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...headed west and were hailed by older Californians seeking a formula for perpetual youth. Together they began an inner-directed search for a separate reality. Some trekked into the desert looking for Castaneda's ephemeral brujo, Don Juan. Others sought to gain an identity through encounters in the Esalen Institute's steamy communal baths...
Should California be written off? Hardly. Many Californians believe they are now embarked on a new, more modest adventure. Esalen continues to shelter 5,000 people a year, but instead of vagabonds, its climate runs to corporate executives. Innovation can be found in the present climate, but it now occurs quietly, less flamboyantly. Instead of protesting, the University of California's 125,000 students employ a lobbyist (at $84,000 a year) to battle the legislature. Nearly a dozen "open universities" in the Bay Area alone provide a less structured, tutorial approach to learning. The ruddy affluent of Marin...
...relating." "Isolated individualism is out." says Davis. "Today separations are not allowed. Everyone is expected to kiss everyone else." The human-potential movement has occasionally made a travesty of E.M. Forster's "Only connect!" From the hot tubs of Marin County to the baths of Esalen, the rule prevails: Whoever kisses you, you kiss back, lest you be thought to be uptight. At times, kissing carries a political message. Some feminists kiss other women on the lips in order to prove something about transcending sexuality. American men rarely kiss other men, unless they are father and son, or unless...
...introduction to the school's program--as a member of the Bateson trip four years ago--came at a three-day intensive "sensitivity session" at a mountain-top retreat on Hawaii's main island of Oahu. The Esalen Institute sent its leading counselor from California to help the 30 students of the school draw closer together, to form a cohesive bumper against the shocks of the different cultures the group would be moving through and living within...
...instead of diligently trying to follow the Esalen "let's be one, big happy family" credo, a part of the group decided to get drunk, watch the Hawaiian sunset, and go skinnydipping...