Werner Erhard

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Definition

Founder of Erhard Seminars Training (est), an influential and controversial 1970s self-improvement program often described as cult-like. He earlier taught for Mind Dynamics.

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A Small Medium at Large with Gail Hayssen (4K Reboot)

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Psychic Gail Hayssen tells Jeffrey Mishlove about a childhood marked by severe trauma, a strict vegan commune, and a Hindu swami babysitter, experiences she believes opened her psychic abilities. She describes being trained as a star psychic demonstrator for Mind Dynamics under Werner Erhard just before he launched est, and why she walked away after a frightening encounter with a dark entity. She also explains how a prophetic dream led her to remote viewing research with parapsychologists Russell Targ and Dean Radin at Paul Allen's Interval Research think tank.

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