2026-04-07 23:53 UTC
@transform
This tweaked a distant memory, I looked it up, and oh right, this is another offshoot of a Dianetics offshoot. The same Dianetics that was a fad in the early 1950s and a precursor to Scientology and also spawned all sorts of other movements besides.
If you are interested in any kind of co-counselling please read first all that you can find about the promoting organizations and the techniques themselves. Do yourself a favour and approach this with a significant level of skepticism. There are many people promising to improve your life with their special techniques and none of them offer a high standard of reproducibility for any of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-counselling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics
#CoCounselling #Anarchism
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@transform@climatejustice.social 2026-04-08 01:56
@zygmyd yes, I've seen that when researching and I'm very much in favor of skepticism as well. The key thing is that it's the RC version of Co-Counselling that has these roots, not the CCI version I'm writing about. In my article, I have a paragraph that warns about dangerous related practices. I did not include Dianetics in this paragraph as this is 2 links away and I had a character limit for the original article. But you are right, it might be worth including a sentence about that in the online version of the article now.
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@moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org 2026-04-09 05:59
@zygmyd @transform They don't push any bogus measuring devices, so they're probably alright.