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The Binge. The Binge. Before we get started, I just want to let you know that we do discuss suicide in this episode. So please listen with care. Glenn Cooley was a student at North Texas State when he met Terry. He started showing up at CDBMS meetings before he could even drink alcohol. He was that young.
Sandy Brown here. He wasn't super tall, 5'8", 5'9". You know, he had a very kind of calming voice.
Glenn dropped out of college to be with her, and soon he became Terry's right-hand man. He was 20 years old when they wed. She was more than 10 years his senior. So Terry had the upper hand in that way. But she was also his spiritual teacher, the one guiding his development, telling him how to think in counseling sessions.
I got some insight into how Terry was behind closed doors with students, thanks to those taped consultations with a follower named Dorothy. Terry could be charming, affable, a cheerleader if something good happened in your life, but also spent an awful lot of time telling Dorothy what to think. This went way beyond wanting to be revered as a teacher.
At one point, it seems Terry was able to convince Dorothy that she had temporarily lost control of her own mind.
I was wondering, too, has anyone taken any of my faculties? No.
Oh.
Nobody else. I got your faculties back. Oh. You already got them back. I'm still in the process of working with them, but for the general purposes, we've got most of them back. Oh, that's quite a process, I understand. Well, that's wonderful. Yes, it is. It's nice to have your faculty back. Yeah, you're a busy, busy being.
If she had this much control over any old student, it's hard to imagine how much sway she had over Glenn, a young man who was totally dependent on her, who used to sit close to her in group meditations so he could hold her hand. It must have been quite an unwelcome surprise for Terry when Glenn started thinking for himself, started questioning whether Terry was actually full of shit.
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