《American Veda》是2010年11月Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Philip Goldberg。
基本介紹
- 中文名：American Veda
- 作者：Philip Goldberg 編
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780385521345
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
In February 1968 the Beatles went to India for an extendedstay with their new guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It may have beenthe most momentous spiritual retreat since Jesus spent those fortydays in the wilderness.
With these words, Philip Goldberg begins his monumental work,American Veda, a fascinating look at India’s remarkable impact onWestern culture. This eye-opening popular history shows how theancient philosophy of Vedanta and the mind-body methods of Yogahave profoundly affected the worldview of millions of Americans andradically altered the religious landscape.
What exploded in the 1960s actually began more than two hundredyears earlier, when the United States started importing knowledgeas well as tangy spices and colorful fabrics from Asia. The firsttranslations of Hindu texts found their way into the libraries ofJohn Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson. From there the ideas spread toHenry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and succeeding generations ofreceptive Americans, who absorbed India’s “science ofconsciousness” and wove it into the fabric of their lives.Charismatic teachers like Swami Vivekananda and ParamahansaYogananda 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, andRichard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, to adapt and disseminate what theylearned from them. The impact has been enormous, enlarging ourcurrent understanding of the mind and body and dramaticallychanging how we view ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
Goldberg paints a compelling picture of this remarkableEast-to-West transmission, showing how it accelerated through thedecades and eventually moved from the counterculture into ourlaboratories, libraries, and living rooms. Now physicians andtherapists routinely recommend meditation, words like karma andmantra are part of our everyday vocabulary, and Yoga studios are asubiquitous as Starbuckses. The insights of India’s sages permeateso much of what we think, believe, and do that they have redefinedthe meaning of life for millions of Americans—and continue to do soevery day.
Rich in detail and expansive in scope, American Veda shows how wehave come to accept and live by the central teaching of Vedicwisdom: “Truth is one, the wise call it by many names.”
作者簡介
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.
