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waiver/release of liability form
What is that thing ?
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If a guru or human potential group requires its members to keep its methods secret and states that newbies never be told what is done at retreats and seminars, beware.
I think there can be good reasons for secrecy:
1. If you started on the topic of employment, companies will try to secure valuable know-how.
2. A psychologist I know visited a professional training course, where they were asked not to disclose the content of some roleplaying exercises, because a new person attending the course in the future was supposed to react in a spontaneous way rather than planned.
3. I went to a sort of martial arts course, where we were asked not to show the exercises to other people, because they might learn them the wrong way, possibly leading to wrong results.
Other points don't seem to be portable to the "cults" topic.