stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

CHAPTER XIV
WERNER’S
UNCERTAINTY
PRINCIPLE
(est/FORUM/LANDMARK TRAINING)
WERNER ERHARD WAS BORN John Paul Rosenberg. He took his new
moniker on a cross-country plane trip, as a combination of two
names he read in an in-flight magazine: quantum physicist Werner
Heisenberg—developer of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle—and
then-economics minister of West Germany, Ludwig Erhard.
As to the man’s character, the late Buckminster Fuller effused
in the New York Times (in February of 1979):
I have quite a few million people who listen to me. And I say
Werner Erhard is honest. He may prove untrustworthy, and
if he does then I’ll say so.
That endorsement came, of course, from the same futurist
who, only a few years earlier, had whole-heartedly endorsed the
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. At the time, Fuller and Erhard were
splitting the proceeds from a series of public “conversations” between
the two of them.
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