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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
around, at the time there were many teachers at the time that we'd
gone, and we just sent them to the hill, and just told them just go
into Virupaksha cave or Skandashram, and hang out there, the
Ramanashram, the old hall, and so that's really where the
emphasis was. But, yes, I did meet him once.
WIZARD: Yes, he's been our guest several times, and he's an old
friend of ours.
TRIP: I think that was good advice you gave [Laughs]. And then
there's AHAM, of AHAM, because they're also dedicated to selfinquiry?
NICK GANCITANO: Yes, I know them very well.
TRIP: We're friends of AHAM.
NICK GANCITANO: Yes, so am I, very much. I actually spent
time there and for a while, and so I come to know A. Ramana, and
Elizabeth, and Stan, and the whole group. They're beautiful.
WIZARD: I think it is about a year since A. Ramana dropped his
body.
NICK GANCITANO: Yes. I was actually in correspondence with
him about a week or so before that.
WIZARD: I'm curious about one thing; I want to know about this
property in Costa Rica [Laughs].
NICK GANCITANO: Well, that's an interesting story; essentially
we sold the Atma-Vichara Ashram in the United States with the
intention of going to Costa Rica. And the people who were living
at the center at the time, we moved there with a group of eight,
and when we got to Costa Rica, six of them seemed to be
fluctuating in terms of what they wanted to focus their attention
on. So I and my wife, Penelope, ended up leaving and going and
moving into the mountains. And we retained the property that we
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