I took the "Training" in 1983 and have never looked back. I was there when it changed to the Forum. I took as many classes and volunteered in Atlanta for years. I did the Six Day in NY. The "work" has helped me through some of the darkest days of my life. I will always treasure what I learned at Colony Square and the Georgia World Congress Center. It is and will always be PRICELESS to me.
This man's work has had THE most profound impact on every aspect of my life! I've only completed 3 courses with Landmark so far, starting in 2020, and omg, the difference it has been in my performance in life is unspeakable! Those who judge Werner Erhard don't really get Werner Erhard and what he intends to cause for tranforming what it means to be human, and the difference he's made by his huge stand for humanity realizing the possibilities that are available to them through the power of their word, their promise, which is all powered by completing the past and our freedom to choose.
@Robert Acosta you're in for a treat! The level of training and precision of every single Forum Leader is unmatched! You will gain more value for moving your life forward in this one weekend than anything you've ever done. Enjoy!!
I first took the training and several follow on seminars in 1973 through out the early 80's. With the work I've done then to now, the journey of relationships with my children, parents, friends and everybody else; hearing Werner sharing again re-blows my mind more impactfully, seemingly! My gratefulness, appreciation and love for Werner's giving myself and us; all he has had to give to this very moment leaves me with a profound thankfulness for the life he chose to live.
I read est in 1971, then later in 1991 took the Landmark Forum and most it's programs and workshops. Changed my life and my entire family and extended family. May we never be the same again.
I took the est Training in 1977. It had a profound impact n my life over the last 45 years. It changed the course of my life. I have participated all the seminars and other courses in Landmark. I recommend it to everyone is open to creating new possibilities in their life. I have an awesome life out of this work
Love and best wishes brother. Did the EST Training 45 years ago, and experience the results every day. What an eye opener Werner created in millions. Known so many that set it aside and bought back into the daily rat race again tho...
The forum and other courses are constantly updated and evolved. They are worth going to again and again. In as little as 3-4 days you can transform your life. It's sounds incredible but it works. Give yourself the life you deserve to be living.
I am profoundly grateful for the work of Werner Erhard. Through my initial participation in The Forum, in 1989, I got my life back. I can recommend this powerful technology to anyone seeking a means to make life work. It is truly transformational!
I loved Werner as a teen, and had a friend who worked there at the main offices in San Francisco in the late 70s - early 80s. Today listening to these recordings, he sounds controlling, overly complicated, assumptive and a little harsh. But that's okay, he got results and back in the day, this style was not only the first of its kind, but also necessary to get through people's resistance to looking deeper at themselves. Perhaps today with Landmark they do a faster job of getting to the point and allowing people to more simply take it in and start the process of utilizing the potential transformation more quickly... Blessings to a great man and a powerful thinker.
This is a nice review to the forum I participated in many years ago in New Jersey. It was refreshing to hear this language again and re-engage in this interesting discussion. My actions and thought processes has forever evolved based on what was discussed during the forum. Thank you 0ont0 for sharing this video on You Tube.
Looking Good is so very important. So important that most sold their soul so long ago to the race, the rat race, that they cannot let go and get on with the experience the high every breath gives in every breath they breath. Life is really so easy when we stop trying to figure it all out????? Thankx Werner for the last 45 years of my 75 year life, Love You, Tom
est 1978 Chicago. Job with WE in California out of east. Thank you Werner for how I process life fundamentally. Thank you OontO for the opportunity to hear his voice as it surrounds this thinking
Parallel is nothingness. Erhard brings forth an epistomology based on abstractions and a listening and speaking only you can bring forth from nothing .
Thank you so much for posting this! I used to have on cassette tape. We are so fortunate to have a quality copy now on UA-cam. I’ve encountered lots of philosophies over the years about what life is about. To me this is the cleanest and most powerful I've ever heard. It can be a difficult listen, some will consider it a downer at first glance rather than uplifting. And some are put off by Werner's hard East Coast style of speaking. But I find it to be true and universal. I’ve heard it many times now and always find something deeper each time I listen or reflect on it. You have to be patient because it seems he’s not getting anywhere at first. But to me Werner lays it all on the line and does his best to use every minute in this 3 hour talk to convey what he has experienced.
I DO love being sad ! Sweet Melancholia is the title of one of my songs. Every human emotion is worthy of experience and relishable. Look how much so many enjoy complaining. LOL
@@openingsinc1858 ummm okay. You do realize that Cult is the root of the word Culture, right? And in my experience, people who get involved in the majority of cultures that empower personal development, create better relationships with their families, have more rewarding and fulfilling careers, and generally don't say dumb s*** like that.
Thank you for posting. It is a good review for someone like me who have done the Landmark Forum. I am not sure whether the ones who has not done the LM would understand some of the terms and references in the seminar.
I knew Werner, or Jack, if you want to be accurate, in 1971 when he was just getting started. He was one of the great con men of the 20th century. In the end the IRS shut him down and he was quiet for many years. He had slaves and went total megalomaniac, not someone worth listening to.
I was wondering if there was anything I could identify with that wouldn't be a superstition? I posed this question as a clearing to be in, these are insights which occurred, useful or not. Who are we? We are the context in which we show up. Who am I? I am the context in which I show up. Who are you? You are the context in which you show up. If it isn't useful to identify in the I who I think I am then what or who can I identify with (if anything at all)? What is beneficial / useful to identify with? Context is that which is beneficial to identify with especially the context we show up in. Right now we are showing up. I show up in my life, dreams and anywhere else I find myself being. I am not the I in "I think" but rather I am being the context in which the thought "I think" occurs... maybe. I listen over and over and different thoughts occur, very useful but I am not always producing useful or "correct" thinking about this. Its best to be in the clearing and look out from there.
@@jonathankendall91 As soon as I said it I realized I'd just fallen for "trying to be right." Tricky to get used to the "questions are openings" approach, even though I can understand it when it's pointed out.
Forrest Gump said "Stupid is as stupid does..." To me, that's about it for context because love is as love does etc ad infinitum. Humans overcomplicate the obvious everythingness.
I would be interested in having a conversation with someone about some of Werner's specific statements in this video. I know that Landmark is an option and I realize that these ideas may well be taught there. But, my questions are specifically about some of the specific statements made by Werner here. Not just the overall principle. Is such a conversation available?
Hi there! Well I stumbled across your comment here, I enjoy such conversations, and I’ve been in Landmark’s introduction leaders program for 6 months. So I’d be up for a conversation. Would you like to converse here or over email? What statements would you like to discuss?
Great ideas. Still hard not to be overshadowed by the fact he is a prisoner from justice. Why do all these people who appear to be operating on a higher god-like level turn out to be devils..?
hi john: what do you mean? For me these 3 hours have been more powerful than the forum and so many other programs I had the honor of participating...Shalom.
(1) Neither would the stars have moved if Werner had stepped out of DAR Hall and shouted his angry message to them. (2) I have good news for you people. The "it" that Werner speaks of here, while the predominant way that human beings show up, is not the only way. It is possible for a human being to show up as a commitment to aliveness. He or she can do this without being right or avoiding domination etc.; those concerns become irrelevant. This is a place to grow into. It is fairly rare, but it does happen. It did not happen to Werner, obviously. (3) To state that our lives are meaningless and have no purpose, in the bitter and angry tone Werner adopts here, plainly foreshadows his nasty, burning, crashing fall. Sorry, Werner, but in the ultimate reckoning, you end up being just a very loud guy in a diner.
Ellis J life is empty and meaningless and it is empty and meaningless that it's empty and meaningless. I offer that you go to the forum and not allow conceptual thinking to get in your way. See what unfolds. The forum is constantly update and it is how 2017- don't base your assessment on this video. Also WE has not crashed and burned. He was maligned by the 60 minute program, and has gone on to advise businesses and thought leaders worldwide. He does have a u inquest personality and approach for sure, but don't we all.
You may want to read this to find out what really happened to WE: mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/fashion/the-return-of-werner-erhard-father-of-self-help.html "As for the I.R.S., Mr. Erhard sued the agency (winning $200,000 in damages) for falsely claiming he had evaded taxes. The daughter who had accused him of abuse later recanted, admitting she had lied to receive an advance on a book. And an article in The Believer stated that the “60 Minutes” segment was riddled with so many discrepancies that CBS deleted it from its public archives." That's the "rest of the story."
I totally disagree. Being in the inquiry of what it is to being human takes a lifetime. I took the Landmark Forum and it's more advanced programs in 1991 up to 2016 which made a profound difference in my life, my daughters and extended family,, my sister and her extended family. The Landmark Programs require your time, work, and stepping outside the box, being in the inquiry on who you are as a human and how you're being in the world. I invite you explore who you are.
I took the "Training" in 1983 and have never looked back. I was there when it changed to the Forum. I took as many classes and volunteered in Atlanta for years. I did the Six Day in NY. The "work" has helped me through some of the darkest days of my life. I will always treasure what I learned at Colony Square and the Georgia World Congress Center. It is and will always be PRICELESS to me.
Where was the 6 day held in NY that I also did in 1981?
This man's work has had THE most profound impact on every aspect of my life! I've only completed 3 courses with Landmark so far, starting in 2020, and omg, the difference it has been in my performance in life is unspeakable! Those who judge Werner Erhard don't really get Werner Erhard and what he intends to cause for tranforming what it means to be human, and the difference he's made by his huge stand for humanity realizing the possibilities that are available to them through the power of their word, their promise, which is all powered by completing the past and our freedom to choose.
I'm going to a forum in a couple weeks
@Robert Acosta you're in for a treat! The level of training and precision of every single Forum Leader is unmatched! You will gain more value for moving your life forward in this one weekend than anything you've ever done. Enjoy!!
@@Rbrt0Have you done it?
Just re did The Forum for the 5th time and still got it newly all over again. So grateful for this work 🙏
I first took the training and several follow on seminars in 1973 through out the early 80's. With the work I've done then to now, the journey of relationships with my children, parents, friends and everybody else; hearing Werner sharing again re-blows my mind more impactfully, seemingly! My gratefulness, appreciation and love for Werner's giving myself and us; all he has had to give to this very moment leaves me with a profound thankfulness for the life he chose to live.
I read est in 1971, then later in 1991 took the Landmark Forum and most it's programs and workshops. Changed my life and my entire family and extended family. May we never be the same again.
I took the est Training in 1977. It had a profound impact n my life over the last 45 years. It changed the course of my life. I have participated all the seminars and other courses in Landmark. I recommend it to everyone is open to creating new possibilities in their life. I have an awesome life out of this work
The Forum changed my life 25 years ago. Live openly, without answers, and life shows up beyond description. Being human...
This is it.
Love and best wishes brother. Did the EST Training 45 years ago, and experience the results every day. What an eye opener Werner created in millions. Known so many that set it aside and bought back into the daily rat race again tho...
This inquiry into the nature of Being via transformation is the most profound presentation by Werner I have experienced over a period of many years.
Forum is great also to take. I am so thankful I took EST with Werner and it provided so much clarity for the way the world shows up now.
The forum and other courses are constantly updated and evolved. They are worth going to again and again. In as little as 3-4 days you can transform your life. It's sounds incredible but it works. Give yourself the life you deserve to be living.
Thank you for posting. Werner is/was a phenomenal presence and a gift to the human culture.
I am profoundly grateful for the work of Werner Erhard. Through my initial participation in The Forum, in 1989, I got my life back. I can recommend this powerful technology to anyone seeking a means to make life work. It is truly transformational!
I loved Werner as a teen, and had a friend who worked there at the main offices in San Francisco in the late 70s - early 80s. Today listening to these recordings, he sounds controlling, overly complicated, assumptive and a little harsh. But that's okay, he got results and back in the day, this style was not only the first of its kind, but also necessary to get through people's resistance to looking deeper at themselves. Perhaps today with Landmark they do a faster job of getting to the point and allowing people to more simply take it in and start the process of utilizing the potential transformation more quickly... Blessings to a great man and a powerful thinker.
This is a nice review to the forum I participated in many years ago in New Jersey. It was refreshing to hear this language again and re-engage in this interesting discussion. My actions and thought processes has forever evolved based on what was discussed during the forum. Thank you 0ont0 for sharing this video on You Tube.
this is the heart of the matter. a trip through the universe on your very own magic carpet. dont worry Werner knows how to drive.
Looking Good is so very important. So important that most sold their soul so long ago to the race, the rat race, that they cannot let go and get on with the experience the high every breath gives in every breath they breath. Life is really so easy when we stop trying to figure it all out????? Thankx Werner for the last 45 years of my 75 year life, Love You, Tom
est 1978 Chicago. Job with WE in California out of east. Thank you Werner for how I process life fundamentally. Thank you OontO for the opportunity to hear his voice as it surrounds this thinking
It's always new to listen Werner and the distinctions are so evident & live for me
I TOOK A LOT OF NOTES. THIS VIDEO FREAKIN' CHANGED ME ON SO MANY LEVELS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I LOVE YOU.
My human machinery wants to enquire “how so”?
@@taran2384 how can one put into words the sound of an inner eye opening?
@@GabiBliss more to do with listening so inner EAR opening
THANK YOU! .. My all-time favorite!
Priceless , amazing powerful
I am a better human being today. Thank you for sharing this Video 🙏🏾.
Powerful!!
I love this talk! Does anyone see parallels to this in the teaching of Ramana Maharishi re the Inquiry "Who am I?"
Parallel is nothingness. Erhard brings forth an epistomology based on abstractions and a listening and speaking only you can bring forth from nothing .
Introduction to Buddhism 101
Brilliant one I might add
now over two million people worldwide have been through The Forum.... maybe the world has a slim chance of survival after all... maybe..!
Royden Thompson
Based on 2022, more work needs to be done.
Really good stuff. I mean the best. He’s got it.
Thank you so much for posting this! I used to have on cassette tape. We are so fortunate to have a quality copy now on UA-cam.
I’ve encountered lots of philosophies over the years about what life is about. To me this is the cleanest and most powerful I've ever heard.
It can be a difficult listen, some will consider it a downer at first glance rather than uplifting. And some are put off by Werner's hard East Coast style of speaking. But I find it to be true and universal. I’ve heard it many times now and always find something deeper each time I listen or reflect on it.
You have to be patient because it seems he’s not getting anywhere at first. But to me Werner lays it all on the line and does his best to use every minute in this 3 hour talk to convey what he has experienced.
Getting back in the game!
being sad does not mean anything . stop the soap opera. be with it !!!! open a space in the domain of creation to love
I DO love being sad ! Sweet Melancholia is the title of one of my songs. Every human emotion is worthy of experience and relishable. Look how much so many enjoy complaining. LOL
What is the date that this lecture happened? I absolutely this! Can’t wait to coach the Self Expression Leadership Program! :)
45 minutes in and he's still talking about what he's going to talk about. 🤣 Lots of priming. So awesome to be able to experience his style.
Love him. "Those who have ears will hear"...
@@TonyFriskin Yeah he pinched that one from Jesus I think love.
Chiko Marx would have said "If you get near a song, play it..."
That's what a good cult leader do. Shutting down the critical mind by saturating it with mind food.
@@openingsinc1858 ummm okay. You do realize that Cult is the root of the word Culture, right?
And in my experience, people who get involved in the majority of cultures that empower personal development, create better relationships with their families, have more rewarding and fulfilling careers, and generally don't say dumb s*** like that.
Class of 1980, as of now: 4 generations deep, 🏟friends wide.
So excellent, thank you!
its a way to stand and look out at life
Thank you for posting this.
Be more to his consciousness of spirit. One in a few with words of wisdom...
Being with! No matter what.
Great revision of my forum partcipation
Thank you for posting. It is a good review for someone like me who have done the Landmark Forum. I am not sure whether the ones who has not done the LM would understand some of the terms and references in the seminar.
In a well not yet dug... In the water not yet filling it, there is a reflection. A reflection of a man with no shadow drawing water from the well.
Very much enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing.
I knew Werner, or Jack, if you want to be accurate, in 1971 when he was just getting started. He was one of the great con men of the 20th century. In the end the IRS shut him down and he was quiet for many years. He had slaves and went total megalomaniac, not someone worth listening to.
The BEST Ever!
My Bible ...
Beautiful use of language.
This is fucking amazing
Trance-formation...I did it
How’s that hunger project going?
Some of the creepiest people I ever met was from doing est in the 70’s.
Does anyone know how I can find these tapes for sale? I’ve searched for so long 😢
I was wondering if there was anything I could identify with that wouldn't be a superstition? I posed this question as a clearing to be in, these are insights which occurred, useful or not.
Who are we? We are the context in which we show up.
Who am I? I am the context in which I show up.
Who are you? You are the context in which you show up.
If it isn't useful to identify in the I who I think I am then what or who can I identify with (if anything at all)? What is beneficial / useful to identify with? Context is that which is beneficial to identify with especially the context we show up in. Right now we are showing up. I show up in my life, dreams and anywhere else I find myself being. I am not the I in "I think" but rather I am being the context in which the thought "I think" occurs... maybe. I listen over and over and different thoughts occur, very useful but I am not always producing useful or "correct" thinking about this. Its best to be in the clearing and look out from there.
"Knock on wood" is a superstition. How would "knock on metal" or "knock on dirt" be any improvement?
@@pvirgo2757 good point but it was a question to look out from, sort of staying only so long in that posed question but always in the clearing.
@@jonathankendall91 As soon as I said it I realized I'd just fallen for "trying to be right." Tricky to get used to the "questions are openings" approach, even though I can understand it when it's pointed out.
Forrest Gump said "Stupid is as stupid does..." To me, that's about it for context because love is as love does etc ad infinitum. Humans overcomplicate the obvious everythingness.
@@GabiBliss I am a Christian now anyways... I don't lean on Werner's work much these days.
does anyone know where to get a transcript of this video?
You simply must BE the transcript and thus it will appear. ;)
Grippidee Gravidee World lol
'Speaking, Being' incredible book made up of a transcription and philosophical side discussion on the teachings of Werner/Forum
@@beefmaster25 I second that. A fantastic book
where is Helen, Paul Roth
1:24:55 - Wow 😮
People once believed in witches. Now the new "superstition" is called COVID-19.
Hideous stuff. Like most lies, has some truth mixed in. Was fooled by the company for about a year. Worked for them for about a year
so xcellent
#SAVEAWARRIOR
This is almost a direct cut and paste of a scientology congress on beingness
I would be interested in having a conversation with someone about some of Werner's specific statements in this video. I know that Landmark is an option and I realize that these ideas may well be taught there. But, my questions are specifically about some of the specific statements made by Werner here. Not just the overall principle. Is such a conversation available?
Hi there! Well I stumbled across your comment here, I enjoy such conversations, and I’ve been in Landmark’s introduction leaders program for 6 months. So I’d be up for a conversation. Would you like to converse here or over email? What statements would you like to discuss?
Where is my EST Trainer Ron Bynam?
I believe the spelling was Bynum with a u in case you want to search. Last I knew he was in Sonoma County CA but that was a long time ago.
Ron and Vic Gioscia were my est trainers. Both brought forth powerful self expression. Always am in appreciation of the contributions they created.
He did my MOE course. Love the guy
Who Am I...
Great ideas. Still hard not to be overshadowed by the fact he is a prisoner from justice. Why do all these people who appear to be operating on a higher god-like level turn out to be devils..?
Go back to your Scientology cult
1:30:27 wow
I like Don Henley's Heart of the Matter more. It's only three and a half minutes
This stuff was made for you!
That comment is hilarious!
Wittgenstein
Charles Reik?
47:15 Superstitions
So Gross
I want a refund.
hi john: what do you mean? For me these 3 hours have been more powerful than the forum and so many other programs I had the honor of participating...Shalom.
People thought this was useful? lol
What a load of doubletalk.....pure crapola
(1) Neither would the stars have moved if Werner had stepped out of DAR Hall and shouted his angry message to them.
(2) I have good news for you people. The "it" that Werner speaks of here, while the predominant way that human beings show up, is not the only way. It is possible for a human being to show up as a commitment to aliveness. He or she can do this without being right or avoiding domination etc.; those concerns become irrelevant. This is a place to grow into. It is fairly rare, but it does happen. It did not happen to Werner, obviously.
(3) To state that our lives are meaningless and have no purpose, in the bitter and angry tone Werner adopts here, plainly foreshadows his nasty, burning, crashing fall. Sorry, Werner, but in the ultimate reckoning, you end up being just a very loud guy in a diner.
Ellis J what are you talking about?
Ellis J life is empty and meaningless and it is empty and meaningless that it's empty and meaningless. I offer that you go to the forum and not allow conceptual thinking to get in your way. See what unfolds. The forum is constantly update and it is how 2017- don't base your assessment on this video. Also WE has not crashed and burned. He was maligned by the 60 minute program, and has gone on to advise businesses and thought leaders worldwide. He does have a u inquest personality and approach for sure, but don't we all.
Ellis J FYI... You are running rackets!
You may want to read this to find out what really happened to WE: mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/fashion/the-return-of-werner-erhard-father-of-self-help.html "As for the I.R.S., Mr. Erhard sued the agency (winning $200,000 in damages) for falsely claiming he had evaded taxes.
The daughter who had accused him of abuse later recanted, admitting she had lied to receive an advance on a book. And an article in The Believer stated that the “60 Minutes” segment was riddled with so many discrepancies that CBS deleted it from its public archives." That's the "rest of the story."
I totally disagree. Being in the inquiry of what it is to being human takes a lifetime. I took the Landmark Forum and it's more advanced programs in 1991 up to 2016 which made a profound difference in my life, my daughters and extended family,, my sister and her extended family. The Landmark Programs require your time, work, and stepping outside the box, being in the inquiry on who you are as a human and how you're being in the world. I invite you explore who you are.