Werner Erhard The Transformation of a Man: The Founding of EST

320 Pages·1988·46.69 MB·English

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"Werner epitomizes for me what it is to be a
human being. It is through my experience of
him that I have most completely come to know
myself." -John Denver
WERNER ERHARD
The Transformation of a Man:
The Founding of est
By William Warren Bartley, III
Foreword by Werner Erhard
Who is Werner Erhard, born Jack Rosen-
berg, the charismatic founder of est} Here is
the incredible and moving story as told by
Werner Erhard's most unlikely biographer—
the brilliant philosopher and historian William
Warren Bartley.
Bartley peels away the layers to reveal the
controversial Erhard and his far-reaching phi-
losophy. Equally gripping are Bartley's lucid
presentations— probably the most incisive and
authoritative yet written — of the disciplines,
consciousness techniques, religions, and systems
that Werner studied.
He presents Erhard's own practical and theo-
retical ideas and charts his contributions to
"the ecology of consciousness," seeing in
Werner's life story an important meeting be-
tween American Will and Oriental Intellect.
Erhard's story is, as he himself puts it, a soap
opera; the story of a journey westward and in-
ward, it is a distinctively American tale of the
moral education of a rogue genius.
In Werner Erhard, every reader will find a
riveting story of one man's struggle for self-
mastery and fulfillment.
Cover photograph by Lyn Malone
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in 2012
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Werner Erhard
Books by William Warren Bartley, III
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Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. /Publishers New York
Distributed by Crown Publishers
Copyright © 1978
by William Warren Bartley, III
Remarks, original quotations, letters, and literary material by Werner Erhard,
copyright © 1978 by Werner Erhard
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Published simultaneously in Canada by General Publishing Company Limited
First edition
Designed by Robert Bull
Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data
Bartley, William Warren, 1934-
Werner Erhard: the transformation of a man, the founding of est
1. Erhard, Werner, 1935- 2. Erhard seminars training.
3. Psychologists— United States— Biography. RC489.E7B37 158 [B]
RC489.E7B37 158 [B] 78-8990
ISBN 0-517-53502-5
Fourth Printing, November 1978
For Robert Larzelere, M.D.