<p>An Actual Man: Michael Murphy and the Human Potential Movement Edited by Jay Ogilvy (Berkeley: Minuteman Press, 2010; 315pp., $19.95) Michael Murphy is not only the cofounder of Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California; he is also the author of the best-selling novel, Golf in the Kingdom, soon to be a major motion picture. Further, he is the author of several non-fiction books: The Future of the Body, and The Life we are Given, among others. But perhaps most important, he is the origin and guiding light of the human potential movement. Since the 1960s, Michael and Esalen have spawned the holistic health movement, the extension of eastern mysticism into American culture, biodynamic gardening, and a welter of other culturally significant trends from somatics and massage to the revisioning of philosophy. This book of essays was put together by 40 authors to honor Michael s 80th birthday. Its authors include such luminaries as Amory Lovins, Robert Reich, Ken Wilber, Riane Eisler, Ken Dychtwald, Mary Catherine Bateson, Robert Bellah, and Sam Keen. As the introduction by editor, Jay Ogilvy, concludes: We would do a disservice to our subject if we took the following essays as a series of disconnected dots, or as so many thank you notes from forty grateful fans. Taken as a group, taken as a whole, taken holistically, they portray a magnificent vision. Behind the humor, beneath the love, beyond the fun stories of outlaw escapades, there is a philosophy of human existence, a new psychology of hope, and a politics that can carry us beyond enmity. Michael Murphy s vision of our human potential, when seen in full, is nothing short of inspiring. Read all of these essays, beginning to end, and you will be a better person. Convince your friends to read them and we will have a better world.</p>

An Actual Man, Michael Murphy and the Human Potential Movement

Calvin Tomkins

John Cleese

Robert W. Fuller

ROBERT B. REICH

Jay Ogilvy

Minuteman Press Berkeley

<p>Marion O Leary s Musical Milestones: My Tale of Science and Music tells how to find time in a busy professional life to be a serious and passionate musician at the same time. A scientist by trade, specializing in chemistry, biochemistry, and plant physiology, O'Leary maintained his enthusiasm for music throughout his long university career, continuing to develop as a musician and performer and ultimately becoming a composer as well. As a pianist, he played Beethoven, Chopin, and Ravel; as a composer he wrote in a variety of genres. For those seeking a role model for how to keep their artistic side in play as they strive to succeed in the business or academic worlds, this book is a lively and practical guide. For those who want to learn more about music - classical, ragtime, jazz, rock, and folk - and its interplay in the mind of a brilliant scholar and scientist, this book will feed the imagination in the manner of Lewis Thomas or Oliver Sacks. For those who are neither scientist nor musician, this inspired memoir is a delightful story of a small-town boy who kept his soul filled with music even as he rose in the ranks of his chosen profession.</p>

Musical Milestones

Marion O'Leary

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