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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Esalen : America and the religion of no religion by Jeffrey J. Kripal. ISBN 9780226453699. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
