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Having spent 6 years as a petty officer in the US Navy before I ever heard of TWI, and having spent 2 blocks in residence before dropping out of the Way corps, I have to agree with everything skyrider and WordWolf have written here. We had to be advanced class grads before being admitted into residence. After finishing the advanced class, I remember being a little disappointed at how little of the "other six" manifestations was taught. All we did was go over Old Testament examples, and compare what happened with the 16 keys to walking in the spirit. It was like the 16 keys to walking in the spirit were the pinnacle of spiritual teaching in TWI, and they weren't even spiritual. There was nothing more "spiritual" than that in the corps training. The in residence classes were mostly classes we'd already had, or Dale Carnegie or how to hold a toothbrush, or listening to a corps coordinator or other big-wig bloviate endlessly. It seemed the purposes of the classroom training in the corps was to keep us from spending any time thinking freely, and to keep us sleep deprived. Real teaching is a conversation. In residence classes were run like the taped classes, we couldn't ask questions or comment. The only thing we learned from in residence classes was how to sleep with our eyes open. Bad, bad BAD!!!!! Love, Steve