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...higher with the group...I want to stand here and attract energy to the community..." No, sir, this is not an introduction to a five-minute Exxon promo, this is a 30ish female going on about her devotion to a new brand of scientific mysticism known as the Arica theory, and that is what David Hanser's The Forty Day Experience is all about...
This brief (49-minute) documentary seeks to capture on film the experiences of 73 newcomers to the Arica theory and the intense sensations they undergo during their 40-day training session at a remote community nestled in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. However, in trying to condense the various stages of the trainees' five-week-long encounter with the Arica theory into a taut, fastmoving film, Hanser leaves many questions about his subject unanswered and strips his work of many of the necessary documentary qualities. Indeed, as The Forty Day Experience moves crisply towards its seemingly premature end, the film...
...staff at Poona, whose only remuneration is free room and board, includes a range of behavior therapists whose services are urged on initiates by the master. Some of their courses are taxing indeed. Ma Prem Amida. who once conducted Arica therapy in the U.S. under the name of Enid Stevens, offers Intensive Enlightenment. Group members sit opposite partners and for 17 hours take turns in five-minute bouts answering the often painful question. "Who am I?" For three days, all other subjects are forbidden...
Marin, writing in Harper's, blames the so-called humanistic psychologies and disciplines, including gestalt, est, Arica and the "self-realization" theories of Abraham Maslow. Marin got some support last week at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Charles Hampden-Turner, president-elect of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, agreed that the humanistic movement "is top-heavy on the side of self-concern. I think that is self-defeating. [You seek] to become one with the universe, but instead, you isolate yourself." Transactional Analyst Barton Knapp of Philadelphia's Laurel Institute added that...
...founder of Erhard Seminars Training Inc., one of the more mind-boggling of the many self-help programs to come out of California. In 70 hours over two marathon weekends, est aims at "transforming your ability to experience living "through techniques apparently derived from Scientology, psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology, Arica, Gestalt, transactional analysis and various Eastern religions. Since 1971, est has "graduated" 83,000 people in twelve cities...