Sublime

John supported free will, and this might have passed uncensured; but what roused indignation was the purely philosophic character of his argument. Not that he professed to controvert anything accepted in theology, but that he maintained the equal, or even superior, authority of a philosophy independent of revelation. He contended that reason and re

Michael Murphy, a Stanford graduate who co-founded the Esalen Institute on the Big Sur coast in 1962.