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...online buyers also backed away, Bruce Krall, a commercial mortgage banker from the southern California enclave of Laguna Hills, paid a real estate agent $700,000 for it, with the intent of one day living there and making it an educational institute, vacation spot and retreat center, akin to Esalen in Big Sur. But because "personal family concerns" make it difficult for Krall and his family to move north now, Bridgeville is back on the market...
...Esalen institute?the 44-year-old spiritual retreat once infamous as a flashpoint of the hippy movement?is offering a spectacular new high. And this time, it has nothing to do with the LSD-inspired antics of past luminary visitors such as Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. Instead, the not-for-profit seminar center?set amid a spectacular 165 acres of California's Big Sur coastline?has thrown open its extensively renovated thermal-spring baths to the public. You need to pay a $20 fee and make an advance reservation...
...note that clothes are optional at Esalen's baths, and the use of open archways?rather than doors?to separate bathing areas tends to promote mingling, not privacy. But the more modest among you can rest assured that in these rarefied, New Age surrounds, the atmosphere is no more salacious than that of a Japanese onsen. And chances are there will be few other bathers around in the middle of the night. In fact, if you're very lucky, you might even have the bathing complex all to yourself. Now that really would be a trip...
...Furlauds left the movies behind in 1968 when they moved to Big Sur, California to join the Esalen Institute for the practice of Gestalt therapy. In this Institute, which Furlaud describes as a "have-a-heart trap" where leaving is almost impossible, Max Furlaud received training in therapy based on the entire set of feelings a person experiences at any one moment...
...confines of a placid exterior. That's how a lot of big bankers think of themselves anyway. But Gehry sees it as "a warm and enveloping place," something that would make you feel "like you were being cradled in a beautiful space." Maybe Gehry should have designed the Esalen Institute, given how much he talks about spaces that hug people. But sitting with him last week in the cafeteria he created for the headquarters of the Conde Nast publishing firm in midtown Manhattan, you could see what he means. The blue titanium walls bulge toward you like expectant mothers...