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If memory serves, that "Model of the Mind" stuff was a direct lift from L. Ron Hubbard.
Thanks for posting. Any more comments? What impact did the est stuff have on you, if any?
Ellen
EST was a freakshow. The most distressing aspect of the EST traing was observing the ease wth which seemingly rational people could be pulled into their line of "reasoning", to use the term loosely. It was so patently manipulative. They did an afternoon devoted to bogus faith healing where you were supposed to "re-create" your problem. If you did a good enough job of "re-creating" the problem was supposed to go away spontaneously. So they had this jovial young kid in the room, he might have been 14 or so, and the trainer treated him like the most lovable mascot, he could have been a plant for all I know, and the trainer then coyly asks if anyone has a problem they want to work on, so the kid pipes up and says he has a migraine headache and he routinely suffers from migraines, and the trainer goes all mushy-nicey on the kid and says, so "re-create your headache", whatever that was intended to mean, so the kid, all bright and shiny says "yes, I re-ceated it !!" and the trainer then coos, "well do you still have your headache ?" and the kid triumphantly exclaims " NO, my headache is gone!!!"... Lord Be Praised... what a big win that happy bundle of mother love just had... so then Mr. Trainer Demigod shares with us that this is proof positive that all you have to do is "re-create" whatever it is that ails you, and it spontaneously vanishes. Uh, right. Then Mr. Trainer Demigod shares a very special personal note. Werner himself told all the trainers that they were supposed to "re-create" Werner. Not emulate, learn from and grow according to one's own experience, or be a diligent student of, but be a psychological and spiritual clone of Werner. At that moment a philosophical paradox reaered its' inconvenient head. If perfect "re-creating" caused something to vanish, then wouldn't re-creating Werner cause him to dissappear too ? Not to be troubled by such glaring logical incongruities, we learned of the great struggle all trainers went through to be impeccable Werner replicants. It comes as no surprise that vulnerable people would have mental problems after a steady diet of this contradictory bloviating.