The 1967 pfal class was a mixture of plagiarized information, scriptures, stories and theatrics. Wierwille was nearly 51 years old and had spent 14 years (1953-1967) teaching this material and honing his skill of histrionics.
Wierwille inserted "zingers" into pfal via his stories.
Who could forget the story of a mother and her little boy. As the story goes..... with each passing month, she feared that something tragic would happen to little son. Wierwille builds the story with melod
YES! A thousand times, YES!
Back then, critics would say we were brainwashed, but it took decades before academic research had pinpointed how and why that was the case.
In a sense, his histrionics were intended as a form of hypnosis, to get us to reduce our resistance to his mind shaping (controlling) suggestions.