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

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Steel Balls

Napa Valley, California, USA

August 31, 2026

Early on: "Now if you'll just take a hold of that, it will make you free."


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to his upset brother Nathan Rosenberg, quoted by Nathan to Professor William Warren "Bill" Bartley III, Werner's official biographer, in the account titled "The Prodigal Son Returns" in the chapter called "One Big Family" in part IV, "Completion", of "Werner Erhard - The Transformation of a Man, The Founding of est"

Later on: "Experienced experience disappears."


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This essay, Steel Balls, is the companion piece to

I am indebted to Donovan Copley who inspired this conversation.



Two identical steel balls

Work in progress.

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Coming soon.

Footnote:

The analogy I've deployed in this essay, Steel Balls, uses identical steel balls to illustrate experienced experience disappearing.

In earlier companion pieces to this essay, Do Nothing, Be Happy, and Don't Be A Koan-Killer, I used identical golf balls to the same effect.

There's no significance to this change other than later I came to prefer steel balls to golf balls in the analogy. It simply works better.

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