Beyond Jonestown: Sensitivity Training' and the Cult of Mind Control

by Ed Dieckmann

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939482029
• ISBN13: 9780939482023
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Legion for the Survival of Freedom
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

"Team Building", anyone?

A well thought-out analysis that does not relegate Jonestown to a "bunch of stupid people" who "drank the Kool-Ade". What I particularly like about this book is the insight into "Human Relations Training" and its connection with brainwashing, a practice that was in the experimental stages just prior to Jonestown, and is very much a fine- tuned part of our culture today. Most of us are drinking the Kool-Ade and don't even know it. The author, in particular, exposes the non-voluntary nature of "voluntary" HRT, particularly in many workplaces. "Team Building" anyone? I've been there. I'm quite aware how it works. It's good to see it analyzed so thoughtfully in print. When Jonestown went down, this author is quite aware that it was no mass suicide -- no more than Waco was. People who were still in California were hiding from the assassins for years (Al and Jeannie Mills; not their real names). Some people were assassinated anyway -- and few people know that the connection is Jonestown (Dan White, Harvey Milk). The author runs his thread through a lot of Jewish organizations I don't know much about, particularly pointing the finger at B'nai B'rith, so I'll have to give him the benefit of the doubt there. That just tells me I have more reading to do. What troubled me about the book is its anti-Semitic slant. It's clear enough that the focus is on Zionism rather than Jews in general, but is troubling nevertheless. I've done enough research to know how right he is about most of what he says. I just wish there was another way to look at the troubling issues around Zionism and the role of Israel in the world today. It may very well be that there are political Zionists at the top of our pyramid. But Zionists are not always, and not even mostly, Jews. They like to hide behind the name, but they have been victimizing Jews for a long time and are good at it. (See review: "Hitler: Founder of Israel") They can't stay there unless we are all holding them up.

Mind Opening Book -- Buy It !

The author, a police probation officer for many years, reveals the role of "thought control" in the sensational mass "suicide" in Guyana in 1978. An intense investigation of the "sensitivity training" movement convinced the author of its mind- and soul-destroying methods, and harmful social impact. More important, this book shows the malevolent role of these mind control techniques in "race relations" and "Holocaust indoctrination," as pushed by the ADL and similar groups.