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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Experiential Processes
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Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 18:07:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 10 18:07:15 1984
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I didn't say it espoused a religion; I said it espoused ideas with religious
content.  Any social or psychological therapy contains some idea of (a) what
people are like, and (b) what they should be like.  If you are going to guide
people through a process of personal development, you need some idea of your
goal.  This sort of 'nature of man' idea is a religious notion, at least
by my understanding of religion.  Religion doesn't have to be something
organized or even explicitly stated.

    Never having attended an EST seminar I can't comment on its model of
human nature.  My point was not that EST was bad; rather that potential
attendees should look more closely at what they are buying.

    Caveat Emptor applies in psychology, too.

Charley Wingate     umcp-cs!mangoe