Esalen.(Esalen Institute)(Brief article)

Publication: The New Yorker

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This history of the Esalen Institute describes how the Big Sur hot springs became a crucible for a brand of secular metaphysics known as "the religion of no religion." Founded in the early nineteen-sixties, Esalen drew eccentrics and artists like Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, Henry Miller, and Joan Baez,...

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