It might be interesting to consider the possibility that the Esalen/Erhard/Cia links are a double-bluff and a blind alley.

Agreed, I’m trying to fully explore it from a the perspective of it being real though - mainly because I’ve not seen anybody else really pick this up and run with it in this direction. It may very well lead me to another conclusion entirely. Like somebody said in another post: its likely communism was as manufactured as the rest of this. Then what are we left with?

Certainly the powers that be would have wanted (needed ?) to neutralise the nascent new-age movement at an early stage and turn it from a ‘proactive’ potential threat to a ‘passive’ and acquiescent pool of people who are disposed not to challenge the status quo - and lo, so it turned out to be.

The USSR meme is a dead give away btw - the programme couldn’t give a fig about another state’s problems, this one was purely aimed at the folks down home.

The real results are obvious enough to see and the chief dancing bear is still operative in the public eye - still preaching to his constituency (which through bestselling books and public appearances is massive) the virtues of acceptance and tolerance of anything that happens to them whilst hobnobbing with the world leaders who make sure that something DOES happen to them.