Esalen Institute

Yes it does. I live less than an hour away and try to get there when I can. Never been to Esalen though.

I've heard some wild stories about esalen in its infancy. Huxley, hippie chicks in the hot springs right on the ocean under the stars...can't get much better

Drive up PCH every year, from L.A. to Carmel By The Sea. Big Sur River Inn has wood chairs in the river, you buy drinks at the bar and have a seat in the river surrounded by trees.

Aldous Huxley and MK-Ultra

The Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California, was built up during the 1960s by Michael Murphy, on a property owned by his family. Esalen has been a center for the dissemination of psychedelics, New Age philosophy, and “humanist” psychology into the general culture. Author Murphy credits Aldous Huxley with being a prime catalyst in encouraging him to launch the institute. Gregory Bateson, Huxley, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Allen Ginzburg, Fritz Peris, Abraham Maslow, and other gurus were frequent lecturers there. Charles Manson was known to have visited Esalen, which was also frequented by his victims Sharon Tate and Abigail Folger. Aldous Huxley’s vision of a drug-sodden New Age, in which the population is completely manipulated by social-science controllers, was laid out in his book Brave New World.

Despite the worrying degree to which that vision has been realized, Huxley’s role in MK-Ultra has generally been hidden behind a cultivated academic and religious patina, even though his advocacy of hallucinogenic drugs is acknowledged. Huxley was closely connected to Capt. Albert Hubbard, who was an important operative for the OSS during the Second World War.

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It was a fun place back around 1970-'71.

Watching the otters play in the water between the rocks at the bottom of the cliffs and pods of grey whales traveling north or south depending on the time of year all while getting ripped in the tubs with some young honey. Especially nice since I was a guest of staff and din't have to pay for it.

That was a things many decades ago. Have no idea what is going on there now.

Back then Fritz Perls, student of Wilhelm Reich, and father of Gestalt, Ida Rolf, and my mentor Robert Hall were residents.

Down the road is Hearst Castle

Sounds like a rip-off