Editing Michael Murphy (author) (section)

===Founding Esalen===
In 1960, while in residence at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Cultural Integration Fellowship in [[San Francisco]], he met a fellow Stanford University graduate, [[Dick Price]].<ref name="Grogan-2008">{{cite book |title=A Cultural History of the Humanistic Psychology Movement in America |first=Jessica Lynn |last=Grogan |publisher=University of Texas Press |year=2008}}{{ISBN?}}</ref> In 1962, they founded [[Esalen Institute]] together in [[Big Sur]], [[California]] on {{convert|127|acre|km2}} of property owned by Murphy's family.<ref name="Grogan-2008" />

In 1972 he retired from actively running Esalen to do more writing. He remains on the board at the institute and continues to be a key contributor to research projects at the Esalen Center for Theory and Research. He presently resides in Mill Valley, California.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Redfield |first1=J. |last2=Murphy |first2=M. |last3=Timbers |first3=S. |year=2002 |title=God and the Evolving Universe: The Next Step in Personal Evolution |publisher=Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam |isbn=978-1585421374}}</ref>