Word: esteli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bearded young man rises, says calmly that he is nervous and rattled by the icy temperature, but that George's nondemonstration is the last straw. He concludes that est is "utter and complete bullshit." Ron says he just hasn't got it yet. "Got it?" says the man. "The only thing I got so far is hemorrhoids." After thunderous applause, Ron calls the man "a self-righteous s.o.b...
...junior est employee named George comes onstage to demonstrate "the personality profile"-or how to experience people we have never met. George settles into a trance to experience a New Jersey housewife who is not in the group but is an acquaintance of Carol's, a sixtyish woman who is. Does the housewife like playing cards? "Yes," says George, clawing the air with both hands for inspiration. He sees a happy card game with a bowl of peanuts on the table. "No," says Carol, "she never plays cards." George gets about 80% of the questions wrong...
...screwed up my marriage, all my love affairs, all my jobs, just to prove that my mother was right. It's all bullshit and I'm not going to do it any more." One of the men says he can't get over the feeling that est is a gigantic fraud. A dapper fellow with a mustache says coolly that nothing in the proceedings has touched...
...change of pace, everyone is marched up to the stage, row by row, to confront the crowd, est workers eyeball each trainee from a few feet away, while Ron screams to "get rid of that phony smile, drop that face!" Legs buckle. Four people faint; one throws up. Then two more processes. One on danger: as we lie there for hours, eyes closed, listening to Ron conjure up images of danger, est attendants clump ominously around our bodies. More agonized screaming. Last, a "reverse danger" process. We are told everyone around us-in fact millions of people -are afraid...
According to interviews with trainees, the second weekend features more est metaphysics and more difficult exercises. "Being" is far more important than "doing" or "having." We are all "perfect" and only our "barriers" keep us from experiencing our perfection. In one exercise, trainees imagine or "build" a perfect house in their minds, install perfect furniture, then conjure up a file cabinet with complete folders on everyone they know or ever wanted to know...