Grand EstLe Grand Est est une région administrative française résultant de la fusion des anciennes régions administratives Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne et Lorraine. Elle compte en 2020 et réunit, sur , des territoires de l'Europe rhénane (l'Alsace, la Meurthe-et-Moselle, la Moselle et l'Est des Vosges) à l'est et des territoires du bassin parisien (les Ardennes et la Marne) à l'ouest, séparés par la diagonale du vide (qui inclut majoritairement des territoires de la Haute-Marne, de l'Aube et de la Meuse).
The Book of estThe Book of est is a fictional account of the training created by Werner Erhard, (est), or Erhard Seminars Training, first published in 1976 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. The book was written by est graduate Luke Rhinehart. Rhinehart is the pen name of writer George Cockcroft. The book was endorsed by Erhard, and includes a foreword by him. Its contents attempts to replicate the experience of the est training, with the reader being put in the place of a participant in the course.
Gare de Paris-EstLa gare de Paris-Est, dite aussi gare de l'Est (initialement appelée gare de Strasbourg), est l'une des six grandes gares terminus du réseau de la SNCF à Paris. Elle se trouve dans le quartier Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, dans le , non loin de la gare du Nord. Sa façade ferme la perspective de l'axe nord-sud percé par le baron Haussmann, préfet de la Seine, et constitué principalement par le boulevard de Strasbourg. Avec plus de quarante-et-un millions de voyageurs par an, il s'agit de la cinquième gare de Paris.
EST and The Forum in popular cultureWerner Erhard and his courses have been referenced in popular culture in various forms of fictional media including literature, film, television and theatre. The original course, known as est, was delivered by the company Erhard Seminars Training (est). Under the name The Forum, they were delivered by Werner Erhard and Associates. Also, the Landmark Forum, a program created by Erhard's former employees after purchasing his intellectual property, has had an influence on popular culture.
Est: Playing the Gameest: Playing the Game the New Way is a non-fiction book by Carl Frederick, first published in 1976, by Delacorte Press, New York. The book describes in words the basic message of Werner Erhard's Erhard Seminars Training (est) theatrical experience. Erhard/est sued in federal court in the United States to stop the book from publication, but the suit failed. The book takes a 'trainer's' approach to the est experience, in that it essentially duplicates the est training, citing examples and using jargon from the actual experience.
Getting It: The Psychology of estGetting It: The Psychology of est, a non-fiction book by American clinical psychologist Sheridan Fenwick first published in 1976, analyzes Werner Erhard's Erhard Seminars Training or est. Fenwick based the book on her own experience of attending a four-day session of the est training, an intensive 60-hour personal-development course in the self-help genre. Large groups of up to 250 people took the est training at one time. In the first section of Fenwick's book, she recounts the est training process and the methods used during the course.
