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To: Suma who wrote (108006)	9/2/2005 1:26:45 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Yes, Suma, definitely EST was a cult, and that is a kind of brainwashing. And you are absolutely correct when you recall that most people who took the training and became Werner Erhard's followers (and clothes closet monitors) were well educated, affluent and successful in their careers. As I recall it cost over $200 for one weekend of hell being sequestered in a hotel meeting room without being able to leave to go to the bathroom (which was a respectable chunk of change in the 1970's). I believe that one of the reasons Erhard was not discovered for the fraud he was earlier is that a lot of prominent people in the fields of psychology and the personal growth movement, as well as religious figures from other continents, somehow got fooled and ended up speaking at his events and otherwise validating Erhard and making him seem legitimate.