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Writer Was Pivotal Figure in New Age Movement

By Elaine Woo — 2008

An obituary for writer, Marilyn Ferguson. Her bestseller “The Aquarian Conspiracy” had a galvanizing influence on participants in scores of alternative groups that coalesced as the New Age movement.

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The Esalen Institute and the Human Potential Movement Turn 50

In 1962, on a stunning stretch of land bordering the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California, two Stanford graduates named Michael Murphy and Dick Price founded a small retreat and workshop center called The Esalen Institute, otherwise known simply as Esalen.

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Debra Ollivier
2012
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How to Have an Extraordinary Life

An interview with Michael Murphy, on his new book ‘The Future of the Body.’ On evolution of the body, what he means by human attributes, and how we begin to recognize the extraordinary.

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G. Leonard
1992
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In Murphy’s Kingdom

Since the 1960s, the Esalen Institute has been at the forefront of the human potential movement. Now cofounder Michael Murphy, an ardent golfer and former frat boy, is reaching a new generation with his books on spirituality.

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Jackie Krentzman
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Why You Should Stop Hacking Your Life and Invest in the Journey

There is nothing sexy or meme-worthy about the journey. It’s hard. It’s painful. It’s not glossy and doesn’t lend itself to a hashtag or a glib tweet. It will never trend on Twitter.

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Rich Roll
2014
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Finding Flow

Here, the man who literally wrote the book on flow presents his most lucid account yet of how to experience this blissful state.

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
1997
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The Shift to the Age of Conscious Evolution

We are being presented with the greatest opportunity that humanity has ever consciously faced together: the effort to co-create a planetary shift in time to avert global catastrophe by helping humanity cross the gap from “Here”—our current breakdowns—to “There”—our future of infinite...

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Barbara Marx Hubbard
2012
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How and Why We Summon the Sacred

An arcing rainbow of colors is rising today from the world’s spiritual traditions, given power by the urgent questing of so many people all over the world for unmediated experience of the Source and for guidance into a future that belies all human knowing.

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Jean Houston
2013
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