The Book of est -

Luke Rhinehart

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2010

228 páginas

7h 36m

ISBN-10: 0557306159

The greatest self-help book of all time, according to Dr. Joe Vitale. The Book of est immerses you in the closed doors of the controversial est trainings popularized in the 1970's.

The Book of est is a fictional account of Werner Erhard's Erhard Seminars Training (est), first published in 1976 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. The book was written by est graduate Luke Rhinehart.[1] Rhinehart is the pen name of writer George Cockroft.[2] The book was endorsed by Erhard, and includes a foreword by him. Its contents attempts to replicate the experience of the est training, and the reader takes the place of a participant in the course. The end of the book includes a comparison by the author between Erhard's methodologies to Zen, The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda, and to Rhinehart's own views from The Dice Man.

Resenhas (1)

5 (Perfeito)

"If you don't like something about yourself or someone else, the thing to do is just observe it, experience it, get in touch with it."

"Trying to change a thing leads to the persistence of that thing. The only way you're ever going to eliminate anything is to observe, find out what it is and where it is. The complete experiencing of that thing, being totally with it, leads to its disappearing..."

"So the elements of experience are bodily sensations - postures, facial expressions, points of view, feelings, emotions, and images of the past. If you stay in touch with one or more of these at least you can be sure you're alive."

"Those are concepts, not feelings. What are your body sensations right now?"

"Now, if you'd like to experience a recurring persistent barrier, i suggest you consider a specific situation, time and place, which creates in you an uprightness, an ego-hangup or attachment or whatever you usually call it, and find out what you are actually experiencing."

"Human beings normally deal with a problem by ignoring it or by trying to solve it. Both of these represent resistance and in both cases another problem is created overlaying the first. In est we witness problems and when they disappear, lo and behold, the one hiding behind them, a more basic one, appears. Experiencing problems fully is like peeling the layers of an onion. Normal problem-solving and problem-avoiding is like adding skins to the onion. In here we'll guarantee you better and bigger problems: new ones, the ones you've been hiding from since you were six. And the weight of you problems will get less and less as skins of the onion are peeled, instead of getting heavier as it does with normal problem-solving."

"Until you experience your experience, until you fully witness your problem, your problem will persist forever!"

"What body postures you associate with your item? What facial expressions? What points of view? What considerations? What decisions? The trainer has us look at each of these aspects of experience several times before going on to the next."

"What images of the past are associated with your item? Good. Take what you get..."

"We're interested in creating the space where you can learn to be you, just be yourself. And that's all. We don't have any theory about how you ought to be. There is no such thing as the est personality; there's only more aliveness, more joy, more love, and more self-expression."

"The purpose of the mind is the survival of the being, and, don't forget this, anything which the being identifies itself with or considers itself to be."

"The EGO is what we call the state of affairs when the being comes to identify itself with the mind"

"Now the mind has a vested interest in all these. What it does to try to survive is to try to keep itself intact, replay the same tapes, prove itself right. That becomes now the purpose of the mind: to survive by again and again proving itself right."

"The mind wants agreement in order to survive. It wants reconfirmation of its points of view, of its decisions, of its conclusions. It wants to keep proving itself right."

"Werner created the est Graduate Seminar Program to provide an experience and a supportive environment from which graduates can come into the world, take responsibility for its condition, and experience and contribute to the expansion of love, health, happiness and full self expression through conscious participation, complete communication, acceptance of what is and the willingness to take responsibility for their lives, est and the universe. The essential features of most of these seminars are the same: extensive sharing of the graduates either with the whole roomful of other graduates or with each other on a on-to-one basis; some new data; and a large number of new processes, some similar to those of the training but most completely new and occasionally involving writing."

"does the behaviour "work" -- does it manifest love, health, happiness, and full self-expression?"

"A guru is one who creates a package of nonsense, a package of illusions, which successfully smashes the life inhibiting illusions held by the seeker. The guru's illusions must themselves be continually smashed if their 'work' is to be continually achieved. Ideally the guru creates a package of self-destructing illusions that destroy the life-denying illusion of the seeker and create a space for him simply to be."

"it may work to trigger the saying yes to life that is the core to all enlightenment experience."

"The intelectual content accompanying the enlightenment experience is not important, since the basic result is the disappearance of the intellect as the filter of experience."