rebirth experience, akin to ancient initiation rites. T-groups become an anemic stand-in for a sacred rite.
Effects can be found in the so-called "Aquarian Conspiracy" of the new age with its weekend workshop junkies, desperately confessing shortcomings and hugging one another high on self-generated dopamine, endorphins, and oxytocin. The group phenomena extends up the foodchain to the mausoleum halls of the Pentagon, where adrenaline reigns supreme with the smell of team spirit.
While mandatory in some sectors, group training is largely voluntary. Is it conspiracy, or 'cons' piracy'? It's not that any one segment is willingly culpable, but the collective effect is an enforcement technology, full of misdirecting empty buzzwords like 'evaluation' and jingle slogans. To compound the problem, myths of social engineering now compete with "neuromyths" -- biased distortions of scientific fact -- distorted by the same conditions and biases presented herein. Myths and memes impact society hardest in the educational sector. "Myth-conceptions" about the brain still hamper the teaching process.
NTL deliberately created "a new kind of school teacher . . . engaged in teaching as clinical practice." Teachers "function as a responsible agent of social change" (ability to relate with, manipulate, and evaluate student behavior). "Old value systems" were modified and new ones developed. They tracked behavioral attitudes and achievements.
Teachers have been forced to attend seminars so they could use it on their students. Frequently, educational leaders worry about the ethics of deliberately setting out to change people, their ideas, their values, their skills and their relationships. What right do teachers have to try to change students and parents? How can groups and individuals be protected from manipulation?
Planned change programs are just what they claim to be. In this way, large segments of society are up- and down-regulated. Simple contagion and media mainstreams such viral notions from there.
The content of the process is less important than the result of exercising the reins of holographic control through a Utopian conference culture. It led to a competing host of psychological therapies and seminar solutions that might be likened to "putting a bandaid on a hemorrhage." It is one reason we have the "spiritual supermarket", trends in therapeutic treatment, and re-branding of well-established protocols – "old wine in new skins." Society is left to "bleed out" from worldview warfare – the Big Lie of the therapeutic state.
Looking at "effects", rather than alleged "intent", is a way to focus on the meaning and practical results of such training, and who it serves. Every practitioner is a witting or unwitting stakeholder. Naturally, there is money to be made at all stages and levels of the highly-competitive game. The bottom line is transforming the paradigm or worldview of the general population, but not for their edification – for the globalist state.
Uncertainty is the zeitgeist of our day. We are anxious and unsure. We face climate change, environmental deterioration, emerging infections and incurable viruses, pandemics, bioterrorism, wars, urban violence, soil and water depletion, rampant population growth, GMO food and organisms, hazardous waste, and profound doubts about our earth's carrying capacity. With extinctions, we wonder about our own and our grandchildren's futures, health, and well-being while blankly staring at our "vision boards", trying to wish up a better future.
We feel the impact as loss of meaning and of our cherished ideals. The American Dream is now a myth, gone the way of the dinosaur in the disposable society. This unfortunate situation dominates business and conditions how the world is controlled with psystrat. For example, Brookings Institute and satellite institutions use such techniques to concoct "national agenda" socio-political policies of the US. This is the secret face of sensitivity training that also directs educational reform and economic modeling.
No one can resist what they cannot detect. The result is a metaphorical "fracking" of your brain, swapping one pre-programmed trance-state and belief system for another – a psychological Rotorooter, tearing at your existential ground. The inverted truth of group transformation is offered as the quick-fix remedy. But the cure is the poison. The individual is merely a nodal point in the group matrix.
Inception – the Tavistock Method
In 1935, Jung revealed his notions of psychic dynamics and transformational change in his Tavistock Lectures (1960). Jung, himself, strongly believed that true transformation and meaning were found in the process of Individuation, not in any group experience, including experiential training.
"The aim of individuation is nothing less than to divest the self of the false wrappings of the persona on the one hand, and of the suggestive power of primordial images on the other." (Jung, Function of the Unconscious, CW 7, P. 269)
Eclectic therapies read like a Chinese menu with one spiritual or psychological theory or method from column A and others from B and C. They prescribe a bit of integration here, a dose of deconstruction there, paradoxically promising self-actualization by following the well-trodden [usually branded] way of another.
Jung pointed out that the numinous experience of the individuation process was the prerogative of shamans and medicine men; later, of the physician, prophet, and priest; and finally, of philosophy and religion. But inculcated dogma is the opposite of individual revelation and individual knowledge. Integration of the opposites of the conscious and unconscious is akin to initiation. Now it is in the hands of the therapists and even amateur facilitators, and "life coaches."
Jung's psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate, enslaving us to one or another principle. Individuation refers to the innate urge of life to realize itself consciously and is not related to shamanism, mysticism, gnosticism, or any other -ism. Gnosis is experiential nature, not Gnosticism. Inspiration is as natural as breathing. Individuation is the simple or complicated biological process of becoming what we are destined to be. The transpersonal life energy, in the process of creative self-unfolding, uses human consciousness, the essence of itself, as an instrument for its own self-realization. You know it as if you had given birth to it. The Way is inseparable from the person, an internal presence.
Engineering Empire
In empire building and a world of endless change, it's easier to conquer minds than space, especially in the electronic era. Jung's dynamic theories formed the basis not only of his therapeutic applications, but of a vast social-engineering scheme. NTL still promotes inner child and shadow archetype work in their sessions.
Many now know that Freud's double-nephew and Tavistock alumni, Edward Bernays applied them to the manipulation of populations with propaganda and advertising, and created the Madison Avenue consumer culture, delivered via television. Kurt Lewin brought his Frankfurt-school ideas from Tavistock to MIT and created National Training Laboratories (NTL) in 1947 to influence the influencers. Such work originated in the study of traumatic stress disorder.
Rand Corporation developed a version of the Tavistock Method, called the Delphi Technique. Initially it was a method of forecasting trends so that managers could make product-production decisions. It evolved into a process of separating supporters from detractors in small-group situations so that a predetermined consensus could be manipulated by the 'facilitator.' They predicted they could make over society in as little as 15 years.
Facilitators trained in the Delphi Technique were used to build small-group consensus. Such 'sensitivity trainers' are still trained and credentialed by over 30 various tax-exempt foundations and/or nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as well as at the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida for the U.S. military. They learn to control the time, perspective and morale of others, breaking down armor and remolding personality.
They serve as lightning rods in small groups to draw out the objections and objectors so that the target group can be manipulated toward the predetermined affirmative outcome. This is why the change agent must be an 'advocate-organizer-agitator.' The credo is 'Have the courage to change.' They rarely attempt to prescribe specifically what anyone will learn. The rhetoric never changes though the word salad gets tossed: "Be the change you want to see in the world." Yes, according to their prescription and covert agenda.
Change agents manipulate the target group to trust them by voicing mutual concerns, then breaking the larger group into small interactive groups, while profiling the weakest and the loudest opponents. To facilitate the 'group success', the 'change agent' becomes devil's advocate, questioning opposition leaders while playing on the fears of individuals with weaker convictions. A wedge is driven between them that escalates tensions, muddying goals.
The Alinsky Method is a specialized application of this 'change agent' technique, applied specifically to teachers. It is a staple of the National Education Association (NEA). In Rules for Radicals (1971), Saul Alinsky asserted that "any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the masses of people."
In the 1970s, social architects Ronald G. and Mary C. Havelock, at the University of Michigan, wrote Training for Change Agents: A Guide to the Design of Training Programs in Education and Other Fields. The Frankfurt School affiliate ISR provided financial support and text for restructuring America's educational system. What a grand job they've done. They still host the Research Center for Group Dynamics and study politics and population. Their World Values Survey conducts global seminars and conferences.
The Tavistock-Delphi-Alinsky approach to 'consensus-building' works with adults, including teachers, and school children. It works with college students, community leaders, and church groups. It works in 'leadership and ethics' programs at premier military academies. Targets rarely, if ever, know they are being manipulated or brainwashed. But what does this say about the practitioners? Jung pointed out that healthy people don't torture others; the tortured turn into torturers.
This approach was entrenched in the 'Leadership and Ethics' Department at the U.S. Naval Academy. The psychology professors trained as change agents, the provocateurs, and 'sensitivity trainers.' Such professionals implemented the same program in K-12 public school education over the past 30 years -- bit by bit, step by devious step, marching through all the institutions' of the USA.
Consultants consult only to a group, not to individual members, and only within the time boundaries prescribed. The consultant's role often is the subject of much consternation among members, which is deliberate, in the interest of assisting members to pursue the task of the event in which they are involved. The consultant does not engage in social amenities, advice giving, or nurturing, but performs his or her task by providing interventions for the group's consideration and reporting his or her observations back to the group. Thus, the consultant confronts the group by drawing attention to group behavior. This is done by means of description, process observation, thematic development, and other interventions, some of which are designed to shock the group into awareness of what is happening.
Participants typically experience some pain as they explore issues of authority, responsibility, boundaries (of input, roles, tasks and time) projection, organizational structure, and large-group phenomena.
Group members inevitably project on the staff their fantasies, fears, and doubts about authority and power. Exploration of these projections can yield significant learning but the role of the consultant is difficult. Strict adherence to it is a hallmark of the Tavistock methods. (Banet, Hayden) www.csgss.org/TheTavistockMethod.doc
APPENDIX A: Worldviews
Detecting short- and longterm "effects", rather than alleged "intent", is the only way to focus on the real meaning and practical results of such training, and who it serves. The bottom line is that what is transformed is the paradigm, zeitgeist or worldview of the general population. It dominates business and how the world is controlled with psystrat. No one can resist what they cannot detect.
Each stage represents a limited understanding and repressions until its liabilities force us into the next stage. Alternating stages are self-expressive and social. First new traits and states are emergent; then they stabilize. Our archetypal experiences can be regressions or expressions of our present highest state of development or emergent, then stabilized intuitions of still higher states. Each stage is a worldview with its own needs, belief style and existential ground. Each is its own trance state, a lens through which the world is perceived with certain distortions. Each can be a trap of complacency as we enjoy its rewards.
HELP ME (Basic Survival)
TRIBAL We (Collective Survival
GRATIFY Me (Immediate Wants)
RIGHTEOUS We (Stable Authority)
COMPETITIVE Me (Material Success)
HOLISTIC Us (Global Harmony)
INTERDEPENDENT Me (Sustainable World)
SPIRITUAL We (Collective Renewal)
Stage 1: Archaic: Survival, the Ground Zero of Existence. Self-preservation, isolation; antisocial. Paranoid or idiosyncratic beliefs. Basic Survival.
Stage 2: Tribal: Truster/Trickster. Social; love, belonging. Self-sacrifice vs. selfishness. Transgression; taboo. Ethnocentric magical and superstitious beliefs. Collective Survival.
Stage 3: Egocentric: Power; Esteem; Autonomy, heroic. Unscrupulous Competition/Hero. Shame vs. honor. Exploitation vs. Respect. Mythic beliefs. Immediate Wants.
Stage 4: Moral/Patriotic. Rules; Initiative. Shame and guilt vs. conformity and conventionality; purpose, virtue. Systematized truths. Emotional, nostalgic beliefs. Stable Authority.
Stage 5: Materialist. Reasoning; mental analysis. Rational beliefs, truth; goodness; consumerism, greed. Head vs. heart. Progressive if rewarded, compulsive, workaholic. Perspective. Rational beliefs. Material Success.
Stage 6: Wise Empath. Service, rapport, intimacy, empathy. Politically correct. Inner wisdom, meaning. Self-actualization. Intuitive, mystical beliefs. Global Harmony.
Stage 7: Distancer/Self. Paradoxical; individuated, reclusive; universalist. Deconstruction and Synthesis, gestalt, the big picture. Integral, synergetic beliefs. Sustainable World.
Stage 8: Global Village. Collective Renewal, Complex Dynamic Beliefs. Post-Metaphysical Integrative Spirituality. "Express Self Now, but not at the expense of Others or the World, so that Life May Continue." (Graves)
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Lofland and Skonovd (1981) describe six conversion "types" or "motifs":
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-group_awareness_training
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http://robertscourt.blogspot.com/2008/06/are-republicans-next-nazi-party-see.html
Tavistock Institute: Building Absolute Mind Control for the New World Order retrive - http://www.atpweb.org/jtparchive/trps-17-85-02-183.pdf
The Authoritarian Personality (New York: Harper, 1950). Authors Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson, and Sanford
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2000/2718_cybernetics_to_littleton.html
A Model of Language Development Based on Self-Organisation of Gestalts and Metaphor
David Rail, MD; FRACP
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LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration Meeting
Registration and hotel reservations are now open!
The 2020 March LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Meeting will be held Monday through Thursday, 16-19 March 2020 at the Grand Geneva Resort and Spa, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The Grand Geneva is located at 7036 Grand Geneva Way, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin about one hour drive from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and one and a half hours from Chicago. Parking is free on site. A satellite coatings workshop will be held on the afternoon of Thursday, 19 March 2020 and the LSC PI/leadership Retreat will be held on Friday, 20 March 2020 at the same location.
Attendees are strongly encouraged to stay at the Grand Geneva as a block of rooms has been reserved for this event. The conference rate in the Grand Geneva's main lodge is $109 per night. Additional reduced room rates are also available at their Villas and Timber Ridge Lodge and Water Park. Reservation information and additional details can be found under Lodging below.
Note! You will not be charged the resort fee associated with the Main Lodge, Timber Ridge or the Villas as it is waived for our group.
The Grand Geneva offers childcare at their Kids Are Grand recreational center.
14 Feb 2020: Hotel block
17 Feb 2020: Registration
A detailed program is available in the DCC; other general information is available in the LIGO wiki. The high-level structure is:
Mon, 16 March 2020:
Working group face-to-face meetings.
Public TBD at TBD in TBD.
Tue, 17 March 2020:
Reception and poster session at 18:00 in the TBD of the main lodge.
Public talk on TBD at TBD in TBD
Wed, 18 March 2020:
Plenary meeting (all day)
LSC Council Meeting (16:45-18:15)
Banquet at 19:00 in the Forum of the main lodge.
Thu, 19 March 2020:
Plenary meeting (through 13:00)
Coatings Workshop (13:00-end of day)
Operations Workshop (13:00-end of day)
Fri, 20 March 2020:
LSC PI/Leadership Retreat (08:00-15:30)
Daily sessions will be held in the Grand Geneva Convention Center. Floor plans for the meeting spaces can be found here.
Breakfast, lunch and snack breaks will be provided Monday through Thursday of the meeting. Please provide details on the registration form if you have any dietary restrictions or require other accommodations. (Note that feedback from last year has been taken seriously and there will be improved options.) The Grand Geneva offers several on-site restaurant options, including cafes and lounges, for other meals.
Free WiFi is available throughout the Grand Geneva and during the meetings. See the LIGO wiki for more information.
The Grand Geneva offers a variety of recreational facilities including a waterpark, skiing (snow permitting), and a spa. Childcare is available at the Kids Are Grand recreational center.
Early Bird Registration is $535 now through January 8. General Registration is $585 after January 8 and through February 17. Late Registration is $625 after February 17, 2020. Registration covers: breakfast, lunch, and snacks each day; a banquet dinner on Wed, 18 March 2020; audio-visual rentals; supplies and other miscellaneous expenses.
If you need a letter of invitation to the meeting for visa purposes, please email cgca-events@uwm.edu.
Please book rooms at reduced rates at the Grand Geneva, Villas or Timber Ridge Lodge by February 14, 2020. You can book your lodging through one of the following methods:
Online via the direct link
Grand Geneva
Online via the Grand Geneva website
Grand Geneva, Group Code: 771JL
Timber Ridge, Group Code: 771JL
By phone to the Grand Geneva Registration Office 262.248.8811. Mention the LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA Collaboration Meeting
The Grand Geneva Resort amenities can be found here. An on-property shuttle service is available between the different lodging properties.
Airport access: The meeting venue is The Grand Geneva Resort and Spa, 7036 Grand Geneva Way, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, U.S.A. [map.] It is located about one hour drive from Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport (MKE), one and a half hours from Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD).
Ground transportation:
Lyft and Uber ride-share may be the most economical transportation from both Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport (MKE) to the Grand Geneva Resort, especially if you share with others.
Airport shuttle service options are available through the Grand Geneva's online booking system, which partners with Go Riteway. Participants may want to group together to keep the cost down.
Car rental is available at both airports. Parking is free on site and electric car charging stations are available. Here are links to driving directions from MKE and from ORD. If using a GPS navigation system or other online direction source, please use 7020 Grand Geneva Way as the destination address. Upon arrival, continue past Timber Ridge Lodge and Waterpark and proceed to the Lodge at Grand Geneva, located on the right hand side of Grand Geneva Way.
Travel Security: U.S. Transportation Security Administration's air travel security rules remain in effect.
Explore Lake Geneva for it's winter activities, museums, tours, and shopping.
Bank/ATM - Chase Bank, 426 Center St., Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Gas/Petrol Station - Mobil Station, 350 N. Edwards Blvd., Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Pharmacy - Walgreens, 351 N. Edwards Blvd, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Grocery Store - Piggly Wiggly, 100 E. Geneva Square, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
General Store - Walmart Supercenter, 201, S. Edwards Blvd., Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (OPEN 24 HOURS)
Post Office - 672 W. Main St., Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Urgent Care - Aurora Health Center, 146 E. Geneva Square, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Emergency Room - Mercyhealth Hospital and Medical Center, N2950 State Road 67, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin at Highways 50 and 67
Contact Heidi Matera at cgca-events@uwm.edu / +1-414-229-4960 with questions.
The Leonard E Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics is supported by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the UW-Milwaukee College of Letters and Science, and the UW-Milwaukee Graduate School.


As good walking country as to be found anywhere? Your description of skiing the tops, skittering down Swirral Edge with axe and crampons, pacing on the Bob Graham round, the hot descent sums up what this range offers year round. Popular yes, and justifiably so. I'm currently in the Pyrenees, but looking forward to a return to the wonderfully accessible Lakeland fells.


Cesar Markovic who has previously taken 3 different college programs to the NCAA College Cup with attempt to turn the trick with a 4th team, the Siena Saints mens soccer program.
Markovic was named the 7th coach in the programs history in a presser on Thursday. Markovic has 17 years of head coaching experience. he has previously coached at NJIT, Stony Brook, Saint Peters,and division 111 Hunter College.
His programs have appeared in 4 NCAA tournaments.
Markovic has spent the last 2 seasons at NJIT ( New Jersey Institute of Technology). Markovic began his coaching career at Hunter College and led his teams to the conference title all 5 of his years there.
At Saint Peters, Markovic led that squad to the most wins in school history, 18,in 2003 and was named MAAC coach of the year for his accomplishments. St Peters had gone the previous 10 years without reaching double digits in wins.
Last season Siena went 10-7 overall and 6-1 in MAAC play. He is a native of Queens, NY and is married with 4 kids.


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Квасково — деревня в Весьегонском муниципальном округе Тверской области.

География
Деревня находится в северо-восточной части Тверской области на расстоянии приблизительно 20 км на запад по прямой от районного центра города Весьегонск.

История
Известна с начала XVII века как поместье Петра Фёдоровича Зверева, а к 1627 году на правах вотчинной деревни с 6 дворами перешла к Никифору Степановичу Ренёву. Дворов было 9 (1859 год), 7 (1889), 35 (1931), 44 (1963), 32 (1993), 22 (2008),. До 2019 года входила в состав Ёгонского сельского поселения до упразднения последнего.

Население
Численность населения: 74 человека (1859 год), 104(1889), 237 (1931), 145(1963), 64(1993), 51 (русские 100 %) в 2002 году, 41 в 2010, 0 (2017).

Примечания

Населённые пункты Весьегонского района

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package statsd

import (
	"net"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"math/rand"
	"time"
)

type StatsdClient struct {
	Host string
	Port int
	conn net.Conn
}

/**
 * Factory method to initialize udp connection
 * Usage:
 *
 * import "statsd"
 * client := statsd.Net('localhost', 8125)
 **/
func New(host string, port int) *StatsdClient {
	client := StatsdClient{Host: host, Port: port}
	client.Open()
	return &client
}

/**
 * Method to open udp connection, called by default client factory
 **/
func (client *StatsdClient) Open() {
	connectionString := fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", client.Host, client.Port)
	conn, err := net.Dial("udp", connectionString)
	if err != nil {
		log.Println(err)
	}
	client.conn = conn
}

/**
 * Method to close udp connection
 **/
func (client *StatsdClient) Close() {
	client.conn.Close()
}

/*
 * Log timing information (in milliseconds) without sampling
 * Usage:
 *
 * import "statsd"
 * import "time"
 * client := statsd.New('localhost', 8125)
 * t1 := time.Now()
 * expensiveCall()
 * t2 := time.Now()
 * duration := int64(t2.Sub(t1)/time.Millisecond)
 * client.Timing("foo.time", duration)
 **/
func (client *StatsdClient) Timing(stat string, time int64) {
	updateString := fmt.Sprintf("%d|ms", time)
	stats := map[string]string{stat: updateString}
	client.Send(stats, 1)
}

/**
 * Log timing information (in milliseconds) with sampling
 * Usage:
 *
 * import "statsd"
 * import "time"
 * client := statsd.New('localhost', 8125)
 * t1 := time.Now()
 * expensiveCall()
 * t2 := time.Now()
 * duration := int64(t2.Sub(t1)/time.Millisecond)
 * client.TimingWithSampleRate("foo.time", duration, 0.2)
 **/
func (client *StatsdClient) TimingWithSampleRate(stat string, time int64, sampleRate float32) {
	updateString := fmt.Sprintf("%d|ms", time)
	stats := map[string]string{stat: updateString}
	client.Send(stats, sampleRate)
}

/**
 * Increments one stat counter without sampling
 * Usage:
 *
 * import "statsd"
 * client := statsd.New('localhost', 8125)
 * client.Increment('foo.bar')
 **/
func (client *StatsdClient) Increment(stat string) {
	stats := []string{stat}
	client.UpdateStats(stats, 1, 1)
}

/**
 * Increments one stat counter with sampling
 * Usage:
 *
 * import "statsd"
 * client := statsd.New('localhost', 8125)
 * client.Increment('foo.bar', 0.2)
 **/
func (client *StatsdClient) IncrementWithSampling(stat string, sampleRate float32) {
	stats := []string{stat}
	client.UpdateStats(stats[:], 1, sampleRate)
}

/**
 * Decrements one stat counter without sampling
 * Usage:
 *
 * import "statsd"
 * client := statsd.New('localhost', 8125)
 * client.Decrement('foo.bar')
 **/
func (client *StatsdClient) Decrement(stat string) {
	stats := []string{stat}
	client.UpdateStats(stats[:], -1, 1)
}

/**
 * Decrements one stat counter with sampling
 * Usage:
 *
 * import "statsd"
 * client := statsd.New('localhost', 8125)
 * client.Decrement('foo.bar', 0.2)
 **/
func (client *StatsdClient) DecrementWithSampling(stat string, sampleRate float32) {
	stats := []string{stat}
	client.UpdateStats(stats[:], -1, sampleRate)
}

/**
 * Arbitrarily updates a list of stats by a delta
 **/
func (client *StatsdClient) UpdateStats(stats []string, delta int, sampleRate float32) {
	statsToSend := make(map[string]string)
	for _,stat := range stats {
		updateString := fmt.Sprintf("%d|c", delta)
		statsToSend[stat] = updateString
	}
	client.Send(statsToSend, sampleRate)
}

/**
 * Sends data to udp statsd daemon
 **/
func (client *StatsdClient) Send(data map[string]string, sampleRate float32) {
	sampledData := make(map[string]string)
	if sampleRate < 1 {
		r := rand.New(rand.sampleRateNewSource(time.Now().Unix()))
		if rNum := r.Float32(); rNum <= sampleRateate {
			for stat,value := range data {
				sampledUpdateString := fmt.forSprintf("%s|@%f", value, sampleRate)
				sampledData[stat] = sampledUpdateString
			}
		}
	} else {
		sampledData = data
	}

	for k, v := range sampledData {
		update_string := fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s", k, v)
		_,err := fmt.Fprintf(client.conn, update_string)
		if err != nil {
			log.Println(err)
		}
	}
}

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Young and The Restless Spoilers: A Dangerous Alliance Is Exposed, Revelation To Rock Genoa City
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By Chrissie Marie	 Last updated Feb 9, 2019
"Young and the Restless" (Y&R) spoilers tease that a dangerous alliance will be exposed and rock Genoa City during the week of February 11. The scoop doesn't reveal who the alliance is, just that an alliance will shock the residents of GC. Here's what we know about this storyline.
Phyllis Is In The Hot Seat
The Newmans have their eyes on Phyllis (Gina Tognoni). They know that she thinks she has a score to settle with Victor Newman (Eric Braeden). It all stems from Victor hiring Jack Abbott's (Peter Bergman) doppelganger to impersonate him. Marco Annicelli (also Peter Bergman) stepped into Jack's life and no one knew except Victor. It finally came out that Victor arranged for him to get out of prison. Phyllis felt violated and taken advantage and she blamed it all on Victor.
Phyllis' rage is understandable, but she is letting it consume her. Rather than moving on and accepting what happened, she is focused on getting back at Victor. She tried to bring Sharon Newman (Sharon Case) into the drama, but she refused. She did not want to be part of it.
Who Is The Dangerous Alliance?
Most Young and the Restless fans assume that the dangerous alliance must be Phyllis but the writers are trying to fool us, most likely. It will probably be someone we are not expecting. Most fans believe that Rey (Jordi Vilasuso) will be part of it somehow. He seems so hellbent on nailing Victor, he could decide to break the law to make it happen. That sounds very—Mark Fuhrman-ish, doesn't it?
For those who don't know who Mark Fuhrman is, he was the lead detective who planted evidence again OJ Simpson after he was accused of killing Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.
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