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Michael Murphy was born in 1930 to an Irish father and Basque mother in Salinas, California. Legend has it that John Steinbeck modeled his East of Eden characters, Aaron and Cal, on Murphy and his younger brother Dennis. (Steinbeck was a family friend of the Murphy's since Michael's physician grandfather delivered Steinbeck into the world).
In April of 1950, while enrolled in the pre-med program at Stanford University, he mistakenly wandered into a lecture on comparative religions. This lecture so fanned the flame of his interest in the integration of Eastern and Western thought, that he signed up for the class. As a result of this class, he began to meditate.
On January 15, 1951, while in seated meditation by Lake Lagunita at Stanford, he had what he describes as a "hinge moment", after which he dropped out of the pre-med program with a new vision for the purpose of his life.
He did continue on with his formal education to earn his B.A. in psychology in 1952 from Stanford University. After graduation, he the spent two years stationed in Puerto Rico as a psychologist for the US Army. He returned to Stanford for two quarters of graduate studies in philosophy before he quit in 1956 to go to India.
During 1956 and 1957 practiced meditation for 18 months at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in PondicherryPondicherry ( in Hindi), currently undergoing a name change to Puduchery is a union territory in the south of India. Formerly a French colony, it came under the rule of the Indian Government in 1954 and was organized as a union territory in 1963. It consi, India. It is likely that his ideas related to the connection between human evolution, human potential, and spiritual growth developed further here.
In 1960, while in residence at the Aurobindo Ashram Cultural Integration Fellowship in San Francisco, he met a fellow Stanford University graduate, Dick Price . In 1962, they founded Esalen Institute together in Big SurBig Sur is a section of the California coast, typically considered to run from Carmel-by-the-Sea in the north to San Luis Obispo, or more precisely to the Hearst Castle at San Simeon in the south. It is characterized by the collision of coastal mountain r, CaliforniaCalifornia is a state located in the western United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The most populous and third largest state in the U. California is both physically and demographically diverse. The state's official nickname is "The Golden State", wh on 52 acres of property owned by Murphy's family. (Previously, the natural hot springs baths were part of a run-down resort operated by Hunter S. ThompsonHunter Stockton Thompson (born Louisville, Kentucky July 18, 1937) is an American journalist and author. Thompson frequently refers to himself as "Raoul Duke" or "Dr. He received his certification from a mail-order church in the sixties. Thompson, origina).
In 1972 he retired from actively running Esalen in order to do more writing. He remains chairman of the board at the institute to this day, and continues to be a key contributor to research projects at the Esalen Center for Theory and Resarch.
In the 1980s he organized Esalen's Soviet-American Exchange Program which served as a unique form of citizen-to-citizen diplomacy. The program initiated the process that led to Boris YeltsinBoris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (bah-REES YELL-tsin) (b. February 1, 1931, Sverdlovsk [now Yekaterinburg], Russia, USSR), became the first President of Russia in 1991, and the first democratically elected leader in the country's history. Early Life Boris Yelts's first visit to the US 1990.
In 1992 he published The Future of the Body which is a massive historical and cross-cultural collection of documentation of various occurrences of extraordinary human functioning such as healing, hypnosis, martial arts, yogic techniques, telepathy, clairvoyance, and feats of superhuman strength. Rather than presenting such documentation as scientific proof, he presents it as a body of evidence to motivate future investigation.
He is also an avid golfer and has written two fictional books relating golf and human potential.
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