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Recently, The Way International made a two-fold grand announcement: This new announcement waives the debt-free requirement for students desiring to enroll in the upcoming Advanced Classes in 2021. Next year, there will be two advanced classes run. The first one is for advanced class grads at Camp Gunnison (May 1-9, 2021) and the second advanced class is for new students at hq (June 13-26, 2021). Lots of attention has being drawn to the waiving of their strict debt-free requirement, a policy that was implemented in 1994....... But......the advanced class grads-only "camp" in May is the Loyalty Test and Purge that cometh. Make no mistake about its importance. This is a "circle the wagons" maneuver....a planned, strategic, tactical, and controlled move. This is the SAME PLOY implemented in 1992 after "the fog years." Let's number the ways why twi would do this.... Twi does NOT have clergy "camps"........or corps "camps." Why? Already fleeced of their labor, get-togethers have little upside. The whole concept of a "clergy household" is grade-A bunk. In my 14 years as clergy......we only had a few meetings, nothing more. Corps grads will be pressured to attend this advanced class (all-grads class). Committed corps show up. The committed get to attend first.....adv class grads and corps. Plus, "sit at the feet of the teachers"...who would miss THAT? Advanced Class students, and therefore grads......are a prime target for twi. Faithful tithing and future corps applicants. For the same reason, twi has Advanced Class Specials......exploitation at its maximum. Money. Power. Influence. Control. Peer pressure goes both ways.....up and down the cult paradigm. You will be pressured to attend. Count on it. Just like in Scientology......there is a subliminal control factor in promoting people to scale levels of "achievement." #8 -- Going Clear. The advanced class completes the series. It is marketed as attainment of "spiritual maturity".....until you find out later it isn't. The Way International is borrowing the same play from their 1992 playbook: Run an advanced class for grads-only at a twi-property location. Home Field Advantage. They control all the factors. Notice......it is an intense, condensed version of the advanced class. Nine days......long days......structured to the hilt. Very little time for hanging out in the scenic beauty of Colorado. No time to hike, explore or have a couple of afternoons hanging with "friends." Could it be that this intensely, structured time keeps questions and dissent to a minimum? Absolutely!! Do you have to attend to keep your advanced class grad status? If so........then this will purge from the ranks those who do NOT attend. WARNING: Cults operate via a series of purges ...........and this is another one coming. For those who are happy residing in an institutionalized environment, then this thread is not for you. But to those who do not like being played......or jumping thru hoops to stand before your leadership year after year......stop and give this some thought. Do you a.c. grads really NEED or WANT to sit thru another advanced class again? SSDD .