Series I Doctoral Dissertation, 1981
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Enlightenment American Style: The Personal and Social Significance of est and the Human Potential Movement. Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, 1981
Series II Correspondence, 1973-1983
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Correspondence, Out-going, 1973-1983
Correspondence, In-coming, 1973-1977
Series III Methodology and Planning, ca. 1971-1981
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Methodology and Planning.
Series IV Interviews, ca. 1971-1983
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Interview #1 to Interview #15
Interview #16 to Interview #29, 31-34, 37-43[?]
Series V Writings and Publications, 1974-1981, 2001
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Arrangement
"These lines from a song written by a 'graduate' of the est training" [rough draft], 1974
"Erhard Seminars Training"[draft], 1974
Spiritual and Political Interests of Encounter Group Participants: Results from the Psychology Today Questionnaire [draft],1974-1975
"Seeking Transcendence in Human Potential Groups" [draft],1975
Evaluation of the est Experience by a National Sample of Graduates, by Earl Babbie and Donald C. Stone, Jr., 1977
The Awareness Trap: Self-Absorption Instead of Social Change (Book Review), 1978
New Religious Consciousness and Personal Religious Experience, 1978
Donald C. Stone's transcript of his People's Temple interview, 1979
[See also, Series VIII, Folder 25-31.]
Social Consciousness in the Human Potential Movement, 1981
The Peril of the New Religious Movements in America by Donald C. Stone, Jr. and James McCarthy, 1980-1981
The Human Potential Movement, n.d.
Biographical Statement, 1977, 2001
Series VI Erhard Seminars Training, 1971-1981
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Arrangement
Ad hoc Steering Committee Meeting re: Formation of an est Advisory Board, Summary Reports, 1973
est Advisory Board Steering Committee, Agenda, 1973
est Accreditation Committee, 1973
Lectures by Werner Erhard (9 audiocassettes), 1973, 1975
Interview, seminar with Werner Erhard (4 audiocassettes), 1976
Lectures by Werner Erhard, #34 (7 ½ inch magnetic tape), 1973
Lecture on Love by Werner Erhard, #35 (7 ½ inch magnetic tape), 1973
Lectures, #36 (7 ½ inch magnetic tape), 1971
Lectures, Interview with Erhard, Bartley, Fuller, #37 (7 ½ inch magnetic tape), 1976
Lecture by Werner Erhard at Masonic Auditorium, #39 (7 ½ inch magnetic tape), 1974
Hunger Project interview of Werner Erhard by Will Noffke, New Horizons, KPFA-FM (script), 1979
est Graduate Survey, 1981
Articles by Others about est, 1972-1978
Series VII Related Research, 1973-1984
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Arrangement
" est Outcome Study" (draft), 1975
Self-Report Survey, Preliminary Study of Participants in Erhard Seminars Training, 1975
est Outcome Study
Methodology and Planning, 1973-1974
Project notes by Stone, 1973-1975
Report on Second Questionnaire Pre-Test, 1973
Evaluation, 1973-1974
Preliminary Survey of Results, 1974
Monthly Bulletin Project, ca.1974
Research Retrospective, 1974-1975
Notes by Others, ca.1975
Discussion, 1975
Master, n.d.
Notebook I-IV, ca. 1973-1975
Questionnaire, CATLA, Judaica Group, n.d. [legal size]
Codebook Guide, I-IV, n.d.
Transferring, Outcome Study Particle Count, 1974
Printouts, 1974-1984
Data Tape, labeled Donald C. Stone[1976?]
Data Tape, labeled Earl Babbie, n.d.
Series VIII Related Resources, ca. 1971-1974
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Abstract of the Behaviordyne Report on Psychological Changes Measured After Taking the Erhard Seminars Training, May 29, 1973
Bibliography of est, 1978
Changing Attitudes Toward Psychotherapy on the Part of Converts to Eastern Mysticism, 1977?
The Complex Forms of the Religious Life: A Durkheimian View of New Religious Movements. Doctoral dissertation by Frances R. Westly, 1978
Encounter Groups, ca.1971-1974
Erhard Seminars Training: A Longitudinal Study of its Psychological Effects, Using Selected Studies Measured by the California Psychological Inventory , by Leilani Lewis, 1973
Excerpts annotated by Donald C. Stone, Jr. from Changing Frontiers in the Science of Psychotherapy by Allen E. Bergin and Hans H. Strupp, 1972.
Human Potential Movement, 1971-1979
Human Potential Movement (Debunkers), 1969-1974
Large Group Awareness Training by Peter Finkelstein, Brant Wenegrat, and Irvin Yalom, 1982
Missionary and Cult Movements, A Mini-Course for the Upper Grades in Religious Schools. A Sixteen Unit Lesson Plan on Reform Judaism's Response to "Hebrew/Christian" Missionary Movements and the Cults, 1977
People's Temple, transcripts of interviews by Others, 1979
Note: This work was done as part of Stone's participation in the Center for the Study of New Religious Movements at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. See the Center's Collection: GTU 91-9-3.
People's Temple interviews (3 audiocassettes), 1979
Questionnaires, 1971
Radical Therapy, 1971-1974
Reported Changes in Personality, Self-Concept, and Personal Problems following Erhard Seminars Training (est). Doctoral dissertation by Jeffrey Weiss, 1977
Scientology, 1973-1974
Stillson Judah, lectures on Hare Krishna (2 audiocassettes), ca. 1974
Transcendental Meditation, 1972-1975