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Esalen

1966 in reference to an alternative philosophy and human potential movement, from Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, U.S., from Esselen, name of an extinct Native American people of the California coast, for which Bright gives no etymology.

Usage examples of "esalen".

In the spring of 1968 I was invited to deliver a series of talks on schizophrenia at the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California.

I was invited to deliver a series of talks on schizophrenia at the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California.

We passed a complex of directional signs: Point Sur, Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur Lodge, Ventana, the Esalen Institute.

Murphy, who founded the Esalen Institute on the Monterey Peninsula in California - a center for self-improvement - invented Shivas Irons, a mystical golf pro who made pronouncements such as, "Let the nothingness into your shot," and, "Gowf is a place to practice fascination.