There’s an entire body of work that burst to life between the 1950s and 1970s — a strange golden era where explorers suddenly had access to ancient wisdom traditions, depth psychology, somatic disciplines, and spiritual technologies from around the world, all at once. Out of that collision came hundreds of “new” modalities, each named, taught, patented, and marketed as its own thing.

But if you zoom out far enough, they all point to the same foundation: awareness, presence, and the simple question of how close we can stay to this moment, right now.

This has never been taught as a unified practice.

Historically, you only accessed it by studying this modality, then stumbling into that one, following some teacher who followed another teacher who followed a dream.

Our experiment is to braid them together.

These modalities became the soil of the Human Potential Movement. Each teacher popularized one thread, one technique, one entry point. But taken together, they form a single school of thought — a body of work we can finally see more clearly, sixty years later, after decades of cultural impact.

Some names you might recognize:

Fritz Perls, Dick Price, Alan Watts, Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof, Gabrielle Roth, Moshe Feldenkrais, Al Huang, Joseph Campbell, Will Schutz, Dr. John Upledger, Charlotte Selver — and many more.

Each is a chapter. Together they’re the book. This is our attempt to read — and practice — the whole thing.