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Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy is co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Esalen Institute, and author of four novels: Golf in the Kingdom, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, Jacob Atabet, and An End to Ordinary History. His latest nonfiction work is God and the Evolving Universe co-authored with James Redfield and Sylvia Timbers. Other nonfiction work includes In the Zone, an anthology of extraordinary sports experiences, co-authored with Rhea White, and The Life We Are Given, a book about transformative practice, co-authored with George Leonard. .
1980s, he helped organize Esalen's pioneering Soviet-American Exchange Program, which became a premiere vehicle for citizen-to-citizen relations between Russians and Americans. In 1990, Boris Yeltsin's first visit to America was initiated by Esalen -- a trip that contributed to Yeltsin's change of heart regarding the United Sates and capitalism and that became part of ending the Cold War. Most recently, Murphy's and George Leonard's Integral Transformative Practices (ITP) program has been researched by Stanford Medical School. It has been concluded that the participants' in Stanford's ITP research made measurable and considerable gains in IQ.
