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In , Esalen and Goldin pioneered the first U. Esalen arranged meetings for Yeltsin with then President George H. Bush as well as many other leaders in business and government. Two former presidents of the exchange program included Jim Garrison and Jim Hickman. After Gorbachev stepped down, and effectively dissolved the Soviet Union, Garrison helped establish The State of the World Forum, with Gorbachev as its convening chairman. These successes led to other Esalen citizen diplomacy programs, including exchanges with China, an initiative to further understanding among Jews, Christians and Muslims, as well as further work on Russian-American relations.
On February 12, , a number of mud and land slides closed Highway 1 in several locations to the south and north of the hot springs and caused Esalen to partially shut down. Then, on May 20, , a new slide at Mud Creek closed Highway 1 for at least a year. On June 20, Eslalen announced that it would lay off 45 staff members through at least July, leaving only about 10 percent of its staff. Esalen partially reopened on July 28, , offering limited workshops.
In , Esalen workshops were attended by more than 12, people.
Topics ranged from sustainable business practices to hypnosis to "The Holy Fool: There is no internet cellular service available, but Esalen is planning to make some of its workshops available to online participants. The annual cost of its year lease for the 27 acre site [96] from the Vinnie A. McEntee told the Monterey County Weekly that the cost of the lease is highly discounted, and that the terms of the lease allow the trust to re-assess the lease terms in This could potentially increase the Institute's rent to market value.
Esalen has been cited as having played a key role in the cultural transformations of the s. Esalen has also been the subject of some criticism and controversy. And for a great many others yet, Esalen is simply that notorious bagno-bordello where people had sex and got high throughout the s and s before coming home talking psychobabble and dangling crystals.
The Human Potential Movement was criticized for espousing an ethic that the inner-self should be freely expressed in order to reach a person's true potential. Some people saw this ethic as an aspect of Esalen's culture. The historian Christopher Lasch claimed that humanistic techniques encourage narcissistic, spiritual materialistic or self-obsessive thoughts and behaviors. Some thought that this was a regression of progress away from true spiritual growth. In "What About Bob? The Mad Men finale, "Person to Person" which aired on May 17, , featured Don and Stephanie staying at an Esalen-like coastline retreat in the year From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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