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[Added June 7, 2009]

During the spring 2009 there has been a bit of an exodus from EARTh... Below is a kind of a very brief historical summary.

The whole thing started with people in the German-language countries reacting negatively (and some rather strongly so) to a local meeting in January, which I didn't attend (I wasn't invited, anyway). A few left EARTh before me because of that – and when I write this, there seem to be more resignations coming.

They reported to me about their feelings and reactions and, from the information I got, I could understand them. The reasons I will not repeat here in detail, but I could only agree with them. The information I had received made me feel much the same. The leader of the discussion showed a quite dictatorial attitude and tended to impose his own views and quite materialistic (and atheistic) ideas of how he thinks a regression should be done, without due respect devaluating and criticizing how others do it.

[Added July 30, 2009]

It has now been confirmed that behind all that was what appears to be an attempt for a s-c-i-e-n-t-o-l-o-g-i-c-a-l infiltration in EARTh that I expect will now come to its end (I have written the word in that manner to avoid that a Google search for this word unnecessarily leads to this website). It has in any case been proven that a person concerned has a s-c-i-e-n-t-o-l-o-g-i-c-a-l background. Regrettably, EARTh has moved away from the spiritual aspects of regression therapy, which I consider to be essential, and there may be a connection here.

[Added January 22 and updated February 4, 2010]

The person concerned is no more a member of EARTh. It is well known that S-c-i-e-n-t-o-l-o-g-y is trying to infiltrate various activities in the society. Such as business consultant activities and others, but I have no doubt that also regression therapy activity is an attractive target for them. Maybe such a thing could happen again and one has to be careful... the danger may still be “around the corner”... It is attractive for them because somewhat related techniques are used (or abused...) in their “auditings”, even though  the way and purpose of using such techniques are “sky-wide” different. In regression therapy I consider it as important to clearly  mark a distance to that organization.

Investigating this, some insight was gained about things little known in public, wherefore I inform about it here:

There are active s-c-i-e-n-t-o-l-o-g-i-s-t-s and so called “freezoners”, who are “silent” or “underground” s-c-i-e-n-t-o-l-o-g-i-s-t-s who don't want to be recognized as such. And then, of course, there are ex–s-c-i-e-n-t-o-l-o-g-i-s-t-s and the question may then be, how much “ex” they are ... (the one more, the other less...). Other fringe organizations are “Ron’s Org” and “Excalibur”.

Then there are so called “suppressive persons”, apparently listed by the organization. Studying this concept in the Internet, it becomes quite obvious, that there will be three kinds of such persons:

- persons outside the organization with a negative attitude to it,

- persons excluded from the organizations, since they didn't follow the rules, and

- persons who secretly remain in the organizations but should not be recognized a such and are, therefore, given the disguise of being “suppressive” so that they can secretly act as a kind of agents for the organization.

[Revised May 3, 2009]

I wish to support an association which is spiritually oriented, promotes spiritual knowledge and values, and respects and furthers the spiritual aspects of regression experience and therapy as no less valuable than (the equally important) catharsis from past traumata and pain. True regression therapy also contributes to spiritual growth (not only for the client but actually also for the regressor),

I wish to support an association free from political issues, free from imposing personal views and from attempts for seeking power and monopolization towards those who think, believe and even know differently and have other experiences.

I wish to support an association that doesn’t seek to prescribe what should be done in a regression, if certain visualizations should be used, or not, certain symbolical imagery, or not, or wants us to refrain from using – let’s call it – inner aids and “symbolic assistants” like an “inner guide or counselor”, a “spiritual guide”, an “inner child”, an “inner physician”, “contact with the higher self” and the like, just because there are some who believe that this wouldn’t be scientific and would charge the client with “non-original contents”.

I wish to support an association that doesn’t want to impose a world view that some have and that way charge us with their “non-original contents” …

I wish to support an association that guards and guide-lines ethical issues only in the sense of how we deal with various methods, visualizations, imagery and “inner assistants” for the best of the client and not regard such methods themselves as ethically questionable, according to personal views and “the fashion of the day” in psychology and ideology.

I wish to support an association that doesn’t tend to boil down methods of regression experience and therapy to more or less another form of conventional psychoanalysis, shaving off all or most of the above mentioned aspects of methodology. That would in itself be a “regression” of methodology to earlier stages, mainly with the only difference that the possibility of reincarnation is included.

I wish to support an association that doesn’t in such a manner want to make regression a more materialistic process.

I wish to support an association that takes the soul (that survives the body) seriously as real, and as more real than the body, even though we cannot define the soul in scientific terms.

I want to support an association that doesn't rush new bylaws and amendments through in a condensed session at the end of the convention, when people want to go home, several members are not present and minimum time is given for thinking about them, such that members then face bylaws they at second thought don't really want. Democracy is to mail them to members well before the convention and invite comments also from those who cannot attend.

True therapy is an act of love, and it must be felt!