Connections
Esalen InstituteTRACK TWO: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy (TRACK TWO), formerly The Russian-American Center and originally Esalen Institute’s Soviet-American Center has been associated with Esalen since its inception in 1980.
Esalen Center for Theory and ResearchTRACK TWO works closely with Esalen’s Center for Theory & Research (CTR) co-sponsoring programs in international relations. CTR supports essential philosophic, academic, and research aims of the Esalen Institute. It evaluates frontier inquiry, creates networks of pioneering individuals, and works to catalyze new discoveries that promote personal and social transformation. It carries forward projects at the growing edge of philosophy, psychology, comparative religious studies, education, sociology, somatics, the arts, ecology, and related disciplines that bear upon transformative practice and the continued evolution of humankind. Among these projects are an archive of extraordinary human functioning and a bibliography of scientific research on meditation.
Library of Psychological Literature at Moscow State UniversityThe Luchkov Library of Psychological Literature at Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia is a project originally started by The Russian-American Center in the mid 1990s. It is named in memory of Viatcheslav (Slava) Luchkov, a Russian psychologist who worked closely with The Russian-American Center for many years. It was Slava’s idea to bring English language psychological literature to the University so that students and faculty could have access to current Western psychological thought. TRACK TWO continues to support this important psychology library, called a Fund by the Russians, housed on the old campus of Moscow State University in the heart of Moscow.