Messengers of Deception

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I was doing some quick research on NLP again and what do you know, beatniks. Dick Price, cofounder of Esalen. They sure come up often.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Price

After leaving Harvard in 1955, Price enlisted in the Air Force and was given an assignment in the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area).[1]: 139  He rented a room in San Francisco at Alan Watts' and Frederic Spiegelberg's newly founded American Academy of Asian Studies (the precursor to the California Institute of Integral Studies). During this time, the North Beach Beat scene was an emerging social trend. Dick knew most of the primary figures, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder.[1]: 139–40  Dick married his first wife, Bonnie, in a Zen ceremony

Richard Price (October 12, 1930 – November 25, 1985) was an American Gestalt therapist, co-founder of the Esalen Institute in 1962, and a veteran of the Beat Generation.[1]: 139–40  He ran Esalen in Big Sur for many years, sometimes virtually single-handed.[note 1][note 2] He developed a practice of hiking the Santa Lucia Mountains and developed a new form of personal integration and growth that he called Gestalt practice,[2] partly based upon Gestalt therapy and Buddhist practice