| When we make it in our society and then don t fee] good inside---happy, at peace with ourselves--we are confused. As we strive for external security and sue- eess we anticipate that the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow will not only look good, but make us feel good. If it doesn t, we conclude that there is something wrong with us, that we need to "adjust." The assump- tion is that an adjusted being would be happy with sue- eess. But success usually turns out not to be enough to make us happy, and the therapeutic couch isn t neces- sarily appropriate for what ails us. Disillusioned by the hollowness of success, some of us have sought fulfillment in revolution, others in "dropping out," and others in trying to milk more and more gratification from our environment--and some of us have sought a solution to our problems in other cultures, philosophies, or religions. For me this search took me from being a psy- chology professor at Harvard University, through ex- perimentation with LSD and other psychedelics, andfinallytothe Himalayas in India. There I came to understand that I would have to approach my inner[ being directly to lind a lasting answer. Meditation hasI been the best way to do this. There are innumerable meditative techniques de- |
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