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<strong>Conversations</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Avant</strong>-<strong>garde</strong> <strong>Sages</strong><br />

meditation techniques and they have periods of practice where<br />

they practice together.<br />

And if you go on their website at AHAM, you can just Google<br />

AHAM and you'll see their website. Go to the experience page,<br />

and on the experience page there's a feeling meditation, and a self<br />

inquiry meditation http://www.aham.com/usa/sharing/flash/selfinquiry/index.html,<br />

and they're both just beautiful. I would<br />

encourage everyone to go through both of those for just a little<br />

taste, or an actual experience, of what AHAM is communicating<br />

through their programs. And it's like a school of sorts, and not<br />

many people locally know about it, but it is there, tucked away in<br />

the woods. When Ganesan comes to North Carolina, he usually<br />

bases out of AHAM, they have a nice little retreat that they offer to<br />

him. Nice.<br />

TRIP: I was on there today looking around, and I noticed that of<br />

course the folks at AHAM are particularly fond of Ramana<br />

Maharshi as we are, but they also subscribe to the teachings of<br />

Jesus, and also Buddha, other teachers. <strong>The</strong>y aren't apostles or<br />

something for one particular teaching. Which makes them<br />

attractive to me, I like that.<br />

WIZARD: Inclusive.<br />

TRIP: While we're waiting for A. Ramana to call, one of the things<br />

that I wanted to say that has been really meaningful in my life, and<br />

I would urge other people if they can make it happen, or if it can<br />

happen to them that would be a great blessing, is the whole wiser<br />

elder relationship that I have <strong>with</strong> you, <strong>Wizard</strong>, and also I would<br />

enjoy <strong>with</strong> A. Ramana, and I'm sure that people at AHAM enjoy<br />

<strong>with</strong> A. Ramana, and also <strong>with</strong> Ganesan and others.<br />

I did have a wonderful relationship <strong>with</strong> a grandmother who passed away<br />

at the age of 102. She was living far away, so there were only brief<br />

opportunities to get her wisdom. But I've noticed something about the<br />

American culture, and that's that we don't make it easy for elder wise<br />

folks and younger folks to kind of intermingle and to get that Wisdom.<br />

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