If you ever have a smidgen of any doubt that TWI was abusive, read this book. It screamed TWI all over it even though no actual groups were mentioned. I felt like writing notes all over it and highlighting half of it.
Do you have the Cambridge or Oxford wide margin edition?
O&A, that book was the ultimate in helping me to see how far gone I had gotten in TWI and how much abuse I was really living with.
It was horrifying to me to realize that there are so many other groups out there like TWI ..... enough for that book to have to be written and for so many people to relate all too well to the tactics. Thank God we're free from all that and can help identify it to help others.
After that, try reading The Cult that snapped by Karl Kohler...there's a link for it here somewhere...it's a great book...hilarious and a must read for all ex twiers.
When I read this it was just as if someone was peering into TWI and exposing all its nasty bits. It seemed as if it was about TWI. Yes, I wanted a highlighter too but decided a book on entirely yellow paper wasn't a blessing.
When I looked at the date of the copyright, it was shocking to see that it was originally written many years before and this was just an updated version.
Freeing to read - but oh, how horrifying to think that this sort of treatment has been going on ... and on ... and on ...
After that, try reading The Cult that snapped by Karl Kohler...there's a link for it here somewhere...it's a great book...hilarious and a must read for all ex twiers.
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Sushi
Do you have the Cambridge or Oxford wide margin edition?
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O&A, that book was the ultimate in helping me to see how far gone I had gotten in TWI and how much abuse I was really living with.
It was horrifying to me to realize that there are so many other groups out there like TWI ..... enough for that book to have to be written and for so many people to relate all too well to the tactics. Thank God we're free from all that and can help identify it to help others.
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Sushi -- mine is not wide margin...but it shoulda been--I have more notes to myelf in that 1 little book, than several bibles I think
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excathedra
dear outandabout, i like you so much
i started reading that book but then i gave it away
maybe i should get another one
or maybe i'll just take your word for it ;)
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After that, try reading The Cult that snapped by Karl Kohler...there's a link for it here somewhere...it's a great book...hilarious and a must read for all ex twiers.
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When I read this it was just as if someone was peering into TWI and exposing all its nasty bits. It seemed as if it was about TWI. Yes, I wanted a highlighter too but decided a book on entirely yellow paper wasn't a blessing.
When I looked at the date of the copyright, it was shocking to see that it was originally written many years before and this was just an updated version.
Freeing to read - but oh, how horrifying to think that this sort of treatment has been going on ... and on ... and on ...
There is nothing new under the sun...
There is nothing new in spiritual abuse...
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Agreed, Groucho. It is really good.
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Sushi
I would venture to say, abuse is abuse, 'spirtual' or otherwise.
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