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From the Esalen Archives: Rollo May and Daniel Ellsberg in 1976, "On Good and Evil"
October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 30 minToday, we return to that stack of dusty reel to reels, discovered a couple of years ago, as a part of the storied Esalen archives. This one turns out to be a gem: a conversation that was recorded in 1976, not at Esalen, but at the Bel Aire…
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Ellen Watson: My Esalen Was A Graduate School of Universal Consciousness
September 17, 2026 · 44 minWhen Ellen Watson first arrived at Esalen in the summer of 1984, she expected to stay for a few months. Instead, she remained onsite for more than two decades, engaging in an immersion in the practices, teachers, and experiments that…
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Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky on Belonging, Loneliness, and the Human Advantage
August 18, 2026 · 43 minAdam “Smiley” Poswolsky is a workplace belonging expert, internationally recognized keynote speaker, and bestselling author whose work explores friendship, loneliness, human connection, and the ways technology is reshaping our…
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How We're Really Using AI, Vol. 3
July 31, 2026 · 1 hr 6 minArtificial intelligence has become deeply embedded in everyday life, and way too nuanced to describe as a single phenomenon. In this third installment of How We’re Really Using AI, Sam attempts to create clarity through specificity…
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In Trees: Robert Moor on the Ethical Force of Wonder, Kinship, and the Art of Co-Flourishing
July 17, 2026 · 41 minIn this live conversation recorded at Esalen in the spring of 2026, author Robert Moor joins Andrew Castle, weaver of Esalen’s Treenet, to explore the ideas at the heart of Moor’s new book, In Trees. Moor describes trees as a way of being…
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Jet Eveleth: Sacred Clowning and the Medicine of Play
July 1, 2026 · 44 minIn this episode, Sam speaks with Jet Eveleth, a clown teacher, performer, writer, and integrative medicine practitioner who lives at the fertile crossroads of medicine and mischief. Jet has studied integrative medicine, Traditional Chinese…
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Whole Self Health: Bill Drummond on Youth Mental Health, AI, Diagnoses, and Healing Through the Body
June 19, 2026 · 37 minIn this episode, Sam Stern speaks with Bill Drummond, a clinical consultant psychologist based in Wellington, New Zealand, where he serves as Clinical Leader for Youth Mental Health Services across the region. Bill has spent more than a…
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Steeped in Big Sur: Brita Ostrom on Early Esalen, Her New Memoir, and the Wild Work of Becoming
June 4, 2026 · 52 minBrita Ostrom is the author of the new memoir "Steeped: A Bug Sur Elixir of Sulfur and Sage," a vivid, intimate, and often wonderfully unsentimental account of her life in Big Sur and at Esalen during 1967 and 1968. Brita arrived in…
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Darnell Walker: The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End
May 22, 2026 · 41 minDarnell Lamont Walker is one of those people who has somehow managed to live several lives inside a single lifetime. He is a writer, filmmaker, children’s television creator, and death doula. He is also a documentary filmmaker whose work…
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Yes, Mom Took Acid: Maria Mangini on Psychedelic Elders, Hidden Histories, and the Shulgin Farm
May 7, 2026 · 1 hr 11 minThis interview is part of the Shulgin Foundation's Oral Histories Series. Voices of Esalen and Shulgin Foundation collaborated to bring you a wide-ranging interview with Mariavittoria Mangini, known to many as Maria, is a nurse-midwife…
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Magnus Toren: Big Sur and The Henry Miller Memorial Library
April 24, 2026 · 52 minMagnus Toren has been Executive Director of the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur, California, since 1993. A native of Sweden, he circumnavigated the globe delivering yachts across five oceans before settling in Big Sur. Under his…
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The Subtle Body, Ep. 3: The Serpent’s Tale with Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Anya Foxen
April 9, 2026 · 1 hr 25 minIn the third episode of our series on the subtle body, we’re discussing the book "The Serpent’s Tale: Kuṇḍalinī, Yoga, and the History of an Experience," a sweeping and deeply researched tome by Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Anya Foxen, who…