earlier human potential workshops and divine

• earlier human potential workshops were guided by a general assumption that one must face one's fears and limitations in order to "break through" to a deeper vitality and a greater human potential. The "ego death" which took place for some people on psychedelic drugs prefigured the interest in the "breakthrough" which might happen in a workshop if one faced one's fears. It was a secular psychology, dionysian, yet not transcendental ... Richard Alpert, an associate of Timothy Leary on the Harvard faculty, returned from India dressed in white robes and renamed Baba Ram Dass. His message was clear: growth was not a random process of breaking out in all directions. There was a place of consciousness to reach, and one needed a guru to get there. "God," or Divine Consciousness had arrived in the Human Potential Movement
• Chakras
• Esalen Institute