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The tendency to meet criticism with lawyers, for one thing. Both charge for classes, though Landmark Education, as per the name, promotes itself as a series of educational courses, not as a religion. Both operate by selling a particular philosophical outlook on life with the promise of enhanced quality of life after having completed the courses. Sources: http://www.apologeticsindex.org/l30.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Erhard (Take with a grain of salt - this seems slanted in favor of Erhard) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmark_Education http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_Werner_Erhard
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There are no aspects of Landmark that are taken from Scientology. I think the only reason that comes up as a question is that Landmark Education's courses are based on some of the ideas of Werner Erhard who 40 years ago took a couple of introductory classes from Scientology along with studying Zen Budhism, Dale Carnegie and a bunch of other stuff. Critics of Werner Erhard naturally became critics of Landmark Education and just like politics in an election year, used loose associations to imply connections where there are actually none. There is no real connection and certainly no valid comparison.
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I call bullsh*t on the top answer. Years ago, I did the Landmark Education program and shortly thereafter (while still doing it) got involved in Scientology. It wasn't until I had studied Scientology for some time that I realized ENTIRE CONCEPTS had been lifted from Scientology, some of them WORD FOR WORD, by Landmark (formerly "est"). One in particular was "service facsimiles" (of course Landmark doesn't call them that). These are ways that a person makes himself right and others wrong. Anyhoo, I have now been a Scientologist for 7+ years and couldn't be happier with myself and my life. At least L. Ron Hubbard admitted that he could have never done anything without all the pioneers before him in the fields of philosophy and science (such as Socrates and Freud). Werner Erhard just plagiarized.
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In the late 60s, Werner Ehrhard studied Scientology.Both Landmark and Scientology are about freeing a person from past problems and considerations. In Landmark, they say interpretations are the things that need to be changed. Both stress empowerment and communication. The jargon is completely different between one and the other. But yes, there are some similarities. But Landmark has changed enough from EST which also had some completely different ideas than Scientology had, to the point where the similarities have greatley decreased.
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