The Human Potential Movement & the Esalen Institute with Matthew Ingram

Matthew Ingram is known for throwing raves in West Africa in 1993, writing for Teletubbies, his cult music blog Woebot, writing for the Wire and FACT magazines, setting up the Dissensus forum and putting out a series of LPs. His “Vitamin C” animated documentary was shown at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. He is author of Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness.

Here the discussion focuses on the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur, California, as an important hub of the human potential movement that began in the 1960s and continues to the present day. Topics include gestalt therapy, holotropic breathing, kundalini and the Spiritual Emergence Network, sensory isolation, rebirthing, encounter groups, Rolfing and body work, as well as explorations of physics and consciousness.

(Recorded on November 2, 2020.)

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Dana Sawyer (Ed.), Aldous Huxley and Self-Realization – https://amzn.to/38wetyz

Jeffrey Kripal, Esalen – https://amzn.to/32tlOLC

Frederic Spiegelberg, Living Religions of the World – https://amzn.to/35eEhxf

Ramana Maharshi, Who Am I? – https://amzn.to/2UcOpjy

Frederic Spiegelberg, Alchemy As a Way of Salvation – https://amzn.to/38tSvMO

Frederic Spiegelberg (Ed.), The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo –

Gestalt Biography, The Life and Practice of Richard Price – https://amzn.to/3kgK61t

Thomas Szasz, Antipsychiatry – https://amzn.to/3n8OykK

C. G. Jung, Psychological Reflections – https://amzn.to/35fcAnP

Robert Boyers (Ed.), R. D. Laing and Anti-Psychiatry – https://amzn.to/3pgqcHk

Christina & Stanislav Grof, The Stormy Search for Self – https://amzn.to/2ImjQ8L

Lee Sannella, The Kundalini Experience – https://amzn.to/3nc4liq

Stanislav Grof, Healing Our Deepest Wounds – https://amzn.to/3lepFna

Stanislav Grof, LSD: Doorway to the Numinous – https://amzn.to/3n6n3rW

Stanislav Grof, Psychology of the Future – https://amzn.to/3nc3L4e

Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being – https://amzn.to/36jnmZM

Frederick Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim – https://amzn.to/32pQwVO

Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture – https://amzn.to/3mkDcK4

Wilhelm Reich, The Function of the Orgasm – https://amzn.to/34nQizT

Ida P. Rolf, Rolfing – https://amzn.to/36jSf06

Bernard Gunther, Sense Relaxation – https://amzn.to/36dKAQI

William Schutz, Joy – https://amzn.to/3pcCRv5

Walter Truett Anderson, The Upstart Spring – https://amzn.to/3paQbjv

Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism – https://amzn.to/3eK9xau

Sam Keen, What To Do When You’re Bored and Blue – https://amzn.to/3kgWezi

John Lilly, The Deep Self – https://amzn.to/34qAP29

Stanislav Grof, The Way of the Psychonaut – https://amzn.to/3ksknnC

Christina & Stan Grof, Holotropic Breathwork – https://amzn.to/2JSxOzP

Leonard Orr, Rebirthing in the New Age – https://amzn.to/3n8RcHc

George Leonard, Education and Ecstasy – https://amzn.to/35ga153

Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence – https://amzn.to/38shrnV

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Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body – https://amzn.to/3eGw08r

Michael Murphy, Golf in the Kingdom – https://amzn.to/2Ubkw3g

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Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine – https://amzn.to/35eUX7J

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