Organizations

Esalen Institute

1962

Big Sur retreat center founded in 1962, the seedbed of the human-potential movement and a long-running hub for consciousness research, psi, and altered-states work. Later ran Soviet-American back-channel exchanges. Its intellectual history was documented by scholar Jeffrey Kripal.

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Connections (2)

confirmedJeffrey Kripal

wrote its definitive scholarly history

Source: Kripal, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion (2007)

confirmedInstitute of Noetic Sciences

kindred consciousness-research institutions of the era

Source: histories of the human-potential and consciousness movements

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