Word: esalen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toys at Christmas time. He had done well in college and also in business, so well that he used to spend $300 for his suits and could quit work and go to California with $25,000 in ready money. While there, he decided to experiment with encounter groups at Esalen and soon became absorbed in the movement full time. He went into the "millionaires' group" where they had parties and burned $50 bills as part of their therapy. He later became a group leader, built a cabin in the mountains near by, took occasional acid trips, and wrote...
These are among the experiences stressed in the "human-potential movement" (TIME, Nov. 9, 1970), which includes Esalen and other growth centers. But, writes May in his new book Power and Innocence, "the human-potential movement has fallen heir to the form of innocence prevalent in America, namely that we grow toward greater and greater moral perfection." Evil is present in everyone, along with good, May insists, and one should grow toward greater sensitivity to both...
...everybody can, does or will But in some quarters Castaneda s works are extravagantly admired as a revival of a mode of cognition that has been largely neglected in the West, buried by materialism and Pascal's despair, since the Renaissance. Says Mike Murphy a founder of the Esalen Institute: "The essential lessons Don Juan has to teach are the timeless ones that have been taught by the great sages of India and the spiritual masters of modern times " Author Alan Watts argues that Castaneda's books offer an alternative to both the guilt-ridden Judaeo-Chns-tian...
...abashed student spent several years revising his thesis, living pff odd jobs as taxi driver and delivery boy, and sent it in again. Garfinkel was still unimpressed. "He didn't like my efforts to explain Don Juan's behavior psychologically. 'Do you want to be the darling of Esalen?' he asked." Castaneda rewrote the thesis a third time...
...trip-and paid from $4,000 to $7,000 apiece for the ten-month experience -were artists, housewives, businessmen and a few scientists (among them Dr. John Lilly, the dolphin expert, who had previously tried to achieve higher consciousness on LSD trips). Almost half were disenchanted defectors from Esalen, the encounter center at Big Sur, Calif.; all were searching for the good life, and, under Oscar's tutelage, 42 concluded that they had found it. These survivors established the institute, became its faculty, and launched the first classes last October...