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Esalen : America and the religion of no religion / Jeffrey J. Kripal.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kripal, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey John), 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Religion.
- United States.
- Religion.
- Religion and culture--United States.
- Religion and culture.
- Esalen Institute.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 575 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Kripal recounts the spectacular history of Esalen, a world leader in alternative and experiential education, and its place in the American counterculture of the 1960s.
- Contents:
- Openings : Introduction: on wild facts and altered categories
- Geographic, historical, and literary orientations (1882-1962)
- Slate's Hot Springs : homestead, family spa, literary paradise
- The empowerment of the founders (1950-1960)
- The professor and the saint : the early inspirations of Michael Murphy
- Buddhism, breakdown, breakthrough : the early inspirations of Richard Price
- The outlaw era and the American counterculture (1960-1970)
- "Totally on fire" : the experience of founding Esalen
- Mind manifest : psychedelia at early Esalen and beyond
- Mesmer to Maslow : energy and the Freudian left
- Perls to Price: consciousness and the gestalt lineage
- Esalen goes to the city: the San Francisco center
- On ecstasy, education, and the end of sex : George Leonard and the human potential
- The serpent spine of spirit and sex : Don Hanlon Johnson and the somatics movement
- The occult imaginal and Cold War activism (1970-1985)
- The cosmic womb : Stanislav and Christina Grof and the counsels of spiritual emergence
- Golf in the kingdom : Plato and Ramakrishna for Republicans
- Jacob Atabet and the Tantra of physics
- Superpowers : Cold War psychics and citizen diplomats
- Sex with the angels : nonlocal mind, UFOs, and an end to ordinary history
- The Tao of Esalen : the spiritual art and intuitive business of managing emptiness
- Crisis and the religion of no religion (1985-1993)
- The religion of no religion : the Donovan era
- Realizing Darwin's dream : the transformation project and the future of the body
- Before and after the storm (1993-2006)
- After the storm : reassessment, disaster, and renewal
- (In)conclusion
- The future of the past and the mystical idea of "America."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-534) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226453699
- 0226453693
- OCLC:
- 71552179
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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