It was about just what I'd hoped- how you can BE HIGH instead of GETTING HIGH.
I went home and read half the book in one night. I was fascinated by the sixties as a kid, and now I was realizing I had gotten to live out a lot of the same dreams and fallen into some of the same traps.Ībout a week later a therapist was trying to convince me that I could get from meditation and Yoga whatever it was I got from drugs. My friend and I were having our minds re-blown by the Doors' "When the Music's Over." It was the first time I had heard it as someone who was older than Jim was when he died. My friend was reading "Be Here Now" and kept saying "This is amazing, you have to read this!" I noticed then it was written by Ram Dass, a name I vaguely remembered from my parents' recollections of the sixties and my explorations of City Lights book store as a teenager. I was sitting in my messy room thinking of all kinds of creative ideas and then getting frustrated because I'd already thought of those ideas, years ago, and hadn't really acted on them because I was too busy smoking pot and hiding from the world. One night I was tripping for the last time with my best friend who was about to move to another state. I'd flipped through it and thought it was just a collection of philosophical sayings in the form of trippy graphics (which it is, mostly.) I noticed a copy at Ashanti's house, which impressed me, but not enough to actually start reading it. It was one of many that my husband brought home from work and left around the house so someone would find it at just the right time.
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