The Book of Est

aimed at getting the trainees to experience responsibility for their own lives,

experience the mechanical quality of the mind, but, as Werner stresses, to disidentify with the machine mind, to be free of it.

assist the trainee in getting in touch, with buried material and experiencing himself as the creator of his experience.

In Zen and est one is not transcending everyday reality; one is, in fact, learning to experience it.

Both est and Zen are suspicious of dualities (good and evil, Darkness and Light, and so on) and place emphasis on experiencing a realm in which the dualities have ceased to exist.

Some Zen Masters express the same idea in a more estian way even than Werner: “When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit.

the substance of physicalness is measurability. That is to say, time, form, and distance all necessitate the ability to measure, and when something is measurable it simply means it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

We don't call something real unless it's physical. Physicalness manifests itself in time, distance, and form. Things that are physical have form, they exist in time, and they cover or occupy a distance.

The test for reality is physicalness. What is real is physical! ...”