Esalen by Jeffrey J. Kripal
America and the Religion of No Religion
A concise cultural and intellectual history of a pioneering California retreat that became the crucible of the human-potential movement, blending psychotherapy, Eastern practices, psychedelic exploration, and avant-garde ideas; the book traces the institute’s founders and key figures, its experiments in group work and spirituality, and how it reshaped American approaches to experience, healing, and religion. It also examines the tensions and controversies—between mysticism and therapy, idealism and commerce, liberation and exploitation—that complicated its influence and left a contested but enduring legacy in modern spirituality.
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- 2017
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