Esalen

Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California – 

May 7, 2007 — … Gorbachev having some connection. It was Esalen, for example, that beat out the Rockefeller Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations …

 

Found via: https://x.com/JTParker09/status/1498990398756294657

“The ground from which Stuart saw the orbs rise is an ancient Indian burial ground”

kickstarter.com/projects/supernature/supernature-esalen-and-the-human-potential

“I’m a pretty skeptical person I’m not usually open to this kind of thing I was

just standing there kind of minding my own business just looking up at the stars all of a sudden I got real quiet

and still and and everything else got real quiet and still and my field of

vision narrowed and I watched these three golden orbs emerge from the ground

and rise up and hover at about waist height I was kind of locked into him I

you know I was really really drawn to them but I wasn’t scared I was really peaceful and calm and I just kind of

watched these really beautiful kind of indescribably luminescent orbs float

their Henry Miller used to write about

these Big Sur glowing balls that people would see around these orbs really

opened my mind up that really shifted my thinking on that kind of encounter with

stuff that I can’t explain

there’s a historical fact that is relevant here Esalen was named after the

Esalen indians who for centuries inhabited this land the ground from which stewart saw the orbs rise is an

ancient Indian burial ground imagine being in Native American walking

up the coastline and all of a sudden there’s hot water pumping out of the rock and so here on this property

there’s multiple burial sites this is definitely one of their most sacred

sites Paxton is a sacred healing center

there is an energy there that when people arrive and are their heels they

become more aware of their body their mind their emotions their energetics and their relational capacities”

 

Alex Klokus’ The Explorers Club ‍by Ennea – An invitational community of patrons, entrepreneurs, scientists, and mystics working at the forefront of consciousness. Our inaugural gathering will be held at the Esalen Institute October 14th-18th, 2024. 

https://www.ennea.io 

 

UFO whistleblower Jake Barber would ‘100% testify’ under oath to Congress | Reality Check – NewsNation – Jan 23, 205 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t37-SKj4rtY 

@2:13:22 mark https://youtu.be/t37-SKj4rtY?si=LAJx6NZXYjhRC7Cn&t=8002 Esalen Event

@2:43:40 mark https://youtu.be/t37-SKj4rtY?si=vEG6A2d3Fk–QbJ4&t=9820 12 months to Disclosure

 

Ross Coulthart Q&A: Project Blue Beam, Chris Bledsoe and mystery ‘drones’ | Reality Check – NewsNation 

(Q&A: On Esalen @9:06 mark) 

https://youtu.be/TH3_8Dcqyw4?si=W_BKZxibnkGhwBMI&t=546 

 

“The Explorer’s Club” by Ennea – Inaugural gathering at the Esalen Institute – October 14th-18th, 2024 

[Alex Klokus’ endeavor according to Ross Coulthart] https://www.ennea.io 

 

New Age Diplomacy: The Role of the Esalen Institute in Ending the Cold War by Birgit Menzel 

Published December 11, 2019 · Updated January 9, 2025 

This paper has been presented at the 51st ASEEES Annual Convention held in San Francisco, CA, on November 23, 2019. 

https://newageru.hypotheses.org/1903

  • Scientists making the aura visible (Stan Krippner, Jim Hickman)
  • Psychics performing telepathy (Russell Targ);
  • “Hot tub diplomacy” (Michael Murphy, Jim Hickman).
  • Technologies of direct communication: satellite link-ups; e-mail, video-telephone, laptops, desktop publishing (Joel Schatz)
  • Humanistic and transpersonal psychology: Trauma therapy, Gestalt therapy, Art therapy (Stanislav Grof)
  • Jungian role plays of Soviet and American army professionals (Robert Bathurst);
  • Deep ecology (Francis Macy: “the work that reconnects“);
  • Alpine mountain-climbing of Soviet and American Youth in the Caucasus (Cynthia Lazaroff)

 

Laid-Back Summitry : ‘Hot Tub Diplomacy’ Takes the Chill … Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-02-15-mn-3484-story.html 

Feb 15, 1987 — For eight years, Esalen Institute’s “hot tub diplomacy” has been quietly taking some of the chill off US-Soviet relations.

 

Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience – The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/26/silicon-valleys-crisis-of-conscience 

Aug 19, 2019 — Not even Mr. Gorbachev!”—that he vowed to dismantle Bolshevism once and for all. “Esalen played its own part in the collapse of Soviet Communism …

 

Carol Rosin – Anomaly Archives resource page

Psychedelics: The newest tool in nuclear negotiations? By Robert K. Elder | December 17, 2021 TheBulletin.org

https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/rosin-carol/

https://thebulletin.org/2021/12/psychedelics-the-newest-tool-in-nuclear-negotiations/

 

 

 

Google’s AI-Overview for Esalen Conspiracy (circa Feb 2025)

The Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California has been involved in a number of conspiracy theories, including UFOs and mind control. 

UFOs 

    • Esalen’s early years were linked to UFOs, and the institute hosted two major conferences on the subject.
    • Jeff Kripal, a researcher and author on paranormal activity, says that Esalen’s early exploration of the unseen included UFOs.

Mind control 

    • Michael Murphy, a researcher who advised the US government on mind control, has written about Esalen, Huxley, and Alan Watts.

Other conspiracy theories

    • Some have claimed that Elon Musk bought Esalen, though this is false. 
    • Some have told stories about life-transforming experiences at Esalen, such as lightning bolts, blue-light-being children, and rebirthing. 

Discrimination

    • The Esalen Institute has faced allegations of discrimination, including a lawsuit from a guest who claimed a racist incident took place. 
    • The Esalen Institute has also been criticized for its lack of diversity. 

Esalen is a wellness retreat that was founded in 1962 to promote “human potentiality”. It has been featured in Hollywood movies, including Serial, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, and Inherent Vice.

 

Early Esalen: UFOs and the Exploration of New Life, a Jeff …

Jul 16, 2021 — On the heels of a disruptive, unclassified report to Congress of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP, aka UFOs), Jeff Kripal went back in time. As Es…

 

Esalen Institute

Esalen Institute – Wikipedia

When Perls left Esalen he considered it to be “in crisis again”. He saw young people without any training leading encounter groups and he feared that charlatans…

Wikipedia

 

Exploring the edge – North & South Magazine

Jun 13, 2023 — It has been spoofed in Hollywood movies like Serial, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and Inherent Vice and has re-emerged as a stronghold of the psy…

North & South Magazine

 

Esalen’s Identity Crisis – Los Angeles Times

Sep 5, 2004 — At one time, these scenes at the fabled Esalen Institute would have been considered avant-garde. Esalen once stood as the nation’s leading laboratory…

Los Angeles Times

 

‘Gaslit the entire time’: Esalen faces more claims of discrimination

On the heels of an ongoing lawsuit from a guest who alleged a racist incident took place last fall, the Esalen Institute, Big Sur’s famed wellness retreat, is n…

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Big Sur’s Esalen Institute sued over alleged use of video with N-word

A woman’s dream retreat at the Esalen Institute on the Central Coast quickly turned into a nightmare as she faced the repeated use of racial slurs in a video pl…

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The Legend of Esalen: Big Sur’s Spiritual Mecca | Parachute

Before there was hip-hop yoga or meditation apps, there was Esalen, an institute founded in 1962 with the intention of promoting “human potentiality” by way o…

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