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Conversations For Transformation
Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
Conversations For Transformation
Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1913: Family In Me II
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This essay is the companion piece to Big Enrollment, and the sequel to Family In Me.
January 8, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Conversations For Transformation
Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1912: Condemned To Be Responsible?
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"The use of force is the negation of power." ... Werner
January 5, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Conversations For Transformation
Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1911: Terse Holiday Cheer
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Life is simple. And we've convinced ourselves after years of flawed conclusions as proof, that it's never simple.
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Conversations For Transformation
Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1910: Integral Technology
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"The online Forum isn't a version of the Forum. It is the Forum." ... Werner
December 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Conversations For Transformation
Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1909: Experiments With Alpha State
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When an EEG shows a brain wave pattern of 9 to 12 cycles per second, the subject is said to be in alpha state.
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1908: Holding The Baby Buddha
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"Hold yourself as a mother holds a beloved child." ... Lord Siddhārtha Gautama Shakyamuni of India aka the Buddha
December 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1907: On Croesan Wealth
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If my net worth was $300B, then if I gave away $1M a day for 100 years, I'd still have $270B, making my $1M a day gifts trivial.
December 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1906: Miraculous Us
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The most miraculous aspect of us humans is the ordinariness of being human, so much so that we're taken aback to discover our miraculousness.
December 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1905: Unlimited, Unbounded Awareness
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"Who are you really?" answered traditionally, points to different possibilities than when answered in a transformed context.
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1904: No Significance
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"Until what is significant is created by you, you aren't living your life: you are living some inherited life." ... Werner
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1903: Seven Etched Lines
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This essay comes from Werner leading the Mastery Course.
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
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#1902: You're Already OK (Stop Working On It)
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Werner's work won't make you better. It's not for you who want to be better. It's for you if you're already better.
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1901: Connected As People
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I get health care from an HMO. It's good but they don't do housecalls, I can't see them weekends, I may wait weeks for an office visit.
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1900: One Thousand Nine Hundred Down, One Hundred To Go
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This essay is the 1,900th in the Conversations For Transformation internet series.
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
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#1899: Delicious Paradox
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What does "being like Werner" mean? What exactly? And here's what I got: you're being like Werner when you're being the way Werner be's.
October 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
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#1898: Keep Speaking: Differentiating Between Talking And Speaking
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This essay speculates on a possible counterpoint to the ordinary deployment of "talking".
October 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
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#1897: Ass From A Hole In The Ground
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"Ass From A Hole In The ground" may be referring to a donkey from "Hole in the Ground" a town with a wild-west sounding name.
October 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
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#1896: Easy Listening
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What accounts for the delivery of Werner's work being easier / less confrontational than when it first burst forth nearly 55 five years ago?
October 11, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
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#1895: This Is What It All Comes Down To
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"what is is what is not is not is that it it is"

"What is, is. What is not, is not. Is that it? It is!"
October 2, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Conversations For Transformation
Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
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The Dalai Lama with Werner
September 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Conversations For Transformation
Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1894: Does The Dalai Lama Complain?
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This essay, Does The Dalai Lama Complain?, is the companion piece to Do Artists Retire?.
September 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
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#1893: There Will Never Be Another Werner
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"God's greatest work wasn't creating the universe: it was disappearing into it afterwards." ... Werner
September 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
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#1892: The Thing In Itself: My Opinions About My Opinions
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"Opinions don't forward the action." ... Werner
September 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
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#1891: Transformed Conversations II
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"Transformation isn't easy. If transformation were easy, the whole world would be transformed by now." - WE

50th Bluesky post
September 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Conversations For Transformation
Essays By Laurence Platt
Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard
And More
#1890: I Don't Do It Because It Does Any Good
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I don't write these essays simply because they do a lot of good. And I know these essays do a lot of good.
September 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM