Est Playing the Game
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| Est Playing the Game | |
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| Author | Carl Frederick |
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| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Erhard Seminars Training |
| Genre(s) | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press |
| Publication date | 1974 March 24, 2003 (recent ed.) |
| Pages | 228 |
| ISBN | ISBN 9998136474 ISBN 978-9998136472 |
Est Playing the Game: The New Way is a non-fiction book by Carl Frederick. The book describes the methodology behind Werner Erhard's Erhard Seminars Training. Originally published in paperback and hardcover formats in 1974 by Delacorte Press, it was republished in paperback in 1976. An updated edition was published in hardcover format in 2003. Werner Erhard sued in Federal Court in the United States to stop the book from publication, but the suit failed[1].
[edit] Cited by other works
Biersdorf cited the book in the journal Pastoral Psychology[2], after attending an Erhard Seminars Training seminar and analyzing it from a psychological perspective, as well as putting it into the context of the human potential movement.
Clayton Vitz cited the book in Psychology As Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship, while attempting to analyze the est experience and the way that the trainers emulated Erhard[3].
Canadian philosopher and bioethicist Donald DeMarco referenced the work in The Many Faces of Virtue, discussing "..forms of psychology that encourage people to worship themselves."[4] Henry cited the same quote that DeMarco used, in the book God, Revelation and Authority: Volume IV[5]. Henry criticizes Frederick for "..expounding the view promoted by the self-assertion cult est.."[5] Henry cites Est Playing the Game again in Volume V of the God, Revelation and Authority series[6].
The book is also cited in Rosen's Psychobabble[7], Starker's Oracle at the Supermarket[8], and Masserman's Current Psychiatric Therapies[9].
[edit] References
- ^ Frederick, Carl (March 24, 2003). Est Playing the Game: The New Way. Synergy International of the Americas, Ltd. ISBN 9998136474 , ISBN 978-9998136472.
- ^ Biersdorf, John E. (September 1977). "Est one more time". Pastoral Psychology 26 (1): 58–63. doi:.
- ^ Clayton Vitz, Paul (1994). Psychology As Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Pp. 26-27.. ISBN 0802807259.
"Seminar leaders were trained to resemble as closely as possible both the teaching and personality of Werner Erhard. The main goal of the training was to get the participants to "transform their ability to experience living." The key word is experience, since the main thrust is not on new ways to believe or think but on new ways to experience." - ^ DeMarco, Donald (August 2000). The Many Faces of Virtue. Emmaus Road Publishing, 199. ISBN 0966322398 , ISBN 978-0966322392.
"It is not entirely unusual for certain forms of psychology to encourage people to worship themselves. "You are the Supreme being," Carl Frederick tells his readers in est: Playing the Game the New Way." - ^ a b Henry, Carl F. H. (1999). God, Revelation and Authority: Volume IV. Crossway Books, 517. ISBN 1581340443.
Carl Frederick, expounding the view promoted by the self-assertion cult est, puts it succinctly: “You are the Supreme being” - ^ Henry, Carl F. H.. God, Revelation and Authority: Volume V. Crossway Books, 75. ISBN 1581340451.Summarizing the philosophy of the recent self-assertion and self-deification cults, Carl Frederick writes: "You are the Supreme being... You are IT. Choose... Choose to BE what you know you are" (est: Playing the Game the New Way, pp. 168 ff.).
- ^ Rosen, Richard Dean (1979). Psychobabble. Harpercollins, 248. ISBN 0380422913.
- ^ Starker, Stephen (1988). Oracle at the Supermarket: The American Preoccupation with Self-help Books. Transaction Publishers, 191. ISBN 0765809648.
- ^ Masserman, Jules Hymen (1977). Current Psychiatric Therapies. Grune & Stratton, 112.
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