|Date | Title | Publication | Author |
- | 4/18/96 | True Believers| Westword (Denver) | Steve Jackson |
- | 5/18/95 | Unethical Practices of Three Groups in Madison | Thesis
- U of Wisconsin Madison | Jordana Thomadsen|
- | 12/20/94 | 'Cult' activity worries some watchdog groups| Colorado
Daily p1 | Lisa Marshall |
- | 8/7/94 | Firm turns to est guru, still slides | San Diego Union-Tribune
pI2 | Don Bauder |
- | 5/1/94 | The Humbling of John Sculley | Worth | Jesse Kornbluth
|
- | 12/20/93 | Transcript # 996 Interview of President of Church of
Scientology in Response to Erhard | Larry King Live | |
- | 12/8/93 | Transcript # 986 Interview of Werner Erhard | Larry
King Live | |
- | 11/10/93 | Transcript #419 Interview of Beth Hanover | Sonya Live
| |
- | 9/1/93 | Power of Babble | Westword (Denver) | Patricia Calhoun
|
- | 4/24/93 | HP Board considers "cult" training for students
| Michigan Citizen | Ron Seigel |
- | 2/1/93 | White Collar Cults | Self p120 | Dirk Mathison |
- | 1/1/93 | Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard
from est to Exile | Book | Steven Pressman |
- | 1/1/93 | The Siren Call of Modern Pied Pipers | Employee Assistance
| Lawrence A. Pile |
- | 1/1/93 | Influence: The New Psychology of Modern Persuasion |
Book | Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. |
- | 12/6/92 | Psychiatrists concerned as 'guru of gurus' heads for
Hongkong | South China Morning Post p1 | Perter Woolrich |
- | 11/30/92 | Suit Against New-Age Groups Hit Snags | Legal Times
p14 | Steven Pressman |
- | 11/11/92 | Success rate of Western Youth Ranch program questioned|
News-Times, Newport, OR| Pierre LaBossiere|
- | 11/4/92 | Youth ranch director pursues vision; opponents continue
investigation| News Guard - Lincoln City, OR | Pam Geddes |
- | 7/23/92 | Seminars leave firms divided & Mercinary Mindbogglers
| The London Times | Ray Clancy |
- | 7/22/92 | Mind game courses aimed at public sector workers | The
London Times | Ray Clancy |
- | 7/22/92 | New Age guru goes into hiding| The London Times | Ben
Macintyre |
- | 7/21/92 | Professionals fall prey to New Age gurus | The London
Times | Ray Clancy |
- | 7/21/92 | Mind games lure victims into baring their souls | The
London Times | Ray Clancy |
- | 7/16/92 | Woman wins suit over ill effects of self-help course
(FORUM) | Washington Times pB8 | Kristan Metzler |
- | 7/16/92 | Est Founder Is Ordered To Pay $380,000 for Fraud (Clarification
7/31/92 pA2) | Washington Post pB7 | |
- | 7/7/92 | A Cult of Victims | Newsday p37 | M. G. Lord |
- | 7/7/92 | Self-Help Course Allegedly Shattered a Life | Washington
Post | Robert F. Howe |
- | 6/14/92 | Youth program raises concern | Austin American-Statesman
| Pamela Ward |
- | 6/1/92 | Mixing Lawyers and Cults| California Bar Magazine p22,24
| Steven Pressman |
- | 3/16/92 | Cults: If You Can't Beat 'em . . .| The Recorder p2
| Stephen G. Hirsch|
- | 3/9/92 | Taking Cults to Court for Psychological Injuries | New
Jersey Law Review p4 | Steven Pressman |
- | 2/11/92 | Few agencies interested in est-like program | The Columbus
Dispatch | Sylvia Brooks |
- | 2/10/92 | Agency spends $4,800 on 'cultlike' seminars | The Columbus
Dispatch | Sylvia Brooks |
- | 1/1/92 | 60 Minutes and the Assassination of Werner Erhard| Book
| Jane Self, Ph.D. |
- | 1/1/92 | Mind Cults Invade The Boardroom | Candian Business |
Arthur Johnson |
- | 12/29/91 | Founder of est Targeted in Campaign by Scientologists
| Los Angeles Times | Robert W. Welkos |
- | 9/2/91 | Wandering Werner | Forbes p10 | Graham Button |
- | 8/1/91 | IRS Accuses est Head of Tax Dodging | Los Angeles Times
| |
- | 7/31/91 | IRS Says Personal Growth Guru Is Mastermind of Money
Shams | San Francisco Daily Journal | Rex Bossert |
- | 7/31/91 | Erhard Owes $5.5 Million, Tax Court Says | San Francisco
Examiner pA6 | Seth Rosenfeld |
- | 7/10/91 | Out of the hot tub into the fire, Werner Erhard of "est"
loses to the IRS | Wall Street Journal A,1:5 | |
- | 4/30/91 | Erhard posts a partial victory | San Francisco Examiner
| Staff Reporter |
- | 4/12/91 | IRS puts lien on Erhard's assets | San Francisco Examiner
| |
- | 3/27/91 | Guru Erhard Accused of Trying to Hide Assets| Los Angeles
Times D2 | Martha Groves |
- | 3/26/91 | More Legal Woes for Erhard:...sale of est founder's
seminar business was fraudulent | The San Francisco Chronicle | Don Lattin
|
- | 3/3/91 | Est founder's daughter says Erhard molested her, raped
her sister | San Jose Mercury News | John Hubner |
- | 3/3/91 | Interview with some of Erhard's staff & family |
60 Minutes | |
- | 2/18/91 | The Sorrows of Werner | Newsweek p72 | D.Gelman, P.
Abramson,|
- | 1/6/91 | FAMILY AFFAIRS Werner Erhard's daughters speak out |
Marin Independent Journal F1| Nikki Meredith |
- | 1/6/91 | Previous Troubles of the 'King of Transformation'| Marin
Independent Journal E4| Nikki Meredith |
- | 1/1/91 | Book with references to the FORUM | Combatting Cult Mind
Control| Steve Hassan|
- | 6/18/90 | Werner, dearest. . .Some former employees say WE&A
operates more like a cult . . . | Marin Independent Journal D6| Nikki Meredith
|
- | 1/26/90 | Ex-Employee Sues est for $2 Million | San Francisco
Chronicle| Don Lattin |
- | 1/7/90 | Heidegger for Fun and Profit | NY Times| |
- | 5/28/89 | Erhard went from encyclopedia sales to marketing 'it'
| Palm Beach (Florida) Post | |
- | 1/9/89 | Employers' 'New Age' Training Programs Lead to Lawsuits
Over Workers' Rights | Wall Street Journal | Martha Brannigan |
- | 6/17/88 | Karma for Cash: A "New Age" for Workers? |
Christianity Today| Steve Rabey |
- | 5/15/88 | Werner's World Of Wonders | San Jose Mercury News |
Mark MacNamara |
- | 5/1/88 | Guru II: the return of Werner Erhard | Los Angeles Magazine
p106(9)| Mark MacNamara |
- | 3/1/88 | EST Leaders Recharge the Batteries of a New Clientele
| The New York Times E7 | Mark Landler|
- | 2/1/88 | Feeding a Myth The Hunger Project has raised millions
& critcs wonder where $ went | uptheCreek | Andrew Simons |
- | 1/1/88 | Getting it and Losing It| SCP Journal Vol, 8:1 | Carol
Giambalbo |
- | 1/1/88 | The Forum: est in the heir | SCP Journal Vol, 8:1 | Carol
Giambalvo |
- | 1/1/88 | The Hunger Project: Inside Out | SCP Journal Vol, 8:1
| Carol Giambalbo w/ Robert |
- | 11/1/87 | The Dumb EST Plan To End Hunger | Willamette Week p4
| Bill Redden |
- | 11/1/87 | Trying To Bend Managers' Minds | Fortune p95(6) | Jeremy
Main |
- | 5/4/87 | Corporate Mind Control | Newsweek| |
- | 3/1/87 | Est Gets Dressed for Success | Venture | Robert Bell
|
- | 2/20/87 | A workout at the Forum: you can faint, cry - even vomit
| The Gazette (Montreal) | |
- | 2/20/87 | Tough Policy Urged In Report on Cult Threats in Israel|
The Jewish Floridian | Hugh Orgel |
- | 2/20/87 | Hunger Project' involves no food, just a taste of 'commitment'
| The Gazette (Montreal) | Caitlin Kelly |
- | 1/1/87 | est Revisited | New Woman | Neil Chesanow |
- | 10/12/86 | Werner Erhard once sold instant enlightenment to confused
people. Now he's peddling | San Francisco (CA) Examiner | Mark Dowie |
- | 6/1/86 | Checking up on est | Cosmopolitan p232(5) | Ralph Gardner
Jr.|
- | 5/16/86 | The reincarnation of est| Christianity Today p21 | |
- | 11/18/85 | The winds of Werner (w/ side bar on the Hunger Project)
| Forbes p42(4)| Richard Behar & Ralph King Jr. |
- | 10/1/85 | A Critique of "The Forum" | The Cult Observer
| Carol Giambalvo |
- | 4/1/85 | Werner Erhard | Interview p54(3) | John Duka & Kezia
Keeble |
- | 9/24/84 | His Wife & Former Followers Question the Human Potential
of est Guru Werner Erhard | People Weekly p41(2) | Maria Wilhelm |
- | 12/1/82 | The moral logic of alternative religions | Daedalus
p185(29) | Steven M. Tipton |
- | 9/1/80 | No Sacred Cows ($1.2million to race cars through a non-profit,tax
exempt company) | Mother Jones p14 | |
- | 8/22/80 | The Business of Teaching Children They're in Charge
of Their Lives | New York Times D15| Nadine Joseph |
- | 7/28/80 | est takes crash course in film | New West p5(1) | Laura
Bernstein |
- | 4/7/80 | Est Experiment Splits Rural Town | Daily Pilot (Costa
Mesa CA)p A26 | |
- | 3/29/80 | Running hurts, but oh, that est | Boston Globe p.1 |
Susan Slavet|
- | 12/26/79 | The Hunger Project and est: close ties | Christian
Century p1293(2) | David Hoekema |
- | 11/25/79 | Scientologist Plot Revealed | Denver Post p47 | |
- | 7/23/79 | est's Big Wheel Werner Erhard proves team effort is
"it", but winning would feel even | People Weekly p38(2) | Allan
Ripp |
- | 5/6/79 | Est Spinoff Takes Over Nursing Home | Our Town (WestChester
NY) p3| |
- | 5/5/79 | est's secret weapon (R. Buckminster Fuller) | Science
News p300(2) | Susan West |
- | 4/11/79 | Tax Report/A Special Summary and Forecast of Fed&State
Tax Developments | Wall Street Journal | |
- | 4/1/79 | The thousand dollar consciousness | Mother Jones p6 |
Dan Noyes |
- | 2/3/79 | Bad Vibes From est | Saturday Review p7| |
- | 12/1/78 | Let them eat est (the Hunger Project) | Mother Jones
p40(10) | Suznne Gordon |
- | 11/6/78 | Hunger Project nourishing est? | New West p8 | |
- | 10/8/78 | Project Aims To Foster Awareness of Problem | Sunday
Star Ledger (N.J.) p56 | Scott Minerbrook |
- | 10/1/78 | The indescribable experience (Erhard Seminars Training)
| Human Behavior p14(2) | |
- | 9/8/78 | There's a Famine in the Hunger Project | Philadelphia
Daily News| Pete Dexter |
- | 8/23/78 | Est Participant Dies | Daily Pilot (Costa Mesa CA) A5
| |
- | 7/24/78 | What Has est Done for Us Lately? | New York p29(6) |
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |
- | 7/23/78 | Est Participant Dies | Costa Mesa CA Daily Pilot | |
- | 6/1/78 | Obervations on 67 Patients Who Took Erhard Seminars Training
| Am J. Psychiatry 135:6 | Justin Simon, M.D. |
- | 5/5/78 | Group Works To End World Hunger | Denver Post | George
W. Cornell|
- | 3/1/78 | Methodology for studying discrimination based on sexual
orientation | Journal of Homosexuality p235 | Lilestrand, Petersen, Robert,
|
- | 2/1/78 | Dissertation-Reported changes in personality, self concept,
and personal problems | CA School of Prof. Psychology SD | Jeffrey A. Weiss
|
- | 1/14/78 | EST Graduates claim myriad benefits - researchers find
psychological dangers | Science News p27(2) | Joel Greenberg |
- | 1/1/78 | Werner Erhard The Transformation of a Man: The Founding
of est 158 E67zbar c1978 | Book-Werner Erhard| William Warren Bartley,
III|
- | 10/10/77 | Werner Erhard Thinks He Can Feed the World | The Village
Voice (N.Y.) p1 | Alexander Cockburn&James |
- | 5/9/77 | est-erical behavior? (psychoses inducing) | Newsweek
p95 | |
- | 4/24/77 | Psychosis Reported In Some Who Took Awareness Training|
New York Times | Jane Brody |
- | 3/1/77 | Psychiatric Disturbances Associated with Erhard Seminars
Training I. A Report of Cases | Am J Psychiatry 134:3 | Glass, Kirsch,
Frederick and |
- | 2/13/77 | Shredding of Records at IRS Office May Endanger Major
Tax Fraud Case | L A Times | David Johnston |
- | 1/21/77 | The serpentine serenity of est | Christianity Today
p13(3) | Kevin Garvey|
- | 1/14/77 | We're all OK - probably | Philadelphia Inquirer | Dorothy
Storck |
- | 1/1/77 | Getting It: The Psychology of est | Book | Sheridan Fenwick
Ph.D.|
- | 1/1/77 | You are what you est | Playboy p109 | Dan Greenburg |
- | 1/1/77 | How est didn't change my life| Redbook p47(4) | Judith
Viorst |
- | 1/1/77 | The Book of est | Book | Luke Rhinehart, |
- | 11/10/76 | Secular salvation: life change through | Christian
Century p981 | John Ruskin Clark|
- | 9/6/76 | Getting Your Head Together | Newsweek p56 | Kenneth L.
Woodward |
- | 8/1/76 | Books: salesman of serenity | Psychology Today p62 |
Colin Campbell |
- | 6/1/76 | Behind The Couch | Today's Viewpoint | Mark O. Freeman
Ph.D.|
- | 6/1/76 | Est Finds Success in Crowded Self-Help Field By Charging
Steep Fees, Abusing Customers | Wall Street Journal p36| Roy J. Harris
Jr.|
- | 5/20/76 | est Is An Individual Thing | Main Line Times (Radnor,
PA)| |
- | 5/2/76 | Pay attention, Turkeys! | New York Times Magazine p44
| Leo Litwak |
- | 3/19/76 | Fuhrer over est | New Times p36| Jesse Kornbluth |
- | 3/8/76 | How to Stop Worrying and Learn the Love the ESTablishment
| The Village Voice (N.Y.) p10| Terri Schultz |
- | 2/10/76 | EST-Can It Make You Happy? | Circus Issue #127 p45 |
Stan Mieses |
- | 12/29/75 | In the wake of TM and Zen, a former encyclopedia huckster
is the smooth guru of est | People p60 | |
- | 12/1/75 | Power of positive eyewash | Forbes p22 | |
- | 10/1/75 | Est! Est! Est!| Mademoiselle p174 | Lisa Schwarzbaum
|
- | 10/1/75 | New narcissism| Harper's p45 | Peter Marin |
- | 8/1/75 | We're Gonna Tear You Down and Put You Back Together"
| Psychology Today p35 | Mark Brewer |
- | 8/1/75 | The Case for est | Psychology Today p38 | Richard P.
Marsh |
- | 2/17/75 | Getting it | Newsweek p46 | Linda Bird Francke and others
|
- | 10/18/74 | Does Werner Erhard have the answer? | New Times p39|
Marcia Seligson |
- | 1/1/61 | Thought Reform And The Psychology of Totalism (especially
Ch. 22&23) | Book | Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. |