DD Support Board and Research Team

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Lol, good to see you with a good appetite!,

Yes, the source as determined by google is not that important often times.
Although, I was a bit familiar with Esalen from daze of yore and girls of higher (levels of ?) consciousness.
I've gone a bit wild these past 6 months and continue to just cut wood (.. last blast before retirement thing although the gov't is cutting my first cheque as we speak!.. ;).
This is kind of cool,
 The grounds of the Esalen Institute were first home to a Native American tribe known as the Esselen, from whom the institute adopted its name.[10]Carbon dating tests of artifacts found on Esalen's property have indicated a human presence as early as 2600 BCE.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esalen_Institute
Remember reading Builders of the Dawn bout' intentional communities and the thing that stuck was the successful ones (like Esalen, Findhorn, etc,..) had a charismatic leader who could keep the vision and group together. The extreme democratic ones died in committee. 
I do have feelings for that counter culture. I was too young and discovered it and the music ten years after.
(I suppose my profile here still has T. Roszak I had read much, such a good wordsmith "The Making of the Counter Culture", "Person Planet" and in the profile 
Investment Philosophy Where the wasteland ends; politics and transcendence in post industrial society
 lol. Enjoy that trip!.