Our History
2011
Sent final set of books to the Esalen/TRACK TWO sponsored Loutchkov Library of Psychological Literature at Moscow State University. We continue to support the library financially and in an advisory capacity. Students and faculty use the well-equipped library to locate psychological data now available through the Internet. Faculty members and graduate students are available for advice and guidance in the library during opening hours. Seminars and lectures sponsored by the library are held on a regular basis.
Held the annual Abrahamic conference that had its roots going back to the 2004 Fundamentalist gathering at Esalen, the group focused on how social media influences outcomes and world opinion of Abrahamic issues. Discussions were also held in response to prevailing Islamophobia, as well as discussions concerning historical approaches to history, both healing and drawing on it. Because of the extraordinary network of individuals from the Abrahamic world that we continue to cultivate, a decision was made to change the project name to the Esalen/TRACK TWO International Abrahamic Network (IAN). The Abrahamic Family Reunion continues as a project of IAN.
Potential China: Designing China’s Future was the title of the September 2011 conference held at Esalen. Using the topics of design and information technology as spring boards, artists, designers, writers, journalists and scientists from China and the United States explored the cultural, political and economic forces shaping today’s Chinese society and the ways these forces might be harnessed to address the needs of the global community.
Meetings with the core group of the Esalen Russian-American Partnership project met in New York to set the stage for the foundation of the Esalen Pacifica Prize arts project, and in diplomacy, with the first meetings that led to the COLD WAR II – How Intelligence and Media Shape Public Perceptions conference in Paris in 2012. Jack Matlock, Tom Graham, Mark Garber, Nina Bouis and Nic Iljine, along with Dulce and Michael Murphy were key participants in these meetings.