No one hugs like the people of Esalen.

This is the comment I imagine leaving at the end of the Esalen seminar I really want to attend but cannot afford at the moment:

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I remember when Esalen was a place for Heart centered living.
A place to heal and to find limits and bolt beyond them.

A community where ethical explorers created massage and psychic modalities,
Grew healthful food and medicine beyond the shackles of Big Agra and Pharma,
A place too far South and far too beautiful for the religious and political police to patrol.
A shinning community on a hill-- A hope for the world.

Now it is just a run down spa with a bitchy office staff.

...but the DJs are good.  And the poets. And the dancers.  And the gardeners.  And the cooks.  And the people cleaning and groundskeeping with light in their eyes...and no one hugs like the people of Esalen.

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