Context of Ecstasy by Werner Erhard

[1rocknroy]

I would just say, put down the pipe and cut the music. He don't need it.

[bobaytoday]

I was in the room when he spoke this remarkable discovery, for 9000 people to spend a day together celebrating their relationships, gives me my life today

[samdaman432]

So happy to hear his voice again -- working for him personally in late 70's was the best work experience ever and I was passionate and ALIVE !

[claudelebel55]

beautifully done, I would just up the balance in favor of the voice a little.

[greattheophany]

I concur with claudelebe155. Perhaps bring the speaker out a bit more. I watched it a couple of times and you just might to try one day when it's invented and available a 'mood music skin' to track the variations of the speaker. Thanks for sharing.

[tomorrowstruth]

Come on... are you not GETTING that this guy is wrapping his empty cult lingo around a quote he stole form Charles Bernhard Shaw?

The *possibility* ?

The *context* ?

Explain that to yourselves, ladies and gentlemen.

Good quote though. Touches, moves *and*.. inspires :o) :o) :o)

[RedTailedTuna]

@tomorrowstruth Really that is just your view point of what it really is not what it is.

we all create our context of how we see the world and what things mean.

[tomorrowstruth]

@RedTailedTuna you can not build a house from nothing

[billyjo1881]

@tomorrowstruth Houses are physical objects. Werner's coming from a distinct quadrant. A linguistic paradigm that brings forth from nothing , something new, something possible. You can put a house on a scale and see how much it weighs in pounds. You cant put a word on a scale. These are two distinct domains of knowing.

[tomorrowstruth]

@billyjo1881 We have got onto slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk so we need friction. Back to the rough ground! (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

[tomorrowstruth]

@billyjo1881 ...or to be less abstract: According to both Wittgenstein and Kant, words not attached to physical/tangible objects in the real, shared world are inherently "slippery": have the tendency to become meaningless, without us even realizing it. e.g. W. says language is a game. We use language to describe our experience, but source and target domain of language is shared physical reality, not the slippery ice of self-contained thinking.

[EWLGtoday]

@billyjo1881 well said.

[EWLGtoday]

@tomorrowstruth actually WE can build a house from nothing. YOU just cannot do that.

[tomorrowstruth]

@EWLGtoday ...because you have re-defined "Nothing" as "going in without preconceptions". But you still need to know or have a usable understanding about bricks, mortar, wood bars, how to handle the crane etc. You also need intention/possibility etc.

Defining yourself as "Nothing" like that opens the door for whatever intention someone else wants to use you for... For example, to bring in more people into Landmark and go into the same state of "Nothing"?

[chriscaselli]

Wow, I was at Werner's presentation called "Celebrating Your Relationships". It was in San Francisco 7-78. Great music too.

[flyingeagle357]

the music doest it very well with the words. I am listening this on weed and man...It just doest it. Werner is a real Pimp, respect.

[jimtsutsui]

Incredible words... which do not need any background music. Taken from an event entitled "Celebrating Your Relationships." The quote from George Bernard Shaw was an excerpt from "Man and Superman."

[MsDraganfly]

I have been to Landmark Seminar which teaches these principles BUT it is a commercial culture and is terribly expensive. Thanks for posting this on the web so that this is available to everyone.

Get past thinking that our circumstances are our life. Get involved in helping others reach their goal and you will reach yours.

[Fletcher901]

@MsDraganfly Incredibly expensive?

[allan329]

what's the song in this video? :)

[Maxybrklyn]

@allan329 black sabbath-planet caravan

[quincee33]

pyramid scam.

[lydian7999]

I have a cd with this whole meeting, it's amazing!

[jonniejensen]

Love it Max - beautiful illustration of fabulous words from Werner. This man needs way more recognition than he gets. Landmark Education and the continuation of his work is a positive force in the World. There is hope.

[XxXlandisxXx]

Oh man, I haven't heard Erhard's voice since the early 70"s when I took EST. What a trip. Still a fairly compelling speaker.

[Crebralassassin]

@XxXlandisxXx fairly compelling? Fairly compelling? THIS MAN IS TOTALLY COMPELLING!

[CloudshadowMan1]

Commit to a purpose bigger than your life. Maslow said this is a common characteristic of self actualized persons. But is this the true path towards ecstasy?

[Crebralassassin]

@CloudshadowMan1 No, its not. :-)

[1rocknroy]

It's very nice music. In my opinion the words stand on their own. There seems to be some unwritten rule of the 21st century that a video without music, just words, is bad wrong boring or somehow incomplete. These words of Werner do stand on their own.

[ipaintedthis]

nice!

[yesride]

this is awesome, keep the videos coming

[bthompguitar]

Thanks for posting another Erhard vid. I love the George Bernard Shaw quote.