Jerry Joiner
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| Jerry W. Joiner | |
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| Occupation | Medical Doctor, NASA Est Trainer, Erhard Seminars Training |
Jerry W. Joiner is a medical doctor who has worked for NASA, performing physical examinations on astronauts. He served as an est trainer within Werner Erhard's est/Erhard Seminars Training.
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[edit] NASA
As reported by the "Public Affairs Officer" :
Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were awakened in their crew quarters this morning at 2.36 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. They went down the hall from the crew quarters here at the Kennedy Space Center and took a physical examination, a brief launch day examination, and were declared physically fit by the 3 examining physicians, Dr. Allen Harter, Dr. Jerry Joiner, and Dr. Jack Teegan.[1]
NASA was also involved with Werner Erhard's training programs, and utilized the training in 1984 :
In 1984, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center paid $45,000 for Erhard’s training[2].
For Mr. Erhard's personal touch, the fees can run much higher. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center paid $45,000 for 47 managers to attend three sessions conducted by Mr. Erhard and two associates[3].
[edit] Erhard Seminars Training
Joiner first became[4] an est trainer in August, 1975.
After some incidents of deaths occurring during Erhard Seminars Training sessions (including a twenty-six year-old man by the name of James Slee), Joiner made some statements to other est trainer staff:
A month after Slee's death, a fifty-eight-year-old man collapsed and died from a heart attack while undergoing est's rigorous six-day advanced training course in New York. Coming so quickly on the heels of the New Haven incident, the New York death made staff members understandably edgy when the subject of it came up in a San Francisco staff meeting. Est trainer Jerry Joiner, a medical doctor who had once worked for NASA, sought to put everyone at ease by playing down the significance of such a tragic incident occurring during any kind of est program.
While reminding staffers of the precautions taken by the company for the safety of the more than 1,000 people attending est trainings and other Erhard programs each week, Joiner mentioned that some people die while shopping or on the street, while others could die while attending one of the company's programs. Joiner admonished the staff against blowing up the significance of the fatality in the six-day course. "That's what's going to ruin things...People are going to die from time to time in the courses we do."[5]
[edit] Excellerated Business Schools
Joiner is listed under the acknowledgments "Other Teachers, Masters and Mentors" section for the Exellerated Business Schools program[6].
[edit] References
- ^ Apollo 8 Flight Journal, "Day 1: Launch and Ascent to Earth Orbit", 2002, W. David Woods, Frank O'Brien.
- ^ EST, WERNER ERHARD, AND THE CORPORATIZATION OF SELF-HELP, Magazine, The Believer, Suzanne Snider, May 2003
- ^ Transforming big business has become a big business itself., Wall Street Journal, Peter Waldman, July 24, 1987
- ^ The Graduate Review, publication of "est, an educational corporation", July/August 1980.
- ^ Pressman, Steven, Outrageous Betrayal: The dark journey of Werner Erhard from est to exile. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. ISBN 0-312-09296-2, Page. 210.
- ^ Excellerated Business Schools, Acknowledgements, "Other Teachers, Masters and Mentors", Jerry Joiner
[edit] External links
- Apollo Flight Journal, Dr. Jerry Joiner, performed physical examination of astronauts
[edit] See also
- Werner Erhard
- est/Erhard Seminars Training
- Landmark Education/Landmark Forum
- James Slee
- Jack Mantos, M.D.
- Robert Larzelere, M.D.
- Enoch Calloway, M.D.
