Werner Erhard and Associates or WEA was (from February 1981 until 1991) a successor organization to est and precessor organization to Landmark Education (http://www.landmarkeducation.com). Category: New Age Other related archivesLandmark Education, New Age, Werner Erhard, est

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In California in the 1960s, Erhard engaged in a wide variety of spiritual disciplines including Zen Buddhism. Pressman details some of Erhard's connections with Scientology in this and subsequent periods (Pressman, 1993, pages 25 - 26, 30 - 31 and 125 - 126). Erhard had a revelation while driving on U.S. Highway 101 in Marin County, California in 1971. He started to see the world as perfect the way it is and had the insight that his attempts to change or modify either his physical circumstances or his mental outlook had their basis in a conc ...

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The term Landmark Education refers to the corporation Landmark Education LLC and to its commercial operations, which primarily involve the delivery of a series of motivational and self-development courses. Landmark Education LLC refers to the most well-known of its offerings as The Landmark Forum. Landmark Education LLC and its supporters market the company's courses primarily to individuals, while the subsidiary Landmark Education Business Develo ...

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Erhard Seminars Training, or est (always in lower-case), was a controversial New Age large group awareness training (LGAT) seminar program, widespread during the 1970s. Werner Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg) founded est and conducted the first est seminar in San Francisco, California, in October 1971. The company was originally incorporated in 1973 as a non-profit foundation in the State of California under the name of the Foundation for the Realization of Man. An amendment to the articles of incorporatio ...

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John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001) was a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using as his principal tools the isolation tank, dolphin communication and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination. He was a prominent member of the Californian counterculture of scientists, mystics and thinkers that arose in the late 1960s and early 70s. Ram Dass, Werner Erhard, Richard Feynman, Gregory Bateson and Timothy Leary were all frequent visitors to his home. John C. Lilly - Career summar ...

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WEA is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: The Warner/Elektra/Asylum record label, now Warner Music Group. Werner Erhard and Associates, a successor organisation to est and precursor to Landmark Education. World Evangelical Alliance World Esperanto Association Workers' Educational Association The Wea were a Native

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Landmark Education Corporation ("LEC"), originally set up under that name in 1991, became "Landmark Education LLC" in February 2003. Landmark Education Corporation acquired certain rights to the form and content of the course previously known as "The Forum" from Werner Erhard and Associates (WEA -- the corporate successor of Erhard Seminars Training - better known as "est" ). The new owners, some of them former staff-members of WEA, renamed the course "The Landmark Forum" and reduced the duration from two weekends to three full days p ...

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Landmark Education states that "[a] fundamental principle of its work is that people and the communities, organizations, and institutions with which they are engaged have the possibility not only of success, but also of fulfillment and greatness". Landmark Education makes that claim that "[i]n independent research, graduates of Landmark's programs report major positive results in the following areas: The quality of their relationships. The confidence with which they conduct their lives. The level of their perso ...

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Landmark Education courses generally take place in large, carefully-prepared rooms and involve 100 to 200 attendees listening to lectures, engaging in dialogue, and participating in exercises. Volunteer workers keep the room clean and tidy, set out the chairs in neat rows, replenish the drinking water and hand out any required supplies and notes. (See Kopp's academic analysis (Kopp, 2003) of the Landmark Forum milieu for an analysis of the delivery-setup and his opinions on the importance of Landmark Educat ...

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Structurally, Landmark Education as an organization comprises an international employee-owned company with more than half its offices in North America. Landmark Education employees and, in some cases, graduates from Landmark Education's courses own all the stock, with no single individual holding more than 3%. The company does not distribute dividends, so any profits go either to expand the operation generally worldwide or to subsidise courses in countries such as Kenya, South Africa and India (thus rend ...

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Critics of Landmark Education make accusations which generally fall into one or more of these areas: Questioning whether the courses do really produce worthwhile benefits (discussed in the section above) Suggesting that participating in the programs may have harmful consequences Speculating that the Landmark Education system may exploit customers (financially or otherwise) See also:

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As noted above, Landmark Education claims that the majority of course participants report dramatic results in the areas of communication, confidence, personal relationships, productivity and effectiveness. Landmark Education - Post hoc?. Some critics dispute whether the Landmark Forum actually produces the reported results, and speculate that participants have an improvement in their life and wron ...

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One participant, James Slee, died during a seminar, and his family sued the organization. Other participants had breakdowns. These were very rare occurrences and causation was never established. In 1976 the IRS indicted Harry Margolis on charges of tax fraud on behalf of Werner Erhard and Associates, a charge later dropped. Erhard later sued the IRS for damages and won $200,000. A segment on 60 Minutes portrayed Erhard as physically abusive to his wife and featured accusations by some of his daughters of incest and of physical ...

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Saxony-Anhalt - 1945-1952. 1945 - 1949: Erhard Hübener (LDPD) 1949 - 1952: Werner Bruschke (SED) Saxony-Anhalt - 1990 to date. 1990 - 1991: Gerd Gies (CDU) 1991 - 1993: Werner Münch (CDU) 1993 - 1994: Christoph Bergner (CDU) 1994 - 2002: Reinhard Höppner (SPD) since 2002: Wolfgang Böhmer (CDU) ...

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Est

Founded in 1971 by Werner Erhard (nee Jack Rosenberg), stands for "Erhard's Seminar Training". It is a combination of Yoga, Dale Carnegie, Gurdjieff, Zen Buddhism, Scientology, Sado-Masochism and Self-gratification.

(See also: Est, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

The Forum (Landmark Education's The Forum): Successor to est. Werner Erhard (John Paul Rosenberg) founded it in 1985.

(See also: The Forum, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

est (Erhard Seminars Training, est system): Mystical human potential system founded in 1971 by Scientologist Werner Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg in 1935).

Est included consciousness projection and, in 1985, became The Forum. The Latin word est means it is. Est theory held that everyone is perfect deep down and, in a godlike fashion, creates his or her own reality.

(See also: Erhard Seminars Training, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

The sociologist Max Weber defined charismatic authority, also called charismatic domination, or charismatic leadership, as "resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity, heroism or exemplary character of an individual person, and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained by him". Charismatic authority is one of three forms of authority laid out in Weber's tripartite classification of authority, the other two being traditional authority and rational-legal authority. Charismatic authority - C ...

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The Human Potential Movement came out of the social and intellectual milieu of the 1960s and was formed to promote the cultivation of extraordinary potential believed to be largely untapped in most people. The movement is premised on the belief that through the development of human potential, humans can experience an exceptional quality of life filled with happiness, creativity, and fulfillment. A corollary belief is often that those who begin to unleash this potential will find their actions within society to be directed towards help ...

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