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Conversations For Transformation

Essays By Laurence Platt

Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard

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The body of work on this website is the expression of my acknowledgement of Werner Erhard who introduced me to transformation.

Photography by James Wilson - © Woodfin Camp, Time and Life Pictures, Getty Images - January 1, 1979
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This collection of my essays shouldn't be construed simply as a compendium of my writing, observations, and commentaries. In fact, if that's how they do play to you, then I would have failed in my intention to make them available.

Rather, what I have in mind is to engage with you in conversations for transformation such that in the reading of each one, you have an experience of a way of being transformed just by allowing their words to ripple through the oceans of your listening. My intention is to leave you with an experience of transformation rather than to merely impart new information.

Ever since I was born I've been aware my true nature is transformation. When I met Werner Erhard in 1978, his friendship and education enabled me to eventually marshal my language to express this transformation in my day to day conversations and inspired me to write some of them down.

I've also engaged in the discipline of writing computer software since 1970.

The intersection of these two enduring platforms of my life has resulted in this internet series of essays:
These essays comprise groups. This isn't a complete list of all essays.
For a complete list click Sort By Title or Sort By Date.


• Alexandra
  1. Alexandra
  2. Babe On The Freeway
  3. Light In The Night
  4. Alexandra II
  5. Santa Barbara
  6. True Gold
  7. New: Goleta Beach

• Big Sur
  1. Nepenthe
  2. Hello Henry Miller
  3. Stranger Out Of Time
  4. Creekside Cabin

• BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING
  1. Keeping Your Word Means Making Happen What You Said Is Going To Happen
  2. Commitment And The Willingness To Have It All Work Out For Everyone
  3. Keeping Your Word Is A Black And White Issue
  4. Packing My Own Parachute
  5. Fear
  6. Commitment Creates The Space For Keeping Your Word To Happen
  7. Skydiving
  8. Workability
  9. Participation
  10. BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING
  11. Seeing Is Not Believing (Seeing Is Seeing And Believing Is Believing)
  12. Attention To Detail

• Christmas Day
  1. Holiday Service
  2. Out Of My Head

• Commitment
  1. Commitment And The Willingness To Have It All Work Out For Everyone
  2. Commitment Creates The Space For Keeping Your Word To Happen
  3. Commitment To Self

• Conversations With A Friend
  1. Privilege At Daybreak In The Battle Between Good And Evil
  2. Future Perfect
  3. Coming: Conversations With A Friend III (working title)

• Dorothy
  1. The Heart Of Werner's Work
  2. Dorothy, I've A Feeling We're Not In Kansas Anymore
  3. Interesting Interested Lady
  4. Zen Gardener

• Encounters With A Friend
  1. Showing Up
  2. Poet Laureate
  3. A Man In The Crowd
  4. Real Men Cry
  5. A Different Set Of Rules
  6. Half Life
  7. Waiting On You
  8. Erotica On Schedule
  9. A House On Franklin Street
  10. NeXT
  11. Reflection On A Window

• Europe, August 2009
  1. Mona Lisa! Mona Lisa!
  2. Further Than The End
  3. New: Skewed Since Antiquity

• Favorite Words
  1. Recontextualization
  2. Epistemology
  3. Inexorable
  4. Exuberance

• Fourth Of July
  1. Anticipation
  2. Independence Day
  3. I'd Rather Be With Me
  4. Do It For Nothing

• Healing
  1. Victory Over The Past
  2. Like Icing On A Cake

• Homes
  1. In The Face Of Commitment
  2. Stellenberg Avenue
  3. Faery Cottage
  4. Creekside Cabin
  5. A House On Franklin Street

• Keeping Your Word
  1. Keeping Your Word Means Making Happen What You Said Is Going To Happen
  2. Keeping Your Word Is A Black And White Issue
  3. Three Distinctions Of Word

• Koans And So On
  1. Not Writing: Koans In The Key Of B-Major
  2. The Last Place You Look: Koans Of Conduct
  3. I've Got Nothing To Say: Twenty Boxes Of Nearly Haiku
  4. Haiku
  5. Latest -II: State Of Play

• Landmark Education Programs:
  1. Updated November 14, 2009: The Transformation Of China
  2. What Got Me
  3. New: Disclaimer

• Language
  1. Last Word
  2. Speaking Of Freedom
  3. The Transformation Of China
  4. Constituted In Language

• Love
  1. I Am Love With You
  2. Deliberate Love
  3. Love Living Into Love
  4. Hands Off Love
  5. Love Means Nothing
  6. New: I Love You Revisited

• Menagerie
  1. Snake
  2. When The Cows Came Home
  3. Patient Horse

• Money
  1. Money And Us
  2. Give Me Money (That's What I Want?)

• New Year's Day
  1. Orion
  2. Clean, Well Lit Quarters

• Nothing
  1. Nothing
  2. There Is Nothing To Get And There Is Nothing To Fix
  3. High Class Zen
  4. Joshua Is Doing Nothing
  5. A Paradigm For Nothing
  6. Nothing We Can Achieve
  7. Afraid Of Nothing
  8. Nothing Doing
  9. Nothing At The Pump

• Parents
  1. The Whole Truth
  2. Nothing But The Truth
  3. Already Always Listening
  4. Mom Dearest
  5. Mother's Day
• Passion
  1. Woman Of A Thousand Faces
  2. The Land Baroness And The Cowhand
  3. Flash

• People
  1. Nelson Mandela And Transformation
  2. Sheikh Noorul Mubeen
  3. Alexandra
  4. Dorothy, I've A Feeling We're Not In Kansas Anymore
  5. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  6. Alan
  7. Kind Words

• Questions For A Friend
  1. Prelude
  2. Ask Me Anything
  3. Coming Around Again

• Questions For A Friend II
  1. Familiar Unfamiliar Territory
  2. Interview
  3. Straight Talk

• Reviews
  1. Conversations For Transformation
  2. Look Who's Laughing Now ...
  3. Transformation: The Life And Legacy Of Werner Erhard

• Rosebud
  1. The Original Jeffrey's Bay
  2. Start A New Conversation (If You Don't Like The One You're In)
  3. Enchanted Hill

• Santa Barbara
  1. Santa Barbara
  2. Unbelievable
  3. Give Me Money (That's What I Want?)
  4. True Gold

• September 11, 2001
  1. September 11, 2001
  2. September 11, 2001 - One Year Later
  3. September 11, 2001 - Five Years Later

• Snake
  1. Snake
  2. Snake II
  3. Snake III

• Sleep After Transformation
  1. Sleep After Transformation
  2. Sleep After Transformation II
  3. Sleep After Transformation III
  4. Sleep After Transformation IV

• State Of The Union  Celebration Of Conversations For Transformation
  1. Essays - One Year Later: Critical Mass
  2. Essays - Two Years Later: Glass Walled Studio
  3. Essays - Three Years Later: Internet Presence
  4. Essays - Four Years Later: Side By Side
  5. Essays - Five Years Later: Arm In Arm
  6. Essays - Six Years Later: A Very Good Year

• Surfing
  1. The Original Jeffrey's Bay
  2. The Second Coming Of Supersurfer
  3. Timeless Classic Rincon

• Thanksgiving Day
  1. The Friends Of The Landmark Forum In South Africa
  2. Simple Things
  3. Full On You

• The Laurence Platt Story
  1. Laurence Platt Autobiography
  2. Laurence Platt Video Interview
  3. Laurence Platt Autobiography II
  4. Laurence Platt Intersections
  5. Updated November 24, 2009: Laurence Platt Photo Album

• The Werner Erhard Experience
  1. Werner Erhard Video Experience
  2. Updated November 24, 2009: Werner Erhard Photo Experience
  3. Updated November 4, 2009: Werner Erhard Quote Experience

• Visits With A Friend Prequels
  1. Anticipation
  2. Eye Of The Needle
  3. Secret Service
  4. Everyone Loves You
  5. Close Up, Face To Face, Larger Than Life, And Twice As Natural

• Visits With A Friend
  1. Second First Impression
  2. Do Artists Retire?
  3. Presence Of Love

• Visits With A Friend II
  1. Black Brick
  2. Wet Water
  3. On Saying Nothing

• Visits With A Friend III
  1. Master Of Life
  2. Face To Face
  3. Love And Kindness

• Visits With A Friend IV
  1. Personal Piece
  2. Magnum Opus
  3. Walk A Way With Me

• Visits With A Friend V
  1. Natural Expression
  2. Essential Question
  3. There Is No "The Answers"

• Werner (group of groups)
  1. Conversations With A Friend
  2. Encounters With A Friend
  3. Questions For A Friend
  4. Visits With A Friend Prequels
  5. Visits With A Friend I, II, III, IV, V

• Workability
  1. Workability
  2. Workability II

• World Transformed
  1. The Friends Of The Landmark Forum In South Africa
  2. The Transformation Of China
  3. New: Werner's Work Is Coming Back To Hawai'i

• Zen
  1. Zen And Werner's Work
  2. Sandals On My Head
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