The Esalen Institute Human Potentials

“LSD evangelist Timothy Leary confessed, “I give the CIA total credit for sponsoring and initiating the entire consciousness movement, counterculture events of the 1960s.”However, as most studies of the sixties agree, the idealism of the decade died with two events: the Manson murders and a tragedy that was showcased in a film called Gimme Shelter, about the Altamont Free Concert. Meredith Hunter, a young African-American man, was stabbed to death by members of the Hell’s Angels, in front of the stage while the Rolling Stones played “Sympathy for the Devil.” Manson had contacted a number of religious groups, including the OTO, the Process Church, the Church of Scientology, and the Esalen Institute, which he visited at the same time as his victims Sharon Tate and Abigail Folger, who were its frequent visitors, just days before his followers murdered them on August 8–9, 1969.

As Michael Rossman wrote in The Wedding Within the War, his memoir of the 1960s, it seemed that the energy unleashed at Berkeley was beginning to turn, not right or left, “but into… something else, without a name.” Given Manson’s interest in Esalen, Bill Ellis remarked, “Occultism, LaVey’s Church of Satan, and the counterculture, inevitably, had become linked to pop Satanism and blood crimes.” [uhhh yeah - because they are all linked. It came to the surface.]“In 1968,” one of Esalen’s founding figures recalled four decades later: “Esalen was the center of the cyclone of the youth rebellion. It was one of the central places, like Mecca for the Islamic culture.

Esalen was a pilgrimage center for hundreds and thousands of youth interested in some sense of transcendence, breakthrough consciousness, LSD, the sexual revolution, encounter, being sensitive, finding your body, yoga—all of these things were at first filtered into the culture through Esalen. By 1966, ’67, and ’68, Esalen was making a world impact. As admitted by Michael Murphy, one of its founders, one of the models for the development of Esalen Institute was the Eranos Conferences, founded by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn, a devotee of Alice Baily, and funded by the Mary and Paul Mellon, of the influential Mellon family, who shared a friendship to Carl Jung with Allen Dulles, who all worked with the OSS during World War II.

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They were working on, among other things, 💥an “anti-fascist program” which really just means “how to destroy the foundations of European societies”, MK UKTRA and cybernetics which is how to turn man into a machine.” According to Wouter Hanegraaff in New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought, in addition to the hippies, Esalen had been the second major influence of the 60s counterculture and the rise of the New Age movement. As Jay Stevens explained in Storming Heaven: LSD & The American Dream, “It was no accident that the group leaders at Esalen’s first public seminar were all veterans of the psychedelic movement.” Closely connected with mystical experimentation, aimed at achieving new states of consciousness within the New Age, was the use of drugs, believed to produce a shamanistic experience.

Jeffrey Kripal, author of Esalen: The Religion of No Religion, points out that Huxley’s discussions of Tantra and the mystical possibilities of psychedelics, and what he called the “perennial philosophy,” were foundational at Esalen. In 1937, Huxley moved to Hollywood with his wife Maria, son Matthew and friend Gerald Heard. In 1938 Huxley befriended Jiddu Krishnamurti whose teachings he greatly admired. After Annie Besant’s death, Huxley and Krishnamurti, along with Guido Ferrando, and Rosalind Rajagopal, built the Happy Valley School in California, now renamed the Besant Hill School of Happy Valley in her honor. It would be Besant who would continue the work of Blavatsky creating a Freemasonry that joined the ideas of the West with those of the East.

Beginning in 1939 and continuing until his death in 1963, Huxley had an extensive association with the Vedanta Society of Southern California, founded and headed by Swami Prabhavananda, of the Ramakrishna Order founded by Vivekananda and his master Ramakrishna. Vivekananda attracted several followers and admirers such as William James, Nikola Tesla, Sarah Bernhardt, Nicholas and Helena Roerich, among many others. Prabhavananda as well was able to attract an illustrious following which included Igor Stravinsky, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and W. Somerset Maugham, which led to his writing The Razor’s Edge in 1944. Together with Heard, Isherwood, Huxley and other followers were initiated as well by Prabhavananda and taught meditation and other mystical Hindu practices.

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Inspired by the UNIVERILIST teachings of Vivekananda, as well as Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), Huxley set out to translate Indian ideas into Western literary and intellectual culture with the writing of “The Perennial Philosophy” (1945), an anthology of short passages taken from traditional Eastern texts and the writings of Western mysticism. Huxley’s book insists on the truth of the occult, suggesting that there are realities beyond the generally accepted “five senses.” “Perennial Philosophy” is another name for prisca theologia of the Renaissance mystics or the Traditionalism developed by René Guénon.

Mirroring the teachings of Guénon, who is quoted in the book, Huxley explains: “rudiments of the Perennial Philosophy may be found among the traditionary [sic] lore of primitive peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions.” [WE DID NOT NEED THE RELIGIONS OF PRIMITIVES] Huxley relates that the doctrine that God can be incarnated in human form is found in most of the principal historic expositions of the Perennial Philosophy in Hinduism, in Mahayana Buddhism, in Christianity and among the Sufis. Esalen’s goal was to assist in the coming transformation by exploring work in the humanities and sciences, in order to fully realize what Aldous Huxley had called the “human potentialities.”

Esalen thus represented a fruition of the Human Potential Movement (HPM), whose founding has often been attributed to Gurdjieff, and which arose in the 1960s around the concept of cultivating the extraordinary potential that its advocates believed to lie largely untapped in all people. The movement took as its premise the belief that through the development of this “human potential” humans could experience an exceptional quality of life filled with happiness, creativity and fulfillment. According to Kripal, Huxley’s call for an institution that could teach the “nonverbal humanities” and the development of the “human potentialities” functioned as the working mission statement of early Esalen, and Huxley offered lectures on the “Human Potential” at Esalen in the early 1960s.”

ordoabchao.ca/volume-four/esalen-institute

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Here is a link to a search for a channel called juxtaposition and the Manson murders, CIA, Haight-Ashbury. I can’t recommend one as I don’t recall which ones I’ve watched. He’s got a lot of info and names the jew. I’ve stopped watching him recently though because he started in on “muh fascism” too much.
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