{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fa3ebf70a-e6c9-405e-be1f-5dcd8e95e43a","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Michael Murphy - The Human Potential Movement Then & Now: 60 Years at the Leading Edge of Transformative Practice, Research & Action (Part 2)","description":"Ep. 59 (Part 2 of 3) | Michael Murphy, author, co-founder of the world-famous Esalen Institute, and pioneer of the Human Potential Movement starting in the 60s, relates a wealth of intimate experience, knowledge, and wisdom covering his decades of living at the leading edge of transformative practice and the realization of human potential. Mike talks about Esalen\u2019s latest research, our current crisis of belief, and the anchoring question that has guided Esalen (and Mike) all along: how best to serve? Mike has watched the developmental process of transformative practices themselves, such as somatics and psychedelics, now circling around after a period of purgation, and talks about current efforts to add research on the mystical and the ecstatic to meditation and mindfulness research in order to better understand what's going on. \n\nThis podcast is a wonderful mix of tales from the past\u2014including Mike and his wife Dulce\u2019s achievements and adventures with Soviet-American citizen diplomacy towards the end of the Cold War\u2014the present, and what\u2019s coming up at the Esalen research center now, e.g., asking what is happening on \"the other side,\" and discovering the truth about subtle body phenomena. On a personal note, Mike shares about practicing agnosticism, his respect and admiration for the quality of wonder, and about the magic of reading subtle cues and being increasingly in tune with \u201cthe algorithms of his heart.\u201d Friendly, relaxed, and humorous, Mike is one of the world\u2019s leading lights on self-transformation. Recorded on February 16, 2022.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4ba7554e-ef83-4478-aefd-4b0270873ebd/UNVxV_7eX7l9gecl7_6pcx5o.jpg"}