text: can an exlandmark education course known as "the forum" whom had bad experience tell how did he recover? thnx   i don't know much about recovery from a first-hand point of view.  what i can tell you is that an old college friend of mine got involved with them, and they have screwed her up pretty good.  she's like a mindless zombie who lives, breathes, eats and sleeps landmark forum.  here are some links to articles about landmark, and its predecessor organization est, on the rick ross institute website.  (rick ross institute is a not-for-profit devoted to tracking destructive cults, controversial groups and movements).  http://www.rickross.com/groups/landmark.html http://www.rickross.com/groups/forum.html http://www.rickross.com/groups/est.html  and here's the getting help page from the same site.    http://rickross.net/help.html  my best wishes to you and your loved ones effected by this.