#HumanPotentialMovement
5 entries tagged HumanPotentialMovement.
People (4)
- Alan Watts Alan Watts was the British-born interpreter of Zen Buddhism, Vedanta, and Taoism for Western audiences whose books and Pacifica radio talks shaped the spiritual vocabulary of the 1960s counterculture.
- Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley was the novelist of Brave New World who pioneered the literary use of psychedelics in The Doors of Perception, visited Andrija Puharich's Round Table Foundation parapsychology group, helped seed the Esalen Institute and the Human Potential movement, and lectured on a coming pharmacological dictatorship he called the ultimate revolution.
- Gregory Bateson Gregory Bateson was the English anthropologist and systems thinker who studied Balinese and Iatmul culture, helped found cybernetics at the Macy Conferences, formulated the double-bind theory of schizophrenia, and spent his last years at the Esalen Institute.
- Michael Murphy Michael Murphy is the Stanford-trained cofounder of Esalen Institute and a theorist of transformative human capacities who carried the Human Potential movement toward later wellness and technology culture.
Organizations (1)
- Esalen Institute Esalen Institute is the Big Sur retreat center founded in 1962 by Michael Murphy and Dick Price that became the seedbed of the Human Potential movement and whose Soviet-American citizen-diplomacy program drew documented CIA and FBI monitoring.