{"id":6348,"date":"2012-02-18T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T23:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2012-02-26T22:36:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T05:36:22","slug":"esalen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=6348","title":{"rendered":"Esalen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=000000&#038;fc1=999999&#038;lc1=00CADC&#038;t=ghosthouse01-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;asins=0226453707\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The history of Esalen is like a picture of a tiny stream that feeds into the Amazon &#8211; what starts as a small trickle of &#8220;travellers of the mind&#8221; feeds into a rampaging philosophical torrent destined to cut through the passion-depleted monoculture of 1950s America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Esalen: American and the Religion of No Relgion&#8221; reads like a grocery list of cultural mayhem; its guest list a gang of crazed midwives about to birth the freak-out of the 1960s. You could seriously spend the rest of your life diving into the lives and works of all the people mentioned in this book; it&#8217;s like a manual of post-war counterculture.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuniting.info\/wisdom\/male_continence_noyes_oneida\">&#8220;Male Continence&#8221; and Oneida<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederic_Spiegelberg\">Prof. Frederic Spiegelberg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sri_Aurobindo\">Sri Aurobindo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gia-Fu_Feng>Gia-Fu_Feng<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nagarjuna\">Nagarjuna<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\">Alan Watts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\">Jack Kerouac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\">Gary Synder<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\">Joan Baez<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\">Hunter S Thompson<\/a> stayed at Esalen as a sort of security guard<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\">Charles Manson<\/a> had tried to get into Esalen shortly before the murders, and <a href=\"\">Sharon Tate<\/a> was there on her second-to-last night alive<\/li>\n<p>A course in Miracles, Helen Shucman<br \/>\nPsychotherapy East and West, Alan Watts<br \/>\nAbraham Maslow<br \/>\nEd Maupin<br \/>\nFritz Perls<\/p>\n<p>Russel Targ<br \/>\nMichael Murphy&#8217;s An end to ordinary history<br \/>\nTerrence McKenna<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of Esalen is like a picture of a tiny stream that feeds into the Amazon &#8211; what starts as a small trickle of &#8220;travellers of the mind&#8221; feeds into a rampaging philosophical torrent destined to cut through the passion-depleted monoculture of 1950s America. &#8220;Esalen: American and the Religion of No Relgion&#8221; reads like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6355,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions\/6355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}