Esalen seeks kindred spirits in Muslim community
Thursday September 13, 2007 Esalen Institute
Esalen’s leaders say understanding of Islam is vital as a spiritual matter and as a way to empower “citizen diplomats.”
Category: Esalen Institute
Esalen Institute: still mystical after all these years
Monday January 22, 2007 Esalen Institute
Named for the Esselen Indian tribe indigenous to Big Sur, the Esalen Institute is a nonprofit alternative-education center situated, not incidentally, on the edge of the Western world, looking east.
Cleese on finding Holy Grail
Tuesday February 10, 2004 Esalen Institute, New Age
Satirist of religion in Monty Python now a spiritual man John Cleese and his co-conspirators in the Monty Python comedy troupe always loved to the skewer the sacred. Their satires on the search for the Holy Grail, the life of Jesus (a.k.a. “Brian”) and the pomposity of Sunday morning worship are among the cult classics of cinematic heresy. And now for something completely different … Cleese, who turned from Anglicanism to atheism at his British boarding school, has discovered the Meaning of Life. And he found it in the mineral baths at the Esalen Institute — the famous spiritual retreat