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SergeStorms
(20,818 posts)And she never seems to know when to stop talking.
Farmer-Rick
(12,786 posts)"The Director for Corporate Affairs of Lifespring, Charles "Raz" Ingrasci, had also worked at est to promote a mission to the USSR and the Hunger Project. Ingrasci is now President of the Hoffman Institute, an organization founded in 1967 and also part of the human potential movement which offers programs which are similar to Lifespring's."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespring
Sounds like the Hunger Project is a a bit of a scam too.
"IN 1977, EST GURU Werner Erhard had a vision: He was going to end world hunger by 1997. To that end, he started the Hunger Project, a nonprofit that quickly picked up celebrity sponsors including John Denver, Valerie Harper, and Jimmy Carters son Chip. But, as Mother Jones reported in December 1978, the group had no intention of actually feeding the starving, just raising awareness of hungerand est."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/08/hunger-artist/
Wow, it seems cult leaders never go away. They just move from one scam to another.
Handler
(339 posts)prodigitalson
(3,209 posts)Q/MAGA is a cult like entity that reinforces her already held beliefs (liberals bad). Traditionally cults cause people to jettison previous held values. So for many Q/MAGA is a cult Though this may be an academic distinction without a difference.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Hardly recognized her.
gopiscrap
(24,778 posts)FakeNoose
(42,435 posts)
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