Be Here Now

Ram Dass

"We're talking about metamorphosisWe're talking about going from a caterpillar to a butterflyWe're talking about how to become a butterfly."In March 1961, Professor Richard Alpert - later renamed Ram Dass - held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He published books, drove a Mercedes...

Genius and the Goddess

Aldous Huxley

It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant to the great physicist Henry Maartens; about Maartens' beautiful wife, Katy, and about a love affair which shook Rivers to the core and caused him to ques...