CHecking this Gentle Wynd group out on their garish site and they
bear a strong resemblance to scientology, especially with the trauma
products they promote all over their site alongside photos of the
traumatized. Quite odd. I copy here a posting from elsewhere so that
you people can see how this is. The lawsuit seems the same script
also, so they must be following a screenplay. Your group may attempt
to morph into a religion to escape censure by authorities next. All
in all these trauma chasers are empty of respectibility. Here goes:


Scientology started off, not as a religion at all, but as a
pseudoscientific practice, Dianetics, that made all kinds of
grandiose claims about mental health. It only turned into
a "religion" and became Scientology after Hubbard had to find a way
to get out of danger of being charged with making unfounded claims
he could get in trouble for. By making it a religion, he protected
himself from that. That way, anyone who criticized it could be
written off as a "bigot".

They've been around since 1950 and have been making bogus mental
health claims that have nothing to do with religion. Their relief
efforts preceded the current fad of trauma tourism.

In SE Asia last January around the time of the tsunami, many of the
governments affected were turning away these trauma ghouls. People
did not need this. What they needed was material assistance and
reassurance that most people are resilient and will get through it.
The last thing they needed was to be used to promote the
latest "power" therapy.

Scientologists show up at the scenes of many disasters. They tried
to go to Russia to offer "help" to children traumatized at the
school tragedy at Beslan and ended up getting kicked out, and also
were on the scene after 9/11 and the Oklahoma City Bombing. This is
a classic tactic that cults and other pseudoscientific practices use
in order to promote themselves as doing good deeds. Sally Satel even
gave it a name: trauma tourism. They're using disasters and the
tragedy of others to "spread the word".

Scientology is not the only group that has descended on tsunami
victims and offered unsolicited "help". What's particularly alarming
is that some of these trauma methods have been shown in some
cases/studies to do more harm than good.

What is up with these groups and the tsunami? People who are
traumatized are extremely vulnerable to exploitation. A lot of these
groups have very cultish tendencies -- and indeed Lifton and some of
the early works that cult awareness is based on were trying to
explain this.