Landmark Education transformed my life in a way that no self-help book, therapy, religion, or philosophy ever has. I don’t want to devalue any of the personal inner work I have done in my life. But compared to the work I have been doing since the Landmark Forum, I think I was just entertaining a lot of neat philosophies that had no lasting impact on my life.

My friend Deborah told me about the Forum last year and I will admit I was highly skeptical about the things she was telling me. Not that they weren’t real, but just not real for me. I already knew about the concepts she was telling me. I had done lots of work on myself already. I was beyond such programs. She offered something that seemed too outrageous to be real and I didn’t believe it. And I was completely, utterly wrong.

I finally attended the Forum here in Austin. I went into it very jaded about what was possible, but at the same time optimistic. I really did want transformation in my life. I really did want to live as an optimal human being. But I wanted it on my own terms and in my own context. And that is not what the Forum is about.

People talked about the Forum like it was The Matrix: no one could tell you what it was really like; you had to experience it for yourself. I thought, “This is bullshit.” But now, on the other side of things, I know exactly what they meant. The experience is highly subjective. I have seen, read and considered many mind-blowing things, but nothing as miraculous as what I experienced during the Forum. It really did feel like I had been unplugged from the Matrix and witnessed a completely different plane of reality.

People will talk about Landmark in this weird, mystical way. What I saw there was the most hyper-rational, scientifically rigorous examination of reality I had ever known.