December 31, 1976 (12 pages)

Wilson. No song similar to “Trancendental Meditation” will come out of the experience, but Carl noted another effect. “I went to one of the introductory guest seminars, in Aspen, and I walked out. I said, ‘It sounded like bull.’ Then they had’a training, and some of my friends took it. Afterwards, they were more straight-ahead. They looked you in the eye when they talked to you, and when stuff came up it was handled.” Denver took the est training in June 1972. “est was a great acknowledgement,” he said with a certitude that some take as smugness and others look on as genuine selfEDITOR’S NOTE Sd — ciara seine Wale Sart and left us with est — he, she or it is. But est — it is—has become a popular way of findsing one’s self, separating the tangles of past experience and future expectations. For some of today’s brilliant musicians, this sometimes. brutal way to face what is, works. By ABE PECK For The Associated Press What do John Denver, Diana Ross, Cher, Carly Simon, Stan Getz, Yoko Ono, Herb Alpert, and three of the Beach Boys have in common? They’re musicians who have taken est. Lower case est, even at the beginning of a sentence. The five-year-old est training currently costs $300 and has been taken by some 100,000 people. a ee 250 trainees spend 60 hours in,a controlled environment . where they do mind-body exercises called ‘‘processes,” share intimate experiences and are relentlessly bullied and encouraged by the trainer. . est.(eorrect, no caps) is Latin for it is, and for many people, it is. The participant is trained to recognize the satisfaction. ‘Here was somebody saying things that I felt were a part of my life. That sense of being at one with everything, being centered and in control of your own destiny. t “I was able to verify my own experience, and it got to be .« Anuch safer. I remember playing in front of 10,000 people’ after the training, and my guitarist, Mike Taylor, noticed thatI wasn’t nervous before the show. Everything was under control.’’ Denver dedicated “Looking For Space” to est founder “Werner Erhard and everyone in est’”’ and sent ‘‘Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)” out “For all of you from Werner and est and me.” . “I wanted very much to write a song about est. Everybody thought that ‘Rocky Mountain High’ was done “T traveled quite a lot during the first tour after the training, and I was able to take it day by day. I used to think ‘We’ve got 10 days left, we’ve got nine days left.’ ee, I just dug it. I’d say, ‘Oh goody, we’re re,’” Werner Erhard explains it this way: “My sense of what oo ee ee a ‘GARYC.TANKO WELL DRILLING, INC. STA-RITE PUMPS SALES & SERVICE ee N run our lives dation, played benefit concerts and declared his “Back Home Again” album ‘“‘a chance to share est with you,” wasn’t overwhelmed when he first encountered the Free Estimates a Sle — estpatterns that Wevada County lingget — Friday, Becomber 31, 1976 — Page 5 885-0421 cepting that you’re responsible for it all, and ‘Looking for Space’ is what it says. We're looking to find out where we are, and what our relationship is between ourselves and Serving Nevada, Placer El Dorado and Amador Counties kinds of patterns that run one’slife, and not be run by past Hwy 49 & Luther Road (1460 Canal Street) Auburn, Calif. 95603 “Call 885-0421 tense thoughts or future tense expections. One is asked to live moment by moment in one’s present tense ex ofhen Sind tom, porate peeienyn een wee e acknowledgement of responsibility. John Denver, who’s donated $10,000 to the est foun 40-Banana Splits 8:30 2-Romper Room 9-Infinity Factory 9:00 2-Movie: 3-Tattietaies 5-Family Affair 12:30 2-Movie: ‘13 West Street’”’ 3-Phil Donahue 5-10-12-As the World Turns 7-All My Children 9-To be announced 13-To Tell the Truth 40-Andy Griffith 44-Leave it to Beaver 1:00 7-13-Ryan’s Hope 6-9-Sesame Street 7-A.M. San Francisco 10-At Nine on Ten 12-Price is Right 13-1’ Dream of Jeannie 40-Flintstones 31-P.T.L. Club . 40-Movie: 44-Beverly Hillbillies 1:25 36-News 1:303-Mary Hartman, ae 5-Kathryn 10-Price is Right 36-Movie: “Station West’ : 44-Gomer Pyle, USMC 2:003-Another World. 5-10-12-All in es —_ 36-Yoga for Health ae was all I could do not to go to sleep. But then I ‘wrapped up in it. There feeling. Wilson tok eet training in February 197 andtes since . lives to be better.’’ En; Powe been joined by keyboard player Carlis Munoz and several. family members, 6-9-Sesame Street 10-Mike Douglas 13-My Three Sons MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1977 Y 44-Flintstones 6Getting On News 9-Zoom %6-Movie: * Star Trek 4:30 26iiemrs island . Love Lucy 5-Mike Douglas 13-Family Affair 4-Partridge Family 44-Emergency One! 6Law of the ‘70s 5:00 —_ 13-Merv Griffin ’ ee ee 13-Adam-12 5-6-9-7-News One! 12-Jacques Cousteau 36-My Favorite Martian 4-Brady Bunch 44 a Bunch -gongnye cael 5y! Sas 3M: Judge Horton and the Scottpices Sor SPIO 12 Maude, 7-13-Movie: ‘Green 6:30 3-5-10-12-News. 4:5536-News 12 SR oF Aamerst preeaincl‘China Gate”. 6:00 oea ‘ 9:30 5-10-12-All’s Fair ‘iis oe Earth 10:60 2-40-News 5-10-12-Executive Suite im 36-Merv Griffin v4 4#-FBI 10:30 44-Best of Groucho 44-Adam-12 11:08 rentoo eog Maeda cometh, Ey 44-Dinah! @-Love, American 9:00 MOVIE: “GREEN movie dramatizes a tragic Wer the plight of American servicemen. ii A small percentage drop out about the ee ee"governing they can eat, sleep or even go to the bathroom. Others ‘‘get it” by experiencing that they’re responsible for their lives, and complained : with the ground rules. “Talk about a barrage of data. It a perience, not caught in the fabric of one’s life, but being the fabric of one’s life.

Wilson. No song similar to “Trancendental Meditation” will come out of the experience, but Carl noted another effect. “I went to one of the introductory guest seminars, in Aspen, and I walked out. I said, ‘It sounded like bull.’ Then they had’a training, and some of my friends took it. Afterwards, they were more straight-ahead. They looked you in the eye when they talked to you, and when stuff came up it was handled.” Denver took the est training in June 1972. “est was a great acknowledgement,” he said with a certitude that some take as smugness and others look on as genuine selfEDITOR’S NOTE Sd — ciara seine Wale Sart and left us with est — he, she or it is. But est — it is—has become a popular way of findsing one’s self, separating the tangles of past experience and future expectations. For some of today’s brilliant musicians, this sometimes. brutal way to face what is, works. By ABE PECK For The Associated Press What do John Denver, Diana Ross, Cher, Carly Simon, Stan Getz, Yoko Ono, Herb Alpert, and three of the Beach Boys have in common? They’re musicians who have taken est. Lower case est, even at the beginning of a sentence. The five-year-old est training currently costs $300 and has been taken by some 100,000 people. a ee 250 trainees spend 60 hours in,a controlled environment . where they do mind-body exercises called ‘‘processes,” share intimate experiences and are relentlessly bullied and encouraged by the trainer. . est.(eorrect, no caps) is Latin for it is, and for many people, it is. The participant is trained to recognize the satisfaction. ‘Here was somebody saying things that I felt were a part of my life. That sense of being at one with everything, being centered and in control of your own destiny. t “I was able to verify my own experience, and it got to be .« Anuch safer. I remember playing in front of 10,000 people’ after the training, and my guitarist, Mike Taylor, noticed thatI wasn’t nervous before the show. Everything was under control.’’ Denver dedicated “Looking For Space” to est founder “Werner Erhard and everyone in est’”’ and sent ‘‘Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)” out “For all of you from Werner and est and me.” . “I wanted very much to write a song about est. Everybody thought that ‘Rocky Mountain High’ was done “T traveled quite a lot during the first tour after the training, and I was able to take it day by day. I used to think ‘We’ve got 10 days left, we’ve got nine days left.’ ee, I just dug it. I’d say, ‘Oh goody, we’re re,’” Werner Erhard explains it this way: “My sense of what oo ee ee a ‘GARYC.TANKO WELL DRILLING, INC. STA-RITE PUMPS SALES & SERVICE ee N run our lives dation, played benefit concerts and declared his “Back Home Again” album ‘“‘a chance to share est with you,” wasn’t overwhelmed when he first encountered the Free Estimates a Sle — estpatterns that Wevada County lingget — Friday, Becomber 31, 1976 — Page 5 885-0421 cepting that you’re responsible for it all, and ‘Looking for Space’ is what it says. We're looking to find out where we are, and what our relationship is between ourselves and Serving Nevada, Placer El Dorado and Amador Counties kinds of patterns that run one’slife, and not be run by past Hwy 49 & Luther Road (1460 Canal Street) Auburn, Calif. 95603 “Call 885-0421 tense thoughts or future tense expections. One is asked to live moment by moment in one’s present tense ex ofhen Sind tom, porate peeienyn een wee e acknowledgement of responsibility. John Denver, who’s donated $10,000 to the est foun 40-Banana Splits 8:30 2-Romper Room 9-Infinity Factory 9:00 2-Movie: 3-Tattietaies 5-Family Affair 12:30 2-Movie: ‘13 West Street’”’ 3-Phil Donahue 5-10-12-As the World Turns 7-All My Children 9-To be announced 13-To Tell the Truth 40-Andy Griffith 44-Leave it to Beaver 1:00 7-13-Ryan’s Hope 6-9-Sesame Street 7-A.M. San Francisco 10-At Nine on Ten 12-Price is Right 13-1’ Dream of Jeannie 40-Flintstones 31-P.T.L. Club . 40-Movie: 44-Beverly Hillbillies 1:25 36-News 1:303-Mary Hartman,

ae 5-Kathryn 10-Price is Right 36-Movie: “Station West’ : 44-Gomer Pyle, USMC 2:003-Another World. 5-10-12-All in es —_ 36-Yoga for Health ae was all I could do not to go to sleep. But then I ‘wrapped up in it. There feeling. Wilson tok eet training in February 197 andtes since . lives to be better.’’ En; Powe been joined by keyboard player Carlis Munoz and several. family members, 6-9-Sesame Street 10-Mike Douglas 13-My Three Sons MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1977 Y 44-Flintstones 6Getting On News 9-Zoom %6-Movie: * Star Trek 4:30 26iiemrs island . Love Lucy 5-Mike Douglas 13-Family Affair 4-Partridge Family 44-Emergency One! 6Law of the ‘70s 5:00 —_ 13-Merv Griffin ’ ee ee 13-Adam-12 5-6-9-7-News One! 12-Jacques Cousteau 36-My Favorite Martian 4-Brady Bunch 44 a Bunch -gongnye cael 5y! Sas 3M: Judge Horton and the Scottpices Sor SPIO 12 Maude, 7-13-Movie: ‘Green 6:30 3-5-10-12-News. 4:5536-News 12 SR oF Aamerst preeaincl‘China Gate”. 6:00 oea ‘ 9:30 5-10-12-All’s Fair ‘iis oe Earth 10:60 2-40-News 5-10-12-Executive Suite im 36-Merv Griffin v4 4#-FBI 10:30 44-Best of Groucho 44-Adam-12 11:08 rentoo eog Maeda cometh, Ey 44-Dinah! @-Love, American 9:00 MOVIE: “GREEN movie dramatizes a tragic Wer the plight of American servicemen. ii A small percentage drop out about the ee ee"governing they can eat, sleep or even go to the bathroom. Others ‘‘get it” by experiencing that they’re responsible for their lives, and complained : with the ground rules. “Talk about a barrage of data. It a perience, not caught in the fabric of one’s life, but being the fabric of one’s life.