Re: [Harp-L] Re: Zen Harmonica (Be here now)

["Bob Laughlin" <rlaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops is right. I had a hunch it wasn't Watts.

I always thought that name, Ram Das, taken, or pronounced  wrongly, might
bring offense.

But yes,,it seems Watts was involved in a left-brain attempt to explain a
right-brained phenomenon,,satori.

Let's see,,where'd my harmonica go,,


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Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Zen Harmonica (Be here now)


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> In a message dated 5/16/2007 2:06:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Those of  us who are old enough to remember the 1960s and actually do
> remember at  least some of it (didn't take enough drugs, I guess) may
> recall a guy named  Alan Watts and a book he wrote called "Be Here Now."
> Genius, that. The  entire message of the book, which was a pretty slim
> volume, was conveyed in  the three-word title.
>
>
> oops, Be Here Now was written by Ram Das (Richard Alpert, buddy of Timothy
> Leary and involved in the Harvard LSD studites.
>
> Alan Watts wrote many other books - one of the first to try to describe
> eastern philosophy to the western mindset.
>
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