{"id":32798,"date":"2012-05-31T21:05:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_esalen_institute_a_california_spirituality_center_is_searching_for_its_\/"},"modified":"2012-05-31T21:05:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:05:31","slug":"rns_esalen_institute_a_california_spirituality_center_is_searching_for_its_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32798","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Esalen Institute, a California Spirituality center, is searching for its own identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perched atop the rugged splendor of the California coast south of Monterey, the Esalen Institute is the mother church for people who call themselves &#8220;spiritual but not religious.&#8221; Over the last five decades, hundreds of thousands of seekers have come to this incubator of East-meets-West spirituality looking for news ways to bring together body, mind, psyche and soul.<\/p>\n<p>But today, as this iconic hot springs spa and retreat center celebrates its 50th birthday, a bitter dispute has broken out over its future. Like the many &#8220;seminarians&#8221; who come here after losing a spouse or a job, Esalen now faces its own midlife crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/story\/2012-05-30\/esalen-institute-faces-midlife-crisis\/55286798\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perched atop the rugged splendor of the California coast south of Monterey, the Esalen Institute is the mother church for people who call themselves &#8220;spiritual but not religious.&#8221; Over the last five decades, hundreds of thousands of seekers have come<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32798\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,209,108,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}