Penelope Jeffries ‘Sandy Ford’

I created my life from the est training. I created a life that was not in my experience of possibility at the time…and some 34 years later I still create everyday based out of the present and not the past. I understand how the past explains certain things, and that life is in fact understood backwards, AND it must be lived forwards. I love my life.

Cheryl Jones Larimer

The est training was fantastic, fabulous & Life Generating. I got to create me, the real me…in a voice of Freedom within that brought me to choices in my life…it lead me to The Truth of myself in a most profound way. In the Est Trainings their was this unconditional place to simply be & unconditional support where trust becomes accountable to what real support is all about. truely great experiences occurred around est, for sure. Make no mistake you get to discover that within you is the profound experience of you and in this people are truely gifts from God.

Anna Lee Olgin
www.annaleesecretarial.com

I did the Est training in 1977. My career was spiraling down. I wanted a good job. What I got was my own business and I have been doing this business ever since. My whole life transformed a 180 degree turn around in all areas. I was transformed. The biggest event in my life so far!

I just read this about what Peter Gabriel had to say about Werner Erhard and the value he got out of the est Training…   

“Anyone with an open mind wanting to explore the world was drawn to that movement. There were fairly scary adventures that could change lives. Last year I met Werner Erhard [born John Paul Rosenberg, the former salesman who created the EST course]; many people feel negatively about him, but I enjoyed him enormously. The whole system he set up felt like a hard-sell American organization but if you didn’t have a year to spend in an ashram yet still wanted to shake up your life a bit, you could go for a couple of weekends and get severely challenged.

“It taught me all sorts of things, of which one was to be responsible for your life and who you are—don’t blame others, don’t be a victim. I’d been doing that. The analogy is of a boat in dangerous water: would you rather be in the hold bitching about the captain or standing at the helm with the power to change direction? you can only get to that position if you’re prepared to take responsibility. It’s very logical but very hard sometimes—I can’t always stay in that place but I know life works better when you’re there.

“The other thing is to be authentic about who you are, how you feel, and what’s going on…It’s about being real. We spend so much of our lives not actually being who we are but who we imagine we ought to be.”

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