Hand out LSD to people to see what the effect would be. Harvard professor working with Timothy Leary, who had gone to India to And at aĬertain point he met Richard Alpert, who became Ram Dass, who was a Wandered around and learned all the songs and Hindu practices. He was a California surferĭude, and in the ’60s he went to India and became a naked Sadhu and Generation of Americans who went to the East. Teacher I was closest to was Bhagavan Das, who’s also from that first
Ganesh Baba, who was one of Peter Wilson’s teachers in India. Time I was a teenager there were great teachers passing through like Of Hindu and Buddhist teachers who passed through town, even from the Mirabito: Well, living in Woodstock, I had met a lot Involved studying with the Sadhus, the Shibababas.įoye: What was your first exposure to either the Sadhus or the gurus or the holy men? Studying Indian philosophy and Hinduism and Buddhism.” And I got very India every year-and Nepal-and I thought, “Wow, this is really great, Up my college years when I got back from India and graduated in ’90 and Hooked on it when I realized how easy it was to travel there. I really loved just being on my own and travelingĪround, sleeping in temples under the stars, it was so empowering. I stayed with the Hare Krishnas-I think I Three-month stint, I just went around by myself, traveling around theĬountry by train, up to Kathmandu, Nepal and all over Varanasi andĬalcutta and lots of different places. Mirabito: Yeah, I saw how easy it is to travel thereĪnd how fascinating all the different cultures are. Their class into one, two or three-hour sessions, and we would have a Of months at this youth hostel, and he would bring in a new professorĮvery day for a two or three hour class. In Kashmir of intensive Hindi lessons, living on houseboats-to get over Just threw us into this scene, hardly planned at all. I went and it was basically like the professor Visit his family there and he decided to bring a dozen of us studentsĪlong. I started studying anthropology at SUNY Oneonta and at aĬertain point there was a professor who was Indian, and he wanted to People eventually, I met a lot of people who had traveled back andįorth to India. Then I startedĬoming to Woodstock more and deciding that is where I needed to be.Įvery summer and weekend that I could, I would come and get to know We would be hanging out, staying in a little pup tent out on the lawn,Īnd he’d say, “Oh, isn’t that cute.” But we were never invited to hang Mirabito: Right, even sleeping in his bed when he wasn’t there. Raymond Foye: So you were occupying his house, and you were occupying his world. Read all his books on Hinduism and Buddhism and philosophy. To all beings.” Ginsberg wasn’t there that often, so my best friend and I I’m not going to eat meat anymore, as a philosophical thing, to be kind I decided, “Well, I’m never cutting my hair or combing it again. We started staying there and talking to everyone.
I had never met these freaky kind of poets and artists and Mirabito: In Cherry Valley, just outside ofĬooperstown. They would have all these Solstice and Equinox parties, that kind of thing. At a certain point, this one friend of mine said, “Did you know that Allen Ginsberg has a farm nearby and they have all these parties. It was a much more hippy scene in those days, and was eye-opening. Without telling my parents-I would say we were going to go camping-we would hitchhike to Woodstock and hang out. As I grew older my best friend and I realized that we were the only hippies in the town, so we thought we should go to Woodstock and camp out for a couple weekends. Shiv Mirabito: I guess if we’re going to start from the beginning, I was born in a small town upstate called Norwich, New York.
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