Philip Goldberg on American Veda: How Indian Spirituality Changed the West

In 1968, the Beatles went to India for an extended stay with their new guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a spiritual retreat that exploded the ancient philosophy of Vedanta and the mind-body methods of Yoga into popular Western culture, an introduction that actually began when translations of Hindu texts penetrated the thinking of John Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the ideas spread to Thoreau, Whitman, and succeeding generations of receptive Americans, who absorbed India's "science of consciousness." Philip Goldberg, author, director for SpiritualCitizens.net, and Huffington Post blogger on religion, traces this movement from Emerson to the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation. www.philipgoldberg.com

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[drrajendrabarve]

I am glad to hear PHILIP GOLDBERG'S words. it is like looking at my own country and her philosophy from an entirely different perspective..

[thiedevil]

Thanks to mother India for finding answers to most important and relevant questions for the mankind and as well as churning out great sages and philosophical thoughts over the millenniums.

[tolykozin]

awesome! fascinating...India and the USA are much closer than I thought. India and hinduism will continue to thrive long after everything else has come and gone. This is mainly because HInduism is tolerant and absorbs everything in its path, rejecting nobody!

[lrwinley]

very informative good solid information! THANK YOU FOR POSTING!

[georgecarlin1000]

the most boring lecture ever -