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| Graduates of the programme could attend workshops where a participant worked on personal development while being supported in confronting worst fears.<ref name="Unstable"/><ref name=independent-20021212/> | Graduates of the programme could attend workshops where a participant worked on personal development while being supported in confronting worst fears.<ref name="Unstable"/><ref name=independent-20021212/> | ||
| ⚫ | Greater interest in the programme led to the group being investigated by the press and becoming the subject of a controversial television play.<ref name="Unstable"/> British ] raised questions in the ], to which the ] ] responded "some organisations and views are deeply repugnant to most sensible people and profoundly wrong-headed and damaging to those drawn into the web of their activities. Nevertheless, unless and until those involved actually break the law, it is difficult for the Government to set their hand against them." The ] asked the ] and ] to investigate Exegesis.<ref name=hoc-19840514>{{cite web |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1984/may/14/mr-ashley-doubtfire |title=Adjournment debate - Mr. Ashley Doubtfire |id=HC Deb 14 May 1984 vol 60 cc124-30 |publisher=UK Parliament |work=House of Commons |date=14 May 1984 |accessdate=6 October 2019}}</ref> Although the police brought no charges, Exegesis ceased to run seminars around 1984,<ref name="Unstable"/><ref name=independent-20021212/> but re-emerged as a telesales company called ''Programmes Ltd''.<ref name="Chryssides">George D. Chryssides, '''' (1999), p. 372.</ref> | ||
| In 1978 in London, British musician ] participated in an Exegesis seminar that included a rebirthing process. People{{Who|date=June 2012}} who met Oldfield after the seminar often found that he would stare at them from above, with his face only a few inches from theirs. The part that perhaps left the biggest impression on Oldfield was where he re-created the experience of his own birth. The course-goers were encouraged to do so. Through this, it emerged that Oldfield's problems all stemmed from him having a distressing birth. He then re-created the experience to disappear the feelings. Oldfield's metamorphosis has been described{{By whom|date=June 2012}} as "astonishing", a transformation from a "painfully diffident ]" into "a garrulous, over-bearing extrovert". Oldfield, who has since undergone psychotherapy and taken up meditation, described his behaviour after the programme, which included frequent interviews, nude photographs, flying lessons and a short-lived marriage to D'Aubigny's sister, as "a reflex action... I wanted to try everything", but also stated: "But it was right for me, that's all I know. I felt like I'd turned the clock back and had a second chance. It became obvious to me that all the panic I’d felt was the memory of my birth, coming out into the world."<ref name="Unstable">Mick Brown, "". ''The Daily Telegraph'', August 31, 1998.</ref> | |||
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Exegesis was a group of individuals that delivered the Exegesis Programme through an Exegesis Seminar. The alleged end result of the programme was individual enlightenment, a personal transformation. Founded in 1976 as Infinity Training by Robert D'Aubigny, a former actor, Exegesis ran seminars in the United Kingdom in the later 1970s and early 1980s. Although not in itself a religion or belief, the programme was popularly interpreted as such. The Cult Information Centre categorised it as a "therapy cult", focussed on personal and individual development.
In the 1970s Robert D’Aubigny remodelled Werner Erhard's controversial EST program into the more UK friendly Exegesis programme while keeping the essence of it unaltered. Graduates of the programme could attend workshops where a participant worked on personal development while being supported in confronting worst fears.
Greater interest in the programme led to the group being investigated by the press and becoming the subject of a controversial television play. British Members of Parliament raised questions in the House of Commons, to which the Minister of State for Home Affairs David Mellor responded "some organisations and views are deeply repugnant to most sensible people and profoundly wrong-headed and damaging to those drawn into the web of their activities. Nevertheless, unless and until those involved actually break the law, it is difficult for the Government to set their hand against them." The Home Office asked the Metropolitan and Avon and Somerset police to investigate Exegesis. Although the police brought no charges, Exegesis ceased to run seminars around 1984, but re-emerged as a telesales company called Programmes Ltd.
See also
References
- ^ George D. Chryssides, Exploring New Religions Contimuum (1999), p. 372.
- ^ Kirby, Terry (12 December 2002). "Caplin 'recruited' for therapy cult investigated by police". The Independent. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Unstablewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - "Adjournment debate - Mr. Ashley Doubtfire". House of Commons. UK Parliament. 14 May 1984. HC Deb 14 May 1984 vol 60 cc124-30. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
External links
- The Exegesis Seminar / The Exegesis Programme
- The Exegesis Seminar - a re-enactment of the seminar
- The Exegesis Programme - a literal validation of the programme