Looming on a cliffside in Big Sur, framed by the Pacific Ocean and California’s windy Highway 1, the Esalen Institute has long stood as the wooly nerve center of the philosophical, psychological, and pseudospiritual American tendency dubbed “the human potential movement.” Established in 1962 by two Stanford grads inspired by a lecture given by Aldous Huxley (on the subject, appropriately, of “human potentialities”), Esalen was pitched as a place where the latent gifts of humankind could be unearthed and explored.
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