{"id":2392,"date":"2016-08-24T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2016-09-02T13:23:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T21:23:43","slug":"the-human-potential-movement-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"The Human Potential Movement Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realized this morning that my life is to some degree a \u201cproduct\u201d of the Human Potential Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This was a sub-cultural movement that blossomed in urban centers, more vividly in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and nearby regions (such as the Esalen Institute about 100 miles south on the pacific coast). It was a special time and area, and it spoke to psycho-social freedom of expression, along with explorations of the body\u2019s potential. This all was given new life between around 2003 and 2010 by the construction and operations of The Crossings, a Human Potential Center in the hills west of Austin, with which I was peripherally associated.) There is so little discussion of this cultural development that for a while I didn\u2019t realize that many\u2014indeed, most\u2014people don\u2019t know about it, never heard of it, and don\u2019t care. Yet at the time it was for me and sufficient others sufficient attractiveness so that it thrived in the early 1970s. It was psychological, interpersonal, physical. Body-learning was part of it, massage, Oriental body-mind activities such as Tai Chi, and for a while at \u201cThe Crossings,\u201d even aerial acrobatics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized this morning that my life is to some degree a \u201cproduct\u201d of the Human Potential Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This was a sub-cultural movement that blossomed in urban centers, more vividly in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and nearby regions (such as the Esalen Institute about 100 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-history","category-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}