An article by Rosemary Mahoney in the September 1998 issue of Elle details the author's experience doing The Forum. The article is typical of journalists who do one of these courses for the purpose of writing a story. It is difficult to maintain a journalist's objectivity while at the same time diving in head first into the ontological whirlpool. Yet Mahoney does an admirable and fairly even-handed job of honestly reporting her own experience. Still, this is more than an isolated incident.
Landmark is fully prepared to take the appropriate legal action.
Landmark has sued them both. We also spent a lot of time lining up pens perfectly straight on the table where guests would fill out information cards. For example, it is no longer possible for informed people or publications in the United States to pin pejorative labels on us. Apparently Rosenberg was noting that their strategy of chilling public criticism of Landmark was working. They maintain that they have been the victim of an organized smear campaign by a certain unnamed religious group and also subject to the confusion and fear that goes along with any new ideas.