The American soul rush : Esalen and the rise of spiritual privilege /
Yoga. Humanistic Psychology. Meditation. Holistic Healing. These practices are commonplace today. Yet before the early 1960s they were atypical options for most people outside of the upper class or small groups of educated spiritual seekers. Esalen Institute, a retreat for spiritual and personal gro...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
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©2012.
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Series: | Qualitative studies in religion.
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Summary: | Yoga. Humanistic Psychology. Meditation. Holistic Healing. These practices are commonplace today. Yet before the early 1960s they were atypical options for most people outside of the upper class or small groups of educated spiritual seekers. Esalen Institute, a retreat for spiritual and personal growth in Big Sur, California, played a pioneering role in popularizing quests for self-transformation and personalized spirituality. This "soul rush" spread quickly throughout the United States as the Institute made ordinary people aware of hundreds of ways to select, combine, and revise the |
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Item Description: | De Gruyter Open Access eBooks EBSCO eBook Open Access (OA) Collection Books at JSTOR Open Access Project Muse Open Access Books OAPEN Library |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0814733387 9780814733387 9780814732908 0814732909 |