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...symposium could be described as the first translation into software of the sensitivity training advocated by California's Esalen Institute (TIME, Sept. 29, 1967). Esalen's associate Bernard Gunther was there to give the effort his wholehearted approval. "The increasing promiscuity and need for drugs are manifestations of touch hunger," he said. "We have lost our sensory innocence. You rarely touch somebody in this culture unless you want to make it with them." Nevertheless, Gunther insisted that touch does not necessarily have anything to do with sexuality...
Nicholas Gagarin '70, the CRIMSON's executive editor, received honorable mention for his four-part series on the Esalen Institute in California. Gagarin's articles appeared in February...
...remembered the drive up to Esalen with Stewart, Sara, and Paul; and he remembered how Stewart had said they ware on to something very big. What the people at Esalen have got, in the simplest terms, is the body. For 15,000 years civilization has repressed the body, forcing man to deny it. Now, suddenly, it is coming awake...
...also thought, going to Esalen, that although the world of scholarship was neurotic, and schizoid, although his friends seemed to be losing their minds, beaten down, torn apart--he still believed that there was good in this. He thought that despite the horror of this battle--worn, war-crazy, falling-apart world, there was still room in it for men to be heroic, to love, to experience joy in all its intensity. The greatest artists, the brightest people -- they were all fucked up. Maybe this was alright. What kind of happiness was he going to Esalen to buy? Would...
...ESALEN, however, is onto much more than just the body. What the boy had found there was a totally different way of being from any he had ever seen or experienced before, and one of its fundamental concerns seemed to be the reinjection of spiritualism into life...