2024-02-19
47 分钟A wide-open conversation with three women who guided Richard Feynman through some big adventures at the Esalen Institute. (Part of our Feynman series.)
Hey there, it's Steven Dubner and we have got a bonus episode I'd like you to hear.
We just finished a three part series called the curious, brilliant, vanishing.
Mister Feynman.
About the late theoretical physicist Richard Feynman.
When he was in his twenties he worked on the Manhattan project.
When he was in his sixties he served on a presidential commission investigating the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
In between he won a Nobel Prize, had a million adventures and lived a life of, well, curious and brilliant are pretty good words for it.
And then.
Yeah, then came the vanishing.
He died in 1988 and his legacy has shrunk since then.
Too much for some people's taste.
That would include me.
So for this series we sought out a variety of people to talk about Feynman.
One of the most unusual interviews happened at the Esselen Institute in Big Sur, California, where Feynman spent some time in the 1970s and eighties.
Our Esalen host was Sam Stern.
Well, when I think about Esalen, I think about this place where people are able to explore like a new way of being through a lot of it is through humanistic psychology.
How much do you personally know and care about Richard Feynman?
All I know about Feynman is that there's this one talk in the archive that's from 1984.
It's called tiny machines and I listened to it this weekend.
It doesn't necessarily feel aligned with the greater human potential movement.