Ten Lies Aesthetic Realists
tell
by Michael Bluejay
February 2010
For the first six years I ran this
website, I avoided using the word "lie" to
describe what the Aesthetc Realists say. I preferred to
just describe how the AR people weren't telling the
truth and let the readers draw their own conclusions. I
decided I'd let the AR people have exclusive use of that
particular pejorative, which they forced down the readers'
throat at every opportunity on their site called (what
else?) "Countering the Lies".
So while I've known they weren't telling the truth,
and I called them on it, I still tried to do so with some
character and I avoided the L word. But after seeing and
hearing them repeat the same falsehoods for the umpteenth
time, while they keep screeching without justification that
I'm the one lying, I'm finally going to call a spade
a spade. I'm never going to make that the focus of the site
(like the AR people did with theirs), but at least on this
one page, I'm point out the AR folks' dishonesty a little
more directly. And unlike them, when I make the
charge of lying, I'm actually going to back it up. I'll be
quoting their own writings and history extensively, as well
as showing the proof that what they're saying is untrue. So
let's get started....
1. "Aesthetic Realism never saw homosexuality as
something to 'cure'."
FACT: AR people
absolutely believe that gayness is "curable", and that the cure is found within Aesthetic Realism.
They trumpted their idea of a cure aggressively, in published two
books, a professionally-produced short film, TV show interviews,
numerous national newspaper advertisements, and the thousands of therapy sessions they conducted to try to help people stop being gay. (more...)
While the cure isn't part of their current rhetoric, their opinions
that gayness is wrong and amenable to change are the same as they ever
were. So how can they deny that they had a gay cure?
Simple: They cleverly never actually used the word
"cure". This is very typical of the AR mistruths -- they
lie by omission. There's always something they're not
telling you.
But they can't weasel out of this just because they
didn't use the word "cure". It's like a racist
website I saw a while back when it was in the news. Its
FAQ read something like this:
Q: Aren't you
racist?
A: Absolutely not! We just
think that people of different races should be
segregated for the purposes of ethnic purity. But
we're not racist or anything.
The Aesthetic Realists are playing the same game:
Q: Didn't you
promote a cure for being gay?
A: Absolutely not! We simply
said that being gay was selfish and a form of
contempt, and that by studying Aesthetic Realism
people could permanently change from being homosexual.
But we never had a gay cure or anything.
(more on the AR
gay cure...)
2. "While people did change from H by studying AR, we
never said anyone should change."
FACT:
Sure they did. They simply cleverly avoided using the
word "should", although that's exactly what they
described. Their current spin is that people just
happened to change, like they somehow wandered
into the AR headquarters by accident and then suddenly
weren't gay any more. But as we saw above, AR pushed its
supposed gay cure aggressively. Here's what they
said in their 1971 book on the subject:
"Snce 1965 there has
been a more or less continuous effort to have some
coverage of the documented changes from homosexuality
through the study of Aesthetic Realism."
(H Persuasion,
p. xvii)
And they wouldn't have pushed their cure so
aggressively if they didn't think it was important.
Here's a quote from the double-page
ad the AR people bought in the New York Times, which
shows you just how urgent an issue AR thought its gay
cure was:
"We say what history
will say: the American press has blood on its hands,
has caused misery and death, because for years it has
withheld the news that men and women have changed from
homosexuality through study of Aesthetic
Realism."
Aesthetic Realists firmly feel that homosexuality
is wrong. An entire chapter of their 1986 book
is devoted to that subject, titled "How Ethical is
Homosexuality"? They answer that question on the very
first page:
"Eli Siegel stated the
main reason homosexuality is not ethical, and
[he] related homosexuality to all other ways
that a man has been against the outside world. He
explained, 'There is only one thing that is immoral in
the world: liking oneself too much and the outside
world too little'.... Eli Siegel's understanding of
the cause of homosexuality as an insufficient care for
what is not oneself, makes it possible for homosexual
persons to change."
This is followed by a chapter entitled,
"Homosexuality: A Form of Selfishness". And in The
H Persuasion, Eli Siegel wrote:
All homosexuality
arises from contempt of the world, not liking it
sufficiently.
This changes into a contempt
for women....
Homosexuality, like biting
one's nails, depression, excessive gambling, arises
out of a disproportionate way of seeing the
world.
There are other ways a person
has of not liking himself, but homosexuality is
one.
Okay, so we see that AR believes that homosexuality
comes from contempt. And how do they view
contempt?"
"According to Aesthetic
Realism, the greatest sin that a person can
have is the desire for
contempt."
(source;
emphasis added)
So Aesthetic Realists believe that homosexuality is
tremendously sinful. But it doesn't stop there. They
also think gays are crazy. The AR motto itself is
"Contempt causes insanity." It was the
title of the preface to their founder's book Self
and World (which is basically their Bible), and
they've used
it as a headline of their monthly newsletter. And as
we saw above, AR thinks that homosexuality is caused by
one's contempt for the world. So if homosexuality is a
form of contempt, and contempt causes insanity, then
homosexuals are....insane.
In fact, AR doesn't think that contempt is
one cause of insanity. They think it's
the only cause of insanity. As one
of their members writes:
One of the greatest
humanitarian and intellectual achievements of all time
was the discovery by Eli Siegel, the founder of
Aesthetic Realism, that contempt causes insanity; in
fact, that it causes all mental trouble.
[emphasis
added]
The only way that the AR people could plausibly say
that they don't view homosexuality as a mental illness,
is if they say that they don't view insanity as a
mental illness. That would be a pretty bold claim, but
they're welcome to try.
AR members still retain this antigay prejudice
privately even though it's not part of their current
rhetoric. Indeed, some of the people on Countering
the Lies who say I'm a liar were contributors to the 1986
book about the gay cure, denouncing homosexuality
throughout its pages, and led therapy sessions trying to
help people not be gay. This is important, because
whenever someone brings up the gay cure, the AR people
shriek, "That was in the past! That was a long time ago!"
But what they're not admitting is that while they no
longer offer their program for change, their
opinions about homosexuality haven't changed at
all. Here's what one of the AR teachers said on Wikipedia
quite recently:
The Aesthetic Realism
Foundation formally discontinued this single aspect of
study because it was being sucked into the culture
wars--with the far Right trying to use it to promote
their bigoted agenda against homosexuality and the far
Left furious at anything that even remotely suggested
homosexuality was not biological. In such an
atmosphere Aesthetic Realism's sensible,
philosophic approach to the subject didn't stand a
chance of being considered reasonably.
(emphasis
mine; source)
They're trying to spin all this by cherry-picking a
later quote from Eli Siegel where he says "If the
homosexual likes himself then the matter has come to a
just and triumphant end." Of course he said this years
after the first book went to press, when AR was getting a
lot of flak and felt a need to do some damage control.
For this reason, any Siegel quotes on the subject after
1971 should be treated with suspicion.
But more importantly, it's what the AR people are
not saying that's important. Siegel's new
gay-friendly quote is that *if* a gay person likes
himself then there's no problem, but AR believes that a
gay person cannot like himself. Their whole idea
about the cause of homosexuality as that it's the
result of one's not liking the world and not
liking him/herself. So it's pretty disingenuous for them
to try to now claim that they see nothing wrong with
being gay. To them, being gay is an unaesthetic
difference of opposites, and a result of one's contempt
for the world. Here's a telling quote from their first
book, that shows how little respect they have for people
who are happily gay:
"So, when we are
told--and it is more often belligerently told than
not--that someone likes being gay and wouldn't change
for anything, we listen, but with an attitude of
benevolent semi-conviction. This is not meant to be
patronizing. It's just that we are helplessly
unconvinced."
(p. xi)
In a televised interview, when the interviewer
asks, "Can you conceive of any
homosexual as having a good, healthy, noncontemptuous
relation with a homosexual?", AR changeling
Sheldon Kranz answers, "I would say
no." (The H
Persuasion, p. 14)
Anyway, here are some pointed questions to ask the
Aesthetic Realists:
- Is being gay a result of one's contempt for
himself and the world?
- If so, then isn't that immoral, as you said in
your 1986 book on the subject?
- Given that being gay is a result of one's contempt
for himself and the world, and that contempt is the
primary cause of misery (another AR teaching), is it
possible for a gay person to be happy with
himself?
- If it's not possible for a gay person to be happy
with himself, then what the fuck are you doing quoting
Eli Siegel saying that if I gay person is happy with
himself then the matter has come to a just and
triumphant end?!
- If you really never said that anyone should
change from homosexuality, then why did you say the
American press has blood on its hands for not
reporting on AR's ability to reform gays?
Don't hold your breath for answers to
these.
3. "Aesthetic Realism never saw homosexuality as a
mental illness."
FACT:
They absolutely did. In fact, they still do.
The AR motto itself is "Contempt causes
insanity." It was the
title of the preface to their founder's book Self
and World (which is basically their Bible), and
they've used
it as a headline of their monthly newsletter. And as
we saw above, AR thinks that homosexuality is caused by
one's contempt for the world. So if homosexuality is a
form of contempt, and contempt causes insanity, then
homosexuality is....a form of insanity.
In fact, AR doesn't think that contempt is
one cause of insanity. They think it's
the only cause of insanity. As one
of their members writes:
One of the greatest
humanitarian and intellectual achievements of all time
was the discovery by Eli Siegel, the founder of
Aesthetic Realism, that contempt causes insanity; in
fact, that it causes all mental trouble.
[emphasis
added]
The only way that the AR people could plausibly say
that they don't view homosexuality as a mental illness,
is if they say that they don't view insanity as a
mental illness. That would be a pretty bold claim, but
they're welcome to try.
4. "The people in AR's first book about the gay change
didn't 'fall off the wagon'." (source)
FACT:
At least one did, and three of them certainly left the group. There were four contributors to The H
Persuasion. Three of them left AR and the fourth died while still in the group. One of those who left was actually kicked
out because they discovered he was still having gax sex.
I contacted one of the others to inquire about his
experience and he told me that he hasn't studied AR or
had anything to do with those who do for decades, and
that he no longer wanted his name used in conjunction
with it. (Incidentally, the three who left AR attended
my lesson with Eli Siegel
when I was two years old.)
5. "Eli Siegel [AR's founder] didn't kill
himself."
FACT:
Did, did, did, did, did! We know this because enough
former members have come forward and spilled
the beans. Yet the AR people screech all over their
"Countering the Lies" website that I'm providing
"misinformation" about how Siegel died. One AR member,
Alice Bernstein (also my aunt), told my mother
point-blank that Siegel didn't kill himself. One of the
AR leaders, Dale Laurin, said the same thing to the
audience at an AR presentation he gave at a library in
2008. (He didn't realize he was being recorded.)
Audience Member:
You'd mentioned Eli Siegel and his views on contempt
and selfishness. And, I was reading just a little bit
about him before I came here.…Uh, one thing that
was interesting, though, he said that he believed
homosexuality was a form of contempt and selfishness.
Did he ever recant that before he committed
suicide?
Dale Laurin: Uh, first
of all, ah, he didn't commit
suicide...
Here's some audio of that quote. The reason there's a
sound change before the first time that Laurin starts
speaking is that his voice was barely audible, being far
away from the questioner, so I boosted the volume and
added some noise reduction.
Listen to audio
Later on, after the presentation, another audience
member (whom I don't know, by the way) goes up to Laurin
and asks, if Siegel didn't kill himself, then how did he die? Here's how Laurin responds:
Audience member:
[mostly inaudible] You didn't say...I
couldn't understand why all of a sudden this guy
wondered...
Dale Laurin: Do you
know how many people die in this country, and they're
in the hospital, and they are suffering tremendously?
And every person has the right to end their life when
they feel that they have been tortured. That's what
happened to Eli Siegel. And there's a person on the
Internet who used the word "suicide" to describe the
kindness of a person having the right to end
their life in dignity. That is what occurred with Eli
Siegel.
Audience member: Okay,
thank you....
Dale Laurin: Exactly.
See, and don't you think it's malicious that a person
would turn that into suicide, with a reckless
abandon?
Audience member:
[quickly] Yeah, yeah, thank you...
Dale Laurin: This was
a man who suffered at the hands of doctors who had ill
will for him, who like this person I'm referring to,
had anger at their respect for him. And this doctor
actually admitted this after the fact. Mr. Siegel's
life was ruined in the operation. He valiantly lived
and continued to teach for many months after that
until it became [inaudible]. And then he did
what every person I feel has the right to do.
So in the same breath they're saying that Siegel
didn't kill himself, but then pretty much admitting that
very thing. (All the while calling me a liar for pointing
out that Siegel killed himself.)
6. "AR has been up front about how Eli Siegel
died."
FACT: Not
even close! First, let's see their claim, made on
their "Countering the Lies" website:
A final
misrepresentation I want to refute here is the manner
in which those attempting to discredit Eli Siegel have
portrayed his death.... The events that led to his
dying have long been knowledge in the public realm,
because Ellen Reiss has described them, often in
detail, in the journal The Right of Aesthetic Realism
to Be Known at least once every year since
1987!
No, she hasn't. No such writing exists. I
challenged the AR people years ago to provide this
alleged admission of Siegel's suicide from the AR
journal, but they can't, because they were never up front
about how Siegel died.
 7.
"Michael Bluejay was only two (or three) years old when he
was involved in AR."
FACT:
Don't they wish! For years I've had the picture at
right on this site, from when I was 12 years old
(dutifully wearing my AR "Victim of the Press" button),
but the AR people continue to say I was only 2 or 3 when
I was involved. They've repeatedly tried to get wording
like the following into the Wikipedia article about AR:
"One of the more
persistent critics of Aesthetic Realism is Michael
Bluejay of Austin, Texas, whose connection with
Aesthetic Realism is that his mother once studied
Aesthetic Realism when he was an infant."
(source)
One of them also sent me some anonymous hate mail
referring to me as being an "infant" when I was involved.
One of them actually said that I never studied AR!
(source)
As I've said many times, after my family moved to
Texas (and away from the AR headquarters) when I was
five, my mother started an AR study group in Texas which
I attended. When I was 12 I returned to NYC for the
summer to visit relatives, and since they were still AR
adherents, they promptly dragged to the AR headquarters
where I attended numerous classes, presentations, and the
dreaded 3-on-1 consultations. I also participated in an
AR vigil outside the New York Times building, where we
were protesting the Times' refusal to cover AR's gay
cure. My subjection to AR didn't end until my mom snapped
out of it, which was around high school for me. (And as
for mom, she didn't "once" study it, she studied it
continuously, from infancy into adulthood.)
But no, according to the AR people, I was only 2 or
3 when I studied. Here's one of AR's leaders,
Dale Laurin, lying through his teeth following an AR
presentation he gave at a library, saying twice
that I was only 3 years old when I was involved. (He
didn't know he was being recorded.) These are two
different instances he said this, spliced together.
Listen to audio
It's unlikely they're fooling anyone about
this. A third person at that library presentation
(who, again, I do not know) asked Dale Laurin the obvious
question: "If he was only three years old at the time,
then why is he doing all this? What's his motivation?"
(Laurin gave the stock AR answer: I'm supposedly angry at
my great respect for Eli Siegel. That's their answer for
anyone who's ever critical of AR for any reason.)
8. "There are no 'adherents' of Aesthetic Realism--that
implies an uncritical acceptance." (source)
FACT: Aesthetic Realists are absolutely
adherents, and their acceptance of the group's teachings
is beyond complete, it's fanatical. They believe that
their founder was the greatest person
ever to live, that one should be "grateful
without limit" for the knowledge of Aesthetic
Realism, and that the media's disinterest in covering
Aesthetic Realism is "a crime
against humanity". If that doesn't describe an
adherent, I don't know what does.
9. "There are no credible critics of [Aesthetic
Realism] at all." (source)
FACT: Harper's
Magazine called AR "the moonies of
poetry". New York Magazine referred to them as "a
cult of Messianic nothingness". Celebrated psychologist
Steve Hassan also says Aesthetic Realism is a cult. Me,
I'm an award-winning writer. And then there are all the other
former members who now speak out against AR. None of us is credible? I'll let the reader decide.
10. "AR critics don't want you to see the AR site,
Countering the Lies."
FACT:
Then why have I linked
to it, repeatedly,
all
over
this
site?!
(Here's another
link. Please, go have a look!) I'm only too happy for
people to see AR's site because it shows just how
fanatical they are. In essence, they help me make my
point. I believe in that old saying, "Give 'em enough
rope, and they'll hang themselves."
The AR people made the "don't want you to see" charge
on an
earlier version of their Countering the Lies site,
though they recently removed it, quietly. They also
repeated their charge on Wikipedia.
Incidentally, this particular charge is rather
duplicituous, since they have never linked to the
site you're reading now. In other words, they don't want
you to see this site. In fact, they repeatedly
censored any mention of it from Wikipedia.
I titled this page "Ten lies...", but here are
some bonus items.
11. "AR's critics are Ellen Mali, Adam Mali, and Heide
Krakauer. Bluejay was just enlisted because of his internet
savvy, and took to the job eagerly." (source)
FACT: The Aesthetic Realist who said this
(Arnold Perey) pulled it out of his ass. I started
this site myself, as my own idea, of my own volition, and
without any help from anyone. Once I put out the call for
former members to share their stories a number of them
did, but as I write this in July 2009, none of the
above-named people has submitted one word to this
website, nor supplied any other information about AR for
me to use. And I've never met nor spoken with Heide
Krakauer in my entire adult life.
Note that on the very same page where Arnold Perey
made his claim, he also said:
"[He] attacks
by stating misrepresentations as if they were truths.
There is a word for that, and the word isn't
criticism; it's lying."
Which is ironic, because that's exactly what the Aesthetic Realists are doing.
12. "AR wasn't concerned with changing people from being
gay before 1971." (source)
FACT: AR started trying to cure gay people as
early as 1946. Their own book, The H
Persuasion, documents how Sheldon Kranz had a lesson
with Siegel around that time to try to purge his
homosexuality. Siegel told him things such as:
"The way you see the
world is inaccurate. As that changes, the H situation
will change. You made some bad philosophical and
ethical choices at an early age which have to be
revoked. H is a superstructure you built on to
yourself as a way of solving your relation with what
you saw as an unfriendly world."
(p. 26)
And on p. xvii of the same book, they say:
"Since 1965
there has been a more or less continuous effort to
have some coverage of the documented changes from
homosexuality through the study of Aesthetic
Realism."
This particular bit of revisionist history wouldn't be
such a big deal, except that they claimed anyone who said
otherwise was lying:
"What 'continuous
concerns' about homosexuality did Aesthetic Realism
have prior to 1971? That is a pure fiction."
(source)
What's so ironic about all this
is that the AR people claim their critics are
the ones who are lying, and they put up a whole website
about us called "Countering the Lies".
The Aesthetic Realists should try looking in the mirror
sometime.
What's on this site
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Cult Aspects
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What is Aesthetic Realism?
An explanation about both the AR philosophy and the group that promotes it.
Cult aspects of Aesthetic Realism
Fanatical devotion to the leader, cutting off relations with families who aren't also believers -- it's all here.
AR and Homosexuality
The AR group used to try to "cure" people of being gay. They stopped that in 1990 because high-profile success cases kept deciding they were gay after all and leaving. AR has never said their gay-changing attempts were wrong.
AR's founder killed himself
AR's founder Eli Siegel killed himself, but the AR people have been trying to hide that fact. They can't hide any more, since enough former students have come forward to confirm the truth.
Five reasons you can't trust an Aesthetic Realist
One reason is that most people who were in AR eventually woke up and got out. See more about this, plus four other reasons.
Lies Aesthetic Realists tell
They say they never saw homosexuality as something to cure. They say the leader didn't kill himself. They say my family left the group when I was an infant. These and more are debunked here.
Aesthetic Realism glossary
We explain the real meanings behind the loaded language that AR people use.
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Other goodies
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Thinking of leaving AR?
If you're thinking of leaving the group, you're not alone. Let's face it: Most people who have ever studied AR have left -- and not come back. There's got to be a reason for that. Curious about what they figured out? Worried about the fallout if you do decide to leave? Here's everything you need to know.
Media Reports
NY Mag called AR "a cult of messianic nothingness" and Harper's referred to them as "the Moonies of poetry". We've got reprints of articles, plus some help for journalists researching AR. (And here are shortcuts to the landmark articles in the NY Post and Jewish Times.)
Site News / Blog
Here's some news and commentary that I add from time to time.
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AR in their own words
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Actual AR
advertisment
The AR people spent a third of a million dollars
for a double-page ad in the NY Times to tell the world that the
press' refusal to cover AR is just as wrong as letting hungry people
starve to death.
Ad for the gay
cure
AR bought huge ads in major newspapers to trumpet
their ability to "fix" gays.
Actual
letters from AR people
When a theater critic casually dissed Aesthetic
Realism in New York magazine, the AR people responded with hundreds
of angry letters, calling the article "a crime against humanity".
Actual internal
meeting
The AR people blunderingly made a tape recording
of a secret meeting they had, where they lambasted a member who had
supposedly been "cured" of his gayness, but then found to still be
cruising for gay sex. Their screeching hostility towards him is matched
only by their fear that the secret will get out.
Actual AR
consultation
For the first time the public can see what really
happens in an Aesthetic Realism "consultation" (thanks to a former
member sharing his tape with us). In the session the AR counselors
tried to help the member not be gay, explaining that the path to
ex-gayness was to express deep gratitude to AR and its founder.
Actual AR lesson
I had a lesson with the cult leader, Eli Siegel, when I was two years
old, which, like everything else, they made a tape of. The highlight is
Siegel taunting me with "Cry some more, Michael, cry some more!"
AR
responds to this website
The AR people have tried to rebut this website
with their own site called Countering the Lies, whose title
ought to win some kind of award for irony. Here we explain the story
behind that site.
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What former members say
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Aesthetic Realism
exposed
The ultimate statement by a former member, who
was involved for well over a decade.
A tale
of getting sucked in.
This former member describes exactly how he
initially got drawn in, and how he then kept getting more and more
involved.
Aesthetic
Realism ruined his marriage. "I consider my 'study' of
Aesthetic Realism to be one of the factors that led to the eventual
breakup of my marriage, to my eternal sorrow."
On
having all the answers. A former member explains how AR
members think they have all the answers, and feel qualified to lecture
others about how they should view personal tragedy.
Kicked
out for remaining gay. A former student describes how he
was kicked out of AR because he couldn't change from homosexuality.
"If I
disappointed them, then I now consider that a badge of honor."
A former member tells how AR try to change him from being gay, and
convinced him not to spend Christmas with his family.
"...people
were controlled and humiliated if they stepped out of line...".
The experiences shared with us by a member from 1974-80, now a Fortune
100 executive.
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"I want
Ellen Reiss questioned!" This former member wonders why there
hasn't been a class-action lawsuit against the foundation yet.
They
took his consultation tape. Describes how the AR people
kept his consultation tape with his most intimate thoughts on it, and
told him he couldn't study any more unless he incorporated AR more
radically into his life.
Confirms
all the criticism. A former member from 1971-80,
confirms that AR students don't see their families, are discouraged
from attending college, and shun other members. He also offers that he
was mistaken when he was involved about thinking that AR had changed
him from homosexuality.
Michael Bluejay's
description. Your webmaster describes his own family's
involvement.
Members
interviewed in Jewish Times. This lengthy article in
Jewish Times quotes former students of Aesthetic Realism extensively.
NY Post article.
A series of articles in the NY Post quotes many former members who are
now critical of the group.
Aesthetic
Realism debunked. A former student explains the cult
aspects of AR. Posted on Steve Hassan's Freedom of Mind website.
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Aesthetic Realism at a
Glance |
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Name |
The
Aesthetic Realism Foundation |
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Founded |
1941 |
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Founder |
Eli Siegel, poet and art/literary critic.
Committed suicide in 1978 |
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Purpose |
To teach Siegel's philosophy of aesthetic
realism. |
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Philosophy
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The key to all social ills is for people to learn to like the world. Having contempt for the world leads to unhappiness and even insanity. (The slogan of their newsletter is "Contempt causes insanity".) Homosexuality is seen as a form of insanity caused by not liking the world sufficiently.
Also teaches that "beauty is the making one of
opposites". |
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Location |
New York City (SoHo) |
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Membership
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About 103 (35 teachers, 41 training to be teachers, and 27 regular students). Has failed to grow appreciably even after 70 years of
existence, and is currently shrinking.
Members call themselves "students". Advanced
members who teach others are called
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Method of study |
Public seminars/lectures at their headquarters
(in lower Manhattan), group classes, and
individual consultations (three consultants
vs. one student). |
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Cult aspects
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- Fanatical devotion to their
leader/founder
- Belief that they have the one true answer to
universal happiness
- Ultimate purpose is to recruit new
members
- Feeling that they are being persecuted
- Wild, paranoid reactions to criticism
- Non-communication (or at least very limited communication) with those who have left
the group
- Odd, specialized language.
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