Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson was the legendary anthropologist that had an enormous affect upon NLP founders Richard Bandler and John Grinder as well as Robert Dilts who had a significant effect upon NLP’s development. In later years Bateson moved to and eventually passed away at California’s new age haven, Esalen Institute where he shared his views with and friendship with the renowned LSD and Holotropic Breathing researchers Stanislaus and Christina Grof.

Gregory Bateson was born in England in 1904 and attended Cambridge where he studied biology and linguistics. At the age of 33 he moved to Palo Alto, California where he continued is teaching and developed an interest in and knowledge of systems theory. It was during this time that he met the famed systems theorist and anthropologist Margaret Mead whom he eventually would wed.

Gregory Bateson was invited to be a core member of The Macy Conferences which were a set of meetings of scholars from various disciplines held in New York by the initiative of Warren McCulloch and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation from 1946 to 1953. The principal purpose of these series of conferences was to set the foundations for a general science of the workings of the human mind. It was one of the first interdisciplinary studies done which was the catalyst to the development of systems theory, cybernetics, and what later became known as cognitive science. Other core members were Margaret Mead whom Bateson was married from 1936-47 and psychologist Eric Erickson.

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