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...military victory," says Donncha MacNiallais, a former I.R.A. member who became a community worker in the Bogside after serving 10 years in prison. To encourage the move away from violence, Britain, the U.S. and the European Community poured money into Northern Ireland to fund community groups and self-help schemes. Local agitators, including dozens of former prisoners, were given offices and mobile phones in the hope that they would begin worrying about funding targets, not bombing targets. In central Londonderry, every other street corner seems to house the offices of some worthy center dispensing advice, trying to foster peace. Teresa...
Even with the acceptance of the new peace agreement, the veneer of civility is far too thin to think the Troubles are completely in the past. "Remember," says Glen Barr, a former Protestant politician who heads one of the most progressive self-help community groups, "you have nearly three generations of people in this country who have gone through a war with their neighbors as their enemy...
...comes as no surprise that The User Illusion is also user-friendly. First published in 1991, the Danish version sold more than 100,000 copies, a number equivalent to 2% of the population of Denmark. Even so, Norretranders' book possesses a motive more noble than self-help and survival in the new millenium; its nobility is supplemented by his elegant use of principles drawn from mathematics and physics...
...your story on the Landmark Education Corp. [SOCIETY, March 16], the firm that is carrying on est, Werner Erhard's self-help programs: before I participated in the seminar called the Forum, I couldn't get out of my own way. The Forum and other Landmark programs have given me the tools to create excellence consistently in my life, in my family and in my community. Werner Erhard, personal problems aside, will someday be realized as an innovator and a genius in the field of ontology, the study of being. DENNIS E. BLUTE Peabody, Mass...
There are other organizations following a similar credo based on est teachings. They are all extensive moneymaking schemes shrouded in the psycho-babble of leadership. They tear down people's insecurities without providing the absolutely necessary rebuilding process. Someone needs to take action against these "self-help" seminars before more people are physically, psychically and psychologically damaged by the process. I certainly was. I attended an est program two years ago. It was the worst experience of my life. To this day the nightmare experience continues to be quite real. JUDITH SWEDEK Boulder, Colo...