In the fourth text of the study of the world of psychocults, Samizdat tells the history of the emergence and death of the main franchise of the training of personal growth of Lifespring. About how John Henley created a company where people were tortured and brought to suicide, over and over again departed from responsibility and who became his successors in Russia - read in a brief review of Samizdat. Investigation: How psychocults bring to mental collapse and suicide I.

In this head of the investigation, the correspondent of Samizdat talks about people who have passed the second, advanced course of personal growth trainings. What is the environment of those who love you, turn away from your parents and suddenly fly overboard, lie on the floor, roar and understand that you have already died.

In almost every Russian city there are companies conducting personal growth trainings. They promise enlightenment and rebirth, but in reality they break and often bring to thoughts of suicide.

In Russia, there are more than three thousand companies of personal growth, which will teach you how to embody your dreams, make yourself a better version of yourself and give an unprecedented metamorphosis from a loser to a genuine leader. And also, perhaps, they will break life, make you break relations with loved ones and bring to suicide. In the first part of the investigation of Samizdat, Alexander Levinskaya studies how the initial stage of transformation takes place.

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