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Werner Erhard

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Werner Erhard was born on September 5, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was previously married to June Bryde and Patricia Fry.

CBS acknowledged its 1991 60 Minutes program about Werner Erhard was inaccurate. The March 1991 segment and transcript of 60 Minutes was removed by CBS from public access.
In 1988 the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation gave Werner Erhard, Joan Baez, Shirley Temple Black, and David Packard its "Mahatma Gandhi Humanitarian Award" However, CNN reported that Yogesh Gandhi used funds solicited for his Gandhi Memorial International Foundation, in order to pay off his own personal debts.
Married his second wife, June Bryde, on April 1, 1960. He signed the Maryland marriage license as "Curt Wilhelm VonSavage". June, whose name already alludes to being made up, signed her name as "Celeste Marie Radell." This subterfuge may be due in part to the fact that Erhard (Jack Rosenberg at the time) was still married to his first wife, Patricia Fry.
Before he founded est, Erhard worked as a Collier's Encyclopedia salesmen, and later, as Jack Frost, was a car salesman.
CBS never said its 1991 60 Minutes program about Werner Erhard was inaccurate. The March 1991 segment and transcript of 60 Minutes was removed by CBS from public access for "legal or copyright reasons".

I know that you know that I love you. What I want you to know is that I know that you love me.
Of all the disciplines that I studied, practiced, learned, Zen was the essential one. It was not so much an influence on me, rather it created space. It allowed those things that were there to be there. It gave some form to my experience. And it built up in me the critical mass from which was kindled the experience that produced est.
I tried yoga, Dale Carnegie, Zen, Scientology, encounter groups, t-groups, psychoanalysis, reality therapy, Gestalt, love, nudity, you name it," he recalls. "But when it was over, that was not it.
What is, is. What isn't, isn't.
At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.

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