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In Murphy’s Kingdom

By Jackie Krentzman

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.

Read on stanfordmag.org

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Our Sacred Demise and Radical Regeneration

Psychotherapist, professor, and author Carolyn Baker joins Terry for a sober, deep, and instructive conversation to consider our planetary predicament as a sacred rite of passage that necessitates a “collective descent into the darkness,” the possibility of our collective “sacred demise”,...

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Carolyn Baker
2020
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Prosocial World

Thinking more explicitly about cultural catalysis can help to accomplish in years what otherwise would require decades or not take place at all. As we experiment with cultural catalysis, we need to make it fast and benign rather than fast and pathological for the common good.

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David Sloan Wilson
2021
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Can Evolution Be Conscious?

If you had a conventional biological education, then you were taught that evolution is not a conscious process. How very 20th Century.

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David Sloan Wilson, Mel Andrews, Maximus Thaler
2020
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Evolution Is Our Fundamental Reality

We are living in the midst of several major crises, including the environment and the institutional church. Does academic theology play a role here as well? Well, yes. As co-creators, we can begin to resolve some of the problems by better integrating theology and science.

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Ilia Delio
2019
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Hope in Evolutionary Time

A very good friend of mine periodically asks me: Why do you believe that we are evolving in a positive way? Why do you believe that our consciousness is developing toward greater complexity, inclusivity and unity?

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Nancy Sylvester
2020
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A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain

An obscure Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, set down the philosophical framework for planetary, Net-based consciousness 50 years ago.

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Jennifer Cobb Kresiberg
1995
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Religion in Human Evolution, Part 7: Moses and Monotheism

Moses should be seen not as a historical figure, but a charter for a new regime in which people live under God, not king.

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Andrew Brown
2012
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Robert Pirsig & His Metaphysics of Quality

Anthony McWatt explores the philosophical ideas underlying the culture-changing 1970s blockbuster Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

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Anthony McWatt
2017
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The Evolution of Consciousness—A Map for Understanding Us and the World

Are we doomed to live in conflicting states of awareness and remain unable to find common ground for understanding? Not necessarily.

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Adam Brady
2020
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The Invitation: Is the World the Way You Want It to Be?

Why bother to heal the world if—as Conversations with God declares—everything is perfect just the way it is?

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Neale Donald Walsch
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