Gross was a habitué of the decadent bohemian café society of Munich's Schwabing district-a kind of early-twentieth-century Haight-Ashbury-and embraced the radical social ideas prevalent in Monte Verità, the "Mountain of Truth," an early alternative community established in Ascona, Switzerland, in 1900, where as the historian Martin Green argued, "the counterculture began."15 Notables such as Hermann Hesse, Rudolf Steiner, Isadora Dun-can, and many more made the trek to Monte Verità to take the nature cure, practice nudity {not Steiner}, meditate, grow their own vegetables, enjoy "free love," and in general cast off the ills of an increasingly mechanized society. Gross was initially drawn to psychoanalysis because, with its emphasis on the dangers of sexual repression, it seemed a potent weapon against authoritarianism.
( Gary Valentine Lachman )
[ Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric ]
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