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Esalen History Physics and Consciousness 1974: public lecture for Esalen San Francisco by Nick Herbert on "Physics, Consciousness, and Psychic Phenomena."
1976: Esalen and the Physics Consciousness Research Group of San Francisco conduct a month-long invited conference on the conceptual gaps and possibilities in theoretical physics and the relevance of modern physical thought for consciousness transformation on the planet. Participants: Jack Sarfatti, Saul-Paul Sirag, Michael Murphy, Fred Alan Wolf, Nick Herbert, Peter Flessel, Ralph Abraham, Michael Karnov, and John King
1976-1988: eleven annual invited conferences on "Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality" convened by Nick Herbert. Special attention was devoted to Bell's Theorem and its implications. Participants: Gary Zukav, Charles Brandon, Nick Herbert, Ariadna Chernavska, John Clauser, Ralph Abraham, Saul-Paul Sirag, Bernard d'Espagnat, and Henry Stapp.
1979: Gary Zukav published The Dancing Wu Li Masters , which explored the implications and origins of quantum physics for a popular audience, and won the American Book Award for Science. It was partially inspired by the Esalen conferences
1987: Nick Herbert published a popular science book Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics, inspired partially by Esalen work and subsequently published Elemental Mind : Human Consciousness and the New Physics to expand these ideas further.
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