Review of Jeffrey J. Kripal, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion By Carole Cusack

https://www.academia.edu/145828777/Review_of_Jeffrey_J_Kripal_Esalen_America_and_the_Religion_of_No_Religion?email_work_card=title The importance of this substantial book cannot be overemphasised. History is the immediate past, leading up to the present, as well as the more distant past. Moreover, the immediate past, particularly in America, is filled with rich and strange material for the scholar of religion. Kripal persuasively argues that Esalen, the institute named for the Native American Esselen tribe and situated on the Californian coast at Big Sur, embodies certain crucial aspects of the transformation of religion in the West since the 1950s. ...