As if the central story it is trying to tell is that Leverage fell apart due to no fault of any of its members because they encountered ancient magic or something.
It doesn’t read to me that way. They tried to learn the “ancient magic” for someone who according to “multiple former Leveragers” thought they were a force for evil.
Why might he believed that? The article says “Masters often found themselves at loggerheads. Geoff and David each bragged to their colleagues about how they psychologically manipulated the other, or complained about issues for which they blamed the other. ”
An environment where the leader brag about psychologically manipulating each other is quite obviously an environment if you run into a lot of problems if you experiment with nonverbal techniques that can be used to manipulate each other.
They also engaged in practices to increase their sensitivity to the relevant phenomena in an act of hubris. Then when one person, tried to implement at least some safety protocols they report that Geoff said they did something bad because it discourages investigation.
If someone would want to learn these things in most spiritual traditions both the hubris and the low morals involved in the consent problems around using nonverbal techniques to manipulate each other are recipes for disaster. Both of these things are faults of the members.
I do find it quite plausible that this is the key dynamic that lead them to shut down their group house when they did it.
It somehow completely fails to cover Leverage deploying spies into other organizations and trying to take over CEA. It fails to cover the enormous number of straightforward lies told by Leverage staff in that and other contexts.
That’s probably an interesting story to tell there but the CEA people don’t seem to want to talk about it and Goeff says he doesn’t want to talk about it because he doesn’t want more conflict with CEA. It’s might be harder to get the ground truth there.
It doesn’t read to me that way. They tried to learn the “ancient magic” for someone who according to “multiple former Leveragers” thought they were a force for evil.
Why might he believed that? The article says “Masters often found themselves at loggerheads. Geoff and David each bragged to their colleagues about how they psychologically manipulated the other, or complained about issues for which they blamed the other. ”
An environment where the leader brag about psychologically manipulating each other is quite obviously an environment if you run into a lot of problems if you experiment with nonverbal techniques that can be used to manipulate each other.
They also engaged in practices to increase their sensitivity to the relevant phenomena in an act of hubris. Then when one person, tried to implement at least some safety protocols they report that Geoff said they did something bad because it discourages investigation.
If someone would want to learn these things in most spiritual traditions both the hubris and the low morals involved in the consent problems around using nonverbal techniques to manipulate each other are recipes for disaster. Both of these things are faults of the members.
I do find it quite plausible that this is the key dynamic that lead them to shut down their group house when they did it.
That’s probably an interesting story to tell there but the CEA people don’t seem to want to talk about it and Goeff says he doesn’t want to talk about it because he doesn’t want more conflict with CEA. It’s might be harder to get the ground truth there.