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Esalen : America and the religion of no religion

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Esalen : America and the religion of no religion / Jeffrey J. Kripal.

Author

Kripal, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey John), 1962-

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

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xiii, 575 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-534) and index.

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."

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