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Subject: Re: History of EST/Lifesprings/PSI
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Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 15:51:37 EDT
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	From: leed@orstcs.UUCP
	
	Subject: History of EST/Lifesprings/PSI
	

	Continuing on, one of the companies that Patrick owned was
	called "Mind Dynamics".  Guess who used to work there!  Mr.
	Gerhardt (who started EST), the guy who started Life Springs,
	and Mr.  Thomas Whilhite.
	
To augment your history a little, with what I know of it;  John Hanley,
the president and founder of Lifespring (along with four others whose
names I don't remember) did indeed work at Mind Dynamics as did Werner
Ehrhardt.  The person who ran Mind Dynamics then, and still does, is a
man by the name of Alexander Everett.  Another training, called
Actualizations, was founded by Stewart Emery who previously to that was
a trainer for EST.
	
	I'll close out the epic with some BRIEF comments on my personal
	opinion of these "Life Success" classes.  The PSI seminars I've
	taken have helped me tremendously.  I spent alot of money, but
	would do it all again (even though I'm still paying off a loan
	for the last class I took).
	
	It's obvious that people that don't go are afraid.  With a
	moneyback garuntee (sp?), why else would they not go.  Oh,
	before you flame, I've heard all the "reasons", and there are
	no good ones.  So go ahead, make excuses for your lack of
	progress if it makes you feel better.  It's only when you face
	that, honestly, and realize that it really can be better, that
	you'll give yourself (and these types of classes) a chance.
	(If this last paragraph generates a few *FLAMES*, good!)

I don't know anything about PSI since I've never heard of it, but I get
the impression that it probably isn't that much like Lifespring.  First
of all, the Lifespring course isn't as devoted towards the concept of
making money (though some of the principles given in the course can
help you work towards that end, if that is what you want).  But mainly,
Lifespring is about relationships, both with yourself and others, and
breaking down some of the walls that get in the way of those.  The
above paragraph appears to me very strongly to contain judgemental
attitudes and self-righteousness, things that I feel get in the way of
relationships.  When conveying a message, you have to take into account
the listeners' reactions to the way the message is put, and my perceptions
of the above paragraph is that its primary purpose seems more to alienate
the readers instead of communicating a message.  Whether "there are no
good reasons" or not, (and that is a point that could be debated for
hours with noone ever giving in), it doesn't matter if content is
ignored and only the tone paid attention to.
-- 

Bruce Israel

University of Maryland, Computer Science
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