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, and
finallytothe Himalayas in India. There I came to
understand that I would have to approach my inner
[ being directly to lind a lasting answer. Meditation has
I been the best way to do this.
There are innumerable meditative techniques de-
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