Bhagavan Das (Michael Riggs) also shares all of his spiritual insights and divine experiences, and doesn’t seem to mind if you believe them or not. Bhagavan Das never goes out of his way to make himself look good and actually writes into existence a lot of scenarios that put him in bad light, which is admirable. The young white kid was called Bhagavan Das and he ended up writing a very honest account of his experiences in India, which is this autobiography that I am reviewing, right now. This resulted in his being sucked into a spiritual transformation and spat out a completely new being, freed from the chains of his ego. Richard ended up following this kid throughout India, and it is through him that he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba. I found out about this book through reading Be Here Now by Ram Dass, which told the story of how Dr Richard Alpert (Harvard psychologist turned LSD guru) had a chance encounter with a 20 year old white kid in India who spoke fluent Hindi and was accepted by all of the Buddhist monks, lamas and travelling yogis, much to Richard’s surprise. It was easy to connect with him that way’. Even though the book is not a work of fiction, it is definitely out of this world: `I didn’t know it that night, but we would become close friends for the next six years… our conversation would become telepathic, thought to thought. It was surprisingly very well written, and kept me engaged from start to finish. It’s Here Now (Are You?) is one of the best books I have ever read. That’s why meditating and disengaging from the thought process helps free the self’ – It’s Here Now p. ‘ Too often we underestimate the power of thought.
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