The well-funded (and comparatively highly sane) Xerox PARC also specifically set out to scoop up people from SRI from its beginning. EST seems to have been inf

The well-funded (and comparatively highly sane) Xerox PARC also specifically set out to scoop up people from SRI from its beginning. EST seems to have been influenced by other, slightly older post-war groups with their own kinds of struggle session such as the drug-rehab community gone bad Synanon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon and our old friend Scientology, and in turn to have influenced later "large group awareness training" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-group_awareness_training https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-group_awareness_training orgs like the "wilderness training" camps. At least Synanon helped to make the name of one fairly-big jazzman, Joe Pass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_of_Synanon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_of_Synanon