"Known for grueling sessions in which hundreds of people paid hundreds of dollars each to subject themselves to hour upon hour of verbal abuse, tedium and other means of ''personal transformation,'' EST became one of the most notorious - and least understood - examples of a loose-knit industry offering transcendence for sale.
''Getting it,'' the catch phrase of the training, meant seeing the world without one's old misperceptions obstructing the view."
http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/Erhard_Werner.htmlThis is DavidPablo Escobar-Grant on his AARC epiphany:
"Just when I thought I had blown it, and had screwed up any chance of getting it, I got it. When I talked to Mr. Vause aboutit later, he told me to stop trying to figure it out, that I needed to get stupid."
Here's someone else thinking along the same lines as the Wizard:
"The religious zealot announces his or her Truth and exhorts the hearers to accept it with their hearts, not with their minds. In this, the religious zealot is staking out his ground in the same place that Rudolph Hess staked out the ground of his Nazi movement, when, in 1934, he told the followers of Hitler, "Do not seek Adolph Hitler with your brains; all of you will find him with the strength of your hearts."
http://www.uuquincy.org/talks/19810315.shtml
