In the last 40 years or so, a significant shift in consciousness has been reshaping the world we live in. One of the most noteable and noticeable, for lack of a better word at the moment was when a man by the name of Werner Erhard created what he called "est". This was the first westernized program that promised the experience of personal enlightenment in 2 weekends. The company he started has evolved into what is now known as Landmark Education personal development and the format of the program has softened, as it has become more refined. It runs on the basic assumption that telling the truth makes you free of it, and that it is the meaning that we make out of what happens to us, not what happens to us that form attachments and dissatisfaction.

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What is interesting further is that after a few years, there was a difference in the attitudes of the people that began taking the program. These people were collectively closer to the levels of awareness that the early graduates of the first programs had. Clearly, there was evidence of a systemic evolution occurring that went beyond individuals as a collection having many individual experiences. A framework in which realization could be experienced- in  deliberate and intentional way had been established.

Since the inception of the "est" phenomenon, other organizations have emerged and offered people the ability to beyond who it is they thought they were into an experience of themselves previously reserved for those willing to sit on mountaintops for decades in solemn meditation. Among them, mentioned more prominently on this web site are LifeSpring, Insight, and The MythoSelf® process. This process in the form it is known at this point has only been around for about 10 years. It offers a powerful and rapid way to experience a transformative experience based on what is known as the Generative Imprint- that is to say that we are all born with an innate ability to experience the sacred and transcendent while being fully engaged in "day to day" life- it just that many people forget how they do and become something other than what they are over time. The adaptations they take on begin to be perceived as their identity.

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I am sure many people would think it would be great if there were some sort of objective "personal growth tracker"- where you could have an objective yardstick which showed how far you've come. This is what I consider to be a trapping of mindless self indulgence. The true measure of personal development and how it can be shown comes not from an internal experience of one's self. This would be kind of a personal growth therapy. This is not what any of these sorts of systems offer. Truly an experience of real self-fulfillment is personal growth measured in the "space" between individuals- and individuals with what they are most impassioned and fascinated with - being engaged in being present to their lives. Great writers, artists and athletes know this. When they are "in the flow" or "in the zone" as they would put it, they truly know who they are- and it is obvious to those around them.