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The compleat Site Map to LandmarkEducation dot com: The Whole Enchilada!
LEC Official Positions on Controversy and Misunderstandings by the Media is now on...Werner Ehrard dot com
Books, Newspaper ArticlesWhen Landmark Education changed their website, any links that I had included from them broke. So bear with me while I fiddle with them...and the rest of the site while I'm here...
 for Positive articles about the Forum housed on LEC property
Book about the Forum 1997 (it's in German) Das Forum Soul Training THE BOSTON GLOBE • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1999 Abcnews dot com article Aug 13 2004 'Transformation’ in a Weekend? Based on EST, the Landmark Forum Says It Can Help People Become Happier and More Productive By Oliver Libaw
Sunday 14 December 2003 The Observer So what is the Landmark Forum? And what does it do? Amelia Hill decided to find out. What she discovered about the Forum–and about herself– will surprise you
The Con-Forumist Swing Generation, November 1998 By Jana Martin with links added to cult-test categories. My PRIME TIME dot com EXPERT ADVICE : Landmark Education Exclusive Interview: Over the Weekend, a New You
Exclusive Interview: Does Your Company Have (Gossip) Cancer?
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Book: Virus of the Mind by Richard Brodie Start reading it online, today!
Richard is a Forum Graduate with a memetic view of the Forum. In his own words, "The Forum is a virus of the mind - a cultural "organism" that infects people and programs them to spread itself. That's what my book is about. "Huge bibliography of academic references from
Coercive persuasion and attitude change by J.
Ofshe
Steve's
Primer of Practical Persuasion and Influence
by Steven Booth-Butterfield Associate Professor Ed.D. (West Virginia University) Specialization: Mass communication, persuasion
The
Battle for Your Mind, by Dick Sutphen:
Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today An introduction to the craft of persuasive speaking and the mechanics of group hypnosis.
Polls as Persuasion Tools
One of the most respected of all pollsters is Committee of 300 member Daniel Yankelovich, of the company, Yankelovich, Skelley and White. Yankelovich is proud to tell his students that polling is a tool to change public opinion, although this is not original, Yankelovich having drawn his inspiration from David Naisbett's book "TREND REPORT" which was commissioned by the Club of Rome.The Transition Times: est to The Forum
Common
Boundary article details Erhard's new work with Roman Catholic priests
and nuns in Ireland. In the March/April 1994 issue an interesting article
appears "Controversial '70s self-help guru Werner Erhard's life today."
" Between Spirituality and Psychotherapy" by Dan Wakefield.
The Episcopalian connection continues.
Book:
Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard From est to Exile,by
Steven Pressman, published by St. Martin's Press.
Christian Research Institute News Watch: Werner Erhard Flees
Werner Erhard Flees in the Wake of Tax Liens and Child Abuse Allegations Quotes San Jose Mercury New, Newsweek, 60 minutes, Philadelphia Inquirer, JPUSA, Fortune Magazine, Also Contained in the Article Boston Movement and the Unification Church,
Update
on Erhard Tax Story..contributed by Paul Rubin.
Business Wire. from Sept 11, 1996 "The Internal Revenue Service today settled for $200,000 in a damage suit Werner Erhard brought against the IRS for false statements IRS spokesmen made to the press about his tax information in April, 1991."
Legal Search for Werner Erhard and Landmark/est:
How was Landmark Education founded?
The Name Change
Werner Erhard and est
(is that better, Art?)
Books
Articles
- What connection does Werner Erhard and est have to Scientology?
An
LA Times article from Sunday, December 29, 1991. gets posted every
once in a while on a.r.s. explaining the background.
Nifty collection of Copyrighted news articles about Erhard from 1992-1975
Essays and Critiques
- Mellow Out Or You Will Pay: A Magical Mystery
Tour Of The Psyche With Werner Erhard And est
Robert Farr Argus Magazine, December 1980 Sharp edged Article on
est from the alt.support.ex-cult Archives
"Pam Ableidinger, Ph.D., has been a licensed Clinical Psychologist since 1982 and a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor since 1980. She works with individuals, couples, and groups with a special focus on healing from abusive work environments. Pam also currently facilitates a therapy group whose focus is healing the inner child. ....
She also has worked as an Employee Assistant Program Counselor at Werner Erhard and Associates (1982-85) and as a personal organizational assistant to Werner Erhard from 1985 to 1989. It is Pam's years of personal involvement in this organization that promoted her current focus on recovery from abusive work environments. She currently counsels many who have left WE & A and who are seeking to heal from the experience. "
Sources
- Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich
- Maxwell Maltz and Self Image Psychology
- The Hypnotic State of Normal Consciousness
- Beyond Success
- A Short Course In Zen
- Church or Education Corporation
-
Tilman
Hausherr's home page Contains well done Scientology links, His Cult
Watch Group Ex-cult Support Groups set of links is excellent. And the page
is entertaining to boot!
- And his ProCo$ Links. a must stop by, shows lots of front groups
In the
FGA Newsletter
Six articles based on Werner Erhard by W. W. Bartley III, Potter, 1978
Heidegger
for Fun and Profit by Anthony Gottlieb Copyright (c) 1990 The New York
Times Company; The New York Times January 7, 1990, Sunday, Late Edition
- Final
A discussion of Existentialism
as it applies to Landmark Forum or the other way around.
More on Heidegger...The book is "Heidegger and Nazism" by Victor Farias (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1989) ISBN 0-87722-640-7
Zen
Alan Watts books from The Alan Watts Library of the Alan Watts Electronic UniversityScientology
and others
Silva International, The Original Silva MethodPutting it all in Context
Political, Historical
Philosophy
Religion
- Psychology
of Religion by Michael E. Nielsen, Ph.D.
Give up everything that you've learned a highly entertaining and original site
Psychology
Social
Influence: The Science of Persuasion & Compliance by Kelton Rhoads
A
superior site, thoughtful and well designed
from the Skeptical Inquirer / May 1995
Our brains and nervous systems constitute a belief-generating machine, a system that evolved to assure not truth, logic, and reason, but survival. The belief engine has seven major components.
New Physics
- Chapter 8 of
The Turning Point - Fritjof Capra (1982)
Mountain Man Graphics presents an incredible site. a must visit.
Small Island of Inner Space
Sociology
- In light of the tragedy of the Heaven's Gate Suicides, it would be
beneficial for each person to take 5 minutes and reflect on their belief
system. Does it serve you well, or do you serve it? Run a reality check
on yourself. And get outside feedback from persons outside your loop or
circle of influence...
- So you think you're Immune? Read on.
Principles
of Social Psychology in Group Involvement by Gerald (Gary) Peterson, Ph.D.
" By trying to see "them" as different from "us" we may feel unique,
and invulnerable to such social influence, but also shield our own beliefs
from the kind of critical analysis needed. Most college- level textbooks
in Social Psychology can provide further information about the principles
of social influence. However, the important lesson is to take responsibility
for periodically reviewing those taken-for-granted beliefs we have picked
up from the groups to which we belong. "
Alien Guide to Human Nature Translated by Timothy DeVinney
"A short guide to human psychology from the point of view of outsiders, translated from an intercepted broadcast between alien trading and exploration modules. "
an extremely clever and amusing site analysing human nature from the point of view of a enslaving alien race...
Corporate Culture and trainings
Landmark
Education Corporation: Selling a Paradigm Shift
by Karen Hopper Wruck and Mikelle Fisher Eastly
Dated 11/3/97 # 9-898-081 To order copies ($5.00) 1-800-545-7685 (c) 1997 the President & Fellows of Harvard College.
From the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center Web Site an article...
The Siren Call of Modern Pied Pipers
by Lawrence A. Pile
- "In May 1989 eight former employees of the DeKalb Farmers Market in
Georgia also accepted an out-of-court settlement of their suit against
their former employer charging that they had been fired for refusing to
attend a training program they claimed promoted New Age ideas and techniques.
Paradigm shift anyone?
The New Age Movement
Esalen et cetera
- The
Esalen-est Connection
- History of PCRG "PCRG was co-founded by Jack Sarfatti and Michael Murphy at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California in 1974. Financed by Werner Erhard,..."
- Michael Murphy; Divine Reinvention
- New York Times Article Pretty Wild
- The Parsifal Effect
Sarfatti
In
the Thick of It! Sarfatti's Illuminati
Well, much to my surprise...It's been updated now containing MUCH MORE
than a brief appearance by Werner Erhard.Other People, Places and Things
Awareness
is just a mouse click away
- An ever growing list of McTrainings includes a fine section on the
Forum
The Big List of Reading Lists aka the Bodacious Bibliography
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Mysticism in World Religions
An extraordinary web site that " compares the mystical traditions of
Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taosim."
An extraordinary web site that " compares the mystical traditions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taosim."
Idea: A journal of social issues
A five star site. Excellent!Wanna go on a Snark Hunt? Incredible site