Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a Technology of Transformation

First, a comment on the Landmark Forum because book is somewhat like participating in one. If you'd like to directly read about the book skip the next two paragraphs.In 2015, after a 25year long corporate career, I was training to be a life and leadership coach with one of the best ICF MCC coaches and a lovely man- Peter Reding, when a dear friend shared with me, what he got at the Forum. I continued to go back to him with doubts and cynicism for almost a year, sure that this wasn't for me, particularly because of what was said about it online - it seemed enigmatic and somewhat cultish. People were either all for it or all against it. I finally risked it and did the Forum in 2016, in Delhi. It was nothing like I thought, nor was it like any of the programs that I had attended before, during my corporate career as a business head, or my subsequent trainings in coaching. Landmark Forum was brilliantly surprising and brutally confronting- the problem as it turned out was me! So I promptly proceeded to also do the Advance Course and two Communications programs same year. In 2019, I reviewed the Forum and the Advance courses again. And during the covid 19 lockdowns of 2020, I participated in a couple of online courses too.While, I wouldn't trade what I have gained from the rich Indian spiritual literature, and my coaching work, for anything in the world, I found the Landmark events most effective and efficient in raising my awareness, responsibility and accountability in the matter of my life, relationships and career. I now feel better aligned and more fulfilled in my new job- as a teacher and coach, though I earn a fraction of what I once did. I feel that I now live more wholesomely, connect heartily and contribute better - to my family and others. Since I attended these programs, there is a certain freeness to be, do and create. A freeness to be that is not possible by knowing and learning-about stuff. This work offers that.Now, the book - it seems to have lifted my understanding of Landmark's work to a yet higher place. To me Werner's mission now seems to be an endeavour of discovery and methodical research into one's true nature and being. A topic generally neglected off-late, and the kind of work that I feel ought to be encouraged in the interest of human evolution.The book is brilliant, after all what do you expect when you are reading Werner leading the Forum, he is so ruthless in his compassion that it becomes delightfully humorous and frequently wicked.The book is sometimes frustratingly difficult particularly when you are reading Heidegger’s work but when you do finally ‘get’ it, it lights you up! It challenged me to be present in a manner that I am not used to; and to examine myself - as I have rarely, if ever done, outside the programs at Landmark. The effort left me with a deeply transformed view of myself, others and life itself - of empty meaninglessness - that has latent in itself the potentiality to be as I choose and create.In the end as I approached the finish, I found myself feeling deeply grateful to the two wonderful authors for their brilliant effort to study, compare and find alignments in pathbreaking works of two extraordinary thought leaders.Since I have finished it, I have found myself opening it every few weeks. New understandings and insights continually show-up. I find these contributing richly to my spiritual journey and meditations.I honestly feel such insight into human life is rare.I would strongly recommend it to all.

An absolute jewel and must have for anybody interested in getting to the source of what can or will empower you. It beautifully brings to light the transformative experience of the Forum; such that even as i read it, the work became alive for me in my living room! The description, discussion and comparison of Heidegger's philosophy was no easy read for a non-academic, but definitely whet my appetite to explore further.

Best book ever

The book by itself is pure gold. In the first few pages itself it gets so intense, it is like having Werner speak to you directly. I have it from a reliable source that Werner has said that the book is transformativeNow, coming to the suppplier, I received the book in this condition. This is why I would dissuade anyone trying to buy the book in India as it is a con job. The impression I got is that the manuscript has been downloaded, printed on as cheap a paper as possible, cut in an unprofessional manner and then sold at the ridiculous price. This is a book I want to treasure for life, and it to receive it in this condition I declare it as a criminal offence.

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