Visiting Consciousness –

Sept. 5, 2019 – Pilgrims and seekers, scholars and pupils, the restless and the curious — for more than 50 years, they’ve all made their way to the Esalen Institute in search of some kind of enlightenment, or at least a small insight or two about being human.

Neither a church nor a university nor a think tank, Esalen was designed more than 50 years ago as a kind of spiritual and cultural crossroads to explore the frontiers of human knowledge, to entertain bold or even transgressive ideas, from drug-induced mysticism to the mind’s potential to survive bodily death.

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