Human Potential Movement

And there was a lot of, there's a lot of researchers like McGowan who wrote Program to Kill, Strange Signs Within the Gold Mine about Laurel Canyon.

There has always been this weird connection between the New Age movement, like the Human Potential Movement in particular, around places like the Eastland Institute and Big Sur.

New Age hippie cults and these synthetic cults that uh if you've ever watched i forget the documentary i think it was century of the self if you've ever watched documentary by adam curtis he goes into the structure and dynamic of these like anarchist lefty hippie cults and intelligence agencies and so there's always been this like very strange connection between new spiritualities intelligence agencies mind control and And like this sort of like parapolitics element to a lot of these things.

And so when he's running this experiment and these two missionary girls, that's the vibe that I got.

They were blending Eastern religion with Western philosophy.

It was the rise of New Age spirituality, of EST and the Human Potential Movement, of Hare Krishna and the Jesus Movement, of alternative health and self-help.

Permeating through much of it was a spirit of individualism and introspection, a feeling that the self is free and autonomous, and that one's goal should be to unlock its potential.

And into that came Arlene and Diane with a message that people need only rely on themselves to make a difference in the world.

The town was absolutely saturated in science.

It was also saturated in human potential movement, right? Yeah.

The super smart people are actually more open to innovative ideas and treatment ideas than the less smart people are.

I was encouraged.

But he is continuously pushing Gnostic Gospels, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the War Scroll in particular, and the Book of Enoch.

And he's also pushing human potential movement and basically Gnosticism, right? And basically that there's a battle for your divine spark, right? And he also talks about where he brings up artificial intelligence, right? We're in the age of artificial intelligence.

And so he talks about it in a way to where he's on that side of the dialectic to where artificial intelligence is a good thing.

Like it can be used as a good thing.

I mean she wrote about the mystical properties of mRNA in the 1980s, atomic energy, longevity, everything that makes up transhumanism outside of artificial intelligence she didn't really write about in that book.

um you know saying that those were christ-like abilities right that's

that's huge that's our human potential correct you everyone can unlock the x-men within right while you search for that i've got two things we can just quickly side stories The first thing I wanted to point out was that Dr. Richard Allen Miller, the Human Potential Movement, he died recently.

He was famous for saying, you know, I took people's remote viewing consciousness to Mars with the super soldier program and all that.

Gestalt Therapy, Dale Carnegie, he joins Scientology, takes part in encounter groups.

He becomes fascinated by the emerging human potential movement and its promise that people are capable of radical transformation.

Then, one morning in 1971, while driving down a California highway, something happens.

Rosenberg has what he will later describe as a spiritual awakening.

Within a year, EST was operating in 12 major cities and had more than 62,000 graduates.

Over the following decade, hundreds of thousands of people would pass through Erhard's seminars.

Est became one of the defining institutions of the human potential movement.

This was a loose network of therapies, workshops, and spiritual practices that sold consumer transcendence to the former hippies and future yuppies of the 1970s.