I hope you had the chance to read at least part of that pdf.
What exactly is AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT?
Written by Douglas C. Engelbart. Who passed away two days ago.
Remember back a few posts ago I wrote about Jenny and the nine?
In view of the present-day Esalen-Erhard-Yeltsin-Gorbachev
connections , the 1979 Esalen-UFO connection is significant.
Even though I had split with Werner Erhard by late 1977,
EST's
Raz Ingrasci phoned me and asked me to meet with Jenny O Conner.Raz said that Jenny had been sent to Werner by Sir John Whitmore
who had funded Andrija Puharich's collaborations with Uri Geller
back in 1973. Jenny claimed to be channeling messages from "The
Nine" -- the same extra-terrestrials that Puharich wrote about.
In view of my own contact in 1952 I should have been more
diplomatic with Jenny when she came to my apartment at 2 Whiting
Place -- the apartment that Michael Murphy had given me. Jenny
impressed me as total fraud, and I practically kicked her out. I
was verbally very rude.
Jenny and The Nine was promptly
installed at Esalen for quite some time overlapping with visits
by the late physicist Heinz Pagels, Congressman Charlie Rose,
Ira Einhorn, and high ranking Russians from Georgy Arbatov's
Moscow Institute of US and Canada, which was influential during
Gorbachev's watch.You remember the same time and place at Esalen when Charlie Manson decided to give a concert before murdering Tate.
http://www.themistsofavalon.net/t6534p75-radar-blob-whatever-it-was-versus-what-we-know-it-wasn-t#93561
EST?
Erhard Seminars TrainingErhard Seminars Training, an organization founded by Werner H. Erhard, offered a two-weekend (60-hour) course known officially as "The est Standard Training". The purpose of est was "to transform one's ability to experience living so that the situations one had been trying to change or had been putting up with, clear up just in the process of life itself."
The est Training presented several concepts, most notably the concept of transformation and taking responsibility for one's life. The actual teaching, called "the technology of transformation", emphasizes the value of integrity. "est, Inc." evolved into "est, an Educational Corporation", and eventually into
"Werner Erhard & Associates".
Apparently Douglas C. Engelbart slipped into relative obscurity after 1976. Several of his researchers became alienated from him and left his organization for Xerox PARC, in part due to frustration, and in part due to differing views of the future of computing. Engelbart saw the future in collaborative, networked, timeshare (client-server) computers, which younger programmers rejected in favor of the personal computer. The conflict was both technical and social:
the younger programmers came from an era where centralized power was highly suspect, and personal computing was just barely on the horizon.Apparently Engelbart served on the board of directors of Erhard Seminars Training (EST). Several key ARC personnel were also involved. Although EST had been recommended by other researchers,
the controversial nature of EST and other social experiments reduced the morale and social cohesion of the ARC community.ARC being his
Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International.
So....what is AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT?
Sounds a whole lot like mind control to me eh?
Notably....
Midway through his college studies at Oregon State College at Corvallis, near the end of World War II, he was drafted into the United States Navy,
serving two years as a radar technician in the Philippines. On a small island, in a tiny hut on stilts, he first read Vannevar Bush's article "As We May Think", which greatly inspired him.[14] He returned to Oregon State College and completed his Bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering in 1948. While at Oregon State College, he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon social fraternity.[15]
He was hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at the Ames Research Center, where he worked through 1951.
Links to the information provided in this post:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbarthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training