http://esaleaks.org/2012/08/transformative-and-precous/ The voice of the Esalen community and ancestors Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:04:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://esaleaks.org/2012/08/transformative-and-precous/#comment-1059 Anonymous Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:04:13 +0000 http://esaleaks.org/?p=1259#comment-1059 I too, was an Esalen junkie, and my late husband, who'd been art therapist for Fritz Perls in the Sixties, never missed an opportunity to stay among the butterflies,hot baths and seekers. But those were the golden days of my mentor Joe Campbell, of Claudio Naranjo, Gregory Bateson, Al Chuang...when Stan Grof helped us along our mushroom-strewn paths with his oak-tree solidness, indifferent but loving to all of us who sought some elusive answer. Was it because most of the great minds who created Esalen workshops died that the organization became so "precious" and commercialized? Who knows...but after the early 90's, we took off to the mountains of Mexico to live a far more authentic journey. Sorry to see Esalen go the way of the corporate world, but my memories will continue to inform me of Michael Murphy's original, prophetic dream of spiritual growth. I too, was an Esalen junkie, and my late husband, who’d been art therapist for Fritz Perls in the Sixties, never missed an opportunity to stay among the butterflies,hot baths and seekers. But those were the golden days of my mentor Joe Campbell, of Claudio Naranjo, Gregory Bateson, Al Chuang…when Stan Grof helped us along our mushroom-strewn paths with his oak-tree solidness, indifferent but loving to all of us who sought some elusive answer. Was it because most of the great minds who created Esalen workshops died that the organization became so “precious” and commercialized? Who knows…but after the early 90′s, we took off to the mountains of Mexico to live a far more authentic journey. Sorry to see Esalen go the way of the corporate world, but my memories will continue to inform me of Michael Murphy’s original, prophetic dream of spiritual growth.

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