The 99th Monkey : A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics, and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments

Prologue 9 Chapter 1: Ram Dass 21 Chapter 2: Primal Therapy 33 Chapter 3: Werner Erhard & the est Training 39 Chapter 4: Hilda Charlton & The New Sun 67 Chapter 5: Gurus & Saviors: Muktananda, Rajneesh, Maitreya, Adi Da & Sai Baba 77 Chapter 6: Chareeva, Ac tualizations, Michael Wyman & the Moonies 99 Chapter 7: Haiti 113 Chapter 8: The Manual, the School & the Workshop 121 Chapter 9: Gabrielle Roth, Esalen & Big Sur 135 Chapter 10: Sex 157 Chapter 11: Drugs 171 Chapter 12: From Lama to Jerusalem: Father Theophane, Rabbi David & Shoshana Cooper, Rabbi David Zeller & Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, Asha Greer 189 Chapter 13: Forty-Day Solo Retreat & Paxil 213 Chapter 14: India, the Burning Ghats, Nepal & the Dalai Lama 223 Chapter 15: Brazil & "The Vine of the Soul" 247 Chapter 16: McChaplain 263 Chapter 17: Singing at Auschwitz 277 Chapter 18: Return to India: Christopher Titmuss & Andrew Cohen 289 Epilogue 303 Acknowledgments 309