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...est Or Not To est...
John Leo's article on est [June 7] moves me to write. I am a real estate broker in Los Angeles and since I took the est training a year and a half ago my income has nearly doubled, my relationship with my wife, which was O.K., has flowered into a beautiful thing and, most dramatically, my father and I, after 43 years of not communicating, have become fast friends...
...est can be compared to parachuting from an airplane at 4,000 feet in that it is something that must be experienced. The est experience can be achieved only by attending the entire training and keeping the basic agreements. The first agreement is to keep our souls in the room at all times during the training. The second agreement is not to reveal contents of the training except through our experience...
...feeling of an est weekend by pounding your finger with a hammer. It feels so good when you stop...
...Yorker who took est a year ago got the Zen message and plunged into depression. "I was in a black hole for weeks. Nothing mattered, nothing would change." Others report increased capacity for work and euphoria ("like a drug high," said one) that gradually fades. A few say their lives are permanently changed and free of neuroses...