| How I Became A Hindu - My Discovery of Vedic Dharma |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| EARLY YEARS | |
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involved in the American counterculture about the same time, hanging out with the local
hippies and intellectuals in downtown Denver cafes, spending evenings and weekends there.
While I read a lot on my own, getting books from our large public library, I also
dialogued extensively with various local intellectuals, striking up new friendships.
Several college teachers and area poets helped direct me to new thinkers and writers,
including those from Asia. We had various intellectual groups and contacts, generally of
an informal nature, that met and freely discussed various artistic and philosophical
topics. I became a counterculture figure in my local high school, which was quite large as it was centered in the downtown region. I lost interest in my school studies that seemed very narrow in their ideas. While I came to school with many books to study, most had little to do with the actual classes that I was taking. Yet because of my intellectual habits the teachers tolerated my eccentricity. I became a counterculture figure in my local high school, which was quite large as it was centered in the downtown region. I lost interest in my school studies that seemed very narrow in their ideas. While I came to school with many books to study, most had little to do with the actual classes that I was taking. Yet because of my intellectual habits the teachers tolerated my eccentricity. My revolt was not simply youthful emotion but had an intellectual thrust, which they found hard to refute. They created a special class for me and for another such intellectual student to address our deeper interests.
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