Conversations For Transformation: Essays Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard

Conversations For Transformation

Essays By Laurence Platt

Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard

And More

Experience An Ontological Shift

Cowboy Cottage, East Napa, California, USA

June 26, 2019

"A society grows great when its people plant trees in whose shade they know they will never sit." ... Greek proverb

This essay, Experience An Ontological Shift, with Life, Love, And The Whole Damn Thing, Crowning Jewel, and On The Created Future, is the sequel to the trilogy The Leadership Course:

in that order (in a very real sense, any and all Conversations For Transformation essays written following the trilogy The Leadership Course are all its sequels).

I am indebted to Anne Peterson who inspired this conversation and contributed material.

Photograph courtesy
University of California at Los Angeles

Werner leading the Leadership Course with Steve Zaffron and Friends

When I graduated from Werner's brilliant Leadership Course, I had plenty of questions to ask him (Werner's courses aren't narrative, informative lectures as much as they're experiential, theatrical immersions so there will assuredly be lots and lots and lots of questions). And during one of our recent conversations, I do exactly that.

I ante up with my experience of the Leadership Course which he led, in which I participated in Cancun Mexico in October / November of 2017. In my experience, it's the crowning jewel of his work - hands down. But here's how it differed from all his other courses for me: I understood what happened in all the other courses (for whatever that's worth, which is almost nothing). Yet the Leadership Course, which gave me a hands-on-feet-on access to transformation such as I haven't gotten in over forty years of being around him, I did not understand. My first question is "What happened to me in the Leadership Course?". He reminds me my experience is subjective, so only I can say what happened to me. I realize I have to rephrase my question. This time I ask him "What did you do to me in the Leadership Course?".

I could be shocked at how simple it all is when he pulls away the curtain. Knowing him, I'm not. He says to get people to be out-here (which is to get people to get they're already out-here), you first have to get them to see exactly what's in here (if you will), and then to see they're not that. And what's in here is only a very tiny component: all there is in here, are thoughts and memories, feelings and emotions, and bodily sensations. Look: there's nothing else. That's it! And that's all. When they're distinguished like that, or boxed in like that (or "bracketed" like that if you prefer), who we really are as out-here, can show up, arguably for the first time.

When I'm aware that who I really am is out-here and I'm being out-here, when I no longer identify with the illusory "in here" so I'm no longer being in here, that's an ontological shift. I took the opportunity recently to invite people (and to offer a generous incentive) to experience an ontological shift - not merely to talk about it, not merely to imagine it, not merely to debate it, not merely to get to know it's possible like a maybe, not even to merely read up about it, but to experience it directly.

Look: to experience an ontological shift doesn't simply trigger the onset of transformation itself. It makes available both leadership and mastery like possibilities. Even outside of Werner's work, these results are revered far and wide. It's Werner's delivery method however that's unique, truly extraordinary, and uncannily on the mark.

On Wednesday May 26, 2019 I extended the following invitation and offer to one thousand five hundred people plus worldwide by e-mail.

Conversations For Transformation

Essays By Laurence Platt

Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard

And More

Experience An Ontological Shift

Cowboy Cottage, East Napa, California, USA

June 26, 2019

Cowboy Cottage, East Napa, California, USA
Wednesday June 26, 2019

Hello!

I'm Laurence.

The Leadership Course is arguably the crowning jewel of Werner's work. Why "crowning" jewel and not the more familiar "crown jewel"? More on that will be revealed later.

Werner's promise for the Leadership Course is the extraordinary "You will leave this course being a leader and exercising leadership as your natural Self-expression in any situation and no matter what the circumstances.". You won't leave this course merely knowing about leadership. You'll leave this course being a leader. That's an ontological shift.

This year the Leadership Course will once again be offered in Cancun Mexico in October.

Werner is offering you a $250.00 discount if you register on or before July 15, 2019. In addition, you'll receive a further $250.00 discount for a total discount of $500.00 if you indicate you're responding to this invitation from me when you register.

Here are webpages which present various facets of the Leadership Course so you can make an intelligent choice whether or not to participate:

• The Leadership Course home page:

http://www.beingaleader.net

• The Leadership Course in Cancun, Mexico in October 2019 page (you can register here):

http://www.beingaleader.net/the-courses/cancun-2019

• Werner Erhard Video Experience III: a catalog of thirteen videos of Werner speaking the Leadership Course and leadership:

http://www.laurenceplatt.com/wernererhard/wernere7.html

• The Leadership Course: a group of ten of my essays sharing my personal experience before, during, and after the Leadership Course:

http://www.laurenceplatt.com/wernererhard/indsg.html#tlc"

You are invited to distribute this e-mail freely to your family and friends and colleagues and associates.

Thank You for Playing (really).

Thank You for Your Listening.

Thank You for Your Relationship with Werner.

With my Love and Respect,

Communication Promise

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While no one wants to be the first to say this (assuredly least of all me), Werner won't be leading the Leadership Course forever. Really. It's the truth. With that said, the Leadership Course itself, now firmly established in academia and respected business institutions and private enterprises worldwide, will be delivered for a long, long time to come, long into the foreseeable future and beyond, being led by an ongoing team of leaders causing leaders who carry the torch.

So if you don't participate now, you'll still realize its extraordinary benefits even if you participate years from now. But if you'd like to be with Werner while he's leading the Leadership Course, then the fact of the matter is now is your time (listen: this is a priceless opportunity - no kidding!) so please accept my gift and register today.

You're invited to share my invitation and gift freely with your family and friends and colleagues and associates. Rest assured my gift applies to whomever you share my invitation with. And you don't have to be a graduate of Werner's work to be with him and participate in the Leadership Course: unlike some other advanced courses which are for graduates only, participation in the Leadership Course with Werner is open for Everyone.

Thank You for Playing.

Thank You for Your Listening.

Thank You for Your Relationship with Werner.

With my Love and Respect,

Communication Promise

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