The Book Of Est

.|. The Book of est by Luke Rhinehart .|.
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WHY IS _THE BOOK OF EST_ THE GREATEST SELF-HELP BOOK OF ALL TIME?

by Dr Joe Vitale

There are only a handful of books that have dramatically influenced
my life. There's _The Magic of Believing_ and _The Robert Collier
Letter Book_. But number one on the list is _The Book of est_. It beat
out _Think and Grow Rich_, and even the Bible. I know that's bold and
controversial. But it's also the truth.

Here are two reasons why I love the book:

The book is the famous est experience in written form. est, or
Erhard Seminar Training, was the controversial self-help movement of
the 1970s and beyond. Anyone who withstood the heat of the weekends
were never the same again. Lives were transformed forever. You faced
yourself and your story in a way that was confrontational and oh so
real.

I never got to do est. I was a skeptic and a hold out. I made fun of
it when I saw all the articles about it. But I was afraid of it. I was
young and in college and unsure of everything, including myself. By
the time I got around to wanting to do est, it was gone and
reincarnated into something called The Forum. I did the Forum and
endorse it today. But it's no est.

_The Book of est_ puts you into the room and gets you to feel the
intensity. You somehow _experience_ est. When my late wife began to
type up the book to be republished by me, she had to keep stopping.
She said it was intense and dramatic. She died during the
transcription process. But that had nothing to do with the book. It
had more to do with her choices and what the book urged her to face.

Obviously, a book isn't a drill sergeant self-help instructor
yelling in your face about what isn't working in your life. But _The
Book of est_ comes close. It's safe. It's easy reading. But it's still
real. Oh so very real. Just reading it can cause you to awaken to your
own patterns. And once you see them, you can let them go. Or not.
After all, what you get from the book is what _you get_.

But that's only the first reason I love _The Book of est_.

The second reason I love this book is because the writing is, well,
hypnotic. It's riveting.

Luke Rhinehart has the gift of writing dialogue and description that
puts you in the room with the characters experiencing est. In many
ways, this was one of the first examples I ever found of what I
eventually labeled as Hypnotic Writing. While I later wrote a book
called _Hypnotic Writing_, it was Luke Rhinehart, who paved the way
for me to know what it was when a true master was at work. For me,
this is one of the best written books of all time.

The author wrote some other cult classics, too. _The Dice Man_ is a
masterpiece. It's well written, engaging, humorous and in some ways
dangerous. Just like _The Book of est_. But where _The Dice Man_ is
alive and well in print, _The Book of est_ has been gone for decades.

Search on eBay or Amazon and you might find copies going for one
hundred dollars on up to a thousand dollars. I've paid that much for
copies, too. I collect them. _The Book of est_ is one of the rare life
changing gems that I can't get enough of or read enough times.
Sometimes I give the book away. Usually I don't. Usually I just keep
it for myself, as one of the most powerful books of all time kept
hidden in my own secret vault of wisdom.

The good news for you is this: Luke is now a friend of mine. We've
corresponded, shared books, and decided to join a partnership. With
the help of my friend Mark Ryan, the most powerful self-help book of
all time is now available to you.

And all you have to do is to begin it.

Aude Aliquid Dignum,

Dr. Joe Vitale
Author of way too many books to list here

September, 2008