George Burr Leonard

George Burr Leonard (August 9, 1923 – January 6, 2010) was an American writer, editor, and educator who wrote extensively about education and human potential. He served as President Emeritus of the Esalen Institute, past-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, co-founder of Integral Transformative Practice International, and a writer and editor at Look Magazine (1953 - 1970). He was a United States Army Air Corps pilot, and held a fifth-degree black belt in aikido. Leonard died at his home in Mill Valley, California on January 6, 2010, after a long illness. He was 86 years old.

Early life Born in Macon, Ga. with a grandfather who was a State senator who owned black tenant farms, he witnessed the attempted mob lynching of a black rape suspect. After service as a combat pilot in World War II and the Korean War, he then joined the staff of Look in 1953 and was soon reporting on the civil rights movement.

Books The Decline of the American Male (1958) ASIN B000JWGFBW Education and Ecstasy (1968) with "The great school reform hoax" (1987) The Transformation: a guide to the inevitable changes in humankind (1972) The Silent Pulse: a search for the perfect rhythm that exists in each of us (1978, 1986) The End of Sex (1983) Walking on the Edge of the World (1988) Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment (1992) The Life We Are Given (1995) The Way of Aikido: Life Lessons from an American Sensei (2000) The Ultimate Athlete (1977, 2001)