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nutrino
This is most strange to me... in all of my ESThole days and advanced ESThole coursework... I knew of no person who could, would, or did associate with the Trainers outside of the ESTholian context... my assumtion is that these "recreations" of The Great Weener had no time in their lives for what most of us would consider "unstructured social time"... however, one fellow in an advanced course told me that he bumped into our 6 day head trainer (mmmm pun there ?) at an airport and approached him socially to say hi and share some thoughts.... he said that TrainerMan was completely unable to break out of his EST schtick, in ohther words he was so fully immersed "in role" that he appeared to have lost all capacity for normal unfocused human interaction, or those capacities had become atrophied to the point that ALL he was capable of was transformational gobldygook... my classmate said that this experience had profoundly unsettled him although at the time he chalked it up to the guy's "deep intentionality".... I chalked it up to Loss Of Self.
How crazy would you be if you had spent years training yourself to disregard or distort reality into something of your own choosing or benefit? At some point you'd lose touch with the reality that you didn't ~create~ and begin to live in your own imaginary world, or worse still, you might come to believe you are ~responsible~ for anything and everything that happens. At that point, you might as well be schizophrenic.
All that playing around with things they don't understand -- psychology, physiology, psychiatry, anatomy, sociology, philosophy, epistomology -- must come home to roost in these uneducated, unaware, and amateur/expert Wernerized jerks in ways increasingly bizarre. You might even start imagining yourself to be "god in your own universe," or something.
Ellen