On Tue, 03 May 2011 07:53:08 -0700, Michael Sylvester wrote: >Back in the sixties there was a movement called EST.
Technically, "Erhard Seminars Training" first began in October 1971 in the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco. Training seminars apparently stopped being held in 1984. A little more history as well as some "famous" graduates of EST are available on the EST website: http://www.erhardseminarstraining.com/?page_id=671 There's a Wikipedia entry (yadda-yadda) but it contains limited information; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training >I think it was an offshoot of Ellis' Rational Emotive Therapy. Almost everything but RET. However, it appears one might be able to trace EST's background to Korzybski's General Semantics and you can get to Ellis from there. For background on Korzybski, see his Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski >Anyway,it was said that people would pay a large sum of money >to attend one session of est somewhere in California. EST seminars would be held in different part of the US and eventually in other countries. There was even a prison program based on EST that is referenced in the Wikipedia entry on Erhard Seminars Training. >Then after they were seated at the lecture hall,someone from the >movement would get on stage and say something like this " How stupid >you are to pay all that money.Now go home.That's it!" >Was that true of some aspect of the est approach? Given that the seminars took a long time (60 hours over two weekends according to Wikipedia) and bathroom breaks were banned (a controversial practice which got media play), it's unlikely that that the "Now go home" comment you provide would be made, unless it was made at the very end of the seminar. But there is a literature about EST and you'd be better off reading the articles and books about EST -- Wikipedia provides some references as well as looking at what is provided on the Skeptic's Dictionary website: http://www.skepdic.com/est.html -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=10376 or send a blank email to leave-10376-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
