Reel-to-Reel Audio Tape recording of Robert Ornstein's Big Sur / Esalen Talk "On The Psychology of Meditation". . Produced by BIG SUR RECORDINGS, San Rafael, California, 1971. From the series "Audio Tape Recordings in the Forum of Human Potentiality and Human Growth".

Five inch reel 1/4 inch tape, housed in a printed 5 1/4 inch square box. The tape looks unused. The box has some rubs and has some signs of wear, but is solid and doing its job well.

BIG SUR RECORDINGS of HUMAN POTENTIALITY talks and lectures at the Esalen Institute have become quite scarce.

About ROBERT ORNSTEIN (from Wikipedia):

******Robert Evan Ornstein, b.1942 d.2018, was an American psychologist, researcher and author. He taught at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, based at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, was professor at Stanford University, and founder and chairman of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK).

Ornstein was involved in reconciling the scientific understanding of mind and consciousness with other scientific and cultural traditions.

Ornstein worked to reconcile the wisdom traditions of the East and science in The Psychology of Consciousness and was interested in promoting the modern Sufism of Idries Shah. Shah and Ornstein met in the 1960s. Ornstein's The Psychology of Consciousness (1972) was enthusiastically received by the academic psychology community, as it coincided with new interests in the field, such as the study of biofeedback and other techniques designed to achieve shifts in mood and awareness.

His books The Psychology of Consciousness and The Evolution of Consciousness introduced the two modes of consciousness of the left and right brain hemispheres and a critical understanding of how the brain evolved.******