Esalen

Esalen is a "work in progress," founded by two visionary men, Michael Murphy and Richard Price, who laid the philosophical groundwork and embodied Esalen's purpose and values. It is on this foundation of deep respect that Esalen has flourished, continually challenging and pushing the envelope of human potential. Its activities consist of public seminars, residential work-study programs, invitational conferences, research, and semi-autonomous projects. This unique "experiment" has become more of a success than anyone, even its co-founders, could have dreamed.

Aside from its sheer magnificence, the land on which Esalen sits was the home of the Esselen Indians for centuries. Ceremonial grounds extending along the coast are peppered with artifacts--some over 4000 years old, and others from as recently as the 1700s. In the late 1800s, Thomas Benton State purchased the land. Then in 1910, Dr. Henry Murphy, Michael's grandfather, purchased the property with the idea of having the baths serve as curative waters for his patients. It is on this magical land that Esalen now resides.

Gregory Bateson, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Fredrick Spiegelberg, George Leonard, Buckminster Fuller, Moshe Feldenkrais, Fritz Perls, Ida Rolf, and many other masters of the mind/body mystery often walked the grounds here, smelled the sweet ocean air, and left countless others inspired and enrichened.

What is it that makes Esalen the only one of its kind? Esalen has been characterized in different ways by many persons: as a metaphysical "Grand Central Station," where anyone may come and choose the best "train" for his or her next personal destination; as the "Carnegie Hall" of human potential where the theatre and acts change constantly, and the Esalen staff are the stage crew, the orchestra, the patrons, insuring the stage is always ready; as a spiritual home or a nondogmatic, experiential temple of the inner being; as the most beloved alma mater, even for those with many other academic degrees; as the safe ground or safe container for personal and social transformation, the much needed support for individuals or groups going through change.

Esalens encouragement of diversity and different approaches (no one approach shall ever "capture the flag"), affords each person the opportunity to find what he or she seeks, and to experience what is needed in a safe and accepting environment.

HLC'S INTENDS TO JOINT VENTURE WITH OTHER
ORGANIZATIONS LIKE ESALEN TO BUILD.

SELF-MASTERY K-12 NON-PROFIT ACADEMY'S: By 2014, HLC intends to create K-12 Self-mastery Academies as a joint venture project with other "Spirit First!" organizations like Esalen. This has been our founders Hu Dalconzo's dream ever since he was an inner city schoolteacher almost 30-years ago. Just imagine a network of K-12 schools where besides reading, writing and arithmetic, our curriculum will integrate Self-mastery skills such as Self-parenting so that our students can learn how to get their Emotional Dependency Needs met. Emotional dependency needs are the intimacy, nurturing, and unconditional love that a child "needs" in order to feel safe, sane, and secure so that he/she can grow up to be an emotionally mature, highly functional adult. Our Self-mastery schools will use HLC's clinically proven teaching methods, which takes complex self-help subjects such as Self-parenting from an abstract, hard to understand theoretical concept and breaks it down piece by piece into a step by step, easy to understand, specific set of emotionally Self-nurturing exercises to make it easy for our K-12 teachers to instruct. Our K-12 teachers will instruct our joint venture students on how to master the pieces of Self-mastery, one at a time, until they have fulfilled all of their emotional dependency needs, while they are receiving a standardized K-12 education.

MANY OF HLC'S STUDENTS HAVE ATTENDED
ESALEN WORKSHOPS

Many of HLC's holistic practitioner & professional certification students have attended workshops at organizations such as ESALEN. Many of HLC's students are holistic practitioners, medical doctors, counselors, chiropractors, massage therapists, yoga instructors, meditation teachers, reflexologists, hypnotherapists, NLP practitioners and transpersonal psychologists.

Often HLC students have received there preparatory education from schools and training organizations such as Landmark Education, Omega, Clayton College of Natural Health, American Institute of Holistic Theology, Avatar, American Society of Alternative Therapists, Columbia Commonwealth University and California Studies of Integrative Medicine.

Usually HLC's SELF-CARE, FAMILY CARE, AND SELF-HELP MASTERY STUDENTS are people who are interested in holistic health, nutrition, mediation, Reiki, Tai Chi, Concept Therapy and yoga.

Typically HLC students have read books by authors such as: Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Edgar Cayce, Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, Eckhart Tolle, Stuart Wilde, Emmet Fox, Charles Fillmore, Gary Zukav, John Bradshaw, Neale Donald Walsch, Richard Bach, Catherine Ponder, Louise Hay, Shakti Gawain, and John Gray, to name a few.

THE STAFF AT HLC WANT TO THANK ESALEN FOR THE WONDERFUL
HEALING WORK THAT THEY HAVE DONE.

NAMASTE`

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