Bøger af Andrew LeCompte

A compelling and powerful account of the abuse and trauma experienced by Andrew LeCompte during his time in a spiritual community, based on the massively popular self-study book A Course in Miracles. "This gripping memoir demonstrates how an intelligent man can be gradually seduced by a cult."- Dr. STEVEN HASSAN A lack of love in an authoritarian household sparked Andrew's lifelong search for love and belonging. His AA sponsor introduced him to A Course in Miracles, which Andrew studied deeply for twenty years. Then a celebrated spiritual teacher invited him to edit his first book and join his community. Andrew had been led to believe that he was chosen to find the Love of God. After a heart-rending parting from his family, he moved to Utah and joined the community.He had some amazing early experiences while teaching the Course in Mexico, Spain, Hawaii, and Canada, some of them leading him to believe he that he was indeed finding the Love of God. But after six years of mistreatment, being coerced out of over $200,000, and emotional manipulation, Andrew found no real love, and certainly no miracles there. He believed that he had burned all his bridges, but a loving message from his son helped Andrew to escape the cult and begin recovery. Tragically, he found his son dead on the floor a few years later. Andrew went through intense but highly effective mental health programs and emerged finally free of cultic mind control.Ironically, he then experienced a miracle that brought him the love and happiness he hoped for. This is a must-read first-hand account of a cult survivor who escaped a false spiritual program, based on a movement that has drawn millions of practitioners into its grasp.

In Creating Harmonious Relationships, a Practical Guide to the Power of True Empathy, you will learn how tobuild loving intimate relationshipsdevelop and maintain friendshipspositively influence people at workturn conflict into understandingAndrew LeCompte has helped thousands of people to communicate more effectively and more lovingly. In this book he presents "true empathy," the key to understanding and communicating with people. With it you will experience the joy and contentment of harmonious relationships. Creating Harmonious Relationships: a Practical Guide to the Power of True Empathy Revised Edition is empowering in a heartfelt way. It teaches the reader how to communicate wisely and effectively with other people. The basic technique is easy to grasp, and it is taught in a step-by step manner. It teaches how to listen in a way that invites the other person to open up and disclose what is really bothering them while also encouraging them to cast what might be their negative complaint into a positive hope. This is the use of "true empathy." It is particularly useful in defusing an argument when emotions are running high. "True empathy" involves first acknowledging the other person's feeling state, as in "Are you upset because...?" This guess shows concern for the other person's feeling state and invites their correction. They might say, "I'm angry at you because you've only been criticizing my idea." Then you guess at what their positive hope might be that is behind their feeling criticized. You might reply, "So you're angry because what you really want is some positive support." Then they will supply what their hope is, in this case probably involving some kind of help. Then their emotional energy is defused. Hopes are a key concept in interpersonal communication. We are all motivated to get our hopes met. Hopes are such things as to be heard and understood, to be accepted. These are connection hopes. We also have freedom hopes such as to express our creativity and to be treated with honesty. Hopes are positive needs that can be met without infringing on someone else. They are at the heart of effective conflict resolution. This method of communicating is the culmination of techniques that have been practiced and refined over many decades. Thousands of people have learned and benefited from the first edition of Creating Harmonious Relationships: a Practical Guide to the Power of True Empathy.The book was sold out and the Revised Edition came out in January 2024.