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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 their beliefs about the sacred and to explore diverse
mystical experiences. Millions of Americans now identify themselves
as spiritual, not religious, because Esalen paved the way for them
to explore spirituality without affiliating with established
denominations The American Soul Rush explores the concept of
spiritual privilege and Esalen's foundational influence on the
growth and spread of diverse spiritual practices that affirm
individuals' self-worth and possibilities for positive personal
change. The book also describes the people, narratives, and
relationships at the Institute that produced persistent, almost
accidental inequalities in order to illuminate the ways that gender
is central to religion and spirituality in most contexts.
Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff define a spiritual virtuoso as
someone who works toward personal purification and a sense of
holiness with the same perseverance and intensity that virtuosi
strive to excel in the arts or athletics. Since the Protestant
Reformation, activist virtuosi have come together in large and
small social movements to redefine the meanings of spiritual
practice, support religious equality, and transform a wide range of
social institutions. Tracing the impact of spiritual virtuosi from
the sixteenth century Reformation through the nineteenth-century
Anti-Slavery Movement to the twentieth-century Human Potential
Movement and beyond, Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff explore how
personal virtuosity can become a social force. Martin Luther began
to expand spiritual possibilities in the West when he charted paths
that did not require the Church's intercession between the
individual and God. He believed that everyone could and should
reach toward sacred truths and transcendent moments. Over the
centuries, millions of people have built on his innovations and
embarked on spiritual quests that offer new possibilities for
sacred relationships and social change.
Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff define a spiritual virtuoso as
someone who works toward personal purification and a sense of
holiness with the same perseverance and intensity that virtuosi
strive to excel in the arts or athletics. Since the Protestant
Reformation, activist virtuosi have come together in large and
small social movements to redefine the meanings of spiritual
practice, support religious equality, and transform a wide range of
social institutions. Tracing the impact of spiritual virtuosi from
the sixteenth century Reformation through the nineteenth-century
Anti-Slavery Movement to the twentieth-century Human Potential
Movement and beyond, Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff explore how
personal virtuosity can become a social force. Martin Luther began
to expand spiritual possibilities in the West when he charted paths
that did not require the Church's intercession between the
individual and God. He believed that everyone could and should
reach toward sacred truths and transcendent moments. Over the
centuries, millions of people have built on his innovations and
embarked on spiritual quests that offer new possibilities for
sacred relationships and social change.
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