Sunny Side Up

Thousands of young Americans roamed Europe in the 1970s seeking spiritual truth and sustainable alternatives to a culture of growing materialism. Artist BJ Appelgren describes her yearlong quest at Sherborne, an esoteric school in England run by philosopher J.G. Bennett. The students practiced spiritual exercises from both East and West, including self-observation, decision training, sacred movements, cosmology, and meditations. In their fourteen-hour days, they also grew food and maintaine...