Posted on 01/12/2010 8:05:44 AM PST by mattstat
Regular readers might recall the series of articles in which I detailed an experiment I designed and proctored to test some of Dahn Yoga’s more outlandish claims.
That series is here: I, II, III, IV, V.
Dahn Yoga leader Ilchi Lee created the Korean Institute of Brain Science, a group that claimed it could train children to “read” colors of cards inside opaque envelopes, using “Heightened Sensory Perception.” Because I had experience in these matters and because I was officemate with a physician who was also a Dahn member, I was able to run a test to see whether the extraordinary claims could be proven. They could not.
The kids knew they were failing, the audience had become mostly silent, or sat quietly talking to one another. The kids began to get up more, ate even more candy, exercised more. But no change. Most guesses were misses.
Eventually, after it became clear that nothing more was going to happen, Sung told me he was going to stop the experiment out of concern for the kids’ anxiety. The remaining trials would be marked down as misses.
Sung stepped up and announced the trial’s ending. The audience understood, and clearly felt for the kids.
The Dahn organization has just been hit with a lawsuit claiming that recruits “are unknowingly subjected to an intensive program of psychological manipulation, indoctrination and various techniques of coercive thought reform designed to induce them to become Ilchi Lee’s disciples and devote themselves to serving him and his ‘vision.’ ”...
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
It figures. I always loved Dahn Yoga, especially the “light ‘n fit” flavors. Now this.
“Dahn” or not, yoga it ain’t.
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