by StriveToScribe

Created on: February 22, 2011   Last Updated: February 23, 2011

I will use the pseudonymous, D, to refer to a close friend that became ensnared in an organization that has, to this day, isolated him from friends and family.

D was intelligent, athletic, good looking and one of my best friends from around age 16 to 30. D, by all the typical metrics of prosperity, was extremely successful. He was a practicing Dentist in his mid to late twenties. He married a woman who loved him and would have stayed with him till death. He came from a loving and supportive family and had a number of friends who respected him and admired his accomplishments.

But shockingly, D was deeply disturbed and not at peace. He was effectively lured into an organization that was founded by a Science Fiction writer. I certainly will not attempt to fully represent this organization, but please indulge while I try to enumerate some of its more salient aspects, to wit: This organization is an Eastern religion presented via a computer like jargon (data, access, retrieval, clear, etc.) It advocates engram removal. An engram is an impression stuck in your reactive mind that impedes one’s ability to make good choices in this life. They hook you up to meters to help excise these engrams. If you can rip out all your engrams, then you become clear just like a calculator that is ready to perform another computation. The ARC triangle has vertices labeled Affinity, Reality and Communication. All three of these pretty much have to be present for any two folks to get along.

All of this sounded reasonable to me and are some of the things I learned when D had me involved with this organization. Of course all of this cost D and me money at the time of our involvement. Fair enough, most endeavors have some sort of price tag. D believed that he had been institutionalized in Bedlam in a past life which he thought explained some of his problems in this life. Many people believe in reincarnation and I guess D thought the organization gave him the "retrieval skills" to "access" this information from his "time line".

At the risk of being too brief and leaving out important pieces let me conclude:

1. D gave up his dentistry practice and left a loving wife.

2. D was incommunicado with friends and family circa 15 years.

3. I have not seen/heard from him in 20 years.

4. His family bent over backwards to reestablish contact and I believe his brother    through some very clever Internet sleuthing did eventually contact D.

5. This organization has done the same thing to countless young and insecure doctors, veterinarians, dentists, and many others.

6. The organization knows that the last "obstacle to full conversion" is one's family and the organization facilitates/induces a separation between the individual and his/her family.

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