During this second event with Fall 2025 Visiting Scholar Jeanine Canty, we look at various notions of self—ecological, multicultural, and transpersonal—and engage in some experiences and reflections that embody this. Host Susan Grelock Yusem will be in conversation with Jeanine for the first hour, followed by a half hour of experiential work with Jeanine.

Within this introductory talk with Fall 2025 Visiting Scholar Jeanine M. Canty, her first event in residence at The New School, we look at dualities within the western human’s psyche to reclaim our ecological and transpersonal identities and to access pathways for healing.

In part 4, Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner explore Jeffrey’s remarkable history of Esalen in Esalen—The American Religion of No Religion. This astonishing cultural history of the famed retreat and conference center in Big Sur provides a panoramic insight of West Coast counter-culture over the past half century.  No one serious about understanding our times should miss it. You can find more information on his website jeffreyjkripal.com.

Join us along the wild coast of California, for an afternoon of dialogue, community, and ritual with author and soul activist, Francis Weller, and host of the All There Is podcast and CNN commentator, Anderson Cooper. This event was held live in September 2025 as a conversation and community grief ritual.

In part 3 of this series, Host Michael Lerner talks with author Jeffrey Kripal about his book Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism. Roads continues and expands Kripal’s exploration of homoerotics themes in world religion.  It focuses on the inner lives of five great scholars of religion and their own engagement with the homoerotic themes in the saints and traditions they studied.  Kripal also continues his own autobiographical experience with five “secret talks” interspersed with his five case studies.