Easlen Institute

The Esalen Institute "is a non-profit organization that has been devoted to the exploration of human potential since the 1960's. Historical luminaries like Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Joan Baez, and countless others have gathered here to develop revolutionary ideas, transformative practices, and innovative art forms. Today Esalen is a retreat center where people live and work in a communal setting. Residents and guests participate in an incredible variety of alternative education and personal growth programs in subjects ranging from meditation to massage, yoga, psychology, ecology, spirituality, art, music, and much more."

Esalen Center for Theory & Research
"The Esalen Center for Theory & Research supports essential philosophic, academic, and research aims of the Esalen Institute. It evaluates frontier inquiry, creates networks of pioneering individuals, and works to catalyze new discoveries that promote personal and social transformation. It carries forward projects at the growing edge of philosophy, psychology, comparative religious studies, education, sociology, somatics, the arts, ecology, and related disciplines that bear upon transformative practice and the continued evolution of humankind. Among these projects are an archive of extraordinary human functioning and a bibliography of scientific research on meditation.

"Esalen was founded in 1962 by Michael Murphy and Richard Price as an educational center for the exploration of unrealized human capacities. It soon became known for its blend of East/West philosophies, its experiential workshops, the steady influx of leading philosophers, psychologists, artists, and religious thinkers, and its breathtaking grounds blessed with natural hot springs. Once home to a Native American tribe known as the Esselen, Esalen is situated on some 200 acres of spectacular Big Sur coastline with the Santa Lucia Mountains rising sharply behind."

People
CTR Founders
 * Michael Murphy
 * George Leonard (Easlen)

General Scholars
 * Richard Baker (Roshi)
 * Antoine Faivre, Ph.D.
 * Wouter Hanegraaff, Ph.D.
 * Don Hanlon Johnson, Ph.D.
 * Jeffrey Kripal, Ph.D.
 * Amory Lovins, Ph.D.
 * Jay Ogilvy, Ph.D.
 * Frank Poletti, M.A.
 * Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D.
 * Gordon Wheeler, Ph.D.

Evolutionary Metaphysics
 * Frederick Amrine, Ph.D.
 * William G. Barnard
 * Sean Kelly, Ph.D.
 * Glenn Magee, Ph.D.
 * Freya Mathews, Ph.D.
 * Robert McDermott, Ph.D.
 * Richard Tarnas, Ph.D

Survival Research
 * John Cleese
 * Adam Crabtree, Ph.D.
 * Bruce Greyson, M.D.
 * Ed Kelly, Ph.D.
 * Emily Kelly, Ph.D.
 * David Presti, Ph.D.
 * Bob Rosenberg, Ph.D.
 * Henry Stapp, Ph.D.
 * Charles Tart, Ph.D.
 * Jim Tucker, Ph.D.
 * Eric Weiss, Ph.D.

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