DISQUS

Actually Werner based much of his EST seminars on the notions of Reality Therapy and The Nature of the Way That Human Beings BE in their lives, also known as Ontology of Being. In any event the key conversation of EST was how does each individual person and people in general distinguish - if they do at all - between their thoughts about what is real and what is actually in fact real. What the EST seminar points out and what most of the participants get/got was that people often have a big gap between what they think is real and what is actually real. Most of us live many delusions. A key notion is that there is power available in one's life if one can get the gap and see new possibilities for how one is being in their life. Of course one can always choose to be shallow - if for example a person gets that they are being shallow in some area of their life, it's up to us to choose. The EST seminar at best enabled people to get the potentially transformative distinction mentioned above and to choose freely and after consideration whether or not to choose to live and be in life in ways that enable or empower the transformed way that that person sees for themselves and others. This of course doesn't mean that others will get it or that it's easy to communicate, but that's the usual morass of life.