Mentors & Teachers

There's Dr. Joe Kamiya talking about his incredible work. He is the human who, in 1962, reported that humans, when given feedback, could voluntarily control their own alpha brain waves. I had a dear friend who was a grad student at Duquesne University. They had a bunch of French priests in, followers of Merleau-Ponty, the father of phenomenology. And they were teaching how to study the structure of consciousness. So I walk up the hill and enter Ralph's house. He sees me, he sees I'm completely different, and he goes, sit down, and he takes one arm and he sweeps everything off his desk. Sit down. And then he folds his hands, puts his elbow on the desk, and he says, okay, tell me what's happened to you. At the end, Ralph folds his hands and he leans forward, and a little twinkle in his eye, he says, we could do that here. Midway through, a neighbor lady came in from the house next door. She stood respectfully in the distance listening to what I was saying. Then she left and she came back with a book, and she walked around the desk and put the book right beside me. It was Autobiography of a Yogi.