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Issues NOT in the News: Green Berets training Afghan soldiers (what they didn’t say); Afghan women setting themselves on fire; telecoms spy on US.
Jeffrey Kripal: Prof of Religious Studies, Rice University. He is the author of several important postmodern studies of contemporary mysticism, including “Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion”. A continuation of our inquiries into the emergence of new philosophies, values & lifestyles in the 60s & their legacy today: the revolution in psychology & western spirituality, the Human Potential Movement, the Esalen Institute.