In the Zone: Transcendent Experience in Sports

Michael Murphy · Rhea A. White

jun 2011 · Open Road Media

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Michael Murphy, bestselling author of Golf in the Kingdom, explains the power of athletics to transform the body, mind, and spirit Athletes and coaches often say they feel “in the zone” while participating in sports or other endeavors, and Esalen Institute cofounder Michael Murphy carefully documents this phenomenon in one of the most comprehensive works of its kind. Murphy and coauthor Rhea A. White categorize twenty types of extraordinary athletic feats, exalted states of consciousness, and altered perceptions that, they say, evoke the richness of a spiritual practice. This wide-ranging compendium includes insights from amateur, Olympic, and professional athletes, such as Michael Jordan, Mario Andretti, Jack Nicklaus, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Bestselling author Michael Murphy (b. 1930) has been called the father of the human potential movement, one of the most influential movements in twentieth-century American culture. His bestselling book Golf in the Kingdom (1972) inspired the creation of the Shivas Irons Society, a nonprofit group dedicated to finding beauty and discovery through the game of golf, and has recently been adapted into a movie starring Malcolm McDowell (2010). His other books include Jacob Atabet (1977), An End to Ordinary History (1982), In the Zone (1995), and The Kingdom of Shivas Irons (1997). He lives in California.

Rhea A. White (b. 1931) is a prominent American parapsychologist. Born in Utica, New York, she graduated from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in 1953, and served as a research fellow at the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University, a research assistant at the Integral Foundation, a research and editorial associate at the American Society for Psychical Research, a key member of the Parapsychological Association, and more. In 1981, White founded the Parapsychology Sources of Information Center with the first computerized database of literature on psychical research and parapsychology. The writer and editor of a variety of articles, her best-known works include Parapsychology: New Sources of Information and In the Zone: Transcendent Experience in Sports, which she coauthored with Michael Murphy.