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...What is, is," says Werner Erhard, 40, a former trainer of encyclopedia salesmen and founder of Erhard Seminars Training Inc., one of the more mind-boggling of the many self-help programs to come out of California. In 70 hours over two marathon weekends, est aims at "transforming your ability to experience living "through techniques apparently derived from Scientology, psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology, Arica, Gestalt, transactional analysis and various Eastern religions. Since 1971, est has "graduated" 83,000 people in twelve cities...
...Ahead. New Times's muckraking can lead to problems. The magazine is already fighting libel suits totaling $9.6 million brought by, among others, the California hospitals accused of paying kickbacks and a Texas evangelist charged with beating teen-age girls in his home for runaways. Recently lawyers for Erhard Seminars Training, a California-based human-potential group, demanded a look at the manuscript of a New Times story on its operations. Hirsch refused and says he intends to go ahead with the piece...
...black. Est, a San Francisco-based group, puts large numbers of people together in a room and keeps them there for up to 15 hours at a time, with only three toilet breaks. This supposedly forces modern man to look at his existential roots and discover, as Founder Werner Erhard phrases it, that "what is, is." Because of the confusion of names, the Maharishi is also often mistaken for the junior guru, the Maharaj Ji, 17, the pudgy, high-living "Perfect Master" of the Divine Light sect. In contrast to all of the other consciousness-raising groups, TM appears refreshingly...
...though, he was a statesman-realist who was determined to confront and conquer Germany's shameful past, a Europe-minded visionary who preached unity for the Continent, and the Nobel Peace-prizewinning architect of Ostpolitik. Konrad Adenauer cemented West Germany's ties with the West, and Ludwig Erhard fashioned the economic miracle that has made the Deutsche Mark the world's most powerful currency. But it was Brandt who made peace with a hostile and suspicious East by convincing Moscow and its allies that Germans were willing to accept the fact that they had lost World...
Kissinger chose well: among the graduates of his seminars are Belgium's prospective Prime Minister Leo Tinde-mans, West German Minister for Economic Cooperation Erhard Eppler, Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, South Korean former Prime Minister Chung II Kwon, Japanese Minister of Trade and Industry Yasuhiro Nakasone, Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Frydenlund, and such prominent nongovernment figures as West German Editor Theo Sommer and British Historian Michael Foot...