Esalen: 50 Years Later.. Save Up For Your Kid's Retirement.. 10 Bad Post 50 Habits

Friday, May 25, 2012 Esalen: 50 Years Ago, A 'Crazy Place On A Godforsaken Road' Launched The New Age Movement In 1962, on a stunning stretch of land bordering the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California, two Stanford graduates named Michael Murphy and Dick Price founded a small retreat and workshop center called The Esalen Institute, otherwise known simply as Esalen. Their goal was to create a space where people could explore and practice what Aldous Huxley called "human potentialities" -- or various holistic approaches to wellness and personal transformation that involved the body, mind, and spirit. Back then, when the Beat Generation of the 50s was ceding to the halcyon hippie heydays of the 60s, the word "holistic" -- never mind the concept of a mind/body connection -- had barely entered the mainstream American vernacular. Neither had a myriad of practices and concepts: East-meets-West, meditation, yoga, life coaching, encounter groups, personal and spiritual development as a form of life-long learning, gestalt therapy, and other forms of humanistic psychology. Woman To Tie The Knot For The First Time At Age 70 Happy Birthday, Mike Myers! 10 Easy Ways To Cut Your Life Short Should You Help Your Kid Save For Retirement? How 'Words With Friends' Led To The Altar BLOG POSTS Brent Green: Is American Idol Ageist? On the Possibilities for a New Culture of Fame Older artists can achieve extraordinary dreams if given a chance. Irvin G. Schorsch III: The Don't-Defer-Your-Life Approach to Financial Planning Too many people postpone what they really want to do until an undefined time in the future when they feel they can finally afford it. But what if "someday" never comes? Kerry Kennedy: Ode to My Best Friend -- Mary Richardson Kennedy Let's not remember Mary for her despair, but let's take inspiration from her determination to heal the woundedness in herself and in those she loved. Laverne H. Bardy: Why I Love Dining Out Most retirees spend money doing things they couldn't afford or didn't have time for before they retired. My guilty pleasure is eating out. Here's why. Judith Greenberg, Ph.D.: Learning to Drive Again I let my driver's license expire. For years, it didn't seem like such a big deal. Frankly, not driving had some nice benefits: Riding in the passenger's seat was the one time in my life I could relax.

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