Esalen

Author : Jeffrey J. Kripal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226453715
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Esalen written by Jeffrey J. Kripal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Kripal here recounts the spectacular history of Esalen, the institute that has long been a world leader in alternative and experiential education and stands today at the center of the human potential movement. Forged in the literary and mythical leanings of the Beat Generation, inspired in the lecture halls of Stanford by radical scholars of comparative religion, the institute was the remarkable brainchild of Michael Murphy and Richard Price. Set against the heady backdrop of California during the revolutionary 1960s, Esalen recounts in fascinating detail how these two maverick thinkers sought to fuse the spiritual revelations of the East with the scientific revolutions of the West, or to combine the very best elements of Zen Buddhism, Western psychology, and Indian yoga into a decidedly utopian vision that rejected the dogmas of conventional religion. In their religion of no religion, the natural world was just as crucial as the spiritual one, science and faith not only commingled but became staunch allies, and the enlightenment of the body could lead to the full realization of our development as human beings. “An impressive new book. . . . [Kripal] has written the definitive intellectual history of the ideas behind the institute.”—San FranciscoChronicle “Kripal examines Esalen’s extraordinary history and evocatively describes the breech birth of Murphy and Price’s brainchild. His real achievement, though, is effortlessly synthesizing a dizzying array of dissonant phenomena (Cold War espionage, ecstatic religiosity), incongruous pairings (Darwinism, Tantric sex), and otherwise schizy ephemera (psychedelic drugs, spaceflight) into a cogent, satisfyingly complete narrative.”—Atlantic Monthly “Kripal has produced the first all-encompassing history of Esalen: its intellectual, social, personal, literary and spiritual passages. Kripal brings us up-to-date and takes us deep beneath historical surfaces in this definitive, elegantly written book.”—Playboy

Author : Charlie Cascio
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781586858520
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Esalen Cookbook written by Charlie Cascio and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world-renowned Esalen Institute, located on the cliffs above the ocean in Big Sur, California, is a place of peace and beauty, a place to contemplate, think, and discover. Filled with beautiful photographs, this cookbook features dozens of recipes for delicious dishes that emphasize healthy, fresh, and organic ingredients--food made to satisfy the soul as well as the stomach.

Author : Marion Goldman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814732909
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Soul Rush written by Marion Goldman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoga. Humanistic Psychology. Meditation. Holistic Healing. These practices are commonplace today. Yet before the early 1960s they were atypical options for most people outside of the upper class or small groups of educated spiritual seekers. Esalen Institute, a retreat for spiritual and personal growth in Big Sur, California, played a pioneering role in popularizing quests for self-transformation and personalized spirituality. This “soul rush” spread quickly throughout the United States as the Institute made ordinary people aware of hundreds of ways to select, combine, and revise their beliefs about the sacred and to explore diverse mystical experiences. Millions of Americans now identify themselves as spiritual, not religious, because Esalen paved the way for them to explore spirituality without affiliating with established denominations The American Soul Rush explores the concept of spiritual privilege and Esalen’s foundational influence on the growth and spread of diverse spiritual practices that affirm individuals’ self-worth and possibilities for positive personal change. The book also describes the people, narratives, and relationships at the Institute that produced persistent, almost accidental inequalities in order to illuminate the ways that gender is central to religion and spirituality in most contexts.

Author : Deborah Eden Tull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614294216
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relational Mindfulness written by Deborah Eden Tull and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook on how to embody compassionate awareness in all of our relationships —with self, one another, our planet, in an age of global uncertainty. We all struggle at times with how to bring meditation off the cushion and into the beautiful, dynamic, and messy realm of relationship. At a time when humanity seems to have forgotten our inherent interrelatedness, this book offers an inspiring set of principles and practices for deepening intimacy and remembering the interconnection that is our birthright. Eden Tull interweaves heartfelt personal stories, sharing her journey from seven years as a monastic in a silent Zen Monastery to living and teaching in the megatropolis of Los Angeles and beyond, with teachings and mindful inquiry to help the reader connect personally with the principles of Relational Mindfulness. In a voice that is transparent, vulnerable, and brave, Tull shares possibilities for integrating mindfulness In gentle yet powerful tone, she covers topics ranging from balance and personal sustainability to sexuality to conscious consumerism. Relational Mindfulness is based on the simple understanding that the most subtle form of love is attention. While a revolution usually means to evolve and change, this shift is actually a return to a simple and sacred understanding we seem to have forgotten—one we can only remember when we are present.

Author : Catherine Ann Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611250169
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heal Your Self with Writing written by Catherine Ann Jones and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our lives may be determined less by past events than by the way we remember them. How do we learn to listen more to the stories that heal? How do we put together the pieces of our past? How can we rewrite our life story so that pain becomes meaningful and actually promotes growth and transformation? Heal Your Self with Writing offers a step-by-step journey of discovery and re-visioning through focused journaling, a practice that can enable healing and empowerment. In this way, each reader is able to make meaning out of memory and put the past where it belongs — behind them.

Author : Kerryn O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781329677623
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made With Love written by Kerryn O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I want anyone who has had the great gift of visiting Esalen to recapture that feeling of love whenever they are in need of nourishment, both for the body and the soul. This became my inspiration to write this cookbook with some of my favorite Esalen kitchen recipes. Even when hundreds or thousands of miles separate you from Big Sur, you can return through the memory of your senses. Each recipe is intended to taste like love because that's what they are made with and it makes all the difference. *** Proceeds for this cookbook will support Buds to Blossoms, a pediatric massage program that supports orphans affected by HIV and AIDS in Vietnam. ***

Author : William A. Donius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984304769
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thought Revolution written by William A. Donius and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing twelve years of research, the book takes readers on an unexpected journey that will set them free, and it all begins with moving the pen from one hand to the other. The technique is called "Intuitive", or "nondominant" hand writing and is the basis for this revolutionary approach to making lasting life changes.

Author : Alekseĭ Stepanovich Khomi︠a︡kov
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 9780940262911
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Spiritual Unity written by Alekseĭ Stepanovich Khomi︠a︡kov and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the religious and philosophical writings of the founders of Russian religious philosophy, Aleksei Khomiakov and Ivan Kireevsky. Both began their intellectual careers in the literary world of the 1820s. The texts collected here make the philosophical concepts of Sobornost (community, universality, wholeness, ecumenicity) and integral knowledge, available to western readers. Based on the primacy of the heart, the spiritual wholeness of the human being and the cognitive will, integral knowing moves beyond rationality to union with the object of knowledge in knowing. This book provides an introduction to Russian religious philosophy, and a profound, meditative text for anyone concerned with human and spiritual unity. Also included are two responses to Slavophile ideas by the prominent Russian philosophers Pavel Florensky and Nikolai Berdiaev.

Author : Charles Van Wyck Brooks
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensory Awareness written by Charles Van Wyck Brooks and published by Viking. This book was released on 1974 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Wagner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142181234
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Empty Chair written by Bruce Wagner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound and heart-wrenching work of spiritual storytelling from the internationally acclaimed author of Dead Stars Celebrated for his “up-to-the-nanosecond insider’s knowledge of the L.A. scene” (The Washington Post), Bruce Wagner takes his storytelling in a radically new direction with two linked novellas. In First Guru, a gay Buddhist living in Big Sur achieves enlightenment in the horrific aftermath of his child’s suicide. In Second Guru, Queenie, an aging wild child, returns to India to complete the spiritual journey of her youth. Told in ravaged, sensuous detail to a fictional Wagner by two strangers on opposite sides of the country, years apart from each other, these stories illuminate the random, chaotic nature of human suffering and the miraculous strength of the human spirit.