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	Werner H. Erhard v. IRS (9th Circuit 02/08/1995)
		Erhard maintains that the legislative history indicates that a transaction does not come within the "sham or fraudulent transaction" category unless the transaction is a fraudulent version of one of the specific types of transactions that were originally defined to be tax motivated transactions.
		Erhard maintains, by contrast, that the useful lives of the assets should be computed from the earlier date the assets were acquired by est, a.e.c.
		Erhard claims that because the court rejected his asserted business purpose argument on the ground that it was not "convincing," the court erroneously applied an objective test rather than a subjective test.
	www.assetprotectionbook.com /erhard.htm (5502 words)

	Case of Werner Erhard (AKA: John Paul Rosenberg) Founder of EST
		EST, or Erhard Seminar Training, was based on the notion that, with the help of a ''trainer,'' people could be pushed to challenge much of what they take for granted about the way the world works.
		Erhard describe him as a self-taught philosopher, and indeed, EST and the Forum draw on beliefs that include Zen Buddhism, the existentialism of Martin Heidegger and the linguistic theories of Jacques Derrida.
		EST was in the vanguard of the human potential movement and gained considerable notoriety with its emphasis on "me-ness" and control, taught in workshops by Mr.
	theawarenesscenter.org /Erhard_Werner.html (7723 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Erhard started this series of trainings as a result of his direct experience of "enlightenment" that occurred while driving his fl Ford Mustang on a freeway in 1971 while en route to crossing the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge in California.
		In 1976, the est training was conducted for the inmates at San Quentin State prison in California by Erhard himself with Ted Long and Stewart Esposito assisting him.
		Nevertheless, in December1980, the first est training in Israel was held in the city of Tel Avivan accomplishment of sorts considering the tinderbox nature of the Middle East.
	www2.xlibris.com /bookstore/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=14026 (2144 words)

	Transformational Seminars - Christian Information
		The trainee has just experienced a euphoric presentation extolling all the positives of the seminar, he or she has just been strongly encouraged to sign up for the very next session and suddenly they are presented with well-wishers, in the form of friends and relatives, as a recruiting ground for their desired ends.
		Erhard did not only have an interest in influencing those in the business world and the public at large, he equally had a desire to bring his influence to the clergy.
		Seminar trainers are quick to pick up on the need to reduce stress in the office and offer their solution to reduce the problem.
	www.christianinformation.org /article.asp?artID=28 (5670 words)

	Erhard Seminars Training - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		est (always in lower-case) or Erhard Seminars Training, comprised a controversial large group awareness training (lgat) program of seminars widespread during the 1970s.
		Werner Erhard (born Jack Rosenberg) conducted the first est seminar in October 1971.
		Approximately 700,000 people participated in the seminars in the history of est, including John Travolta, Cher, John Denver, Valerie Harper, and several other celebrity figures.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Est (316 words)

	The Forum
		In the est Seminar, participants are subjected to tensions, harassment, deliberately foul language, and trauma.
		Erhard goes on to admit in his writings that he finds it difficult to deal with people who have a belief in God.
		Est claims to be non-religious, but upon examination, its concept is totally religious, attempting to replace belief in a personal God who loves and cares for us, with the impersonal, pantheistic, god of Hinduism.
	www.macgregorministries.org /cult_groups/forum.html (1779 words)

	Can Self-Responsibility Be Taught?
		EST was a New Age mind-over-matter training event that took place over a two and a half-day period (usually on weekends).
		Werner Erhard, the founder of EST (Erhard Seminars Training), was born John Paul Rosenberg in 1935.
		Erhard always crafted his seminars on a potpourri of concepts, many of which are quite worthwhile, including teaching a foundation ethic of personal responsibility.
	www.seekwellness.com /wellness/reports/2001-05-23.htm (1233 words)

	STOP-WISE.BIZ : Intruding into the Workplace -- Dr. Margaret Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There are many advancement programs, workshops, seminars, and training sessions currently utilized by companies and corporations in the United States and elsewhere that are legitimate in their intentions and often effective in their outcomes.
		The leader trains the group to clap after every sharing, no matter how inane, off target, or incoherent it is. For many, it is heady stuff to have a couple of hundred people clap when they speak a bit to the group.
		Unfortunately, the decision to buy a training scheme is often made on an emotional rather than a rational basis by an executive who is still high on his own introductory experience of the training.
	www.whyaretheydead.net /misc/work/Intruding_into_the_Workplace.html (8648 words)

	Reports of Psychosis After Erhard Course
		The training is intended to enhance self-awareness and uses authoritarian and confrontational leaders to achieve its goals.
		The cases include a man who in the course of the training developed a grandiose self-image and manic behavior, attempting to breathe underwater and do other hazardous feats that prompted his wife to call the police and have him hospitalized.
		Some psychiatrists have judged est to be a helpful experience, and a few have even encouraged their patients to take the training.
	www.rickross.com /reference/est/estpt9.html (749 words)

	The Siren Call of Modern Pied Pipers
		Simply that many of the seminars and workshops being offered promote New Age concepts to which some employees object, and they have been charged with using methods and techniques that instill these concepts without the participants' realizing what is happening.
		When the California Public Utilities Commission investigated, hundreds of employees complained that "the training was based on spiritual philosophies not appropriate in a job setting."{27} The CPUC ruled that PacBell stockholders, rather than consumers, must pay $25 million of the estimated $160 million total cost of the training.
		In addition, employees sent to training seminars which cause them serious psychological or even physical injury may claim damages from their employer as well as the trainers if attendance was mandatory, either explicitly or implicitly.
	www.caic.org.au /psyther/lgat/thesiren.htm (2732 words)

	Abstracts of Articles in Psychological Journals concerning est and The Forum
		The authoritarian est leadership style may mobilize in trainees an overdetermined and pathological reliance on identification with the aggressor.
		The author describes the effects of Erhard Seminars Training (est) on 67 patients--49 who took est during the course of psychotherapy with him and 18 who were seen for evaluation, consultation, or treatment after having taken est.
		The author believes that est often has a strong influence toward psychotherapeutic movement in patients with good ego strength who are motivated to change.
	holysmoke.org /sdhok/forsyk.htm (525 words)

	Werner Erhard, est and the Landmark Forum
		In return, Erhard and his supporters accuse Scientology of being behind various attempts to discredit Erhard, including hounding by the IRS and accusations of incest by his children.
		Erhard was deeply influenced by Alan Watts, attended seminars on Watts' houseboat, and incorporated parts of Watts' version of Zen into est.
		Those of us who have been trained to study philosophy and psychology, who have a deep sense of the nature of speculation and empirical research, are able to recognize the pseudoscientific nature of programs such as est or dianetics.
	home.swbell.net /danchase/est.htm (3080 words)

	Erhard Seminars Training - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Erhard Seminars Training, or est (generally in lower-case), a controversial large group awareness training (LGAT) seminar program, became popular during the 1970s.
		In the movie "Stripes", John Candy's character "Ox" refers to est during the recruits' "rap" session in the barracks.
		EST practices contained just enough truth, “borrowed” from Scientology processes, to get a case into restimulation — and then left it in that state without any means to repair it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training (4119 words)

	Werner Erhard Page at Working Minds
		Dramatic results in seminar participants' lives led to expansion, and he and his existing staff developed the est Training, delivering the first course to about 250 participants in October 1971.
		Werner's on-the-spot solution was to state that 'est' stood for 'Erhard Seminars Training'; the bureaucrats were satisfied, and that expansion of the company's name was seldom used officially.
		I imagine him in one-on-one meetings with powerful individuals and also leading seminars from Asia to Moscow to the European Union and beyond, where, as always, the results are intangible and unexplainable in the short term but obvious in subsequent concrete action in the world.
	www.working-minds.com /werner.htm (1286 words)

	Werner Erhard: Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		More than thirty years ago, in 1971, Werner Erhard introduced the breakthrough notion of “transformation” to the American public – a notion that created a clear distinction between change within an existing paradigm (no matter how significant) and creating entirely new paradigms.
		The notion of transformation later came to be seen as a powerful, practical, and relevant resource in contemporary society.
		The Mahatma Gandhi International Foundation honored Werner Erhard with the Mahatma Gandhi Humanitarian Award, citing “…your notable effort to end the starvation and hunger suffered by millions throughout the world and for drawing broad public awareness to the value of integrity in our everyday lives."
	www.wernererhard.net /index.htm (157 words)

	Alibris: Seminars
		Responsible for training all corporate trainers at Xerox Corporation, Jolles offers a down-to-earth, instructive look at teaching and training techniques which can be used in any professional, business or corporate seminar, workshop or training program.
		Here is the EST training in words, such a perfect duplication that original founder Werner Erhard sued in Federal Court to stop this book.
		The lectures, seminars and workshops were not scholarly by nature.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Seminars (1072 words)

	EST - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		EST or Est or est may stand for:
		Est or Erhard Seminars Training, a New-Age Large Group Awareness Training seminar program
		est in French, meaning "east", as in referring to France and to the Franche-Comté and Lorraine régions
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Est (268 words)

	Landmark Forum; Erhard Seminars Training (est); Werner Erhard
		Werner Erhard and est; from Skeptic's Dictionary, English; Portuguese
		Werner Erhard, founder of est and The Forum; ex-Scientologist
		Werner Erhard, founder of Erhard Seminar Training -->
	www.stelling.nl /simpos/est.htm (261 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Overview: The 1970s
		Werner Erhard, a former car salesman, founded the Erhard Seminars Training program in 1971, offering long, intense courses designed to "rewire" people's consciousness.
		Erhard attended the controversial Mind Dynamics Institute training before he developed his own mass-therapy program of self-improvement.
		Faced with financial difficulties, Erhard sold est during the 1980s.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/overview70s.htm (623 words)

	Find in a Library est (Erhard seminars training) : 60 hours that transform your life
		Find in a Library est (Erhard seminars training) : 60 hours that transform your life
		est (Erhard seminars training) : 60 hours that transform your life
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /oclc/1976698?tab=reviews (61 words)

	Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard
		Also, showed how pervasive his work is in the world, he seemed to be the "granddaddy" of transformation, with little credit given to him.
		The content (written, photography, video, and audio) in this site is for use by the film's producers and in the promotion of its motion picture "Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard.” Any use not authorized by the producers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
		No portion of such material may be copied or distributed without the express written permission of the copyright holder.
	transformationfilm.com (292 words)

	Eastern Cults, Transcendental Meditation, Maitreya
		until 1985 when Erhard announced the burial of "est" and the birth of "The forum".
		The "Seminar", is a group therapy session, and, as in Zen, the idea is to break down your personality by harassment and intimidation, and to destroy your "human mind" until you are left with your "animal mind"...
		John Denver, an est advocate, extols Erhard's vies of life in his song "Looking for Space".
	religion-cults.com /Cults/Eastern/E-CULTS.htm (3216 words)

	Est
		Description of the Behavioral Structure of the Training
		Part 2--Description of the behavioral structure of the training
		Part 3--Description of the behavioral structure of the training
	www.rickross.com /groups/est.html (181 words)

	Famous adherents of est (followers of Werner Erhard) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Famous adherents of est (followers of Werner Erhard)
		Werner Erhard - founder of Erhard Seminars Training (the religion known as "est")
		Famous adherents of est / Famous devotees of Werner Erhard / notable members of Erhard Seminars Training page copyright © 2005 by Adherents.com.
	www.adherents.com /largecom/fam_est.html (63 words)

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