Editing Lifespring (section)

==Key people==
Lifespring was founded by John Hanley Sr. along with Robert White, Randy Revell, and Charlene Afremow. By October 1987, Hanley owned 92.7 percent of the company.<ref name="Fisher">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1987/10/25/i-cried-enough-to-fill-a-glass/c75b0dda-e8ea-46f9-8aea-8e4afdd0cfbe/?noredirect=on Fisher, Marc (October 25, 1987). 'I Cried Enough to Fill a Glass'.] ''Washington Post Magazine''.</ref> Prior to Lifespring, Hanley had worked for the  [[multi-level marketing]] organization [[Holiday Magic]].<ref name="Fisher"/> He and the other founders had also worked for [[Mind Dynamics]] with [[Werner Erhard]], the founder of [[Erhard Seminars Training|est]], which became the basis for [[Landmark Education]].<ref name="meltonnewage">{{cite book| last = Melton| first = J. Gordon| author-link = J. Gordon Melton|author2=James R. Lewis | title = Perspectives on the New Age
| publisher = SUNY Press| year = 1992| pages = 129–132| isbn = 0-7914-1213-X}}</ref> [[Holiday Magic]] was founded by [[William Penn Patrick]], co-owner and board member for Mind Dynamics.<ref name="thepit">{{cite book
  | last = Church
  | first = Gene
  |author2=Conrad D. Carnes
  | title = The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled
  | publisher = Outerbridge and Lazard
  | year = 1972
  | location = New York
  }}
</ref>  Holiday Magic later folded amidst investigations by authorities and accusations of being a [[pyramid scheme]].<ref>{{cite news
  | last = Staff
  | title = Endless Chain Scheme Suit Hits Cosmetics Co.
  | work = Star-News, [[Pasadena, California]]
  | date = December 20, 1972
  }}
</ref><ref name="time73">{{cite news
  | last = Staff
  | title = Battling the Biggest Fraud
  | work = [[Time Magazine]]
  | pages = 2 pgs
  | date = July 16, 1973
  | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907582,00.html
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070427044857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907582,00.html
  | url-status = dead
  | archive-date = April 27, 2007
  }}<br>William Penn Patrick, a former mentor of Turner's, was charged last month by the Securities and Exchange Commission with bilking some 80,000 people out of more than $250 million through his Holiday Magic cosmetics and soap empire.
</ref>

The Director for Corporate Affairs of Lifespring, Charles "Raz" Ingrasci,<ref name="KARE">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060314022848/http://www.news-council.org/Outcomes/outcomes_det-83.html "In the Matter of the Complaint of Lifespring, Inc. against KARE-TV, Channel 11,"] Minnesota News Council, Determination 83</ref> had also worked at est to promote a mission to the USSR and the [[Hunger Project]]. Ingrasci is now President of the Hoffman Institute, an organization founded in 1967 and also part of the [[human potential movement]] which offers programs which are similar to Lifespring's.<ref>[https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/about/directors-advisors/directors.html Hoffman Institute] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208153055/http://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/about/directors-advisors/directors.html |date=2007-02-08 }}, Board of Directors, Charles "Raz" Ingrasci, President & CEO</ref><ref name="vahle">{{cite book| last = Vahle| first = Neal|author2=Connie Fillmore Bazzy| title = The Unity Movement: Its Evolution and Spiritual Teachings
  | publisher = Templeton Foundation Press| year = 2002| pages = 399, 402, 403, 480| isbn =  1-890151-96-3}}</ref>