Find the Otters
A postcard from Esalen
I’m at Esalen for a seminar on mysticism and psychosis, organized by religious studies scholar Jeffrey Kripal and anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann.
Esalen is a hotel, workshop centre and hot spring on the Pacific coast near Big Sur, belonging to Michael Murphy. Since 1962, it’s been the home of the ‘human potential movement’, visited by such luminaries as …



