Editing Michael Murphy (author) (section)

===Further contributions===
In the 1980s he organized Esalen's Soviet-American Exchange Program which served as a unique form of citizen-to-citizen diplomacy.  The program initiated the process that led to [[Boris Yeltsin]]'s first visit to the US 1990.<ref>{{cite book |title=On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture |editor1-first=Jeffrey J. |editor1-last=Kripal |editor2-first=Glenn W. |editor2-last=Shuck |year=2005 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0253345561}}</ref>

In 1992 he published ''The Future of the Body'', a massive historical and cross-cultural collection of documentation of various occurrences of extraordinary human functioning such as healing, [[hypnosis]], [[martial arts]], [[yoga|yogic techniques]], [[telepathy]], [[clairvoyance]], and feats of superhuman strength.  Rather than presenting such documentation as scientific proof, he presents it as a body of evidence to motivate further investigation.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}

He is also an avid golfer and has written two fictional books relating golf and human potential. His 1971 novel, ''[[Golf in the Kingdom]]'', has been in constant publication since its release and has become one of the best selling golf books of all time. In 1992 it spawned The Shivas Irons Society, a 501(c)3 organization to explore the transformational potential of sport, of which Murphy is the co-chairman of the advisory board. He partnered with film producer Mindy Affrime on the feature film adaptation of ''Golf In The Kingdom''. It was directed by Susan Streitfeld and stars [[David O'Hara]], [[Mason Gamble]], [[Malcolm McDowell]] and [[Frances Fisher]]. The complementary one-hour TV documentary, called ''Golfers in the Kingdom'', was directed by [[Ellen Spiro]].{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}