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>Esalen, a counterculture brain trust If all of this sounds thoroughly bizarre, evil, and looney, that's because it is! While the Tavistock Institute and even the National Training Labs maintain a pretense of scholarship, science, and respectability, the number-three think tank behind the New Age education movement, the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California, wallows in the muck of the counterculture.
Esalen was literally created as an outgrowth of the CIA and British Secret Intelligence Service's several decades of experimentation with drug-induced brainwashing techniques. The CIA's project MK-Ultra
>In 1959, two offbeat Stanford graduates, Michael Murphy and Richard Price (the latter fresh from a six-month stint in a mental institution back East, where he was zapped with electroshock treatments and heavy drugs on a daily basis), attended Aldous Huxley's lectures at the University of California Medical School at San Francisco and became converts to Huxley's "human potentialities movement," the British Fabians' euphemism for hallucinogenic drug-induced mind control. The Huxley lecture series was sponsored by the U.S. Information Service and was part of the CIA's MKUltra. Murphy and Price were steered to other MK-Ultra operators, including British intelligence figure Gregory Bateson, his wife Margaret Mead, and Stanford psychologist Willis Harman,
