American Veda : from Emerson and the Beatles to yoga and meditation : how Indian spirituality changed the West, Philip Goldberg

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American Veda : from Emerson and the Beatles to yoga and meditation : how Indian spirituality changed the West, Philip Goldberg

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from Emerson and the Beatles to yoga and meditation : how Indian spirituality changed the West

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Philip Goldberg

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• American Veda : from Emerson and the Beatles to yoga and meditation : how Indian spirituality changed the West

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• New York, Harmony Books, ©2010

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-385) and index

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Namaste, America! : what India has given us and why it matters -- The voice of an old intelligence : "Hindoo" texts enchant Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman -- New thought in old wineskins : Eddy, Blavatsky, and the New Thoughters metabolize Vedanta -- The handsome monk in the orange robe : Swami Vivekananda conquers the Parliament and creates the Vedanta Society -- The public intellectuals : swamis tutor smart guys, and they tutor us -- The yogi of the autobiography : Paramahansa Yogananda becomes the voice of India -- Blowin' in the wind : Beatniks, hippies, and consciousness expanders trip toward the East -- Maha mass media : The Fab Four find Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and meditation goes mainstream -- The Baby Boomers' babas : Muktananda, Bhaktivedanta, and other gurus storm the seventies -- The yoga bearers : Satchidananda, Iyengar, and other Yogacharyas take Americans to the mat -- Sex, lies and idiosyncrasies : the guru wave casts a shadow -- Made in the USA : Ram Dass, Deepak, and other American acharyas take the wheel -- Not just academic : practitioner-pandits penetrate the Ivory Tower -- Guru Americana : om-grown gurus gather disciples -- Art-omatic transmissions : musicians and writers channel India -- The soul of science, the science of soul : the cosmic Shiva dances into the lab -- Into the mystic : a priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into an ashram -- The once and future religion : America the spiritual evolves

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1st ed.

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xv, 398 pages, [8] pages of plates

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9780385521345

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