As 'Brights' begin to Hit this Tablet of Formal Reign I blast the Meteor to your Laptops lane,
by Wares your Brains have bin and a Task is the Heavy Tack I carry on thorough to a Breed,
in that Frankly announced I top the Chart with the thievery of lives at Suicide,
this Country & Worldwide the Width of demise at the Hands of Cost are Counted Hi!!
On the back of my own Pact to the Flame of the Rings of Fire I bellow At the Minds of Apathy,
this world wears that label like the Rip of Man on the barrel of Neck in Neck to the Hanging of Eden,
on the rope of Soaking the dripping sweat from that Shave of a blister James Blunt is Marrow to tech.,
for Compute the Foundation to The Scene of the Cross the intersect of X at the Y in Zee Trued,
formation of the Troops of Gog at the Mass of count go tell a Beach the Sands dollared.
No fossil return for the Oils of tar have Fueled the Dragons on Flights to the Firey Sky burn Sats.,
the intrusion on Home to the introduction of the Cell Phone in the Spinal tap that connects this Wired,
corn is the Patty of the patty Cake Circus for Worlds Apart social this Engagement at the Fourth Horse,
in the Sing A Long a harnessed Control did Bridle the bit in the collection on this Tell blog Post,
nail striked Nail with the Hammer of Worth for in each a Para of a Phrase to Ancient lens in 3rd's,
that truth being My Brother is of Handler in the mention of very Strong to this Band!!
Carter the years with a Clinton on nerve that what you never did Swallow for that was inhaled,
down goes the Joke to up rises Trouble for back on the News is the Cock and the Roost,
making Handbags by leather to talk on the Media for that Tunnels the ripe like the CBS Tonight.
Challenge the Factors with the Elective of choice the Only nose treated is the negative deviced,
cram in with Pen that gate off to Stile for the pasture is Fed while the People have violence,
on the bullets that Flew to the Rubber Boot dues Mucking on Stalls that harvested Ra.
Sun shine this Tip to the little Big dipped for that was At Set just as Isis is read,
brought over by circumspect to Teach my son Red that badged for the crime I never commit,
a good old fashioned spatula flip for until you Spy How the Haw is a stun,
for in the Math my Son still breathes for the punch that He took he knew to Breathe on the clip,
a sort to the wise with perspective to green as what are the bag piping to ship on the See,
the soylent green a Movie by house in the lamp of the lighting it's a 70's Vice,
motor the Cycle with the Noise on the held for at the In stance the close was at dice,
never behold a Seer gone Sage in the Genius of Savant life will Rite out the Page.
No joke on the ghastly of framed by per say just the chance to bring System to the check off by pay,
my best Friends name was of great engage for Eden Sundown Garrett lived in base of balled days,
strike to the puke that the Bucket list laid Puke that did travel the 30ft lay,
on the factor that Jim Moseley dunked my Best Friends head in toilet while flushing the shit that did saved.
Now on that note of suitable Tray I service this Kindness to the Training at Bay,
in the Jack Tar Hotel on the foot of the Bell came more than you'll know for the prepared had a stow,
at the seen of the done to the practice held tooth my life did the survival for rare is a booth,
on both of the Three in the Triad of Home the anchors came heaving these readies on stone,
tonal at Fillmore the Theater Vibe than skate with Bill Graham to the Golden Gate Stair,
in the Park of the growth Bill held me to Theirs spoke with a softer more certain than bone,
the vehicle chosen to Expression Caboose the paints on the most are the brushes of Lo.
Pitch~Strike~Yor~Outed
Erhard Seminars Training
Erhard Seminars Training (est), an organization founded by Werner H. Erhard, offered a two-weekend (60-hour) course known officially as "The est Standard Training". The purpose of est was "to transform one's ability to experience living so that the situations one had been trying to change or had been putting up with, clear up just in the process of life itself." The est training was offered from late 1971 to late 1984.
Training
The est Standard Training program consisted of two weekend-long workshops with evening sessions on the intervening weekdays, as well as each Wednesday night. Workshops generally involved about two hundred participants and were led by a trainer designated by Erhard and several assistants. Over the course of nine days, participants were cajoled, shouted at, and emotionally battered, until they agreed they had finally "got it" - a state akin to a religious conversion. Participants were instructed not to wear watches, not to talk unless permitted by the trainer, not to leave their seats, not to eat, and not to go to the bathroom except during breaks separated by many hours.
The seminar aimed to enable participants to shift their contextual state of mind around which their life was organized from the attempt to get satisfaction or to survive, to an experience of actually being satisfied and experiencing oneself as whole and complete in the present moment. The est training offered people the opportunity to free themselves from the past, rather than living a life enmeshed by their past. In her book, I, Rhoda, the Emmy-winning actress Valerie Harper reported, "Est was a wonderfully empowering experience for me. It took a lot of struggle and conflict out of my day-to-day decision-making and helped me imbue my life with more focus and intention. ... I was happier, more alive, and everything seemed lighter."
The first est course was held at the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco, California, in October 1971. Within a year, trainings were being held in New York City and other major cities in the United States followed soon after.
Beginning in July 1974 the est training was delivered at the U.S. Penitentiary at Lompoc, California, with the approval of Federal Bureau of Prisons. Initial est training in Lompoc involved participation of 12-15 federal prisoners and outside community members within the walls of the maximum security prison and was personally conducted by Werner Erhard. Among the participants were the mayor of the city of Lompoc and imprisoned political activist Matthew Steen, a Weatherman convicted of federal conspiracy.
By 1979 est had expanded to Europe and other parts of the world. In 1980 the first est training in Israel was offered in Tel Aviv.
The last est training was held in December 1984 in San Francisco; in its place came a newly developed course called "The Forum", which began in January 1985. The est training presented several concepts, most notably the concept of transformation and taking responsibility for one's life. The actual teaching, called "the technology of transformation", emphasizes the value of integrity. "est, Inc." evolved into "est, an Educational Corporation", and eventually into "Werner Erhard & Associates". In 1991 the business was sold to the employees who formed a new company called Landmark Education with Erhard's brother, Harry Rosenberg, becoming the CEO. Landmark Education was structured as a for-profit, employee-owned company; it operates with a consulting division called Vanto Group.
Early influences
In William Bartley's biography of Werner Erhard, Werner Erhard: The Transformation of a Man, the Founding of est (1978), Erhard describes his explorations of Zen Buddhism. Bartley quotes Erhard as acknowledging Zen as the essential contribution that "created the space [for est]".
Bartley details Erhard's connections with Zen beginning with his extensive studies with Alan Watts in the mid 1960s. Bartley quotes Erhard as acknowledging:
Of all the disciplines that I studied, practiced, learned, Zen was the essential one. It was not so much an influence on me, rather it created space. It allowed those things that were there to be there. It gave some form to my experience. And it built up in me the critical mass from which was kindled the experience that produced est.
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