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Special Announcement from Michael Murphy, Esalen Chairman, and Gordon Wheeler, Esalen PresidentNo activity in Esalen's history, we believe, has more potential importance than the research that produced the book described below. The book's authors, led by Ed and Emily Kelly, professors in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia, have been members of an Esalen fellowship that has since 1998 explored empirical approaches to the question of post-mortem survival (see Esalenctr.org for a description of their meetings). The world's religious traditions give us contradictory, and often fanciful answers to this perennial question, but our fellowship has worked in the spirit of science to find a solid, empirical basis from which to explore the reality of life after death. Irreducible Mind is a report from the cutting edge of this inquiry. Its authors have donated its royalties to Esalen's Center for Theory and Research. 
Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Bruce Greyson, and Michael Grosso
Format: Hardcover
Does human personality survive bodily death, as the wisdom traditions teach, or is it generated by the brain and extinguished at death, as materialist science aggressively maintains? Irreducible Mind, developed under the auspices of Esalen's Center for Theory and Research's (CTR) Survival of Bodily Death Invitational Conference Series, fundamentally alters this debate by demonstrating empirically that the mainstream scientific "production" model of mind-brain relations is false. The authors present evidence for a wide variety of phenomena resistant to conventional explanations, including phenomena of extreme psychophysical influence, psychological automatisms such as trance mediumship and multiple personality, powerful near-death experiences occurring under general anesthesia and cardiac arrest, genius-level creativity, the worldwide phenomenon of unitive mystical experience, paranormal phenomena including direct evidence for survival, and central, unexplained properties of all human thinking, memory and volition. The authors further show that these "rogue" phenomena are more easily understood in terms of an alternative "filter" model of mind-brain relations according to which ordinary consciousness is an adaptation to the needs of everyday life, drawing upon a more comprehensive consciousness that is latent within and accessible through transformative practices of the sorts promoted by Esalen. This model allows for possibilities of post-mortem survival, yet is fully compatible with leading-edge physics and neuroscience. You can purchase this ground-breaking book by going to www.psychotherapybooknews.com . For further information about this and other CTR conferences, please see the website at www.esalenctr.org. Conferences are made possible through your generosity. To discuss making a tax-deductible gift to fund this work, please contact Jane Hartford at 415-459-5438. For further description of Irreducible Mind and its relationship to the science and religion dialogue, please click here.
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