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ThighHighSwampBoots ago

Convince me. This looks like a fake post with separate orgs of interest strung together that are not together. Esalen has been around forever; Joseph Campbell taught there. The other retreats are long-known new age borderline pervy/but not really places where people have been finding themselves for a generations. Just because you are a founder of a place doesn't mean you control it forever (Mrs. Huxley) and not Huxley himself. And Huxley was warning against what he foresaw the state doing, like Orwell, not championing it. You, OP, may be able to fool the newbies, but not the long time readers and observers/watchers. I call BULLSHIT.

isthisreality ago

Huxley was the author of ‘A Brave New World’, look into it. In a letter written to George Orwell in 1949; he predicted that "Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience."

ThighHighSwampBoots ago

Read it and he wasn't advocating the latter.