Michael Murphy (author)

Michael Murphy ( * 1930 in Salinas, California) is the co-founder of the Esalen Institute, a member of the Integral Institute, a person in American Human Potential Movement and author of books on human potentials exceptional.

Life

Murphy's father was Irish, his mother was of Basque descent. A legend says that John Steinbeck had the characters " Aaron " and " Cal" from his novel East of Eden Murphy and his younger brother Dennis simulated. ( Steinbeck was a friend of the Murphy family since Murphy's grandfather who was a doctor, had given birth Steinbeck at his birth ). In April 1950, during the pre-med studies at Stanford University, he attended a lecture of comparative religion, sparked the interest in the integration of schools of thought of the East and the West, he enrolled in this subject and began to meditate later randomly. On January 15, 1951, he had then allegedly during a meditation on a lake at Stanford a key experience, which he described as a turning point. He reported on the pre-med studies and followed a new vision for his life.

Murphy went on to study formally in Psychology at Stanford University and obtained herein continued in 1952 the degree of BA. After graduation, he was drafted into the United States Army and spent two years stationed as a psychologist in Puerto Rico. He then returned for half a year after Stanford and began graduate studies in philosophy in 1956 until he went to India. In the years 1956 and 1957, Murphy was meditating in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India. Probably his ideas about the links between the evolution of man, the potential of man and his spiritual development at least partly originated here.

1960 Murphy met during a stay in San Francisco, his fellow students Dick Price. Along with it he founded in 1962 on 51 hectares of land belonging to his family, the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. During the year 1972 he retired from active work at Esalen back to get more turn to the letter. He remained chairman of the institute 's director was also continues to be a key figure in research projects of the Esalen Center for Theory and Research. In the 1980s, Murphy organized the light emanating from Esalen Soviet- American exchange program that's supposed to have been the initiator of Boris Yeltsin's first visit to the USA in 1990.

In 1992 he published his book " Quantum Man" ( original title: The Future of the Body ) in which he the extraordinary abilities of man ( healing, hypnosis, peace research, yoga, telepathy, clairvoyance and heroic superhuman strength unfoldings ) through history and in documented all cultures and commented comparatively. He collected in it evidence for the existence of extraordinary phenomena. Murphy 's golfer and has written two books with fictional acts about golf and human potential. His novella written in 1972 "Golf and Psyche" ( original title: Golf in the Kingdom ) was issued several times since its release.

Bibliography

  • Golf in the Kingdom ( fiction ) ( 1972)
  • Jacob Atabet ( fiction ) ( 1977)
  • The Psychic Side of Sports (non- fictional, together with Rhea White ) ( 1978)
  • An End to Ordinary History: A Novel ( fiction ) ( 1982)
  • The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature (1992). German: The quantum man. A look at the development of human potential in the 21st century. Integral, Wessobrunn 1994. Translated by Manfred Miethe. ISBN 3-89304-699-2
  • The Life We Are Given: A Long -Term Program for Realizing the Potential of Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul (not fictitious, jointly with George Leonard ) ( 1995)
  • In the Zone: Transcendent Experience in Sports (non- fictional, revision of The Psychic Side of Sports, together with Rhea White ) ( 1995)
  • The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation: A Review of Contemporary Research With a Comprehensive Bibliography, 1931-1996 (not fictitious, second edition) (1997)
  • The Kingdom of Shivas Irons ( fiction - based on Golf in the Kingdom ) (1997 )
  • God and the Evolving Universe: The Next Step in Personal Evolution ( not fictional, with James Redfield and Sylvia Timbers )

Works

  • Literature by and about Michael Murphy in the catalog that German national library
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