Joshua Tree Retreat Center

For those seeking to understand the "physics" of their minds, or perhaps just a higher sense of consciousness, the Institute of Mentalphysics may be just the thing they were looking for. Built by Frank Lloyd Wright and his son Lloyd Wright in 1946, the Institute of Mentalphysics sits in the high desert of Joshua Tree, California. Based on enlightenment philosophy, the Science of Mentalphysics is advertised as "a portal to your inner being."   The Science of Mentalphysics was originally created by Ding Le Mei in 1927. Born as Edward John Dingle, Ding Le Mei was a British journalist who spent twenty-one years living and studying in Asia, mostly Tibet. During that time, he was one of the first Westerners to study under a Tibetan Lama Master, and used his experience to fuse the similarities between Eastern and Western religious philosophies into his own new creation.