est! Cool, haven't heard that since 1982 or so. Blast from the past, many thanks for the nostalgia jolt!
John will certainly understand.😀
Here's an amusing explanation for those too young or those trapped here in Texas, safely insulated from West Coast pop culture:
http://www.skepdic.com/est.html
Here's an amusing explanation for those too young or those trapped here in Texas, safely insulated from West Coast pop culture:
http://www.skepdic.com/est.html
to me it's like supporting cancer research. Worth the effort, so far not much success, but still hoping to stop this disease for good.
Are you sure they are alike?I can assure you they are not.
est wasn't just West Coast. est was a big deal in south Florida back in the mid 70s. I certainly remember "it."
Ah I think have have heard about est before.
"est bears little resemblance to Dianetics or Scientology, however. est is a hodgepodge of philosophical bits and pieces seemingly culled from the carcasses of existential philosophy, motivational psychology, Maxwell Maltz's Psycho-cybernetics, Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts, Freud, Abraham Maslow, L. Ron Hubbard, Hinduism, Dale Carnegie, Norman Vincent Peale, P. T. Barnum, and apparently anything else that Erhard's intuition told him would work in the burgeoning human potential market."
Haha I fail to see the distinction. So est is Scientology without the occult influence? Scientology seems like a bastardized form of Zen made from some old 1940s mistranslation. I think they called Zen "dhyana" back then.
Yeah, I have been in close proximity of some Scientologists when they were pushing their quack medicines on people - doctors and chiropractors to be specific. They were handing out these fake diplomas and giving speeches (I suspect that a couple of speech givers were plants) like they had just won an award. One of the common things said was basically "you can't deny it works, I mean why are so many people reporting great results?".
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No cable surely make some systems sound better, you can get the same effect with the power switch also. 😀
I guess "IT" alludes me somehow. What was IT? Was this like some form of military bootcamp where people were broken down so that they could be retrained?
Touché! But of course I should have said "very, very short cables." But my post was meant to fan the flames, that's all.
If the cables are but a few cm long, do they really matter? (as long as they are not super thin)
Curly: You don't know what "it" is until you get "it." That was one of the charms and attractions of the est process.
Famously, the person running the seminars started off by telling the room, "You're all *******s." That's the last true thing the participants would hear for the next two days.
Famously, the person running the seminars started off by telling the room, "You're all *******s." That's the last true thing the participants would hear for the next two days.
Sure, you still have the connections 😉
Short speakers cables means longer interconnects 😕
Well, maybe if you are listening to a bit nervous fullrange the cure could very well be long interconnects in combination with a passive "pre" or tubepre(phono?), you know, the nicely rolled off top 😀
Just EnABL every surface in the room, including passing felines. Then you really will get it.
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