Conversations For Transformation: Essays Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard

Conversations For Transformation

Essays By Laurence Platt

Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard

And More



Conversations For Transformation II

Cowboy Cottage, East Napa, California, USA

December 14, 2024



This essay, Conversations For Transformation II, is the companion piece to Conversations For Transformation.


Werner Erhard
The Transformation of a Man
The Founding of est

A biography by W W Bartley III

Clarkson N Potter 1978

ISBN 0517535025 - © William Warren "Bill" Bartley III

Photography by Lyn Malone
Werner Erhard
The Transformation of a Man
The Founding of est
A biography by W W Bartley III
Werner's work didn't start out delivering its current ideas. It didn't bechance the way it is today. It evolved. Its current form is a version ie an iteration  of the version / iteration which came before it, which was a version ie an iteration of the one that came before that one. The question now is: how did the first version / iteration of Werner's work arise? How did its very first version / iteration come to be? What's the source  of the first version / first iteration of Werner's work, from which subsequent versions / iterations evolved? How did it  come to be?

The truth is that Werner's work evolved out of an experience he had of himSelf  ie out of an experience of who he really is. That's it, and that's all. That's what makes it truly unique and original, unlike many others. And now the question is: what ignited that original experience? And: what comprised that original experience? What did the petri dish  in which the original experience was subtilized, look like really? (setting all the conjecture aside).

Answers to those questions, and answers to other related, fascinating questions have been meticulously crafted into a riveting account of what actually  gave birth to Werner's work. The entire hejira  has been documented in the only authorized biography of his life, titled Werner Erhard - The Transformation of a Man, The Founding of est  by Professor William Warren "Bill" Bartley III. I recommend you read this book. As a treatise on the work of transformation, it has enormous value. But look: you can not, after all, get transformation just by reading about it. Transformation simply does not travel well in that medium. Yet as an account of the factual, true, authentic, accurate origins of what first gave form to Werner's work and how it evolved from that moment on, this book is an invaluable resource. Please accept it as a free gift from me - for no reason, just because you're who you are.

That said, to enact something like this I spent hours and hours, days even, contacting the right entities and the right people who can give the right permission for any entire book like this to be downloaded free. I relentlessly followed all protocols, laws, and agreements required to make this gift available to you. If the truth be told, I may not be the only source of this book being made available free online. Yet I'm arguably most certainly the only one who secured all permissions and protocols required to make this must-read  book available as my free gift to you with total transparency, authenticity, and full integrity. To download it now, please click the link in the footnote to this essay.

I took a copy of this book with me when I traveled to South Africa in 1979 and over the course of one year, led the first series of ten guest seminars around the country in all the major cities, causing the first one thousand enrollments in South Africa which inexorably started Werner's work there and transformed the country. I read it cover to cover. Then I read it again. Then I read it again and again. In all, I must have read it continuously cover to cover thirty times or more while I was there. It never got tired. It never got old. I even read pertinent passages from it to my audiences, specifically the verbatim account of Werner's original transformation which I read out loud at a special seminar for Mensa  graduates. You could have heard a pin drop. It's one powerful book.


Footnote:

Click here to download a .pdf of the only authorized biography of Werner, my free gift to you, titled Werner Erhard - The Transformation of a Man, The Founding of est  by W W Bartley III, or for a book review.


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