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Esalen History Miscellaneous 1973: San Francisco public conference on "Spiritual and Therapeutic Tyranny: The Willingness to Submit," designed to address cultish problems in human growth arenas. Panel included: Joe Adams, Bernard Apfelbaum, Stewart Brand, Arthur Deikman, Werner Erhard, Richard Farson, Arthur Hastings, Michael Kahn, Sam Keen, Stanley Keleman, Paul Krassner, George Leonard, Peter Marin, Richard Marsh, Michael Murphy, Claudio Naranjo, Jerry Rubin, Lee Sanella, Will Schutz, Thomas Szasz, William Irwin Thompson, and John Vasconcellos.
1983: invited conference on the topic of personal identity, chaired by Michael Murphy. Participants included: Chris Sizemore, multiple personality expert; Jay Ogilvy, philosopher; Michael Harner, anthropologist and expert on shamanism; Michael Murphy; Kenneth Ring and Carlos Alvarado, near-death researchers; and Charles Tart, parapsychologist.
1985: invited conference, co-sponsored with the Elwood Institute, on "Critical Questions about New Paradigm Thinking," designed to address the question of whether there is an emergent, holistic world view and if so, what are its contours? Participants: Paul Gunn Allen, Walter Truett Anderson, Richard Baker Roshi, Ernest Callenbach, Fritjof Capra, Tyrone Cashman, Jacqueline Doyle, Leonard Duhl, Riane Eisler, Patricia Ellsberg, Stanislav Grof, Randy Hayes, Hazel Henderson, Eleanor LeCain, Robert Livingston, David Loye, Don Michael, Patricia Mische, Daniel Moses, Brian Murphy, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Jay Ogilvy, Janice Perlman, Ziauddin Sardar, Charlene Spretnak, David Steindl-Rast, and Brian Swimme.
1988: invited conference on "Holonomic Processes in Social Systems" convened by Karl Pribram.
1988: Mobius-Esalen conference on "Human Potential Issues" convened by Stephan Schwartz.
1988: conference on "Mysticism Reconsidered" convened by Frances Vaughan.
1992: The Joseph Campbell Foundation Invitational Conference, in which the foundation reviewed its first year of operation and planned acitivities for the next year, including a major conference entitled "Myths of the Twenty-First Century: The Creative Legacy of Joseph Campbell."
1992: invited conference on "The Global Film Community: Present and Future" in which representatives of the film industry from America, Japan, Europe, India and the Soviet Union, met to discuss the changing global influence on the media; ethics in the international film community; how the art form is altering global consciousness; universal stories and themes; innovations in sound and visual effects; and global financing and distribution.
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