Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- Collection of audio and video recordings from the Melia Foundation's Berkeley Program in integrative psychology, with lectures, workshops, seminars and other events focusing on spirituality and the human potential movement. Represented in the recordings -- made between February 1983 and June 1987 -- are individuals such as James Bugental, Jane Jacobs, Bruno Bettelheim, Jack Kornfield, and Herbert V. Guenther.
- Extent:
- 18 Linear Feet (54 audiocassette boxes, 935 audiocassettes, and 50 videocassettes)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Melia Foundation records, HPA Mss 49. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Extensive collection of audio and video recordings from Melia Foundation's Berkeley Program in integrative psychology, with lectures, workshops, seminars and other events focusing on spirituality and the human potential movement. Represented in the recordings -- made between February 1983 and June 1987 -- are individuals such as James Bugental, Jane Jacobs, Bruno Bettelheim, Jack Kornfield, and Herbert V. Guenther.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Melia Foundation ("the Foundation") was small non-profit founded around 1983 in Berkeley, California. The Foundation's program was an experimental strategy, a response to the spiritual challenges posed by contemporary culture. The climate of consciousness is spurring a re-examination of many of the more traditional contexts of spirituality and urging us toward more reflective and creative approaches. The new accessibility and interpenetration of religious cultures also means that more responsibility now devolves upon the individual for sustaining our own chosen paths of development. Melia offered support for this by presenting possibilities, facilitating contacts, helping to deepen understandings and assisting supportive fellowship.
The Foundation's Berkeley Public Program, on integral psychology, was recorded during the period of February 1983 through June 1987. This entailed recordings of lectures, group discussions, seminars, and workshops on audio and video cassette tapes.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Lawrence M. Spiro, 2004.
- Arrangement:
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The audio and video recordings are arranged by event codes within each series that were printed on the case labels provided by the Melia Foundation.
The collection is arranged into three series:
- Series 1: Berkeley Public Program
- Series 2: Professional Series
- Series 3: Videotapes
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Audiovisual materials must be reformatted for access. Please contact the Department of Special Research Collections in advance to request access.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Melia Foundation records, HPA Mss 49. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062