Really glad you liked it. That's a great link - and I actually got the book when it first came out as part of a stack I picked up. I regret to say I've not read it yet - but it's next on the list!
My dad spent some time at Esalen in the 60s when he was teaching at San Francisco State University, and he always said he wasn’t a hippie, he was part of the “human potential movement.” I always thought he was kind of full of shit. 🫤
That's quite a cool connection, though from what I've been reading (especially Jarnow's 'Heads' - which is good, but my first choice for this history has - since I first read it in 1992 Jay Stevens's 'Storming Heaven') the 'human potential movement' was essentially the intellectual arm of the hippies. So, a rose by any other name ...
Saying that, though - I love that shit and just hope, had I been born a decade earlier, I'd have been cool enough to embrace the burgeoning counterculture as a teenager. I mean, I certainly did later in the 80s and 90s, but that was well after the fact. The reality is, though, I would have been a teenager in 1960s Western North Carolina ... and going overtly counterculture would have been an uphill battle.
Great Bus! The mychorizzal networks are fascinating. Tolkien would have loved to know trees communicate with each other - for real! Check out this article https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/
Really glad you liked it. That's a great link - and I actually got the book when it first came out as part of a stack I picked up. I regret to say I've not read it yet - but it's next on the list!
Sounds like a great book to have on the shelf awaiting the right time to crack it open!
My dad spent some time at Esalen in the 60s when he was teaching at San Francisco State University, and he always said he wasn’t a hippie, he was part of the “human potential movement.” I always thought he was kind of full of shit. 🫤
That's quite a cool connection, though from what I've been reading (especially Jarnow's 'Heads' - which is good, but my first choice for this history has - since I first read it in 1992 Jay Stevens's 'Storming Heaven') the 'human potential movement' was essentially the intellectual arm of the hippies. So, a rose by any other name ...
Saying that, though - I love that shit and just hope, had I been born a decade earlier, I'd have been cool enough to embrace the burgeoning counterculture as a teenager. I mean, I certainly did later in the 80s and 90s, but that was well after the fact. The reality is, though, I would have been a teenager in 1960s Western North Carolina ... and going overtly counterculture would have been an uphill battle.
Fascinating Bus today…and a great video- ever thought of a visit - writing course?
That is a VERY good idea!