Visitors are now able to access Esalen as well as other businesses and trails in northern Big Sur via twice-daily convoys on Highway 1 operated by Caltrans.
Convoys run only at 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. each day. These are the only opportunities to travel into and out of Big Sur, so visitors must plan accordingly.



Diane Hennacy, MD, is a psychotherapist, neuropsychiatrist, and lifelong student of consciousness with more than forty years of clinical experience with people from across diverse cultures. Known for her warmth, humor, and intuitive presence, she invites people into a deeper relationship with themselves that is grounded in curiosity, compassion, and meaning.
Trained at Johns Hopkins and formerly on the faculty at Harvard, Dr. Hennacy’s work has gradually expanded beyond the brain to include subtler dimensions of human experience. Through decades of exploring wisdom traditions and listening to patients, she has come to understand healing as a process of resonance and reconnection.
Dr. Hennacy has devoted her career to understanding neurodiversity, trauma, and non-ordinary states of consciousness. She has co-created psychiatric programs for Survivors of Torture, International and the McCandless Women’s Center, and has served in scientific and advisory roles at the Salk Institute, the John E. Mack Institute, the Forever Family Foundation, and the Parapsychological Association.
Her current research exploring telepathy, precognition, and other anomalous phenomena in autistic children inspired The Telepathy Tapes. She is the author of The ESP Enigma: A Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena, which offers a grounded invitation into a new paradigm of consciousness.
Diane Hennacy, MD, is a psychotherapist and neuropsychiatrist with over forty years of experience exploring healing, consciousness, and purpose. Known for warmth and humor, she blends neuroscience, wisdom traditions, and resonance-based insight to help people reconnect with themselves and their purpose.