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　　In February 1968 the Beatles went to India for an extended

stay with their new guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It may have been

the most momentous spiritual retreat since Jesus spent those forty

days in the wilderness. 　

With these words, Philip Goldberg begins his monumental work,

American Veda, a fascinating look at India’s remarkable impact on

Western culture. This eye-opening popular history shows how the

ancient philosophy of Vedanta and the mind-body methods of Yoga

have profoundly affected the worldview of millions of Americans and

radically altered the religious landscape. 　　

What exploded in the 1960s actually began more than two hundred

years earlier, when the United States started importing knowledge

as well as tangy spices and colorful fabrics from Asia. The first

translations of Hindu texts found their way into the libraries of

John Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson. From there the ideas spread to

Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and succeeding generations of

receptive Americans, who absorbed India’s “science of

consciousness” and wove it into the fabric of their lives.

Charismatic teachers like Swami Vivekananda and Paramahansa

Yogananda came west in waves, prompting leading intellectuals,

artists, and scientists such as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell,

Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, John Coltrane, Dean Ornish, and

Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, to adapt and disseminate what they

learned from them. The impact has been enormous, enlarging our

current understanding of the mind and body and dramatically

changing how we view ourselves and our place in the cosmos.

Goldberg paints a compelling picture of this remarkable

East-to-West transmission, showing how it accelerated through the

decades and eventually moved from the counterculture into our

laboratories, libraries, and living rooms. Now physicians and

therapists routinely recommend meditation, words like karma and

mantra are part of our everyday vocabulary, and Yoga studios are as

ubiquitous as Starbuckses. The insights of India’s sages permeate

so much of what we think, believe, and do that they have redefined

the meaning of life for millions of Americans—and continue to do so

every day. 　　

Rich in detail and expansive in scope, American Veda shows how we

have come to accept and live by the central teaching of Vedic

wisdom: “Truth is one, the wise call it by many names.”

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　　PHILIP GOLDBERG is the author or coauthor of nineteen books,

including Roadsigns: On the Spiritual Path and The Intuitive Edge.

Based in Los Angeles, he is an ordained interfaith minister, a

public speaker and seminar leader, and the founder of Spiritual

Wellness and Healing Associates. He is director of outreach for

SpiritualCitizens.net and blogs regularly on religion for the

Huffington Post.

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