{"id":2573,"date":"2025-03-10T10:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/re-esalen-reaction-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:32:04","slug":"re-esalen-reaction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/re-esalen-reaction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Esalen reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subject: Community Response to the Esalen Event<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s evident that a significant portion of our community has expressed concerns regarding the recent post about the culture surrounding the Esalen event. This raises some critical questions for us to consider:<\/p>\n<p>1) Was the use of mind-altering substances part of the experience? This is a crucial question that needs to be addressed in order to fully understand the accounts shared by attendees.<\/p>\n<p>2) The video evidence that Coulthart claims to have captured, which includes clear footage of UAPs, must be released. Only then can we begin to take these accounts seriously.<\/p>\n<p>3) If credible evidence is provided, would you be open to the idea that psychedelic drug use or &#8220;new age&#8221; philosophies might be responsible for these experiences? What type of evidence would convince you?<\/p>\n<p>I welcome your thoughts on this matter.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Coulthart asserts in the following clip (30:48) that he did not consume drugs or alcohol during the event, for your awareness: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3dFHkgRY9g0&amp;t=1675s\">Link to video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>P.P.S. Here are some additional photos for further context: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zachmbell\/p\/DBrOb-aypke\/?img_index=19\">Link to Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nSubject: Community Response to the Esalen Event It&#8217;s evident that a significant portion of our community has expressed concerns regarding the recent post about the culture surrounding the Esalen event. This raises some critical questions for us to consider: 1) Was the use of mind-altering substances part of the experience? This is a crucial question&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/re-esalen-reaction-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Re: Esalen reaction&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}