The Book of est
| Author | Luke Rhinehart |
|---|---|
| Published | 1976 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — Luke Rhinehart’s 1976 book recreating, in semi-fictional form, a weekend of Werner Erhard’s est training, the human-potential seminar of the 1970s.
First published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1976; this file is the author’s 2010 Kindle re-release. Rhinehart (author of The Dice Man) narrates a composite est training — trainer, participants, exercises and confrontations — and the copyright page notes that parts of the first four chapters draw on Werner Erhard’s unpublished lectures, used with his permission.
What it is: a commercially published, in-copyright popular book, partly fictionalised and sympathetic to est; a period document of the human-potential movement rather than an independent study.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
194 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.