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This site has been created by people who have a first hand experience of both Werner Erhard and the Est Training. Between 1971 and 1984 the Est Training was enormously popular and made a very powerful impact on nearly 1 million people. This site seeks to tell the story of the lasting impact of the Est Training, Werner Erhard and the nearly 1 million graduates of est on organizations, society, and the world.
For more information on Werner Erhard and the influence of the Est Training visit www.wernererhard.com.
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Thought you’d might like to know about two articles about Werner and est that I published in Quest Magazine:
1) “This is it: est, 20 years later”:
http://www.eliezersobel.com/est.html
2) “This is Still it: est, 30 years later”
http://theosophical.org/publications/questmagazine/mayjun06/Sobel/index.php
Also, there is an extensive chapter about Werner and the est training in my new book, The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist’s Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics and Other Consciousness-Raising Adventures
http://www.the99thmonkey.com
Thanks–
Eliezer Sobel
I have been thinking about “Where is Werner and what’s he doing now?” for some time. My life is a statement as to the power of “the training” even though I have not been engaged actively in any structured program or seminars for one very long time.
My comment is that I am so pleased that suddently there seems to be some information that is atleast semi-positive about who he was/is and what he did. This is a story of the “implementor” Werner and the “implementees” all of us whose lives were touched in some way by what he did.
I hope where ever he is and whatever he is doing now that he has great satisfaction. From this person’s point of view, he more than deserves it.
I did the teen training in 1975 in Aptos, California. I got it. I still get it. Grass is green and it doesn’t care that you know it.
It’s good to find this site and others seeking to promote the positives of est and Werner’s work. I took the training in 1976, all the seminars, including the 6-day, and lastly Mastery of Empowerment in 1989. I continue to use what I learned from all this (and lots of assisting too!) in my personal & professional life. Re the latter, I promote taking responsibility in my psychotherapy practice as well as in the anger management & domestic violence groups I run in Marin County, California. Thank you for giving voice to parts of my experience I haven’t heard referenced directly in a long time!
Hi, I am a participant at Landmark Education. Since seeing the Transformation movie, I have been curious about the guru briefly shown in a photo in the movie. A Forum Leader was finally able to answer my question. She is pretty sure it is Bhuktananda, who was her family’s guru’s guru in India. Today, I am searching online for Bhuktananda to no avail. Does anyone have any info whatsoever about him & how he is linked to Werner, est, Landmark etc? Thank you.